America’s diesel supply on verge of catastrophic collapse
In what we are now calling Dieselgeddon, the supply of diesel fuel in the United States is plunging. By the end of May or early June — unless something changes dramatically — diesel fuel will go into extreme scarcity and have to be rationed across America.
Because diesel is used by nearly all railway locomotives (because they’re “diesel-electric” locos), transport trucks, construction equipment and farming equipment, the crash in diesel availability will sharply affect all the following:
- Food availability
- Fertilizers for growing food
- Coal for powering the electrical grid
- Construction projects
- Transportation of consumer goods to retail stores
- UPS, Fedex, USPS and other package carriers
Few people realize how important diesel fuel is to the economy, but they’re about to learn this all-important lesson the hard way:
Without diesel fuel, America’s economy ceases to function. Full stop.
Without diesel, UPS can’t deliver packages. Amazon.com shuts down. The USPS stops delivering mail.
Without diesel, the trains can’t deliver fertilizer to farmers. Food crops don’t get planted or fail to produce sufficient harvests to feed the world.
Without diesel, all construction projects stop, meaning roads and bridges are no longer repaired. The highway infrastructure collapses.
Without diesel, the United States of America ceases to function.
It all begs the question: Why is there a diesel shortage?
Mysterious fires and biodiesel conversions of existing refineries
One reason we don’t have enough diesel being refined in America is because over the last few years, major fuel refineries shut down their diesel operations and began retooling to produce “biodiesel” — a highly inefficient, virtue signaling product that’s actually horrible for the environment and yet depends almost entirely on food production to make the fuel.
It’s incredibly wasteful to grow food and then turn that food into fuel. Just look at corn-derived ethanol fiasco that’s an ecological nightmare.
As JWN reported in 2020, “Massive oil refiners are turning into biofuel plants in the west.” During the contrived covid lockdowns, it turns out, there was so much excess diesel in the pipeline that these companies were strong-armed into “going green” by transforming their refineries into biofuel factories.
This means, of course, they can no longer produce real diesel fuel from petroleum.
From that story:
Phillips 66 on Wednesday became the latest in a string of U.S. refiners to say it’s converting an oil refinery in California into a biofuel plant as gasoline loses its lustre to fuels derived from agricultural and waste products.
The company said its 120,000 barrel-a-day Rodeo refinery near San Francisco will become the world’s biggest plant that makes so-called renewable diesel, as well as gasoline and jet fuel, out of used cooking oil, fats, greases and soybean oils.
The announcement came about a week after fuel giant Marathon Petroleum Corp. said that it may convert two refineries into renewable diesel plants. In June, HollyFrontier Corp. said it would turn its Cheyenne, Wyoming, refinery into a renewable diesel plant by 2022.
Realize that in order to produce biofuel out of food, somebody has to produce the food first.
And that means farmers need fertilizer and diesel fuel for their tractors in order to grow the food. But the diesel is running out precisely because the diesel refineries switched to biofuel, but biofuel needs food which can only be grown by using diesel… you get the idea.
It’s a vicious cycle of doom and stupidity. Soon, America will have lots of mothballed refineries that can produce biofuel from food, but won’t have any food to feed into their refineries.
Can’t make up the level of stupidity required to land us at this point.
On top of this, a mysterious fire led to a massive explosion of a diesel refinery in Philadelphia in 2019. The company running the refinery, Philadelphia Energy Solutions, filed for bankruptcy in July of 2019, following the fire and explosion that took it out of commission, reports CNBC.
This sort of fire, which CNBC blames on a “faulty pipe,” reminds us of the string of fires affecting food facilities across the USA in recent months.
It all seems like coordinated sabotage of the infrastructure providing energy and food to America.
In summary, it is the conversion to so-called “green” biofuels — as well as the mysterious fire and explosion in Philadelphia — that has led to DIESELGEDDON which is about to hit America hard.
As the diesel runs out, and transportation becomes insanely expensive and unreliable, Joe Biden and the Democrats are sending $40 billion to Ukraine while utterly refusing to do anything to help defend America’s energy infrastructure.
That shows you their priorities, doesn’t it? They’re all about saving Ukraine while destroying America.
That’s what democrats do, of course: They destroy everything they touch.
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Diesel can be made from coal, this happened before the discovery of oil which made diesel production easier. I have no idea how this is done but I’m sure there are bright sparks who can do this and not notify the Biden administration.
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Geraint HUghes
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That oil from coal method is how Nazi germany powered its recovery.
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Mark Tapley
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Another manufactured crisis along with the “Green Energy” climate change scam, fake virus and phony Ukrainian war to cause shortages and damage the economies. When I was a kid (long time ago) my father was in the dozer business. For many years he paid 5 cents a gallon for diesel. Finally it went up to 10 cents. The stuff was so cheap many people sprayed fence lines with it (before round up) and it was often even poured on roadways to settle the dust. Now that we have more known resources of oil than ever it is scarce. The fake war in Ukraine is a fake issue since we only bought ap. 4% oil from Russia anyway and most of the price increases occurred before the fake war was initiated by the Zionist syndicate.
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Geraint HUghes
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Can tractors run on bio-diesel?
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Howdy
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Yes they can Geraint, and maybe new/used cooking oil. Not all engines tolerate it because it may affect rubber seals etc. Requires some research to decide.
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Howdy
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Hi again Geraint,
Due to blow-by, or other form of contamination, veg oil and other bio-fuel/Diesel blend can in some cases raise crankcase oil levels, and more importantly, dilute the lubricant, destroying it’s properties. Veg oil is part and parcel of UK Diesel, and when the govt wanted to increase the amount of bio fuel added to Diesel even more, there was resistance from vehicle manufacturers for this point. Bio doesn’t evaporate under heat like Diesel can
Oil viscosity is critical to longevity. For example, a crankshaft bearing does not rotate against a crankshaft journal direct because an oil film exists between the two, but only while the engine is running, the oil pump pressure is correct, and oil viscosity within range. This is why I see stop/start engines as ridiculous. The protection does not exist at startup, particularly cold starts, and in the latter case specifically, never rev hard, or load the engine excessively until at least partly warm. This is the standard practice of operating a Diesel loco.
I know people who have done pure veg oil and ‘filled up’ in shopping centre car parks from bottles with no ill effects. Cooking oil is not a taxed road fuel so once the powers that be cottoned on, the price quickly shot up and sort of ruined the practice.
Not trying to paint a bad picture by any means, I found a couple of pages to peruse in case you are trying to decide for yourself:
https://lubricants.totalenergies.com/news-press-releases/fuel-dilution-engine-oil-causes-and-effects
https://www.utilitysmarts.com/automobile/diesel/what-causes-fuel-dilution-in-diesel-engines/
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Alcheminister
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They generalize. label things with very different properties as the same. Because of the popularized agenda-associated BS.
The classification, generalization of “vegetable oil” isn’t indicative. Just as pH or a PCR “test” isn’t indicative.
There are actually morons that think pH is representative of their soil quality, it’s fucking hilarious. And there are morons who think PCR tests are indicative of their entire health status.
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Alcheminister
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Oh sorry, I typed tests rather than “tests” (as they are in no way useful for diagnostics).
Alcheminister
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Just trawling with the net a bit.
Howdy
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“The classification, generalization of “vegetable oil” isn’t indicative. Just as pH or a PCR “test” isn’t indicative.”
Doesn’t matter Osiris. What counts is whether the plant-based additive/Diesel mix can adversely affect operation and longevity vs plain Diesel. Here it does.
Extra maintenance is the downside as dependant on engine and duty, oil will need possibly part changes in addition to standard full changes. I suppose the removed oil could be filtered and slung back in the tank if it’s farm plant, and even better if it’s set up as a drip feed return which will practically eliminate smoke..
Mark Tapley
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Hello Howdy:
Another big problem with low quality fuels is injector problems. Diesel engines will typically far outlast a gasoline if you use a high quality oil (I use 15-40 Rotella) in my 75 hp. tractor and you will also avoid lots of expensive injector problems and get more power if you add a bottle of cetane booster and injector treatment for every 100 gallons of ag. diesel.
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Howdy
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Hi Mark,
I allways used top fuels plus an additive and changed my oil early using a renowned brand. The duty the vehicle was used on meant I didn’t need the ‘esoteric’ oils.
K Kaiser
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@ author(s)
“Realize that in order to produce biofuel out of food, somebody has to produce the food first.”
Yes, indeed — and more likely than not — at the very best, you get about as much energy output as you put in.
But, in any case, biodiesel (or bioethanol) are iodiotic schemes and a waste of valuable food for humans and animals alike.
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Mark Tapley
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Hello Kaiser:
Yes Bio fuels are very inefficient. No one would be doing it except some insiders at the top are getting huge subsidies to set up the industrial processing needed. Sugar cane is the most efficient but needs a long hot, damp growing season as in Brazil or Hawaii for growing large quantities. In a free market situation without government intervention, there is an easy and much better alternative, that makes a lot better fuel. Its called petroleum.
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Howdy
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Gas to liquid makes a very nice fuel with the additive package. Shell optimax for one.
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Howdy
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Shell optimax should be Shell V-power Diesel. Optimax is the Petrol premium fuel.
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