@ItsTheEnforcer I agree, make sure to always vote for candidates you approve of, and not just cuz you don't like a specific figure head. Otherwise you may end up like Virginia...
Crude Oil Quality & Refining 🛢
1. 🇺🇸 United States (WTI) – 39–41° API
• Light, sweet crude
• Very easy to refine, high gasoline & jet fuel yield.
2. 🇮🇷 Iran (Iran Light) – 33–36° API
• Medium-light crude
• Iran Light sits near the medium-light range that many refineries are designed for
3. 🇷🇺 Russia (Urals) – 30–32° API
• Medium sour crude
• Requires more processing.
4. 🇻🇪 Venezuela (Merey / Orinoco) – 15–16° API
• Heavy crude
• Thick, tar-like, complex refining needed.
📌 Key Insights 🌍
• Higher API Gravity = Lighter Oil = Easier Refining = Bigger Profits
• Iranian crude sits between ultra-light US shale and heavy Venezuelan oil, making it highly compatible with many global refineries.
• Strait of Hormuz carries a large share of the medium-grade crude many refineries are designed to process.
• If Hormuz supply is disrupted, refineries must switch to heavier or ultra-light substitutes, reducing efficiency and profits.
• Quality of oil often drives global oil politics more than most people realize.
Activist: "Cattle farming is incredibly wasteful."
Farmer: "Is it? List the inputs."
Activist: "What?"
Farmer: "For my farm. What goes in?"
Activist: "Feed, water, land..."
Farmer: "Rain, grass that grows for free, and land that won't grow anything else. Where's the waste?"
Activist: "But the resources..."
Farmer: "Are solar energy and rainfall. Both happen whether there's a cow here or not."
Activist: "You're oversimplifying."
Farmer: "I'm being accurate. Sunlight hits grass. Grass grows. Cow eats grass. Cow becomes beef. Which step wastes resources?"
Activist: "The land could grow crops."
Farmer: "This land? 30-degree slope, clay soil, 45 inches of rain? Show me the crop."
@ItsTheEnforcer Coalition forces: US army, US Navy, USMC, USAF, US Space force, and the NATO liaisons. Jokes aside the world will be a better place with the Iranian regime not insisting chaos in the middle east.
Our Town Council keeps raising taxes.
So I showed up with an English Lord’s wig to speak in *favor* of taxes.
“If you can’t pay your taxes…don’t be poor.”
@ItsTheEnforcer Far too one sided, dead on arrival, i read in the comments that it was rejected already. For Russia there is 0 benefits on accepting something like this, continue to reduce their population is preferible for russia.
@SecWar@ItsTheEnforcer I have no information on this boat, but unlike pass ones this one is very zoomed out so i can't tell details of the boat. For what i can tell it only had 1 engine and is going much slower than past ones. Maybe the cartels are running out of equipment. But we can't tell....