We had a very suspicious visit from a guy to our out of the way rural property on Saturday evening. Said he was looking for a road numbered property that would have put him ~1.5 km away on the other side of the road, and no such address in any case. Exited our property pretty smartly when confronted with no front number plate and the partial ID on his back rego plate drew a blank with the Police when they searched it (suspected false plate).
My initial thought was that he was scoping our place for later but now I'm wondering if he thought our location was a possible location for a farm fuel storage tank. We don't have any fossil fuel requirements here so unless you can work out a way to steal EV battery charge you're outta luck on that front buddy.
I guess the question is , has Singapore or South Korea released oil products to us that were ordered after the war began ? That would give some reassurance, but I suspect everything on its way was ordered pre war .
We import the equivalent of about 150,000bbls / day in refined products and export about 5000bbls per day of crude. There is some condensate but not sure how much off the top of my head but is also small relative to what we import.
One impact of the current fuel price increases that wasn't mentioned in that video was the increase in fuel thefts now occurring. https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360951725/auckland-worker-discovers-diesel-siphoned-out-his-truck-prices-rise
We had a very suspicious visit from a guy to our out of the way rural property on Saturday evening. Said he was looking for a road numbered property that would have put him ~1.5 km away on the other side of the road, and no such address in any case. Exited our property pretty smartly when confronted with no front number plate and the partial ID on his back rego plate drew a blank with the Police when they searched it (suspected false plate).
My initial thought was that he was scoping our place for later but now I'm wondering if he thought our location was a possible location for a farm fuel storage tank. We don't have any fossil fuel requirements here so unless you can work out a way to steal EV battery charge you're outta luck on that front buddy.
Are we committing global suicide?
https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/im-an-australian-wholesale-fuel-trader
Good link thanks I found that interesting and far from comforting.
Yes I expect to see move of that as this thing drags on unfortunately.
I guess the question is , has Singapore or South Korea released oil products to us that were ordered after the war began ? That would give some reassurance, but I suspect everything on its way was ordered pre war .
That’s the big question and it’s only going to be a few days until we find out.
Hot off the press. https://www.mbie.govt.nz/about/news/fuel-stocks-update
That bit doesn’t look encouraging….
I can't understand the relationship between the tables , specifically the "on the water" of the first table , with shipments on the way in the 2nd ???
Great talk. Thanks.
Elsewhere, somebody claimed NZ exported crude oil equivalent to 20% of our imports. I didn't think it was anywhere that much. can you clarify?
We import the equivalent of about 150,000bbls / day in refined products and export about 5000bbls per day of crude. There is some condensate but not sure how much off the top of my head but is also small relative to what we import.
Thanks, he was way off then. That is a staggering amount of fuel we use.
Scroll down to the “Energy Slaves” heading in this piece for the breakdown https://newzealandenergy.substack.com/p/new-zealands-2026-energy-stock-take-583?r=ubsbu&utm_medium=ios