Looming Jet Fuel Shortages?

[AuSammy]

But where is all that extra fuel going?
It is not driving more
Fuel cans/containers are in short supply or unavailable.
I don't see people fill up large number of petrol containers at the servo.

In short I don't think people are buying more fuel than they usually do. Maybe less as more people might be car pooling, taking public transport

[OT] Well your observations don't appear to match the statistics released by the industry, comments by transport operators and the government.

I know of several people people who would fill up only every 2-3weeks, letting their tanks reach almost zero before refilling. Now they are topping up a couple times a week.

There are around 20m registered vehicles in AU.

If each of them have even a small 10l more in the tank than usual that's a load of extra fuel purchased, not necessarily used.

I would expect the panic top up demand to wash through the system after a month or two as everyones tank is full every day and the transport operators catch up to fill all the bowsers.

Of course the ships have to keep coming as well.

 

[PineappleSkip]

Fuel cans/containers are in short supply or unavailable.
I don't see people fill up large number of petrol containers at the servo.

Everyone has a perspective. I live in a provincial town. There has never been a shortage of jerry cans here; most people's garages have them, including a couple in mine. I have seen people filling jerry cans in large numbers (on one visit I was the only person out of four that wasn't filling a jerry can) and bringing in much larger storage containers, which vary in size up to about 1000 litres. On farm storages are much larger. As for failure of supply, independents in particular have run out of diesel a couple of times but mostly there is supply at this stage.

As to where it all goes, if people simply fill up more often (e.g. when 1/2 full rather than 1/4 full or empty) the overall stock held in vehicle tanks, on farm storage and jerry cans increases significantly, which pushes up demand big time. On farm diesel fuel demand is typically high here at this time of year with harvest of some crops in full swing and others being planted. The harvesting in particular is time sensitive.

Not sure how the local airports are faring with avgas supply, but there are a couple of regional reports on this PPRUNE thread, There is quite a bit of emergency helicopter traffic to and from the local hospital also, and I think they may have storage there too.