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The Watchman's avatar

Good article, Peter. Besides your weekly Proverbs, and your all Facts Matter, which is primarily economic, perhaps you should consider a geopolitcal Substack as well. Linking as usual.

Robert C Culwell's avatar

God bless the North American E&P companies and the Drillers in the American Oil Patch! ๐Ÿ‘ท๐Ÿฝโ€โ™‚๏ธโš™๏ธ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฒ

Canadian Crude ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ should have been flowing into Cushing by now. A pox on the dems and sleepy joe for canceling Keystone XL. ๐Ÿ‘จ๐Ÿปโ€๐Ÿ”ง๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿผโ€๐Ÿ”ฌ๐Ÿ‘จ๐Ÿผโ€๐Ÿญ๐Ÿ‘ท๐Ÿฝโ€โ™‚๏ธโ›ฝ๐Ÿ—๏ธ๐Ÿญ

Robert C Culwell's avatar

Back in the 2008 $ubPrime, I heard a trader quoted as saying, "who's buying all this crap?" and another trader responded, "stupid germans".

So now..... ๐Ÿšซโš›๏ธ NO Nuke, go GREEN! โ™ป๏ธ๐Ÿ™‹๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿผ๐Ÿ™‡๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ

......still the same buyer, "stupid germans". ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช

Peter Nayland Kust's avatar

๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ

So true. Both then and now!

Robert C Culwell's avatar

Light-Sweet / Heavy-Sour

Fun with Refineries! โš™๏ธโš—๏ธ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿ›ข๏ธโš“๐Ÿ—๏ธ๐Ÿšขโ›ฝ๐Ÿ’ฅ

At 20-million barrels per day (๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฒ) demand side, just being a few decimal places off ๐Ÿงฎ really starts pooling up โคด๏ธ or draining down โคต๏ธ over a few weeks...... The ๐Ÿš™ ๐Ÿ›ฃ๏ธ ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ stations and engines {๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ป๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ป} don't just swap out geographically โš™๏ธ๐Ÿ”งโฐ do they?

Gbill7's avatar

My teenage self would not have believed the adults in the world can be so irrational. Europe has sabotaged itself in dozens of purely insane ways!

Tomorrow is Election Day, and Iโ€™m sure looking forward to your expert analysis of the results, Peter. I have sent you a small ko-fi tip so that you can fortify yourself with some indulgence while you watch the election results come in. Letโ€™s hope that instead of crying in your beer, youโ€™ll be toasting some encouraging victories! (Yay, Paxton!)

Peter Nayland Kust's avatar

Thanks!

Hopefully Paxton will win over that freakazoid Talarico.

Personally, I'll be glad when the elections are over and all the damned political ads are gone. The ads on both sides make me sincerely wish there was a scenario where both sides would lose bigly. There aren't any examples of adults acting more irrationally than political ads.

I still wish we could get a movement together where in a single election the majority of the electorate voted "none of the above" on every candidate on the ballot. Let's just fire the whole sorry lot of them and start over.

Gbill7's avatar

Agreed! I voted on Friday, and was absolutely disgusted that of the twenty incumbent judges running for reelection, NONE of them had an opponent! I stood there thinking, what is this, the Soviet Union? I came out here to rubber-stamp approval for pre-selected corrupt judges who made sure that no one runs against them? THIS is pretend-democracy, run by behind-the-scenes elites. My only hope is that the rampant fraud in my city has now - partially - opened the eyes of citizens to how bad things have become in Minneapolis.

And yes, I too will be relieved when all of the manipulative electioneering noise stops for a while!

Gbill7's avatar

(โ€œFreakazoidโ€ - LOL!)