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Louisiana Light • 3 days | 87.12 | +0.03 | +0.03% | ||
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Bonny Light • 21 hours | 89.32 | +0.45 | +0.51% | ||
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Opec Basket • 3 days | 86.51 | -1.01 | -1.15% | ||
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Mars US • 173 days | 77.26 | -1.51 | -1.92% | ||
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Gasoline • 24 mins | 2.730 | -0.004 | -0.15% |
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Bonny Light • 21 hours | 89.32 | +0.45 | +0.51% | ||
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Girassol • 21 hours | 89.90 | +0.45 | +0.50% | ||
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Opec Basket • 3 days | 86.51 | -1.01 | -1.15% |
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Peace Sour • 20 hours | 76.56 | +1.46 | +1.94% | ||
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Light Sour Blend • 20 hours | 79.61 | +1.46 | +1.87% | ||
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Syncrude Sweet Premium • 20 hours | 86.56 | +1.46 | +1.72% | ||
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Central Alberta • 20 hours | 76.96 | +1.46 | +1.93% |
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Eagle Ford • 3 days | 79.33 | -0.29 | -0.36% | ||
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Oklahoma Sweet • 6 days | 79.75 | +0.50 | +0.63% | ||
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Kansas Common • 2 days | 73.50 | +0.50 | +0.68% | ||
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Buena Vista • 3 days | 87.02 | -0.29 | -0.33% |
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Putin Predicts Catastrophic Consequences For The Global Energy Market
Russian President Vladimir Putin sees catastrophic energy consequences for Europe as sanctions against his country continue.
“We know that the Europeans are trying to replace Russian energy resources. However, we expect the result of such actions to be an increase in gas prices on the spot market and an increase in the cost of energy resources for end consumers,” Putin said at a televised meeting with senior officials on Friday.
The result, according to Putin, is that the sanctions will be felt more acutely by Europe than by Russia. “Further use of sanctions may lead to even more severe—without exaggeration, even catastrophic—consequences on the global energy market,” Putin said.
Europe has struggled to find a surefire way to punish Russia for its invasion of Ukraine without feeling the pain itself, given that Europe has relied on Russia for roughly 40% of its natural gas needs. Major European economies such as Germany are already grappling with power company bankruptcies as they source higher-cost natural gas from sources other than Russia. Europe is making a mad dash to refill its natural gas in storage before the 2022 heating season kicks in, but it is finding that those stocks are coming at a steep price.
Russia has already cut off the natural gas spigot to “unfriendly” countries that have failed to make arrangements to pay for Russia’s gas with a rubles account with Gazprombank. Bulgaria, Finland, and Poland have all had the flow of gas from Russia cut off, along with numerous buyers such as Orsted and Shell.
Europe is now mulling a price cap on Russian oil to punish Russia by restricting its revenues while maintaining its supply of crude, but the details are complex and would require buy-in from other countries, including China and India. Critics of the plan suggest that such a plan is nonsense and has little chance of working.
By Julianne Geiger for Oilprice.com
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Sanctions are starting to create a backlash where the rest of the world is creating an alternative to Swift, US$$, and financial arrangements. Also, the rest of the world is publicly and privately resistant to American demands of obedience for whatever USA determines as right/wrong or good/bad.
The rest of the world is 6.5 billion out of 7.5 billion and even the 1 billion of Westerners are divided.
The 1 billion Westerners are extremely rich and powerful and will demand their
prerogatives, no matter what is right or wrong.