Farms running out of fuel due to panic buying.
But the farm highlighted in the article uses, i kid you not, fossil fuel to pump the drinking water for stock to tanks. Maybe they will consider alternatives now.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/country/590787/farms-running-dry-of-fuel-as-rural-distributors-struggle-with-allocation
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