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@Defia1hcldn @4provincesaudit @420AuditsEire Are the leftists in the room with you now? Is your door locked? The shite you gobshite spout.

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@LNBDublin And all this evening there are vermin doing handbrake turns on the boghall @johnbradysf please infer to the Gardai the local residents are sick of it

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@jimblimey They shove it in a bun over here and call it a wurly burger... its good... but... :D (not my photo, but I do now want one)

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@theurigeller

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@AthleticoMince Casper we will meet again and we will be touch tight.. in the afterlife.. Casper I love you.... ❤️

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@the_munster_man @ConorHogarty @USEmbassyDublin @USArmyEURAF @Shauns_Aviation @HMcEntee Ships cannot fly like helicopters

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@LansdowneRD_IE Was a cracking atmosphere that night. Sat in the east stand with the old fella. Miss the old stadium. Great memories.

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@RobLooseCannon https://t.co/ajyVhJpdt7

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@totalwormage One of the finest games ever. Also Team 17.. many a great title purchased under their banner. Thank you.

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@RobLooseCannon

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@AgroBulgaria @thecasualultra Or you know.. cska could act like grown adultsand not a bunch of neanderthals.

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@Clearpreso your defence is terrified

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@FatherTedSpeak RIP :(

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@venomxbt Are you claiming this is your content? Are you claiming you picked this up? Leech.

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@AthleticoMince The day the revelation came to light on the 442 interview... I didn't know what to believe anymore!

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

Everyone talks about Iranian oil in barrels. Nobody talks about what is inside them. That difference is why Western refineries have been running shadow networks through Dubai for twenty years to get it despite the sanctions.

Crude oil is not a uniform commodity. It is a spectrum of hydrocarbons with different molecular weights, and the composition of a given crude determines how easily it converts into the products refineries actually want to sell: gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, heating oil. The measurement that captures this is API gravity. Higher API gravity means lighter crude with shorter carbon chains, which means lower energy cost to crack, lower processing cost to refine, and higher yield of the light distillates that carry premium pricing. Lower API gravity means heavier crude requiring more energy, more processing steps, more capital equipment, and producing a higher share of lower-value residuals.

Iranian Light crude runs at 33 to 36 degrees API gravity with sulfur content between 1.36 and 1.5 percent. That is the refinery sweet spot. It is light enough to yield high fractions of gasoline and middle distillates without excessive processing costs, but heavy enough to produce the full range of products that complex refineries are designed to process. It is what petroleum engineers call an optimal blend crude.

Now compare the alternatives.

Venezuelan Merey heavy crude runs at approximately 16 degrees API gravity with sulfur between 3 and 5 percent. Refining it profitably requires a coking unit, a hydrocracker, and an extensive desulfurization train. The equipment exists. The economics work for refineries purpose-built around Venezuelan feedstock. It is not a substitute for Iranian crude. It is a different product requiring different industrial infrastructure.

US West Texas Intermediate runs at 39 to 40 degrees API with sulfur below 0.25 percent. In theory, the cleanest and easiest crude to process. In practice, it is so light that it does not yield the heavier middle distillates a complex refinery needs to run at full capacity. European and Asian refineries built around medium crudes cannot switch to WTI without blending it with heavier crudes to achieve the molecular weight distribution their process units require. WTI is not a drop-in replacement for Iranian medium.

Iranian oil fits where both US shale and Venezuelan heavy do not. It is the liquid that flows through the middle of the global refining system without requiring either the coking infrastructure for heavy crudes or the blending operations for ultra-light shale. That molecular fit is why it commands a persistent premium above comparable grades. It is why Indian refineries maintained Iranian crude purchases through every round of sanctions and negotiated the logistics to keep that flow moving. It is why the Dubai shadow banking and trading network that the UAE is now considering dismantling existed in the first place.

The Strait of Hormuz does not just carry oil. It carries the specific category of oil that the global refining system was built to process most efficiently. Closing it does not just reduce supply. It removes the grade of crude that the system runs best on and forces every refinery in the world to run less efficiently on whatever it can find as a substitute.

That is the premium embedded in the $82 oil price. Not just volume. Molecular weight.

https://t.co/ULBgEzZ3A8

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@FergusPower1 Have you considered getting off your fat fucking useless hole and getting a job Fergus? You are well able to piss around up the hills and down the dales in North Wicklow and South Dublin doing fuck all.

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@romero Happy Birthday!

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@KillianM2 Thanks so much for this. Great memories of this show on a Saturday morning

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@ParsaTajik @xai Seriously man, you may think this is a massive flex of ermagerd 36 hours look at me slaving myself. Just remember when you drop dead or get sick, the company will continue without you and all your uber no sleep larping.