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US diesel hits record $6 a gallon on Iran supply shock

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Re: US diesel hits record $6 a gallon on Iran supply shock

#11
It's quite funny how Trump is killing European industry. Literally everything America has been doing the last few years has benefited China.

The Chinese economy has real weaknesses make no mistake about it and a competent US leader could have worked with his global allies to exploit them.

Re: US diesel hits record $6 a gallon on Iran supply shock

#13

The whole world is suffering because of this 2nd Epstein War. Current administration being blackmailed by Israel.

Only the countries that have not yet transitioned to clean energy

And countries that import goods. If you supply chain needs diesel, you're going to be paying more.

Re: US diesel hits record $6 a gallon on Iran supply shock

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post #13

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Only the countries that have not yet transitioned to clean energy

And countries that import goods. If you supply chain needs diesel, you're going to be paying more.

In Germany we have had a great influx of electric trucks in the last year

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Maybe this war will change that?

Unless you're ready to give up on a lot of convenience this is just not happening.

Hmm, I think for me personally the only thing I'd need to change is the heating in my apartment and I'm already planning to invest in a heat pump.

Re: US diesel hits record $6 a gallon on Iran supply shock

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The whole world is suffering because of this 2nd Epstein War. Current administration being blackmailed by Israel.

I thought reduced fossil fuel usage benefits the world.

“In 2025, the global fleet of EVs avoided the consumption of around 1.7 million barrels of oil per day” https://www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outlook-2026/executive...

Re: US diesel hits record $6 a gallon on Iran supply shock

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Only the countries that have not yet transitioned to clean energy

There is no clean energy, we don't know how to build any of the "clean energy" harvestors without using massive amount of fossil fuel.

https://iea-pvps.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Fact-Sheet-I...

Making and using a modern solar panel emits up to 44 grams of CO2 equivalent greenhouse gas per kWh over its lifetime as opposed to up to 1000 grams for fossil fuel generators.

That's 20x cleaner.

Re: US diesel hits record $6 a gallon on Iran supply shock

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Also driving the price up are the Ansarallah advances in Yemen and today's Ansarallah bombings of the Saudi East-West pipeline. The market expects that they'll use military force to attempt to close the Bab al-Mandab strait, with their past attempts at closing the strait, stated goals of closing the strait and newly reported use of Claude to develop medium-range ballistic missile guidance software as evidence.

Would be surprising if they don't in fact. In fact it is perhaps quite straightforward to skip Claude and rather tell Qwen 3.8 27b to create an angry birds clone where you track the bird... or something along the line. Pretty sure they are also very good at smuggling various assets through borders, and where not.

Re: US diesel hits record $6 a gallon on Iran supply shock

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post #3

Also driving the price up are the Ansarallah advances in Yemen and today's Ansarallah bombings of the Saudi East-West pipeline. The market expects that they'll use military force to attempt to close the Bab al-Mandab strait, with their past attempts at closing the strait, stated goals of closing the strait and newly reported use of Claude to develop medium-range ballistic missile guidance software as evidence.

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Saudi Arabia’s crude output falls to lowest level since 1990 https://finance.yahoo.com/energy/articles/saudi-arabia-crude...

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