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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At risk of smug, things like this really reinforce the arguments in favor of EVs.

Oh no, petroleum is more expensive... anyway...

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

One of the biggest oil exporter is doing more than all the other countries in accelerating the transition to renewables (in the western countries)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Satire is dead...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A thread from two weeks ago that talks more about the domestic Russian shortages: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1700589329012158830.html

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Wait, so if the nation that has been 3 gas stations in a mob coat runs out of gas what does that make them?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

losing the invasion they started

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Special drilling, processing and fuel delivery operation time boys.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are these shortages due to Ukraine wrecking their fuel depots?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's ONE way to get Germany to participate in the sanctions...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Huh? Oil imports from Russia are down by 99.9%. 3500 tons were imported in January. That's basically 0 in the grand scheme of things.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sounds like you have no idea what Germany has been like in their "participation" of these sanctions. Germany has bitched and bitched about this.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

But I thought daddy Putin would make sure I always have cheap oil!!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


MOSCOW, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Russia has temporarily banned exports of gasoline and diesel to all countries outside a circle of four ex-Soviet states with immediate effect in order to stabilise the domestic market, the government said on Thursday.

It said the ban did not apply to fuel supplied under inter-governmental agreements to members of the Moscow-led Eurasian Economic Union, which includes Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan.

"Temporary restrictions will help saturate the fuel market, which in turn will reduce prices for consumers," the government said in a statement.

The crunch has been especially painful in some parts of Russia's southern breadbasket, where fuel is crucial for gathering the harvest.

Russia has already cut its seaborne diesel and gasoil exports by nearly 30% to about 1.7 million metric tons in the first 20 days of September compared to the same period in August, according to traders and LSEG data.

"Daily monitoring of fuel purchases for the needs of agricultural producers with prompt adjustment of volumes has also been set up."


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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I wonder how much of this is caused by Ukrainian strikes to refineries, storage tanks, and pipelines? (Not to mention diversion of Russian fuel to their war vehicles)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I think this article is talking about the finished products of oil, gasoline and diesel. They are still exporting oil to be refined elsewhere...