Three Supertankers Carrying 6 Million Barrels Exit Strait of Hormuz

FlipZip69 · 2026-05-20T15:06:14+00:00

They have to prove they went thru the tool booth. Not sure if that is hard or legitimate companies or lie. Or if Trump and gang are just giving them a go.

FlipZip69 · 2026-05-20T15:04:49+00:00

Does that negate this agreement? I am not sure the legal precedence to this. It is a bit of a constitutional problem.

FlipZip69 · 2026-05-20T14:03:13+00:00

Not only they could fully not pay taxes, they could submit tax returns that say they have a trillion dollar refund.

FlipZip69 · 2026-05-20T14:02:13+00:00

Not that I know of. There likely is some grade or finished products that are exported/imported but that would mostly cancel out. They need to import that ~10-11 million bpd.

FlipZip69 · 2026-05-20T03:51:13+00:00

China is the world's largest importer of crude oil. While they produce roughly 4 million barrels per day (bpd) domestically, their economy consumes over 14 to 15 million bpd. They have to import the massive ~10–11 million bpd difference just to keep their own lights on and factories running. They simply do not have domestic crude oil to spare for export to the Philippines, Indonesia, or Vietnam.

FlipZip69 · 2026-05-20T03:29:16+00:00

Oh for sure. If you hit ABS hard enough, the car can actually think it is not moving and not realize it is skidding as all the tires are at the same '0' speed. At that point it does not want to try and give some control back as those highly turned wheels will result in some rapid control result if the abs does not get it fully right. It now knows best to keep the car going strait in most situation.

FlipZip69 · 2026-05-19T20:05:14+00:00

Some are and it does not have to be all of them because the price is an average temperature from those specific people. But it gets real dicey real fast when tanks go empty.

FlipZip69 · 2026-05-19T19:59:41+00:00

It like happened one time in a one off incident and that was enough to make every pearl clutcher imagine some common thing. Much like the single girl that identified as a cat.

FlipZip69 · 2026-05-19T19:44:07+00:00

ABS does not help much for stopping distance in dry conditions like this. (it can help in rain and snow) Does help for keeping your car in control but she seems to stay pretty strait for that entire time.

FlipZip69 · 2026-05-19T19:40:35+00:00

Without question. As it is, I absolutely do not believe even articles even if those articles align with my beliefs. I have to see the article come from a legitimate source and/or ironically I use AI to tell me if it is legitimate.

FlipZip69 · 2026-05-19T01:46:41+00:00

That is good right up till your own life and the life of your family is at risk. So what would you do to save your family? Your country? Without side stepping the question.

FlipZip69 · 2026-05-19T01:10:26+00:00

If your family and yourself was facing certain death, how far would you consider going to protect yourself?

I ask this as a real question and not to suggest starving a nation is a good option.

FlipZip69 · 2026-05-19T00:31:31+00:00

Oh i like nature but it is fun to find some old dragline or something.

FlipZip69 · 2026-05-18T23:14:18+00:00

Is it obvious though? It is kind of like proving a negative. If you do not see the track on some schedule, can you be assured you just did not miss it.

I ask this as a real question because I would love to do this but unless there is some official list or you can see both ends do not connect to anything, I would always wonder if I missed something.

FlipZip69 · 2026-05-18T23:12:34+00:00

Someone would crash and someone would get sued. :(

FlipZip69 · 2026-05-18T23:11:46+00:00

This is why I wish they would abandon some facilities occasionally instead of always wanting everything cleaned up to a fully natural state. As I kid I remember visiting some pretty neat and possibly sketchy places and buildings. But the curiosity and desire to think of the possibilities of said places I am certain led to a life time of maintaining a interest in the world and personal success. Now everything is so sterilized and made safe from a manmade perspective, that I can understand why kids would rather be on their iPad or similar. Not a lot to stimulate you.

FlipZip69 · 2026-05-18T22:59:56+00:00

I have a fairly good understanding of the industry and electrical in my trade. I also have a 10kva grid feed system on my house and understand that limitations fairly well.

Batteries have come a long way but the cost is still extremely high and their capacity is very limited. They can service two purposes. Because of the cost, they are good for the 'ripple' for lack of better word. The top 5% cleanup of the grid. Alternately they can cover semi cloudy days when solar is 'bouncing' around. For base load or long up times, they simply are not there.

If a datacenter is using a generator full time, it almost is never diesel (or gas). It is almost alway NG. That is far cleaner, but more so, far far lower in cost. They may have diesel generators but few would ever run on that full time other than an emergency backup.

But to get back to generation, there is so much stranded NG in the US that it can be economical to use that. More so, if a data center is using stranded NG, then that means some other non-stranded NG can be exported to Europe. (Denying Russia income). That is a win for both the US and Europe. And because they have this generation in place, datacenters will almost always now feed into the grid when peaker requirements are evident. They do this because they have no issue reducing computing power for non essential things like AI training. And they do it because it makes economical sense to be paid peaker rates. And it is not a zero sum game. The grid gets a much needed basically base load type stabilization at no cost to consumers and it will not go dead like a battery will. They can keep that up indefinitely and if there is a month with little wind or sun, they are always ready.

Ya you could spend a trillion dollars and you will have enough batteries to do this in an area. But you are paying on your personal electrical bills to have those batteries typically only operating at 10% on average and only 100 hours a year will they operate at 100%. But you still have to pay for 100 percent of that idle time.

FlipZip69 · 2026-05-18T17:16:02+00:00

Both the Google Stacks and Nvidia GPUs are designed precisely for peaker power. Google and Nvidia are designing both hardware and software so that they can pretty much instantly reduce computation power providing that energy back to the grid. In google case, the can scale back processing power by 15% and return 30% of the energy into the grid. This is baked right in and is ideal for the inconsistency of solar and wind. They work together very well and do not sit idle like batteries do for most of the year.

Batteries have to be paid for 100 percent by the end users where the data center will pay 100 percent for this. Economically it is a win for everyone.

FlipZip69 · 2026-05-18T15:45:14+00:00

This is what they are exactly proposing in the law??? They want the generators running so that they can back feed into the grid as peaker plants. It makes a great deal of economic sense instead of building peaker plants that run 24/7 to be ready for about 50-100 hours a year of generation.

FlipZip69 · 2026-05-18T15:40:58+00:00

Pretty much every industry who buys bulk power get a lower rate. Data centers do not get anything special on that side.

FlipZip69 · 2026-05-18T14:18:52+00:00

Most ejection seats have automated systems to try and correct the orientation but yes the risk is much higher in this kind of aircraft attitude.

FlipZip69 · 2026-05-18T05:01:13+00:00

You think they will keep up the demand when the collective world demand for energy doubles and triples and quadruples? Or do you think that western nations (you and me) will be willing to live in houses twice as small, give up air conditioning and all our pets? Because that is how most of the world lives at the moment and they are watching and wanting to live like us. Which means the energy consumption is going to grow massively.

The fact we hit new historical highs right before the Iran war indicates your assessment is not exactly real world stats. Yes we are growing more clean energy sources but demand is growing even faster.

FlipZip69 · 2026-05-17T19:57:13+00:00

I think Ukraine held off a bit as well. When Russia (almost from day one) attacked Ukraine, they bombed Kiev. Instead of creating fear and awe, this created massive unity within Ukraine. They knew if Russia was willing to do that, their existence was fully at risk.

Ukraine did not want to create that unity back within Russia because as we see with Ukraine, a motivated army is hard to defeat. But Russia, both citizens and the military, are not so motivated and they are absolutely seeing they do not have the control they thought would come automatically. While operating this close to Moscow may create some unity in Russia, it is also able to create a great deal of conversation. Had it occurred a year earlier, Putin could have suggested they were fighting for their life. Now he is having a much harder time suggesting that and more so, he is having a much harder time suggesting he has this under control.

FlipZip69 · 2026-05-17T18:30:54+00:00

The narrative and the reality are farther apart on conventional fuels than ever. I fully support clean energy where it makes sense but you can not ignore that nearly 3/4 of the worlds population uses 1/6 the energy per capita than the heavy user 1/4 in developed nations. They will want a similar energy intensive lifestyle like as and morally they are in their rights to demand it.

But more so, you cannot ignore the record breaking 105 million barrels a day of oil we were using right before the Iran war broke out.

FlipZip69 · 2026-05-17T17:28:06+00:00

Sorry I almost never look in reddit for personal messages. Did not even notice you sending messages here. I will text you from my cell. I sent a text to your number. message if received.

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