Cross-geposted von: https://feddit.org/post/36119529
Article in German and behind a paywall. Here are the relevant excepts, translation by me:
The U.S. government is apparently trying to force Europeans to release large quantities of their strategic diesel reserves onto the market by threatening to halt diesel exports. SPIEGEL learned this from sources within the German government and the European Commission. According to these sources, Washington is demanding that EU member states release 120 million barrels (159 liters each) of diesel from their strategic reserves onto the market, spread out over 180 days. Should this not happen, Washington is threatening to halt its diesel exports to Europe.
The Reuters news agency had previously reported on such a demand by the U.S. government—but had placed it in the context of the release of strategic oil reserves, which had already been agreed upon in March by the member countries of the International Energy Agency (IEA).
However, the U.S. government is now demanding the 120 million barrels of diesel on top, as several insiders in Berlin and Brussels confirmed to SPIEGEL. (…)
120 million barrels of diesel would be an enormous amount, it equates to more than 16 million metric tons. For comparison: Germany’s entire strategic diesel reserve amounts to just over four million metric tons. According to EU figures, all 27 EU member states combined have a reserve of 39 million tons.
Or just stop exporting it anyway since theres a manufactured shortage of the stuff?
Can the Trump regime just fucking implode already? Asking on behalf of the rest of the world
Bullies keep taking until you stand up to them. If you try to appease them, they will just take more.
Sounds like donnie dumbass is scared of losing the midterms. Diesel being over $6 is hard to ignore…
Release your Epstein reserves first
Imagine how well we would all be doing right now if America provided decent education to its people
“We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That’s dynamite! We have to be selective on who we allow to go through higher education.”
-Roger Freeman, Nixon Advisor
I think about that a lot. And also how well we’d be doing with universal health care, and excellent nutrition.
meanwhile trump pays billions of taxpayer dollars to cancel solar and windfarm projects so his citizens can pay for the highest diesel prices ever that he caused.
Diesel is in a crisis and the regime is floundering. You may not roll on diesel, but almost everything you buy does.
Diesel prices are a huge problem and it’s going to get worse the longer it’s like this.
Cognitive dissonance doesn’t even begin to describe the idiocy of such thinking. You couldn’t make it up.
Probably going to use this as a way to deflect blame towards Europe as being the one causing high gas prices.
Everything is about the midterms. Screw the rest of the world!
Best thing is that the condition imposed by the US to reduce tariffs to import from the EU is for the EU to buy more American oil.
He really is very, very, very stupid.
Is that in reserve for military or for critical transportation or what?
The 39 million tonnes include all reserves. So critical transportation, emergency power generation and heating.
