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There is nowhere near enought trucks in existance for that.

• throwaway4good 6y ago
  Is that really correct?
  • msh 6y ago
    China imports according to google 7,620,760 barrels of oil a day. A similar lookup gives that the largest tanker trucks can carry 176 barrels of oil. So that would, if all capacity was by truck (I know it will not be) over 43000 truck loads pr day over very bad road conditions.
    • Rule35 6y ago
      Russian oil is quite a ways West, around Kazakhstan, and China's population density is to the East. The trip would be around 5000km, and take a week on good roads. Perhaps double or triple this depending on the season, and maybe with a "Russia" multiplier. So multiply that 43,000 by 14 to 42, or more, and you're within a factor of ten of all (~16M according to Google) commercial trucks in the world, of which only some fraction are tanker trucks.
      • throwaway4good 6y ago
        Interesting. But how is all that oil currently distributed within Russia and China?