Russia has temporarily banned exports of gasoline and diesel to all countries outside a circle of four ex-Soviet states with immediate effect in order to stabilise the domestic market, the government said on Thursday.
  • Jeremy [Iowa]@midwest.socialEnglish
    474·
    1 year ago

    At risk of smug, things like this really reinforce the arguments in favor of EVs.

    Oh no, petroleum is more expensive… anyway…

      • napalminjello@kbin.social
        23·
        1 year ago

        And that’s something thats impossible to change and great reason for why we should never stop using oil? Even if we were using 100% oil it’s converted to energy much more efficiently at large plants, and renewables are growing every day while oil is shrinking. I really don’t see the point you made here 💁‍♀️

      • Eheran@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15·
        1 year ago

        The electric car still has less emissions then an ICE, even if the electricity is from a coal power plant. The reason is simple: the plant is more efficient than the ICE and the whole chain to the BEV on the road is very efficient.

        Not to mention that there is no other way to transition away from oil. You have to start somewhere. Build more renewable sources and you automatically get cleaner cars too.

      • GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        Good thing some of us live in states where hard work has been done to change that. My power is 100% wind, solar, and hydro, and cheap too!

      • XbSuper@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        Comments like this are why I blocked lemmygrad. Guess I shouldn’t have given you idiots another chance.

      • Spaceballstheusername@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        It’s not 80% of electricity it’s 80% of all energy consumed so transportation, home heating, and manufacturing all use fossil fuels. The electrical grid is about 60% fossil fuels. Thing is a lot of people who have an electric car also have solar panels and if you consume electricity before it enters the grid it doesn’t get counted in that statistics. I’m not saying it’s a high percentage but if you have solar panels and an electric car then it doesn’t matter what the grid is.

  • Moonrise2473English
    36·
    1 year ago

    One of the biggest oil exporter is doing more than all the other countries in accelerating the transition to renewables (in the western countries)

  • M0oP0o@mander.xyzEnglish
    161·
    1 year ago

    Wait, so if the nation that has been 3 gas stations in a mob coat runs out of gas what does that make them?

      • Norgur@kbin.social
        17·
        1 year ago

        Huh? Oil imports from Russia are down by 99.9%. 3500 tons were imported in January. That’s basically 0 in the grand scheme of things.

        • thantik@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          1 year ago

          Sounds like you have no idea what Germany has been like in their “participation” of these sanctions. Germany has bitched and bitched about this.

  • halfempty@kbin.social
    6·
    1 year ago

    I wonder how much of this is caused by Ukrainian strikes to refineries, storage tanks, and pipelines? (Not to mention diversion of Russian fuel to their war vehicles)

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    MOSCOW, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Russia has temporarily banned exports of gasoline and diesel to all countries outside a circle of four ex-Soviet states with immediate effect in order to stabilise the domestic market, the government said on Thursday.

    It said the ban did not apply to fuel supplied under inter-governmental agreements to members of the Moscow-led Eurasian Economic Union, which includes Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan.

    “Temporary restrictions will help saturate the fuel market, which in turn will reduce prices for consumers,” the government said in a statement.

    The crunch has been especially painful in some parts of Russia’s southern breadbasket, where fuel is crucial for gathering the harvest.

    Russia has already cut its seaborne diesel and gasoil exports by nearly 30% to about 1.7 million metric tons in the first 20 days of September compared to the same period in August, according to traders and LSEG data.

    “Daily monitoring of fuel purchases for the needs of agricultural producers with prompt adjustment of volumes has also been set up.”

    The original article contains 306 words, the summary contains 170 words. Saved 44%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

  • steebo_jack@kbin.social
    4·
    1 year ago

    I think this article is talking about the finished products of oil, gasoline and diesel. They are still exporting oil to be refined elsewhere…