🇮🇪 Four days without diesel and an entire country unraveled.
Economist Philip Pilkington breaks down how a brief fuel shortage in Ireland sent truckers onto the motorways and turned 65% of the public against their own government.
“Civil unrest is potential if you start getting fuel shortages.
I mean, we saw it in Ireland.”
If that’s four days, imagine what a real crisis looks like.
@philippilk
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Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal)🇺🇸🇨🇦 No one actually knows what happens if the U.S. bans diesel exports, and that uncertainty is the whole problem.
Economist Philip Pilkington breaks down why enforcement is nearly impossible given how deeply integrated U.S., Canadian, and Mexican energy production became after NAFTA.
“If you’re not sending us any diesel from the refineries that we’re co-producing with you, then you’re not getting any of our sour crude.”
Cut off allies, lose your own supply.
@philippilk
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— https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/2103002742457299432