Only capitalism could manage something like that. They're short of CO2, so there are corresponding shortages of horrible fizzy beer-flavoured beverages, awful meat products that are apparently pumped full of the stuff, sticky fizzy pop and supermarket crumpets. Who knew they pumped up crumpets with gas? I'm sure that there must also be some bad things that have happened as a result of the shortages, but they haven't been on the news yet. I'd thought that there was too much CO2 anyway and they wanted to limit the emissions. However if they're really short of it, then I might be able to sort 'em out with some from my breathing out. Seller's market though obviously, so I shall want top dollar....
Yes i'm sure everyone will be chuffed when the beer runs out just ahead of the next round of WC matches!
Having hit an age where my GP considers me fair game for every test going, I am now down for a bowel cancer test in early August. Which involves inflating the bowel with CO2 and passing a camera up the north west passage to look for polyps and worse. As a lager drinking allotment holder I am delighted at the prospect of a shortage of CO2 and a summer hose pipe ban!
You are flat in the trolley, with only one of those peekaboo NHS robes for modesty. Weirdly, they ask if you want to follow proceedings up said NW passage on a tv screen which appears from nowhere. Unless you’re a selfie addict, No is recommended.
Actually it is quite worrying as most CO2 is commercially "produced" as a by-product of some very important industrial processes. This means that the scale of these key-processes has rapidly decreased.
The issue is that CO2 has been so cheap that there is no return in making it aside from when it is a by product. Once the pricing mechanism/invisible hand of the market kicks in, normal service will be resumed.
