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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.
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can we stop calling it iran war and start calling it usa and israels expansionist war?
To be fair, we usually also call it Ukraine war instead of Russo-Ukranian war or just Russian invasion or Russia Expansionist war. Makes it not less wrong, but you need to admit Iran war is a little shorter than your suggestion.
Names with the same or fewer syllables as “Iran War”:
- Ego War
- Fossil Farce ^(you could take that a couple different ways hehe)
- Epstein War
- F*ck Kids War
- U! S! [eagle screech that sounds like “A!”, except it’s not an eagle it’s a hawk, because eagles don’t screech like that]
- Orange You Glad I Didn’t Say Bananuclear? War
I am partial to “Operation Epstein Fury” or OEF2
Vietnam War
Iraq War
Ukraine War
Iran War
It’s just a continuation of the tradition of naming wars where a single country gets invaded by another after that country.
It’s almost like we name the war after the location where the fighting takes place.
Shorter is better, so how about UIE war? :D
Anyway it was more about calling it iran war makes it sound like iran started it
I see where you I coming from, but I think it is short for war in iran, which makes kind of sense. UIE war on the other hand is really hard to pronounce though lol
[you-ay-ee] war? :D
No, it’s the Epstein war
Epstein Files War? Wouldn’t wanna bait him with Trump War I
Gulf War 3
Technically, it’s the “Stop talking about the Trump and Epstein child rape crimes War”
Can we get this map (Paris before and after cycling was pushed) but for the entire atmosphere once the jet fuel runs out?
Paris has to remove the low emission zone so old polluting cars are back in the city. Parliament just approved that.
This is a total disaster, like 2 days ago… I guess we’re going right back to the first map.
https://brusselssignal.eu/2026/04/france-backpedals-and-cancels-low-emission-zones-for-cars/
After much thought and googling, really that’s before and after dieselgate.
NO2 is a notorious byproduct of diesel engines at 10x the rate of gasoline cars. Dieselgate cars emitted 40x the legal amount. You can’t quite do this, but roughly that means a dieselgate vehicle emitted 400x the NO2 of a gasoline car. Aka a single dieselgate vehicle was equivalent of 400 gasoline cars.
Now let’s get the absolute number of cars. France had 984,064 dieselgate affected vehicles. Paris has about 19% of France’s population. Assuming equal ownership that’s 186,972 dieselgate affected cars in paris. At 400x the emissions of gasoline cars that’s the equivalent of a whopping 74,788,800 gasoline cars.
So replacing the dieselgate affected cars with gasoline cars (apparently the popularity of diesel peaked around then and has been declining since) is the equivalent of removing 74,788,800 - 186,972 = 74,601,828 vehicles off the road in paris alone.
Dieselgate was 2015 so the change between 2020 and 2024 definitely was bikes, seen by how the main car roads are still horrible and emission standards havent been tightened enough to create such a big change. It really is just less cars driven and less space where cars are allowed.
My car actually had a dieselgate recall in 2024. They didn’t do them all at once.
It’s the same plot, unless you’re trying to split hairs between 2022 and 2024. The big change red to yellow/green is dieselgate.
Also, the fix for dieselgate was not isolated to 2015. That shit took years to get the vehicles off the road.
The difference between the plots is quite significant. Also european NOx emission standards for passenger cars have been unchanged since 2014 for diesel and petrol with diesel emissions only being ~33% higher than petrol which means there would definitely not be such a drastic change just from diesel being phased out. Also dieselgate was actually the “Volkswagen emissions scandal” meaning it affected Volkswagen cars and has therefore basically nothing to do with these stats about Paris because the french VW market share is ~7%. Also the thing is that the color of the roads in 2017 is basically the same for all of the roads, but since 2020 there is a clear shift to the big ring road, meaning there wasnt just a reduction but also a clear shift in where the cars drive. Clearly the pollution is highly localized so this change of banning cars from the inner city significantly improved air conditions for everyone but the people living right next to the big roads.
VW was far from the only one cheating emissions, the were just the first to get caught. Other manufacturers have recalled cars too AFAIK.
French VW market share is 7%
Did you also include Audi, Porsche, SEAT, Škoda? Those are also VW brands and use the same engines. There’s a few others but those are the ones I know use the diesels.
Plot 1 was 2007 to 2022. Plot 2 was 2007 to 2024.
Also NOx emission standards for cars have been unchanged since 2014 for diesel and petrol.
Uhh this is about dieselgate illegally breaking the limits, not what the legal limits were/are.
basically nothing to do with these stats about Paris
I added the math to my original comment. France had 984,064 affected vehicles.
Uhh this is about dieselgate illegally breaking the limits, not what the legal limits were/are.
Yes and im saying dieselgate is irrelevant because it only involved VW cars which again only makes up for a small percentage of cars in france. VW cars alone wouldnt have been enough to create such a big change by themselves.
France had 984,064 affected vehicles.
Thats around 2.6% of the estimated 38 million cars in france, so not a really important factor when the NOx reduction is something like 70% since 2007.
See my original comment for the math. The effect is staggering.
I think your math is confusing people here:
“Dieselgate cars emitted 40x the legal amount.”
40x the legal amount FOR DIESEL.
“roughly that means a dieselgate vehicle emitted 400x the NO2 of a gasoline car.”
You’re arguing that the legal amount for diesel is 10x that of a gasoline car, and by exceeding that 40x, they are more or less 400x a single gasoline car.
Now I don’t know if any of that is actually TRUE or not, I’m seeing a lot of the weaselly “up to 40x”, not that it was ACTUALLY 40X. It might have been 25x on average, we don’t really know. Still awful.
But the piece you’re missing is that dieselgate didn’t impact ALL diesel vehicles, it was specific to Volkswagen group. So only VW and Audi, and even then, only the TDI models.
Well, first off, VW also includes SEAT, Škoda and Porsche that also use their diesel engines (Porsche no longer does after Dieselgate).
I’m also not sure what you mean by “only the TDI models”. They haven’t been making naturally aspirated models in decades. They’re pretty uncommon these days.
Secondly, VAG was the first to get caught, but many manufacturers were cheating. Including Renault and Citroën, which I imagine might be moderately common in France.
Uh no I’m saying the actual amount is 40x and 10x. Not legal, actual.
And uh no I clearly have the number for specifically dieselgate affected vehicles. (Well 10x is for all diesel if you’re thinking of only that. 40x was dieselgate and "France had 984,064 dieselgate affected vehicles.)
This is a good time for the EU to get its shit together on their train networks. Make one central portal for booking trains Europe wide, remove the no fuel tax subsidies and no VAT for airlines and apply them for trains instead, and invest in a network of night trains.
The European Rail Passengers Union recently started and is looking to advocate for solutions to some of these issues.
This is great! I signed up to try to help. Thanks for sharing!
“Best we can do is Hydrogen jets”
So do people not understand that this is game over? We are in a zombie economy, it may still be walking but in reality it’s dead.
Even if the straits open tomorrow, planting season is ending with out the needed fertilizer. Smelters and pot lines for aluminum, iron and glass are going cold. They can’t just be restarted, cold idle make them giant bricks and damages them. Pharmaceutical manufacturing is shutting down, and also can’t just be restarted. Clean rooms must be re-certified before restart. Similar problems for micro chips production that uses helium from the gulf.
The global economy is having its Wiley E. Coyote moment. The floor is gone, but gravity isn’t doing its thing yet.
It’s fucking terrifying. And it makes me angry because it was all so avoidable. All the Untied States government had to do was enforce its fucking rules
Did Europe thank the orange pedophile though?
Good. Excellent 👌
The Epstein distraction war will have to stop.
Brothers in Arms will have to go Down to the Waterline with their Six Blade Knife to save us from Industrial Disease.
It’s not easy when the whole world runs on Heavy Fuel.
And the birds up on the wires and the telegraph poles They can always fly away from this rain and this cold You can hear them singing out their telegraph code All the way down the telegraph road
Love the Dire Straits reference 🤘
All thanks to terrorists trump
So in six week we will have back out nights that were stolen some years ago by a dubious permission for night flights?
Same playbook: starve states until they not only bend the knee but kiss the dirt.
win
Lot of people going to get stranded
They said this 2 weeks ago. Forever running out, but never getting there
Few weeks ago it was a specific airline company CEO said that their specific company had 6 weeks of fuel left. Now its the head of International Energy Agency saying that the whole of Europe has 6 weeks of jet fuel left.
Two completely different things.
