So?
They said the same thing in the 70’s. No ship captain is going to sit on the high seas. It’s dangerous for ships to do so. Everyday that ships sit, it is a day lost to the owner.
Might be a so for you, but the Brits are ticked that they see tankers off their beaches just waiting to make more cash off of them.
“Locals in Suffolk watched with growing anger over the summer as more and more tankers dropped anchor.
Southwold mayor Susan Doy said: ‘It is wrong that tankers should be left off our coast for reasons of profiteering. Ordinary people are left to suffer as petrol prices go up.’
Andrew Reid, of ship owners and managers Charles M Willie & Co, said the flotilla off the Devon coast, pictured in the Mail yesterday, was ‘a drop in the ocean compared to the much bigger fleet full of crude oil off Suffolk’.
He added: ‘They are all just waiting there for the price of crude oil to rise, enabling huge profits to be taken. If all this crude were to be delivered there would doubtless be a fall in the crude price and petrol prices.’
This is phantom storage. There is no way to track it as one would the land based storage.
IOW this is akin to the sales man who says this is his “last widget” when he has a warehouse full of identical copies. IOOW no truth in marketing.
The way to kill the ghost tankers is to take family homes “off grid” as a massive public policy.