Europe has 'maybe 6 weeks of jet fuel left,' energy agency head tells the AP
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The head of the International Energy Agency warns Europe has about six weeks of jet fuel left. In an interview Thursday with The Associated Press, Fatih Birol expressed concerns about possible flight cancellations if oil supplies remain blocked by the Iran war.

Europe has “maybe 6 weeks or so (of) jet fuel left,” the head of the International Energy Agency said Thursday in a wide-ranging Associated Press interview, warning of possible flight cancellations “soon” if oil supplies remain blocked by the Iran war.

IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol painted a sobering picture of the global repercussions of what he called “the largest energy crisis we have ever faced,” stemming from the pinch-off of oil, gas and other vital supplies through the Strait of Hormuz.

“In the past there was a group called ‘Dire Straits.’ It’s a dire strait now, and it is going to have major implications for the global economy. And the longer it goes, the worse it will be for the economic growth and inflation around the world,” he said.

  • StillAlive@piefed.worldEnglish
    106·
    10 hours ago

    How tf am I going to travel from India to Singapore? Or Vietnam? Or France?

    (Not actually going anywhere but giving examples)

    • leave_it_blank@lemmy.worldEnglish
      223·
      10 hours ago

      Don’t. Or pay premium. If it’s business let the company pay for it. If not, maybe just don’t go.

      • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
        2·
        7 hours ago

        I mean, realistically, countries won’t run out. Ticket prices will rise and price out some users.

        goes looking

        There are also apparently a few large propeller-driven planes still out there that use aviation gasoline. Gasoline prices are also up, but I assume not as badly as jet fuel, given that diesel prices are up more than gasoline and jet fuel is close to diesel.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_DC-6

        That’s still in use, technically can do a New York-London flight (though I imagine that in real life, you’d stop in Reykjavik to maintain a safety buffer), and uses aviation gasoline. It’s got a cruising speed of 315 mph, though, compared to a (jet-based) Boeing 777’s 554 mph.

        EDIT: Oh, but the only DC-6s that are still in use are in a cargo configuration.

        EDIT2: Red Bull apparently operates one DC-6 in a passenger configuration.

    • bitteroldcoot@piefed.socialEnglish
      36·
      9 hours ago

      The example you need is called Zoom, or face time or… Really this is just covid all over again.

      edit: Wow, that’s a surprising amount of hostility. The fossil fuel world is ending, do people not realize this?

      • BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        7 hours ago

        The fossil fuel world isn’t going anywhere. As soon as supply is restored no one will have learned anything and nothing will be done to reduce reliance.

        • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
          1·
          7 hours ago

          Official Eiffel Tower website:

          https://www.toureiffel.paris/en/news/recreation/virtual-tour-eiffel-tower

          On the occasion of the Eiffel Tower’s 130th anniversary, TV5 Monde created a 360° virtual reality tour that reveals every aspect of the Tower in 3 minutes, featuring sunrise from the Champ-de-Mars and a panoramic ascent to the top, both inside and out. See the Eiffel Tower as if you were there, and much more! TV5 Monde takes you beyond the summit and behind the scenes to discover an unrivaled view of the French capital.

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWKb5r-UMt8

          Though…hah. They don’t allow viewing it in the US. Very French.

          investigates

          country list 
          $ yt-dlp 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWKb5r-UMt8'
[youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWKb5r-UMt8
[youtube] hWKb5r-UMt8: Downloading webpage
[youtube] hWKb5r-UMt8: Downloading android vr player API JSON
ERROR: [youtube] hWKb5r-UMt8: The uploader has not made this video available in your country
This video is available in Andorra, United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan,
Antigua and Barbuda, Anguilla, Albania, Armenia, Angola, Antarctica,
Argentina, American Samoa, Austria, Australia, Aruba, Åland Islands,
Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Barbados, Bangladesh, Belgium,
Burkina Faso, Bulgaria, Bahrain, Burundi, Benin, Saint Barthélemy,
Bermuda, Brunei Darussalam, Bolivia, Plurinational State of, Bonaire,
Sint Eustatius and Saba, Brazil, Bahamas, Bhutan, Bouvet Island,
Botswana, Belarus, Belize, Canada, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Congo, the
Democratic Republic of the, Central African Republic, Congo,
Switzerland, Côte d'Ivoire, Cook Islands, Chile, Cameroon, China,
Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cape Verde, Curaçao, Christmas Island,
Cyprus, Czech Republic, Germany, Djibouti, Denmark, Dominica,
Dominican Republic, Algeria, Ecuador, Estonia, Egypt, Western Sahara,
Eritrea, Spain, Ethiopia, Finland, Fiji, Falkland Islands (Malvinas),
Micronesia, Federated States of, Faroe Islands, France, Gabon, United
Kingdom, Grenada, Georgia, French Guiana, Guernsey, Ghana, Gibraltar,
Greenland, Gambia, Guinea, Guadeloupe, Equatorial Guinea, Greece,
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Guatemala, Guam,
Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Hong Kong, Heard Island and McDonald Islands,
Honduras, Croatia, Haiti, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Isle of
Man, India, British Indian Ocean Territory, Iraq, Iran, Islamic
Republic of, Iceland, Italy, Jersey, Jamaica, Jordan, Japan, Kenya,
Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, Kiribati, Comoros, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Korea,
Democratic People's Republic of, Korea, Republic of, Kuwait, Cayman
Islands, Kazakhstan, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Lebanon, Saint
Lucia, Liechtenstein, Sri Lanka, Liberia, Lesotho, Lithuania,
Luxembourg, Latvia, Libya, Morocco, Monaco, Moldova, Republic of,
Montenegro, Saint Martin (French part), Madagascar, Marshall Islands,
Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of, Mali, Myanmar, Mongolia,
Macao, Northern Mariana Islands, Martinique, Mauritania, Montserrat,
Malta, Mauritius, Maldives, Malawi, Mexico, Malaysia, Mozambique,
Namibia, New Caledonia, Niger, Norfolk Island, Nigeria, Nicaragua,
Netherlands, Norway, Nepal, Nauru, Niue, New Zealand, Oman, Panama,
Peru, French Polynesia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Pakistan,
Poland, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Pitcairn, Puerto Rico, Palestine,
State of, Portugal, Palau, Paraguay, Qatar, Réunion, Romania, Serbia,
Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Solomon Islands, Seychelles,
Sudan, Sweden, Singapore, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da
Cunha, Slovenia, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Slovakia, Sierra Leone, San
Marino, Senegal, Somalia, Suriname, South Sudan, Sao Tome and
Principe, El Salvador, Sint Maarten (Dutch part), Syrian Arab
Republic, Swaziland, Turks and Caicos Islands, Chad, French Southern
Territories, Togo, Thailand, Tajikistan, Tokelau, Timor-Leste,
Turkmenistan, Tunisia, Tonga, Turkey, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu,
Taiwan, Province of China, Tanzania, United Republic of, Ukraine,
Uganda, United States Minor Outlying Islands, Uruguay, Uzbekistan,
Holy See (Vatican City State), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines,
Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of, Virgin Islands, British, Virgin
Islands, U.S., Viet Nam, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna, Samoa, Yemen,
Mayotte, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
You might want to use a VPN or a proxy server (with --proxy) to workaround.

          I guess you could use a VPN with an exit node in Europe or a US territory — which, oddly-enough, they do allow — or something.

          EDIT: Here’s a link that bounces through Canada and can view it:

          https://inv.thepixora.com/watch?v=hWKb5r-UMt8

    • HuudaHarkiten@piefed.socialEnglish
      55·
      10 hours ago

      Why the hell would you want to go to France?!

      Jokes aside, boats, ships, trains, buses, bicycle, hitchhiking, kayaking, walking, crawling, doing cartwheels. Theres a whole bunch of options.

      Or you could just stay home or travel locally until the situation improves.