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Less than a month's supply: Europe's jet fuel stocks are wafer thin as Iran tensions flare
(lemmy.today)
LONDON, July 13 (Reuters) - Europe has imported jet fuel from the U.S. and Asia, raised its refiners' output and drawn on stocks to keep planes flying – and yet it remains the region most exposed as renewed Middle Eastern tension raises the risk of further supply disruption.
Britain, France and Germany are particularly vulnerable in a continent where decades of refinery closures left it more reliant than most on Middle Eastern shipments via the Strait of Hormuz.
