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memmel on June 14, 2008 - 1:31am Permalink | Subthread | Comments top

This is why I think shortages from allocation problems not prices will be what hobbles our society post peak.

This event was caused by a shortage of cheap diesel. The strike is one shortage outcome others are possible.
This is a mild precursor to what we will see over the next two years. Demand destruction is not about a gradual
increase in prices with the poor meekly riding bicycles it will be violent and bloody.

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xeroid on June 14, 2008 - 4:18am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

It isn't just Spain and Portugal.

http://www.france24.com/en/20080531-fishing-strike-europe-oil-prices-fue...

My cruise ship was blocked from entering two French Ports last week by striking fishermen and truck drivers.

The UK is likely going to be hit just as bad, as today we enter the second day of a national Shell tanker drivers strike - other drivers are refuing to cross picket lines as well it seems. As usual, MSM news is sparse.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7454149.stm

Instead of telling the truth about oil the UK Government (for one) will likely end up using military force against their own citizens - and they complain about Zimbabwe!

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DaveMart on June 14, 2008 - 5:37am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Here is the situation in the UK:

the Government instructed police forces to break up any picket lines that threatened to prevent tankers from leaving or entering fuel depots.
Emergency powers to order petrol rationing will come into force on Monday if the strike threatens to grow out of control.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4132714.ece

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geewiz on June 14, 2008 - 5:15pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

As I recall, didn't PM Tony Blair do this with the military to the people a few years back?

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DaveMart on June 14, 2008 - 5:33pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

They tend to be a lot tougher on strikers here than on the continent - although they don't exactly beat them up, the military are used extensively to move supplies and the police to hold back picket lines - I doubt the tanker drivers have much sympathy, according to the BBC anyway - they earn too much.
The lorry drivers are a different matter.

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TheMagus on June 14, 2008 - 5:15am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

I agree. How one can be Peak Oil aware and slow crash.... that is 20 - 50 - 100 years....is beyond me. That druid guy must be smoking some QP!

There are going to be 3 crucial dates as I see it:
T1 - was May 2008 when CNBC etc first made PO mainstream
T2 - when everyone realises BAU is over
T3 - when electricity and petrol/diesel are no more.

People don't realize how 'big' the world has become. And how fragile.

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