[makomk]

It doesn't have to be groceries that they're buying. Factories in China producing non-essential consumer goods run off the same natural gas supplies that could otherwise be used to make fertiliser. Jets taking tourists on vacations run on basically the same fuel that could go into farmers' tractors or lorries transporting food to stores. More money allowing people to make more non-essential purchases impacts food supply if the global economy and global fossil fuel supply don't have the capacity to produce that stuff, and it turns out they didn't.

[anonymouskimmer]

Sure. But there's a more immediate impact to fossil fuel supplies in the UK than an increase in demand. An increase in demand from an increased money supply is likely a contributing factor, but not the sole cause that elevenoh4 says it is. Has fossil fuel demand even fully bounced back to what it was in 2019?