The New Zealand government failed to heed the warnings and here we are, diesel could run out. The government has had months to secure the physical supply, but instead they talked, muddled, got assurances, accords, understandings, pricing mechanisms up the wazoo.
Lesson: the complete lack of something is nothing. No amount of talking about it creates something. You've either got something or you don't; wishing, hoping and praying isn't action.
What I am talking about is NZ lacking any refining capability, while also having limitless quantities of lignite coal it could turn into diesel, but no efforts have been taken to put any plans into action.
Meanwhile, the world oil supply is now severely restricted following the Houthis taking control of the Red Sea, Iraqi-based militia blowing up Saudi Arabia's east-west pipeline, and Iran controlling the Strait of Hormuz.
The NZ government needs to take immediate action, take tangible steps to produce diesel, or the whole country will fail, and by that I mean starve - literally.
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