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| Oil tankers at the loading terminal of the Sheskharis transshipment complex in Novorossiysk, Russia. © Sputnik / Vitaly Timkiv |
Russia apparently has more natural gas than they know what to do with. They are even converting some of it to diesel fuel and shipping it to the United States. Why would they do that? They must think that evil American Capitalists are exploiting the American proletariat who will be so grateful to the great Vladimir Putin that they will throw off the chains of our oppressors and gladly shackle ourselves to Russia. Ha, is to laugh. It's just business. Russia sees an opportunity to make money and they are taking it. Those GTL (gas-to-liquid) plants aren't cheap. Here's a picture of a Shell GTL plant in Malaysia.
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| Shell MDS plant in Bintulu, Malaysia, the world’s very first commercial GTL plant |
The 2 million barrels of diesel coming from Russia will keep our trucks running for one day. Tomorrow we'll need another 4 tankers.
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| GTL Plants |
There are only a handful of GTL plants in the world. I was able to locate the ones in Qatar and Malaysia (purple markers), and possibly one in South Africa.
You're right, strictly business. Since the majority of their revenue comes from supplying gas to Europe. Putin doesn't want western Europe to be able to put the squeeze on him. That pipeline is what the problems in the Ukraine were about. So more revenue streams the better.
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