Posted on 08/28/2022 4:50:52 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
“Leaders are supposed to look out for the welfare of their people. These days they only seek to aggrandize themselves & their ‘legacy.’”
Louis the XIV allegedly said, L’état, c’est moi, I am the state. When someone is surrounded by buff Secret Service guards, chauffeured in limousines everywhere, flown in luxurious private planes which make everyone else wait on them, after a while can they be forgiven for seeing themselves as important? And, when they’ve been in office for fifty years, as some have and will be, can they be forgiven for seeing themselves as, saying this in the kindest way, representations of the state?
They are concerned about aggrandizing themselves because somewhere down deep, they are still the child dependent on others. And they are concerned about their legacy because deep down they wonder if, when they are gone, they were worth all those Secret Service guards and limousines. It would take an amazing man in such circumstances to think only of others. We’re just not built for that godlike view.
This might work
https://twitter.com/jacksonhinklle/status/1562550911087439873
Biden is totally responsible for the European Energy situation. He shut down American energy production and signed off on the Russian European pipeline allowing Russian to provide Energy to Europe which financed Russia to invade the Ukraine. Russia is making one billion dollars per day from Biden’s shortsidedness. It all smells of Obozo, Soros and Biden planning. Joe was in the basement several months before the election so he had limited knowledge and after the election he did just what he was told destroying Europe at American expense.
Come on man, the suffering is a small price to pay because of you know....Ukraine. Geesh
There are a few reasons for doing this. At some facilities oil production produces natural gas. Basically both the oil and the natural gas are trapped underground. If you dig a hole to it, both come up. So if they can’t shut off the natural gas without also shutting off the oil.
Another potential reason is that it can be costly and difficult
to shut down and restart production systems. Cheaper to keep them running and throw away the product.
In colder months and regions it can also be damaging to the machinery to let it sit idle and freeze. Russia often produces a surplus in the winter because they can’t slow production without risking damage.
“...Characteristic of what Putin is doing with Russia’s wealth, economy and the standard of living for Russians. Burning it all...”
Imports from Russia are substantially increasing with China, Indian and other countries in South America and Africa.
Russia trade with Mexico, for instance, has increased 20% per my FR post yesterday.
How long before the people in Europe decide they’ve had quite enough of shivering in the dark and demand that Gaia worship be sacrificed instead of their standard of living?
Yep, that worked. Thanks. :-)
“Why not just store what they’ve got, and slow down production?
Their limited storage is full. To slow down production, they have to cap wells. Once they do that, the pipes are subject to freezing and cracking. After a Winter, they would have to run new pipes, as well as repair/redrill the well itself - almost like starting over. There are huge restart expenses and delays, for any parts of their network that are shut down over the winter.
So they leave the gas running, and just flare it off, into the atmosphere.
1. Fuels in Russia are going to be dirt cheap. Yea for Russian consumers and industry.
2. Energy and weapons are probably Russia's greatest exports. These are both radically reduced. Greatly reduced revenue coming into the country. Energy and manufacturing generally because of sanctions. Weapons because prospective customers see that their weapon systems are 2nd rate.
3. Starve Russia of exports and their industrial base is going to grind to a halt. They are being starved out by being cut off from western technology. Russia is not self sufficient. Things that break cannot be fixed. Goods cannot be produced to final form or repaired because critical imported components are no longer available to Russia.
My opinions…
The idiots can’t possibly expect Russians to worry about their comfort and safety while they are arming and supporting a barbarian nazi horde on Russia’s doorstep.
i figure the short-term stopgap is huge subsidy payments on bills direct to utilities.
I feel a great sense of Schadenfreude thinking about the pain and suffering that’s coming to the GloboHomos. It’s happening in the USA as well but not as much, yet. The welfare administrative state is soon going to collapse. All those millions of illegal alien welfare parasites are coming to America to expire. Their corpses will be food for the urban ghetto cannibals. Eventually those democrats will be eating themselves. It’s going to be glorious watching the minions at the New York Times become delicious morsels of their own creation. /spit
Re cave diving.
I recently watched “13 Lives” on the Roku channel, the movie about saving the 13 people, 12 children, one adult, trapped in a cave a few years ago.
I thought they pre-staged tanks and the kids swam out with the experienced divers. But, according to the movie, they used anesthesia to sedate the 13 because they would panic otherwise. They were so far back it took 9 hours each way to get there, mostly underwater.
I do recommend the movie.
Something to do with keeping the flow going in the pipelines. If it drops below freezing then it damaged the line. Cheaper to keep the flow and burn it off at the end because Russia doesn’t have the facilities to store it.
Excellent gif.
The collapse can’t come soon enough.
MISSION FAILED, WE’LL GET ‘EM NEXT TIME: Western ATTEMPTS to put Russia’s economy ON ITS KNEES by OVERWHELMING FORCE in form of SANCTIONS (https://t.me/IntelRepublic/3701) appear FUTILE, as corporate profits SPIKE by 25% in SURE PROOF of “RESILIENCE of Russian economy” according to analysts, but same can’t be said for West as SOARING (https://t.me/IntelRepublic/3593) gas prices threaten to send Europe (https://t.me/IntelRepublic/3762) into DEEP economic recession.
“…Characteristic of what Putin is doing with Russia’s wealth, economy and the standard of living for Russians. Burning it all...”
“Imports from Russia are substantially increasing with China, Indian and other countries in South America and Africa. Russia trade with Mexico, for instance, has increased 20%.”
Total export volume from Russia has declined, but the huge price increases in its main exports (oil and gas), masks that, when you look at the dollar value of the exports - especially among smaller trade partners.
The dollar value of exports to Mexico increased 20%, but how much of that was due to price increases (during a period of high inflation, and surging oil and gas prices)?
Most importantly, it is a change from a low baseline ($1 billion per year), that is below what would offset the declines in Russian exports to its major customers. Total Russian exports are down in volume.
When it comes to natural gas, it is an epic collapse, as highlighted by this huge flare off. The physical infrastructure does not exist to transport the great bulk of the gas that Russia sold to Europe through fixed pipelines,to any other customer. Last year, the EU (including Turkey) bought 85% of Russia’s gas exports. The great bulk of that is going away for good. Natural gas was 25% of their GDP.
90% of Russian oil exports to the EU went on tanker ships, which can be re-routed, although with some additional delay and expense. As tanker shipments to the West declined, Russia heavily discounted the price (like30% off), to offload more cargoes to far flung customers like China and India. It takes two months to China and requires a ship to ship transfer at sea, versus a week round trip to Rotterdam, on the same ship.
As Russia tried to narrow the fire sale discounts it was offering, India reduced its purchases of Russian oil a bit in July (around 7%) as compared to June. Russia is inherently challenged on cost competition with other producers, because it has the highest lifting cost of any big producer, and much longer transportation distances for any customer other than Europe. Europe is phasing out all Russian tanker deliveries by 5 December.
When global oil prices decline back to pre-COVID norms (around $60/barrel), Russian margins will be crushed by their high costs. Oil Prices have already declined about 1/4 from their wartime peak.
Outside of oil, gas, agriculture and mining; the Russian economy is in free fall. Auto manufacturing declined 97%. The airline industry dropped 70%. Inflation, unemployment and bankruptcies are rising. The Government is running growing deficits while it is now cut off from foreign credit, after defaulting on foreign debt for the first time since 1917. So they are printing money at an excessive rate (M2 ruble money supply grew over 50% in under six months). There is now an historic exodus of the best and brightest, emigrating out of Russia.
Russia’s economy is burning in for a crash landing. The sugar high of temporarily high oil prices and the surge in money printing masked the degree of the damage for a few months, but the whole thing is coming apart in many fundamental ways.
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