Posted on 11/04/2022 11:23:06 AM PDT by NeverCheney
There are a lot of faraway places in this world—Namibia for example— but Europe is not one of them. Europe is where your kids spent junior year abroad. Europe is an easy flight from the east coast of the United States to pretty much anywhere on the continent and you know this. You’ve been on vacation in Europe, as millions of Americans have. For the most part, they speak English in Europe. They’ve got Starbucks and Taco Bell and air conditioning and modern hospitals. It is not another world.
Given how closely related the United States is to Europe and has always been, you would imagine our leaders would notice when Europe began to fall apart, especially when the signs were not subtle at all – and they weren’t. This summer, Germans began clear-cutting ancient forests to heat their homes. In Poland, families queued up for hours to buy coal, just like they did 150 years ago. In the U.K., the government projected that more than 10,000 Britons will freeze to death, will die, this winter for lack of heating fuel—freeze to death in England! That is not supposed to happen in a first world country.
Europe is moving backward at high speed and it’s not clear where it will end. The question is: why is this happening? The answer for once is a very simple one: the war in Ukraine. That’s why it’s happening. A huge percentage of Europe’s energy came from Russia. Those imports have now been banned, supposedly to punish Vladimir Putin. What’s the result of this punishment? Well, the Russian ruble is now far stronger than it was a year ago. The European economy, meanwhile, is collapsing. Europeans are much poorer than they were when the war in Ukraine started.
How is that a victory …?
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I thought it was so he could lower gas prices before the election to help keep inflation lower. Then after the election buy back the oil and make gas prices spike and blame the GOP.
This is no “religious war” in Ukraine. It is nothing more than a Money Laundering Operation.
the store shelves will be totally empty in no time once the diesel runs out.
Obviously, Tucker Carlson is a commie, a russian plant, anti-american.
I hope the military has access to the Diesel they need. You know in SoCal there are truck gardens who use regular gas, and close refineries here. But folks in the cold country are in deep doodoo
All Biden had to do when he walked into the Oval Office was … NOTHING.
Yep Tuck, me boy, the US not building a refinery in 45 years has nothing to do with it, not to mention your pal Brandon’s oil policies.
Gotta be Russia’s fault or maybe Trumps? What ya think?
Got a friend who drives trucks 🚛 5 days a week.
He told me a week ago they were already rationing diesel ⛽ (to some degree) on the East Coast.
Tucker is spot on.
The 2 refineries that have been closed for maintenance will be coming back on line, if they have not already, and will add some 8% to capacity
And SPR is down 200 M barrels.....he’s a madman!
anyone understand the nuts and bolts of the diesel industry sufficiently to explain why this year the USA is about to run out of diesel fuel and heating oil?
Tucker Carlson, bless his heart. I’m sure that most of what he is telling us in this article is at least close to the truth.
But his take on the 28 day diesel reserve is just wrong. At least mostly wrong.
Yes, 28 days is way too short for a reserve.
But no, it will not be used up in 28 days.
Of course I’m assuming that the reserve is not the only source of diesel. It is being used up because those other sources are running short of the overall demand for diesel. So we take some percentage of the reserve to make up the difference. And that is not a full days worth per day.
If you want to find out how fast the diesel is actually being depleted you need to check with our idiot President who set this whole thing in motion.
Once “rationing diesel fuel” gets to echoing around on everyone’s computers and phones, whatever diesel people can find will get bought/used/stored very quickly.
Thanks to Biden, the USA paid Putin to go to war.
Obviously!
Point taken. But the same folks, ie Brandon and his ilk, have an army of environmental soldiers and lawyers(who will work for free or paid by dark money folks), who will protest and/or sue anyone or everyone that wanted to build a refinery.
So, as long as what you have running is still working, why go through all the headache?
Biden is on Putin’s side. He got that from Obama.
It will definitely happen quickly as they keep tightening.
I was trying to get people to stock up a bit.
Now that I’m looking for a new part-time job, I can’t prep as much as before.
Most of the public will be blindsided into the mad rush you’re mentioning.
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