On Apr 5, 8:14*pm, "Rod Speed" wrote:

so the price goes up. *At 1.50 a litre there's no point using it as
fuel, and so there's some left on the shelf to fry our chips instead.

Doesnt explain why that hasnt happened to the price world wide.

They have to erase hundreds of square miles of rain forest to keep up
with the demand. The problem with that is well known:
Until the geography can react by producing drought, the soil is washed
away in the wet season and the land become unproductive.

Fortunately, nobody ever went broke forest stripping.
And there is still some left.