They're run out of fuel for the same reason we ran out of TP during COVID: hoarding, not lack of supply.

That is true.

What is also true is that media has been saying both:

- Don't panic buy, we've got plenty

- We'll start running out in mid-April.

So, unlike TP during COVID, which can be manufactured locally, there is a dark cloud on the horizon and precious little to encourage any optimism regarding the Strait of Hormuz.