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Zelenskiy says letting Russia sell diesel to US is 'investment in war'
(www.reuters.com)
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Trucking and farming are far larger, and more important uses of diesel in the US
I know, I'm not literally saying that LLM's are the reason the US has to import more Diesel but it's so emblematic and aggravating example of the wasteful way in which western society (and the US in particular) uses fossil fuels I put that instead of how trains are far more efficient means of transportation, especially for logistics.
The military uses more diesel than anyone else. Sure half of the carriers and all the subs are nuclear, but none of our plethora of frigates and corvettes and cruisers are, not to mention the tanks, jeeps, and trucks.
2005 or 2006 numbers from wiki
So 4'600 million per year for military. Total diesel usage of the USA is roughly 20 million barrels per day, so 840 million gallons per day, so 300'000 million gallons per year. Roughly 2 % for military. I doubt that is the largest consumer. Transportation should easily be more with millions of trucks.
Transportation alone uses nearly 3 billion gallons of diesel annually. To suggest nobody cares about how the majority of goods and food products in America make it to our homes is peak Lemmy.
'more important' to who? it's very important to dipshit and his party guests.. and they surely don't gaf about truckers or farmers. they're in it for the stock plays--maybe a little embezzlement and fraud on the side, military can always use it, the data centers might use some but iirc they're more into natural gas, and using this measly piddly little amount (less than a day's worth for the entire nation. not enough to have any measurable impact on pump prices) to trick magats and others into thinking they're actually doing something to 'help' them. i doubt any of this russian fuel even makes it stateside.
More important for the economy would be my reading of that. It's really important that your goods get from A to B and that the harvest is brought in.