Posted on 02/01/2022 12:15:33 AM PST by weston
Amid rising tensions between Russia, Ukraine and the West, Russia’s oil and gas exports rebounded sharply in 2021. According to the Bank of Russia, crude oil exports climbed to $32 billion in the fourth quarter of 2021, the highest level since 2014.
As a result of surging energy prices, Statista’s Felix Richter notes that the country’s total oil and gas exports, including oil products and liquified natural gas, exceeded $240 billion last year, up 60 percent from $150 billion in 2020, when energy prices had slumped at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. According to figures from the Russian Finance Ministry cited by Reuters, the oil price averaged $69 per barrel in 2021, up from around $40 in 2020. The average price of natural gas exported by Russia reached $277 per 1,000 cubic meters in Q3 2021, up from less than $100 in Q2 2020, amid the Covid crash.
As the following chart shows, Russia’s merchandise trade surplus climbed to a record high of $67.6 billion in Q4 2021, despite the fact that the country’s imports also reached the highest level since 2013.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russian-trade-surplus-surges-amid-rising-tensions
That is a shame. I feel the same way about the Bay Area where I grew up.
My hubby’s sister and her hubby both grew up in Portland and are just sick at what they see when they drive into Portland from the coast to go to doctor appointments.
SIL tells me how scary it is and they hurry to get out of town as fast as they can.
So sad that Antifa has been allowed to flourish there.
Most major cities are experiencing the same horrible problems.😢
Now, tell me again just which President colluded with Russia?
Looks like we can pre-order Truth Social
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/truth-social/id1586018825
And register
I’m not sure what any of that gets us, but if it generates more traffic for Trump’s platforms, then I’ll do it
Thanks for the links.
Not sure if I signed up or not, how bad is that?
Here is what was happening in Calgary yesterday. 32 second video.
You Canadians fight for what you believe in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS1HUnRZ3T0
Oh that sounds like it will be Yummy!
Your breakfast are always yummy too, but I never get up early enough to eat them.
lol that would be funny to watch
“Trump took state secrets.”
exit82 do you know of what state secrets Trump supposedly took that he speaks of?
It has been rumored that Trump took boxes of papers from the WH and had it stored at Mar-a-largo.
Some of the documents are marked classified.
So Trump stole classified info, but remember Hitlery NEVER did.
That’s what Swall-not-so well was referring to.
I’m wondering if these boxes of presidential material were taken from DC or were work product from the many hours he spent working from Mar-a-Lago? Perhaps boxed up and ready to be collected.
NO!! And the unions are silent?
That is a possibility.
Trump said it was much about nothing.
The LSM working hard to paint Trump as a criminal.
Morning Gran, she has lost her mind, WHY DO WE AS A COUNTRY WITH 350 MILLION PLUS PEOPLE PUT UP WITH THIS CRAP?
I am on my last nerve lately.
Hope your son is doing well!
My sister with her blood clot is so mad that Fauci said there might be another booster. She took 2 shots and doesn’t want any more of that sh@t she said. She also has trouble with her arm from the shot.
Son’s friends father just got the jab, dead 2 days later.
Stop this nonsense.
“Not sure if I signed up or not, how bad is that?”
LOL, not bad at all. Because I don’t remember either. I signed up again, anyway. I thought I had, but I quit getting messages about it.
We moved to Southern California when I was 5. I lived there until I joined the Army. Orange County has fared better than most of CA mainly because it remained Republican for so long. They’ve cheated into D territory now. I expect it to become Bay Area South soon. My sister and family still live there. None of my family still live in Portland save a cousin in Oregon City.
I don’t think he took any, Spunky.
A non-story—see post 4753, where he addresses this issue.
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