Well, that's it in a nutshell isn't it. 18 wheelers run off diesel and if there's not enough diesel to go around depending on how bad the shortage is people could eventually be going hungry because of it.
It certainly opens the door for a lot of other problems as well. Diesel is the life blood of the economy because without it not much is getting delivered and the economy comes to a screeching halt.
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