Posted on 09/23/2026 12:01:44 PM PDT by sopo
Take heart, we only need to wait approximately 60-days until we see a major price decline in diesel and gasoline prices in the USA. Once the midterm election is over, prices will begin their retreat with the finished collapse mid-January.
The non-pretending reality exists within a generally non-western perspective that current “market prices” are not driven by oil supplies, refining capacity or the other various justifications used by the speculators, traders and various regional spot-market control systems. The prices are being controlled in order to influence political outcomes.
Once those political influence operations are concluded, the stakeholders in the market price approach will moderate their justifications accordingly, and prices will plummet. Sound nuts? Well, let me explain who agrees.
On my side of the argument is Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin, who does happen to operate the world’s largest gasoline station – at least, according to the professional republicans. Others on my side include Chinese Chairman Xi Jinping, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salmon, Qatari Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Turkish President Recep Erdogan and Venezuelan interim President Delcy Eloína Rodríguez Gómez.
Others who accept the reality of this position, albeit with various political limits to their ability to speak openly about such matters, include President Donald J Trump, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Unfortunately for this aligned group they are stuck inside the largest western political system who controls global finance and world economic outcomes.
What all of these aforementioned names understand is that “market prices” are entirely detached from the archaic terminology behind supply and demand; a quaint concept that stopped applying years ago – but pretenses must be maintained or else the masses may find their pitchforks, see: DSA pitchfork suppliers.
A second subset of allies who unintentionally support this perspective, includes those who use the terms “sold at a discount” where “sold at a discount” in reality means sold outside the western market pricing approach.
How many times have you seen the term “sold at a discount” repeated when you are reading about former Venezuela oil being sold to China, or current Russian oil being sold to India?
It’s such a common term it is accepted without anyone ever asking, ‘what is this discount you speak of, and how is it applied’? No-one seems to ask that part.
We accept this terminology created by “western market pricing” advocates just as we accepted the term “service driven economy” in the era before Donald Trump.
The reality is that ‘western market prices’ are not an outcome of supply, demand or even availability or production capacity. Western market prices are determined by speculators, traders and regional benchmarks created by “independent agencies." Remember those pesky housing loan bond rating agencies, Standard and Poor’s and/or Moody’s during the lead-in to the 2008 financial crisis. That type of rating ‘independence’ is akin to the benchmarks of these regional independent agencies within the energy markets; which is to say, they are not independent at all – they are part of the manipulated western financial system that determines ‘market pricing’.
Behind that curtain are the traders, speculators, ideological banks and financial systems who create the finance system for the energy market. Want to stop oil exploitation, change the lending requirements to favor windmills and solar panels etc. Not coincidentally changing these lending rules and regulations was Mark Carney’s former job. Does that sound like an open market approach?
Thus, when you really understand how this pricing is structured you begin to realize the price of diesel has nothing to do with the supply of it and the price is more controlled by those who wish to generate financial -or political- outcomes from it.
You don’t have to take my word for it, review the words of the world’s largest oil/gas producer about this rigged game. {SEE HERE} Wouldn’t Vladimir Putin be the subject matter expert?
“How, in fact, is the price of gas formed on the European exchanges? It is not determined by producers, but by exchange traders.” In essence, right now “the west”, specifically Americans, are paying fuel costs based on market commodity prices. The most recent examples are oil, LNG and now the headline leading, diesel fuel. However, the actual supply of diesel fuel is not driving the price. The price is being driven by speculation and trading, which is based on arbitrary price formulas created by western multinational corporations and financial markets.
Right now, Russia is overproducing diesel fuel, and shipping it out of the country to allies. Yet diesel prices in the west are determined by commodity traders, and the pricing mechanism is disconnected from the supply. {SEE HERE}
This is why Secretary Bessent essentially said yesterday, he was “evaluating” calls for a U.S. export ban on diesel. Bessent knows it makes no sense to halt U.S. exports of diesel fuel, because (a) the US has no ability to store it, and (b) if we produce more than we can store, that doesn’t lower the USA price.
Our US diesel supply doesn’t lower the US diesel price because the price is set by market traders, by the western financial markets, not by production or supply. There is a disconnect. It’s the same reason why Oranges grown in Florida cost the same as Oranges shipped into Minnesota. Local supply does not determine local price; the rigged commodity market does.
The USA could be swimming in diesel fuel and yet the price at the pump remains $6/gal.
Ironically, or not, Sylvain Charlebois, a Canadian describing the potash issue, exposed the western price manipulation in this article {SEE HERE} when ultimately, he asks, ‘how can Belarus sell potash so cheap’, and ‘Belarus could put pressure on Canadian potash prices’.
If Potash pricing is determined by western market commodity prices, then how can America get a cheaper fertilizer product for their farmers by buying from Belarus? The answer is in the part of the conversation they don’t want us to have.
Belarus can ship the product far cheaper to the USA because Belarus doesn’t need to participate in the “western commodity” pricing structure. Belarus can increase production and sell at a price they determine, exactly like Russia.
Apply this level of potash thinking to oil, gas or diesel fuel, and you realize what BRICS have been arguing about western price manipulation. Suddenly the price is not attached to supply, demand or production capacity, but is really connected to an elite rigged game of market price controls.
The price of USA gasoline and diesel will drop as soon as the event behind the price control is concluded.
That event is the USA midterm election.
There is a refinery in Illinois that has been suspiciously shut down.
Refineries shut down for maintenance.
Iran is doing everything it can to block that oil from getting to market. That is why the price is as high as it is. It is also the reason why prices will drop by a lot once this conflict is over. They will be selling in a market already flooded by American and Venezuela oil . Production of Oil that all those American profits made possible.
Well, if Mark Bradman (aka Sundance) were to offer opinions on the proper temperature to store lettuce, I might believe him.
Is that sort of like Covid goes away after the 2020 election?
I’m old enough to remember when we had ‘gas wars’. Don’t see that now.
Huh? I’d think that this would follow the same rule that my flight instructor taught me. There is one thing that you can always count on about weather forecasts...the actual weather is never as-forecast. What metric are they basing this on again?
It’s the opinion of a blogger.
Conspiracy driven speculation, and some conspiracies are real. Sundance has been following this one for a long time.
Bkmk
I’m referring to historical events regarding William the Conqueror and the beginnings of the City of London.
Not your conspiracy theories.
“THIS SMALL BUT ICONIC piece of vellum, the ‘William Charter’, is the oldest
document in the City’s archive, given by King William I (the Conqueror) to the City
in 1067, soon after the Battle of Hastings but before he entered the City of London.”
https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/assets/Things-to-do/history-of-london-ten-documents.pdf
“Brent crude oil is one of the principal benchmark prices for oil traded globally. Originating from the North Sea, Brent serves as a key pricing reference for crude oil produced in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, particularly for supplies moving westward. Due to its broad use in international trade, Brent is widely regarded as a global benchmark for oil pricing.”
https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/brent-crude-oil
Yeah, yeah. Ja Ja. Okie Doooooo-kie. Went up 12 cents in 2 days here in NE Alabama. Have not seen $4.09.9 and 4.19.9’s around here, ever, until now. Okie.
So what’s your guess for end of Movember, higher or lower?
Looks like media coverage of President Trump is going on as long it's negative:
That won’t cut it. Gas is $4.50, home heating oil $6. People vote early, too. Tomorrow wouldn’t be too soon to cut the prices. If not, nothing will save the GOP.
There are diehard Trump voters and diehard anti-Trump voters, and then there’s maybe a third of the rest of the voters who know nothing of other issues; they know they’re at the pump every other day and they are sore.
I must repair my previous post. Gas went up to $4.29 and 4.39 in our area today. Prices have never been seen before in this part of Alabama. Glad the current combat operations are over, so the prices will go down. Oh wait, we hear that thousands of barrels of oil are going through that allah forsaken strait now, no combat ops for weeks, months, except a little bombing here and there. But those pesky gas prices keep going up. Glad the big oil companies are not gouging folks at the pump.
The article actually blames the middlemen, which I can see. As a matter of fact , he makes the argument that a steep run up may hurt the oil companies, or actually I infer it, that the collapse following with the glut is designed to discourage exploration at that time and play into the hands of green energy. That has been his argument for years, splitting the world into two opposings blocs of nations: BRICS for fossil fuels, EU/ globalists/ Biden-US for green energy
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