Russia will dispatch its first tanker with diesel for the United States on Thursday, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said, according to the Vedomosti news outlet, after a deal with Donald Trump.
Russia lifted its self-imposed ban on diesel exports on October 9, introduced to tackle domestic shortages triggered by Ukrainian drone attacks on refineries, after reaching the deal with Trump to supply diesel to global markets.
Novak said on Wednesday the vessel will carry 40,000 metric tons of the fuel, adding that the paperwork on the fuel supply is nearing its completion, according to media reports. He did not name the port from which the cargo will be delivered.
The spit in the ocean amount of diesel that Russia is sending us prior to the election to paste over the GOP tanking of the economy will hopefully not work. Fuck Putin and fuck Trump and all his myopic cronies.
It won’t work. This isn’t winning anybody. It won’t affect prices and people hate it, even a lot of conservatives.
Yeah, I really don’t think people grasp the scale of the numbers here.
40,000 tonnes is about 300,000 barrels. The US uses, in a day, about 3.5 to 4.5 million barrels. This is less than 10% of one day of consumption.
Saw another post saying it was 2 hours worth of Diesel.
And if the corporate media didn’t want to make every election into a horse race for ratings, they may have chosen to say that part front and center. The whole thing is such a ridiculous PR facade. EDIT: Forgive me if there are corporate media entities that are centering the reporting on this story as such, but I have not seen it.
It won’t change prices at all.
But it gives them a working premise that eventually enough will come to effect prices.
What’s really going to hurt is harvesting, because many states opened up red diesel for red use already. One of the big reason it’s separated from the rest of the supply is to control prices. When there’s less, the price goes up. They can’t counter that without buying more diesel, dying it red, and selling at a loss.
This is just the thiniest excuse for people to ignore this one issue and still vote Republican.
It’s a total desperation move.
Red diesel just means it has no road taxes applied
I don’t many people are using it. AFAIK, only states were lifting the restriction, which they technically can’t do since it includes federal taxes
Also that dye is designed to be visible for a very long time. I used red diesel in my heater once last winter and the red is still visible even though I’ve gone through a dozen tanks of kerosene since
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Red diesel is diesel saved for agriculture use…
It’s dyed red, to show that’s what it’s for.
Now, I answered a question without you even asking one, please answer one I’m asking:
What did you think the point of saying it red was?