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On the plus side, Trump is helping Europe and Asia meet their climate goals. <ducks for cover> I hear diesel is running out in NSW and Queensland Australia. G
by 01100011 7mo ago
On the plus side, Trump is helping Europe and Asia meet their climate goals.
<ducks for cover>
I hear diesel is running out in NSW and Queensland Australia. Good thing you don't need diesel to run mining operations. Oh wait..
- WastedCucumber 7mo agoI was just talking to a kiwi yesterday about diesel. The price has more than doubled already there. So there goes large chunk of the US beef supply.
- 01100011 7mo agoAccording to Unusual Whales on Twitter, Australia just ordered an emergency fuel shipment from the US: https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/2037650368390144243 https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/2037650368390144243
- defrost 7mo agoUnusual Whales paraphrased a Sky News article (Fox-lite) which quoted sans context Lurion De Mello of Macquarie University (the Transforming Energy Markets Research Centre) who himself sourced infomation from LSEG * https://theconversation.com/australia-has-plenty-of-diesel-for-now-but-running-out-could-upend-our-economy-278981 https://theconversation.com/australia-has-plenty-of-diesel-f... * https://www.lseg.com/en https://www.lseg.com/en Lurion De Mello thinks (to the best of his human recall) that would be the first US shipment of processed fuel (bowser ready) in decades (although he factors in he might be wrong about that) but acknowledged that US shipments of crude (unrefined) are more common.
- tpm 7mo agoMining companies have started to invest into EV mining trucks, guess that will be even more popular now.