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Posted on 02/24/2024 5:59:01 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
Moron.
Trouble can be purchased cheaply, though the refund may be more than you can bear. [Roger Zelazny, Creatures of Light and Darkness]
What Volkswagen doink?
Year to date, its stock value is up about 11%. Better than the long term average.
The Russian (Moscow) Stock Market index (MOEX CFD) is down for the month, quarter and YTD. It now stands at 2,653, down about 40% from its pre-war high (Oct 2021) of 4,336. That is in rubles, losses were worse in hard currencies.
“some machinery/processes in the EU REQUIRE Urals”
BS, Moron.
Certain Europeein’ refineries are set up to receive Urals blends, mouthbreather.
OF COURSE you didn’t know that, being a stupid zeeper.
“Certain Europeein’ refineries are set up to receive Urals blends”
That does not mean that they “REQUIRE” Urals, clown.
They do not.
Any similar grade, in terms of lightness and sweetness (Urals is on the heavy and sour side), will process just fine, and adjustments can be made to process fairly different grades though the same facility. Urals itself is not some laboratory standardized product - its batches vary, overlapping with other competing grades.
There has been plenty of time and money available for European refineries to adapt to other sources of supply, and the EU has had a deliberate and very well funded program to do just that - just as they have invested heavily in alternate sources of supply and infrastructure for their natural gas.
Europe has already added new capacity to import Seaborne LNG, equal to twice the amount of natural gas that it imported from Russia before Putin’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. The EU has robustly secured its oil product supply as well. Only Hungary and Transnistria have dragged their heels, and both are significantly less dependent on Russian supply in the event of a sudden cuttoff than before the invasion.
A sudden cutoff of the Druzhba Oil Pipeline to Hungary is a quite realistic prospect, given Ukraine’s strikes on it in recent months, that have already inflicted a series of outages.
A government 🤡 clown 🤡 like you thinks nothing of throwing away a working set-up and charging the peasants to retool the refinery, because it's ALL ABOUT your jihad against The Russherns.
Also, the peasants get to pay 3 times as much for LNG instead of cheap Russian nat gas, while you sit back in the peasant-paid Brussels office building, sipping fine cognac out of snifters and laughing at the tax-paying chumps down in the street.
If you ran your BS in the face of Orban, Fico and Szijjártó, you'd get punched.
Bottom Line: You are flat out wrong in your asinine claim about European dependence on Urals Grade crude oil.
Again.
Wrong as can be, but filled with hubris, despite being clueless. You are pathetic.
Fico just voted to approve the 19th sanctions package on Russia.
BDA coming in - Another bullseye (cracking tower disabled) on the Russian refinery hit recently (Dagestan).
Kyiv Independent (22 Oct):
“Ukrainian drones struck an oil refinery in Makhachkala, Dagestan, overnight on Oct. 22, a source in Ukraine’s military intelligence has told the Kyiv Independent...
...”At least one of the drones successfully attacked and disabled the AVT primary oil processing unit (cracking tower). After the explosion, a large-scale fire broke out at the plant.”...
...Russian air defenses intercepted 44 Ukrainian drones overnight and into the morning of Oct. 22, including eight over Dagestan, according to Russia’s Defense Ministry...
...In Makhachkala, drones targeted the Dagnotech oil refinery, according to Astra. Sergey Melikov, head of the Republic of Dagestan, confirmed that the region came under drone attack overnight, with one of the local enterprises being struck.
Makhachkala Mayor Dzhambulat Salavov initially posted on his Telegram channel that the drone attack had damaged several commercial facilities and two vehicles in the city. However, he deleted the post within 12 minutes. A photo included in the post showed not only damaged buildings but also military vehicles.”
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Szijjártó too...
OilPrice.com (22 Oct):
“Hungary will begin negotiations to purchase nuclear fuel from the United States as it looks to diversify its supplies, the country’s foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told the country’s MI state news channel on Wednesday.” (22 Oct)
checking the Free Republic donors list:
Bottom Line: You are flat out a freeploading deadbeat who contributes nothing but half-pinions that are wrong.
Your prognostications are always Next Tuesday.
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