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[Deesse23]

Germany slowly running short on gasoline. Government opening its energency stocks.


The reason is: drought

Germany is currently (still) experiencing the worst drought in its history. Water leves of many rivers have gone so low that shipping is almost impossible. It is shipping down the Rhine river from Rotterdam that transports much of the needed fuel upstream to where its needed. Ships already have to travel only loaded halfway, or they wouldnt be able to travel at all. If we didnt have dug up the Rhine into a "water highway" 200y ago, shipping would already have been stopped completely long ago.
Hence many gas stations, particularly in and around Frankfurt and other major cities are starting to shut down, or will be doing so soon.

I went down there with my camera this summer:
I am standing in the riverbed looking at the dam. You can see the normal water mark somehwere halfway up.


P.S.: This is the spot where Pattons 3rd Army crossed the Rhine in March 1945.