Edited Date/Time
11/6/2022 7:05am
Just heard (late to the party) we're about to run out of diesel. 25 days away. So who knows what? Before I go down the rabbit hole of what and why? This, if true seems like a pretty big deal. So why am I just hearing about it? Actually, to be fair, earlier in the year I did read that the CEO from the largest supplier talked about a shortage and rationing on the East Coast. But nothing since.
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Either way, it’s scary. Dementia Joe has us more vulnerable than we have ever been. He needs to be impeached for this crap. How many will die this winter from fuel oil shortages?
Diesel used to have a really high sulfur content. Like 5000X higher than today. Diesel engines were fine with burning sour fuel so it wasn't much of an issue. This meant that sour crude could be refined into diesel without having to go through the trouble of significantly reducing sulfur content. This kept prices low. By 2010, all highway diesel had to be low sulphur. By 2016, pretty much all diesel for ag, logistics and industrial sales had to be ultra low sulfur. This meant that oil producers couldn't sell sour crude to diesel refiners anymore because it was just too expensive to remove all the sulfur. So both consumer gasoline and highway diesel had to come from sweet crude inputs.
On top of that, diesel fuel demand did not slump nearly as low as gasoline during the pandemic. Consumer driving dropped quite a bit and stayed low for a while before slowly rising, but diesel demand dipped and then rose again to pre pandemic levels. Surpluses in diesel didn't grow the same way that consumer gas did. We ended up with these wacky prices and threats of a shortage.
So diesel price is high and will remain high, but we're probably not going to run out. This same type of story came out about 6 months ago but it was a DEF shortage they were warning of. It never came, at least not to the extent they warned about. I'm not sure where these stories are coming from, but there's some chicken little stuff going on with highway logistics in this country. I imagine the price is still going to be high for a while but we'll never see diesel just disappear from the market.
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We've not any Big refineries here now, and rely on most of our Fuel from Singapore refineries.
I checked, and we've only got 2 smaller refineries left in OZ. The government has paid them / will be paying them 1.8 BILLION USD, to ensure they'll stay open until 2027 and , perhaps out to 2030. Their capacities can't service our needs if supplies ceased from Singapore.
So, it's said that we are ever only a couple of weeks away from running 'dry'.
Each successive Gov here, be they left, middle or right, seem to have forgotten about the concept of Fuel Security.
Hell, only one state here - WA - has set a percentage of Gas to (Gas, as in Gas, not USA's wording for Petrol) be reserved for Local use. All the others, nope, we let companies sell it all - for absolutely buggerall in royalties - to the OS markets. Then, often, we are buying it back, re-importing it from Japan and elsewhere. Japanese, and other Countries consumers, of gas from OZ, pay far, far less for it, than Australian consumers. The price of Giga liters of gas, have multiplied by many, many times, here, in the last year or so, and innumerable businesses are going belly up.
We are close to being the largest supplier for Gas in the World, yet it's being priced out of reach for local use. We are also capable of being one of, if not, The Worlds biggest supplier of Renewable Energy, but I almost guarantee our 'Higher Ups', will f**k it up, either through Naivety, Stupidity , Incompetence, or Corruption.
Sometimes, I feel happy that I'm getting towards the end of my days: things really look like they are going to hell. I hope I'm wrong.
But since its not clearly described, you want to know the quickest way to make sure we get darn close to running out? Have everybody thinking its doomsday and we are going to run out in 25 days so they run out and stock up, cutting the 25 day buffer closer to zero.
Toilet paper and hand sanitizer anyone?
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I’m trying to get off the Doomsday/Apocalypse train, but it won’t slow down.
One thing is for sure...when families can't afford to drive where they want, can't afford to heat their homes in the winter, or cool them in the summer, can't get their amazon delivered... the more of an inconvenience it is to their lives, "climate change" will gradually become less and less of a priority for people. Climate change is a first world problem...something people who can afford it have the luxury of worrying about.
Period.
Pit Row
That one's good for 4
And in our case, our doddering old fool running around to other countries begging for their oil.
WTF ??
Unfrikkinbelievable.
Either a complete moron, or a full on lying p.o.s.
As will his entire political party.
We can only hope that the real deocome back and reclaim their party from the jackals that have shaghai'd it.
(Yes, even I'll admit that there's sensible Democrats out there. They just been pushed off to the side)
Ww seriously need a Reagan/Tip O'Neill relationship back in OUR nation's capital.
That video recent?
She should have kneed him in the pussy.
Still living, Rent Free, in their scared little minds!
So I went to the gas station and gave them $30 for 10 gallons of gas and told them to keep the change, you know,
President Biden said the cost of gas is lower. They must be Right Wingers because they just laughed at me.
They only gave me 6 gallons. I was devastated. Who knew the President of the United States
just makes stuff up?
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