Fuel supply/ shortages

Peter_n_Margaret · Guru

RE: Fuel supply/ shortages

Whenarewethere · Guru

I am a bit of a bastard, I go around & light up our Unit like a Christmas tree. Neighbours come around, questioning the blackout, I say we are ok.... we are running off batteries.

I don't know how many times this has to happen until people actually wake up!

Nothing has changed for decades.

rmoor · Guru

"I have not driven once since back home, so my "allocation" of fuel is there for others to use. But I do use 98, so probably not much use for all the fish & chip oil burners.

We get a lot of blackouts in Sydney, so I have a methylated spirits cooker at the ready. I love sending my neighbours pictures that I am easily cooking my dinner!."

I also have not driven very far for a few days in my diesel ute.
Two short trips to the supermarket and that is it.

Also conserving fuel for those who need it most.
Though do have more medical tests on Wednesday for an unavoidable 106 KM round trip.

I hope to pick up my old 1998 Suzuki today that I loaned to a mate for TWO weeks when his vehicle was off the road for repairs.
It has now been 3 weeks, so I am keen to get it back soon.
Then I can repair the damage he has done to it after I warned him of the Suzuki weak points!!!

Funny isn't it, I have owned that vehicle for 12 years and never busted anything on it.
Loan it to a a needy mate and I have 3 minor repairs to do if I get it back today!!!

As they say, never loan your fishing rod or your wife......

On the blackout front, we haven't had one out here in the bush for years.
Mind you, the powers that be would be loathe to turn us off, there would be an uprising.

We are surrounded by a sea of glass and wind farms and if they turned the lights out for 5 minutes, the whinging locals would cut loose then.

Peter_n_Margaret · Guru

fatty wrote:
Just to chuck a cat amongst the pigeons, without diesel to dig the coal and transport the coal to the power stations to produce electricity how do you city dwellers plan on keeping the electric trucks charged. The old slogan "without trucks Australia stops" comes to mind without diesel the trucks that keep the country going stop.

Can't remember which WA miner has developed an all battery electric ore train that delivers ore to Port Headland.

It is an average down hill run all the way from the mine to the port when fully loaded.
It has regenerative braking, so is fully charged when it gets to port and has sufficient battery capacity to get the empty train back up hill to the mine.
The battery NEVER needs external recharging.

Cheers,

Peter