I’m constantly amazed at how really REALLY smart people can be utterly correct in some respects, and utterly wrong in others. I’ve seen Kathryn Porter before talking about her assessment of the way Britain’s deep deployment of non renewable renewable energy harvesting technologies is destroying the UK’s economy. And here she’s dead right. She’s not the first to say so either… Her explanation of how the recent Spanish blackout occurred is only second to Pedro Prieto’s….
She turns out , in this extended interview, to be very conservative. Expressing the typical economic understanding of economics, which Steve Keen destroys in his series of videos. Not that the Labour Party is any better, they’re ALL conservative these days. She even utters the words “sovereign debt crisis”. Governments only face crises when they borrow overseas currency.
I had to laugh when at one stage she contemplates the notion of inviting the Koreans to build 6 to 8 nukes in Britain, with a newly invigorated steel industry… like, with what coal are they going to do this?
Rolling blackouts are definitely coming to the UK. Just like they’re coming to every other place, eventually. But the UK is definitely the canary in the coal mine, with Germany not far behind.
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As an aside,this just happened in our neck of the woods. I’ve been predicting diesel shortages for ages, within five years. So it was surprising to see this headline… tip of the iceberg? Tasmania is at the end of the supply line, so it’s bound to start happening here first. It’ll be interesting to see how this pans out, though I don’t expect permanent problems just yet….
Diesel runs dry at Hobart service stations as major fuel shortage hits southern Tasmania
- Fri February 20, 2026
Five Ampol service stations across Hobart have run out of diesel, leaving drivers scrambling for fuel as southern Tasmania grapples with a major supply shortage.
The affected stations include the Risdon Road, Sandy Bay, Glenorchy, Eastlands and Midway Point Ampol outlets. All are expected to remain without diesel for at least 24 hours.
“The Hobart Terminal has been low on all fuels the past three days therefore some Ampol sites will be out of diesel now and into the next 24 to 36 hours,” according to stakeholder communications with Treasury obtained by Pulse.
The fuel shortage stems from supply chain disruptions at the Hobart Terminal, which has been running low on all petroleum products since earlier this week
Damn the Matrix 
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