Diesel engine oil shortage predictions, will it happen?

So your saying you cannot find T5 or 6 diesel engine oil or full synthetic in PHX?

I know up here in Central Canada T5 + 6 mostly cannot be found in 5 gallon pails. A dealer of a large auto part store tells me he cannot get any pails + that has been that way for well over a month. Only the 1 gallon varieties are around + they are running out or spotty to find week to week for now anyway.
However a possible bigger problem i see now on the selves is the shortage of DEF. Some comes in but is snaped up by small trucking firms he tells me which means that the Urea shortage coming from the East that was talked up a few months ago is manifesting itself largely now.
I suspect there is supplies of both diesel engine oil + DEF in certain areas of North America + Europe but less in others with both being whittled down greatly in the next few months EVERYWHERE as shortages themselves + panic buying occurs (something like food at groc. stores in the near future).

 

Yes it is very real. The vast maj. of UREA which makes up 32.5% of the mixture that goes into DEF comes from Russia, Ukraine, China, India, Egypt + a few others are not coming west anytime soon.....so unlike Diesel Engine Oil that will completely run out in the next few months due to the additives to make it whole which have not been made since June 2022 + will not begin to be made again until march or so 2023 at the earliest UREA mostly from Canada + the USA will trickle in enough to keep some trucks moving somewhat but it will be touch + go for other than fleets + others who have been stock piling DEF + Diesel Engine Oil for that matter in the last few months. My estimate a few months ago that by late nov. 2022 very few Trucks would be moving......well that is Off by about 2-3 months so i say by sometime very early next year the Sheet will hit the fan not to mention the latest news about 25 days of Diesel fuel left in the USA.....blood pressures will be high soon if not today in the Diesel dependent world.