Ukraine Always Get What You Want

Me too.

I'm curious how much the current price increases reflect anything other than profiteering, speculation or futures trading.

How much of the spike is attributable to boycotts of Russian fuel, and how much is anticipatory
market panic?

Is there an actual shortage of gas and oil?

Oil Buyers Paying Record Premiums for Prompt Deliveries

 

Which side did the US chose in Syria? The brutal, repressive dictatorship of Assad who used chemical weapons on his own country or the Islamic State extremist religious oppressive dictatorship who butcher girls and women who want to read? Or Hezbollah, terrorists, and their Iranian religious extremist party. Was there an entity in Syria that pretended to be democratically oriented, with even tolerance for religions other than a specific Islamic sect?

And then when trump surrendered any stake the US had, he surrendered it to Russia who walked in to American built air bases

 

The alternative is not public transportation. The alternative is EV.

 

Market panic (or rather, speculation) is a big part of it. Not just wheat and oil, but other commodity prices spiked this week, too. But one thing that has happened is that Western companies that buy/ship Russian oil have been reluctant to do so for fear they'll wind up with supertankers full of an unsaleable product if more sanctions are imposed. Russian oil is selling at a deep discount, like $80 a barrel instead of $100+. This is great for China and India, who're buying all of it they can get their hands on, but it also means there's a de facto sanction on Russian oil right now.

 

What percentage of electricity to charge all the EV vehicles comes from renewable energy sources? How much non renewable, oil gas coal, energy does it take to create enough electricity to charge an average EV?

EV is the answer to a lot, especially mass transit. Bring back trams, trolleys and cable cars in the cities. But you can on,y do that if the people who pay the taxes to build the mass transit projects are in a position to utilize the mass transit projects.

 

Can we please keep this thread to Ukraine war?

 

This is an economic world war, so economic topics related to the shooting war seem germane to me.

 

It’s 2 dollars a litre here which is is about 7.60 a gallon I believe.

 

Yes but we do have a “how much did you pay for gas” thread that contains a historical perspective.

 

Maybe telling Putin exactly what the West won't do isn't a great strategy.

Blinken and NATO chief warn establishing a no-fly zone over Ukraine could lead to a 'full-fledged war in Europe' - CNNPolitics

 

Stealing this thought from someone else, but the cheapest lowest-risk way we can enforce a no-fly zone over Ukraine is to continue to ship as many stingers into the country as we can.