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Originally Posted by BENT_8
When the grid goes down and the Tesla drivers cant get to the lab, old mate in his Camry hybrid will still get to bowls.
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A lot of people don't realise that went the grid goes down for an extended period, so does the liquid fuel supplies. Look no further than Tropical Cyclone Marcia when it hit Rockhampton back in 2015.
No power = no fuel pumps = fuel shortages.
Ditto at the local fuel distribution centre. No power = no pumps = no fuel.
And when they got a generator onto the servo to restore power to the pumps, the fuel distributors refused to pump fuel as all of their pump and billing system was linked real-time back to the head office in Sydney because the NBN was also down. So the other problem path is no power = no comms = no fuel dispatch = fuel shortages.
If anything, this particular hidden problem with liquid fuel distribution has only gotten worse.
Finally, the other thing to keep in mind is that the fuel reserve stockpile in Australia is presently only 20 days for diesel. It screams geopolitical risk to me.