Ryan Bridge: No queues means trust in fuel plan

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Apr 16, 2026 · 2m · transcript

There's been a bit of hand-wringing this week about the fuel situation and some of it is justified.

If you're running an airline, it's bad. If you're paying $4 bucks to fill a truck with diesel, also bad.

But we're not yet out of fuel, or even close to out of fuel. Which is not the same as saying we won't one day be out of fuel, or having to ration before we get there, that is still a possibility.

This week we've had some economists and pundits come out and hit the panic button.

Oil will start to flow from elsewhere. Europe has already replaced half its lost jet fuel stockpile from Nigeria…