Rants and WTF are you talking about and Coronavirus!

[McAdonis]

Recent Saudi actions regarding production could have easily been predicted. Saudi Arabia has been purchasing cheap Russian oil for months now. As such, a decrease in production was expected as they are using Russian oil to fuel domestic needs and producing less for export. That is a prudent move to keep prices stable considering the destabilization effects of low Russian prices. Crude oil prices have not moved proportionately to their announcement because due to import of Russian oil, a decrease in production will not yield a proportional decrease in export of oil.

Overblown political rhetoric that the Saudi monarchy is loving as it makes them appear more powerful than they are.

Had OPEC not announced the production cut, crude oil prices would probably be lower than they currently are. So I interpret the production cut as a preemptive strike to keep the prices at the current level or higher (although most forecasters still expect the prices to return to $100 a barrel in the near term). China is the world's biggest crude oil importer and so once post-lockdown economic activity resumes, we should see the effects of the reduction in global supply on prices.

Biden threatened "consequences" for the Saudi monarchy. And he has aggressively announced he will release more barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve ahead of midterms. There are some media reports that he asked the Saudi monarchy to postpone the announcement until after the midterms. And so the Saudis refused to bow to Biden pressure and did the exact opposite of what the Biden administration wanted. An increase in oil production obviously makes no sense for Saudis as they know interest rate hikes will lead to an economic slowdown which would lead to reduced global oil demand, but the Saudis would have at least considered it anyway if the USA had the Saudis by the short and curlies (as Turgid puts it).

[Escape Artist]

On french motorway, to recharge electric is about 50% more expensive than diesel in my old lady or my ecologic exceptionnal V8 , and how could I drive Paris Dortmund Bern Prato Stelvio Paris in 2 days with a Tesla or Chinese MG which are just to go to buy bread, when I will aim close to 300 with french ecologic bioethanol, when big pollution in China about batteries. In Paris cars event, hydrogen cars were shown and wish this time because not new, it will work, because real future for locomotion, when everywhere around us,

Elon M. Is an idiot. Who wants to sit around for ten hours as opposed to five minutes filling up a tank and taking a leak?

2022.

Paris to Frankfurt round trip is a little over 1000 km.

An Audi S8 will use 10.2 L per 100 km when driving like a normal person on the autobahn but that drops significantly when the driver is an idiot driving at 300 kmph. To capitalize on ethanol E85, you'd have to get it in France as you can hardly find it in Germany and if you actually do find it, it costs as much as the other fuel types. Anyway, at best you get 0. 80 euro per liter in France for 100 L to travel 1000 km and you're paying at least 80 euro.

2022 Tesla Mode S gets up to 675 km on it's 100 kWh battery which charges from 10 to 80% in 24 minutes on a super charger. That would be quite a long way to drive to go get bread and the same range as an Audi A4.

Most people will charge their EVs at home for 0. 20 euro per kWh in France. A full 100 kWh charged at home would cost 20 euro and will get you over 600 km. Then you need another 70 kWh to get yourself the other 400 km. Well you can charge for free at hotels, Lidls, Aldis, etc so the return trip could possibly cost zero euros if take care of logistics. So a Model S from Paris to Frankfurt and back could cost only 20 euro of in-home electricity. But even at the highest current EV charging station prices, that's 0. 80 euro per kWh for the remaining 400 km. That would be 49, call it 50 euro. Add the original 20 euro it cost to charge at the house and you're looking at a maximum of 70 euro for a round trip Paris to Frankfurt and back in a Tesla Model S with a 20 minute charge time if paying to use a supercharger station or zero opportunity cost lost of time charging for free overnight at a hotel.

And LOL at Hydrogen. "Everywhere around us". Chemistry and physics would have been helpful here. You don't just take hydrogen from air and put it in a tank. In fact there's hardly any hydrogen in the air at all. You make hydrogen fuel in 2 major ways. The clean way is by splitting water, a ridiculously energy expensive process that defeats the point. Know what the cheaper way is? Through the use of burning coal. Completely inefficient and expensive process. Then factor in the cost production.

Then there's transporting hydrogen to every fuel station in a city. Do you have any idea how volatile hydrogen gas is? Of course you don't. It's literally 10 times more volatile than petrol gasoline. Ever heard of the Hindenburg? The Hydrogen Bomb? Do you know how much more volume hydrogen takes up? Transporting that to individual fuel stations all over a country is absurd.

[Pistons]

Elon M. Is an idiot. Who wants to sit around for ten hours as opposed to five minutes filling up a tank and taking a leak?

Elon Musk is not an idiot in the sense of being stupid. But he is in it for the money. Not for the good.

He names his company Tesla after the famous inventor Nicola Tesla, but he dispises how Nicola Teslas mind worked. Trying to give everyone free energy. Elon is an idiot in the way he compared himself more to the douchebag that was Thomas Edison. Who wanted to capitalize on everything, and making people into slaves.

You also see it with Elons rethorics regarding AI and Neurallink. He claims we should fear AI since it will become smarter than us. And then he creates a company called Neurallink in order to make AI think like humans, just way faster and smarter. So he is creating in essence what he is fearmongering.

Much the same use of rethorics as our Thai American resident here on ISG. The difference is just that Elon is well aware, while our Thai American here is blissfully unaware.

[Pistons]

This is what a person who has no concept of how physics works thinks. Likely the writings of someone familiar with terms like "Quantum" etcetera, but no actual understanding of actual "quantum" anything. Aka a poser who tries to sound smart but is actually an imbecile.

A mentor once told me, "Don't confuse familiarity with competence.

In rhetoric's we say that when someone has to state that they are not doing something. Out of nowhere, where nobody asked them about it. Then they are usually trying to cover over exactly what they are doing.

In your case that of being an inbecile yourself.

This is basic rethorical psychology.

[Sirioja]

Elon M. Is an idiot. Who wants to sit around for ten hours as opposed to five minutes filling up a tank and taking a leak?

Not at all idiot when he would sell us our own shit still warm. Putin is crazy idiot. UK be Johnson who may be back, also. UK are on medusa ship, lost for their economy after brexit.

[Escape Artist]

Elon M. Is an idiot. Who wants to sit around for ten hours as opposed to five minutes filling up a tank and taking a leak?

He has Asperger's. Literally a medical condition that he claims.

Also, are you an alias of HammerTime? Writing is different but fundamentals of thought processes are quite similar if not mirror images. Maybe just attended the same Klan meetings?

[Escape Artist]

Well, when the world runs out of natural resources we are pretty fucked. In ages past, what we did was to deform the world again by uplifting and changing the geology of the planet. Only then could new resources from deep within come up towards the surface. The zenneck surface wave was used, and we can technically do the same today already. It is what Nicola Tesla was toying with. And this was how we had the great flood of Noah, and how Atlantis sank. Though they didn't use a ship, but a spaceship. Elon Musk might be the Noah of our age.

This is what a person who has no concept of how physics works thinks. Likely the writings of someone familiar with terms like "Quantum" etcetera, but no actual understanding of actual "quantum" anything. Aka a poser who tries to sound smart but is actually an imbecile.

A mentor once told me, "Don't confuse familiarity with competence."

[Sirioja]

Elon M. Is an idiot. Who wants to sit around for ten hours as opposed to five minutes filling up a tank and taking a leak?

On french motorway, to recharge electric is about 50% more expensive than diesel in my old lady or my ecologic exceptionnal V8 , and how could I drive Paris Dortmund Bern Prato Stelvio Paris in 2 days with a Tesla or Chinese MG which are just to go to buy bread, when I will aim close to 300 with french ecologic bioethanol, when big pollution in China about batteries. In Paris cars event, hydrogen cars were shown and wish this time because not new, it will work, because real future for locomotion, when everywhere around us, when lack of electricity when very cold. When France will help Germany for gaz, but we will need electricity from Germany when many of our nuclear factories are off for service for this Winter and Germany make big pollution to make electricity.

[DrPoon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiwasNk4aew

[DrPoon]

Well, when the world runs out of natural resources we are pretty fucked. In ages past, what we did was to deform the world again by uplifting and changing the geology of the planet. Only then could new resources from deep within come up towards the surface. The zenneck surface wave was used, and we can technically do the same today already. It is what Nicola Tesla was toying with. And this was how we had the great flood of Noah, and how Atlantis sank. Though they didn't use a ship, but a spaceship. Elon Musk might be the Noah of our age.

Elon M. Is an idiot. Who wants to sit around for ten hours as opposed to five minutes filling up a tank and taking a leak?

[PaulInZurich]

They have 220,000 right now. In 12 days the rest of them will be fully trained in their two week course. Assign some Wagner operators and Russian special forces to supervise and further teach the new soldiers to make sure they don't get any ideas about defecting.

Fully trained soldiers in 12 days. Let me guess, your military training is from some youtube videos.

[Sirioja]

Since 8 months, resisting to big Russian army, Ukrainians have big courage and pride. When they protect Eastern Europe like Poland, or Romania / Moldavia, they have all my respect, but I m afraid they will suffer a lot in cold Winter.

[Pistons]

Well, when the world runs out of natural resources we are pretty fucked. In ages past, what we did was to deform the world again by uplifting and changing the geology of the planet. Only then could new resources from deep within come up towards the surface. The zenneck surface wave was used, and we can technically do the same today already. It is what Nicola Tesla was toying with. And this was how we had the great flood of Noah, and how Atlantis sank. Though they didn't use a ship, but a spaceship. Elon Musk might be the Noah of our age.

[Escape Artist]

Virgin terrorist manifestos galore!

[HammerTime96]

Exactly! And that assumes that they're even going to be able to rustle up 300,000 conscripts, what with so many draft age men hiding and running away to other countries. Yep, yep 300,000 (maybe) poorly trained, unmotivated draft dodgers are going to turn the tide for sure! Just you watch and wait and see! Hahahahaha!

The truth is probably somewhere in the middle. Sure, many Russians might not be very motivated, but what about the motivation of Ukrainians?

Europe is full of nice and relatively expensive cars with Ukrainian number plates at the moment: all 'heroes' that are 'defending' Ukraine by escaping to the EUSSR to collect welfare! That's how 'patriotic' most Ukrainians are to serve as cannon fodder for some CIA sponsored oligarchs like Petro Poroshenko or Ihor Kolomoyskyi.

Fact is that Ukraine in 2022 is in a very similar position as Russia was in the 1990's under that drunk idiot Boris Yeltsin. Ukraine today is a corrupt chaotic cesspool run by CIA puppets like Yulia Tymoshenko, Petro Poroshenko and now a mediocre actor-comedian Volodymyr Zelenskyi who is clueless about geopolitics and military matters.

I'm afraid that for most Ukrainians this will develop into a stalemate which will completely destroy their country because some neocons / neolibs in the USA are waging a proxy war against Russia. Even if Putin is 'removed' from power tomorrow or dies of a heart attack, someone else will take over that will continue the present course because most Russians know what the alternative will be: being a Western puppet state like under Boris Yeltsin in the 1990's when Yeltsin was happy and drunk enough to hand over all of Russia's oil and gas companies to the West.

Remember Yukos and Michael Khodorkovskyi? Khodorkovskyi was going to sell out Yukos to Exxon-Mobil and Putin put a stop to this, and this forms the basis for the tensions between the West and Russia. The West doesn't give a FUCK about "freedom and democracy" for the Russian people, they only want to rob it. Most Russians are astutely aware that their country will transform into a commodity-rich-third-world-shithole like Nigeria or Venezuela if they support the CIA into organizing a 'colour revolution' so they much rather prefer to live in a stable Russia by maintaining their support for Putin and his (no doubt corrupt) cronies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukos#Forced_sale_of_assets.

On October 31, 2003, shortly after the arrest of the company's CEO, the Russian government froze ownership of 44% of the company's shares. The reason given was to prevent a group of shareholders led by Khodorkovsky from selling a large stake of the company to the US oil firm Exxon.

This is the reason why the West was so quick with sanctions against Rosneft, Gazprom, GazpromNeft etc, because it was payback time for their failed robbery of Yukos, and this is also why the West has no sanctions against Saudi Barbaria's national oil company (Aramco) despite the Saudi war against Yemen and despite the fact that Saudi Barbaria is a brutal dictatorship, or why the West has no problems with Azerbaijan's "dictator" Ilham Aliyev and buying oil-gas from SOCAR (Azeri national oil-gas company) despite the brutal and unprovoked war against peaceful neighbour Armenia.

I have quite a bit of knowledge and expertise in this area (this was the reason why I have visited Russia many many many times in the past) and this is what of course you won't read in the Western newspapers or what the Little French DGSE Napoleon with a superiority complex (who claims be a mountain climber and to speak fluent Russian, hahahaha!) here won't write in his 20 k posts either.

Reality is that the West doesn't give a FUCK about "freedom and democracy" and has no problem whatsoever to buy oil and gas from brutal warmongering dictators, so long as those dictators allow the CIA to run their country and sell large parts of their oil and gas industry to Western companies. Russia-Putin refused to play this game, so now the Russians are the black sheep.