Hopefully the diesel shortage crisis does not hit Australia, but here in the US it is just another crisis to deal with. Diesel fuel is so short in supply that it will have to be rationed at the end of the month, so I will not be driving my diesel SUV to work, taking the Tesla instead (joking, I would rather walk). Without diesel the whole society shuts down and the worst apocalyptic scenarios, of food shortages (no deliveries) and riots and home invasions occur, as is to be expected in a disintegrating society.
So, why has this happened? Why can’t diesel be made from petroleum like in the good old days? The problem, as with most things, goes to the environmentalist lobby, which pushed for refineries to make biodiesel. But, here lies the problem: “Realize that in order to produce biofuel out of food, somebody has to produce the food first. And that means farmers need fertilizer and diesel fuel for their tractors in order to grow the food. But the diesel is running out precisely because the diesel refineries switched to biofuel, but biofuel needs food which can only be grown by using diesel … you get the idea. It’s a vicious cycle of doom and stupidity. Soon, America will have lots of mothballed refineries that can produce biofuel from food, but won’t have any food to feed into their refineries.”