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Down Under
Australia has just FIVE WEEKS left of essential chemical [urea] diesel trucks need to start their engines as service stations start to run out - and it could leave supermarket shelves empty by Christmas
2021-12-12
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Energy Minister Angus Taylor admitted five weeks' supply of diesel chemical

  • Shipments on way to Australia would provide another two weeks of urea supply

  • Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce quarantining in Washington with Covid

  • He was cabinet minister in charge of spearheading Australia's crisis response

  • Mr Taylor has formed an emergency taskforce to deal with the urea shortage

  • Former Donald Trump adviser Andrew Liveris
    ...formerly CEO of Dow Chemical, so one assumes he knows whereof he speaks...
    on AdBlue Taskforce in Australia

  • Petroleum marketers association said service stations restricting AdBlue buys

  • SRH Milk Haulage has confirmed they don't have any more AdBlue at their depot
Mr Taylor blamed China, Australia's biggest trading partner, for the crisis without specifically citing their export ban on refined urea.

China supplies 80 per cent of the Asia-Pacific region's diesel-grade urea

Australia's only urea maker, Incitec Pivot, prepares to cease production next year.
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Posted by:Skidmark

#12  Methane -- kills the planet
Urea -- not to be found anywhere

Well, shits or farts, a feller can't piss fer tryin' in this Wokey-Wacky World

- apologies to Slim Pickens
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2021-12-12 20:43  

#11  Just as I thought -- emissions control, not necessary.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2021-12-12 20:36  

#10  This is what happens when you disarm the population.
Posted by: Woodrow   2021-12-12 20:01  

#9  ^^^^

Hark, hark...we have been sabotaged and targeted, all the truckers now know they have shot urea...

bada-bing.
Posted by: Elmereting Cleper2091    2021-12-12 17:44  

#8  So we have not yet embraced AdBlue technology in the US?

Oh, it's global.
China stopped shipping.

Global Urea Shortage Could Park Diesel Trucks



Posted by: Skidmark   2021-12-12 16:54  

#7  Well, they're Aussies, so I know some will try
Posted by: Frank G   2021-12-12 16:14  

#6  Pardon my ignorance but can't you make your own urea by drinking enough beer?
Posted by: jpal   2021-12-12 15:48  

#5  So we have not yet embraced AdBlue technology in the US?
Posted by: Bobby   2021-12-12 15:09  

#4  and the tractor/tankers that deliver food, fuel and ...*ahem*, urea, are Diesel.
Posted by: Frank G   2021-12-12 14:54  

#3  Green thinking at its finest. Stupid choices resulting in stupid outcomes,until one day the cascading effects of needless complexity bite you in the ass. Welcome to single point of failure systems analysis.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2021-12-12 13:52  

#2  Modern diesel engines powering trucks, utes and four-wheel drives won't start unless AdBlue has been added to the exhaust system to reduce the levels of nitric oxide pollution.
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-12-12 11:47  

#1  Do they *need* it, or is it for emissions controls?
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2021-12-12 10:39  

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