Everyone is into blackmail in Trump's World

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Even in football..

So, the true art of a Trump deal is clobber the other side, and then clobber them again. The only way to discourage that is for the cloberee to refuse to be clobbered. As Iran has shown. Then Trump doesn’t know what to do.

The purpose of the diesel reserves is to smooth supply, not manipulate prices. The experts seem to be saying that if Trump had banned exports it would have backfired on hm. He should have been left to stew. Though I suppose he would have then said the high gallon prices was Europe’s fault.

As for the UAE, stuff 'em :face_with_hand_over_mouth:

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It’s win win for him, it may help bring diesel prices down in the US and then they can charge everyone else through the nose to restock :face_with_symbols_on_mouth:

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Totally agree, a like simply does not do it justice, but you get one anyway. :wink:
I can’t believe that I would ever be cheering for such an outrageous religious dictatorship as Iran, but I have been over these past few months.
Brings back fond memories of the '60s and the outrage at Kennedy and Johnson and the glory of the panicking helicopters over the Saigon US Embassy. Less fun was defending myself against aggressive Australian servicemen who felt betrayed by their masters and whose drunken automatic response was against everyone ‘at home’. They could not believe that I was in agreement with them, and felt their pain and outrage. No problem with the young Yank boys in Sydney, they just knew they had been forced to a horrible, and so often fatal political cockup.

As you can see, it effects me today.

An old man ruminates on the past, the future is another country. Glad I ain’t going there.

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Seems they ran out of diesel (Oh. alright, JP-8 then :face_with_hand_over_mouth:).

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I reckon that the G7 have been rather crafty in how they have handled the matter.
Remembering that the mid-term elections are only 1 month away;

  1. Agree to release crude oil and diesel from reserves thus taking away Trump’s ability to ban US diesel exports with any credibility at all.
  2. Tell everyone that it’s 100 million barrels, but don’t say how much of that is diesel and how much is crude oil.
  3. Undertake to make a start in 14 days time. That’s halfway towards the mid-term elections.
  4. Understand that when they do make a start it will take time for any possible pump price effect to filter through.
  5. So the likelihood of there being any downward effect on US pump prices before the mid-terms is virtually nil.
  6. The strategy helps to ensure that the great dictator is hamstrung by a Democrat controlled Congress for the next two years.

So the Orange Baby is effectively shafted by his own threat. Now that is worth a wry smile.

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We can hope.

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Thanks for that, Spardo!
Future is another country > Past is a foreign country > LP Hartley > What else did he write? >
I have just ordered a few books. Ta. :grinning_face:

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Fly Fishing? No wait that was his brother J.R. :smiley:

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