I can understand banning people filling jerry cans or containers - that actually makes sense because it stops hoarding. But limiting cars to 500 baht (or even 1000 baht) per fill is a really daft response. It’s the kind of over-simplistic, knee-jerk policy that creates more problems than it solves, its just 'policy theatre' - it looks like action but its daft for the following reasons. - People will just put 500 baht in and then drive to the next fuel station to put another 500 in. It doesn’t stop anything. - It creates longer queues at stations. Once people see queues forming, FOMO kicks in - people start thinking “better fill up now before it runs out”. That creates the very panic they were trying to avoid. - Stations will get clogged up because the same cars will be coming back again and again instead of just filling once. That slows everything down. - It actually makes the shortage look worse than it is. When people see lines everywhere, they assume fuel is running out yet. - It punishes the wrong people - anyone with a big tank, trucks, or people who drive long distances. So instead of calming the situation, it creates panic, queues, and inefficiency. Banning containers obviously helps hoarding. but, limiting normal cars filling up is just part of the Thailand Pantomime - got to wonder what goes through the mind of some of the decision makers - surely people are sat in the same room when these decisions are being made and thinking... "are you really $%$%ing serous ??" !!!... For those with an EV - from an electricity point of view, Thailand isn’t that exposed to problems in the Strait of Hormuz. Most of Thailand’s electricity - about 55–60% - comes from natural gas, and most of that gas comes from domestic fields in the Gulf of Thailand and pipelines from Myanmar with the rest from Coal ~18–20% coal / renewables ~10–15% and hydro ~5–7% . Thailand does import some LNG by ship, and some of that comes from Qatar and passes through Hormuz. But it only works out to roughly 5–10% of Thailand’s electricity supply. So with shipping through Hormuz stopped completely, the lights would stay on - the impact is 5-10% to Thailands electricity supply. I wonder if the UK supermarket shelves are out of Lurpak and toilet rolls yet !!!
