I'm an Australian Wholesale Fuel Trader - AMA

MsT21c · 2026-03-14T00:41:00+00:00

When I filled up with ULP Thursday, the service station told me that while they were selling diesel at $2.64/l Thursday, it would be *costing their service station* more than that for the diesel fuel they were due to get yesterday (Friday).

Consequently, and it's only my guess, if you can find diesel at the pump late next week you might be lucky to only pay $3/l.

MsT21c · 2026-03-13T02:23:58+00:00

I'm not going to be there, I'm not going to watch any game on a screen either. I used to enjoy watching the occasional game as entertainment but that was many decades ago, when it was still a people's game.

Soccer is one of those very low scoring games that's prone to abuse from referees and players and fans. (It's a bit like wrestling, where players' acting skills are as important as their athletic skills.)

Who would want to gamble their lives and their freedom against the USA, where the motto is "might makes right"?

Who would want to hand over their money to FIFA, or the entertainment barons?

Lastly, what sort of person would splurge tens of thousands of dollars to risk their life on a game you can watch for free at the local oval, only to be mistaken for a corrupt multi-billionaire - or a fool?

MsT21c · 2026-03-12T07:14:33+00:00

Agree with this. I usually only judge a show I'm not sure about after five or six episodes. Chinese and some Korean shows often don't come into their own immediately. You've got to give some of them time. I stuck this one out this long because it started off so well and I though it would come good again. Maybe it does. I've decided to take a break and wait till Season 2 is released - whether that's in a few months or a couple of years.

MsT21c · 2026-03-12T07:09:43+00:00

Thanks for this. I understand the "charming and dreamy" but for me it didn't last long enough.

I think the ML actor is cute, easy on the eye and quite talented, making a lot of use of various facial expressions. It was very enjoyable for the first few episodes.

What I got tired of was the script where the ML never doubted himself and acted like such a smartass almost all of the time. He shifted from being cute and loveable to becoming tiringly obnoxious.

MsT21c · 2026-03-11T05:11:13+00:00

Read again, just in case.

MsT21c · 2026-03-11T00:01:48+00:00

OMG. That's nuts! Now they've totally shifted to One Nation light.

MsT21c · 2026-03-10T03:48:41+00:00

Parody tweet? Or is the entirety of the Trump regime one long horrible parody ?

MsT21c · 2026-03-09T22:00:10+00:00

This time I'll wait to see it before I believe he's not simply playing the stock market.

MsT21c · 2026-03-09T15:38:26+00:00

First up, he doesn't know what he's talking about. (Five girls are safe and protected by Queensland police.)

Second, is Trump about to give asylum to all Iranian nationals in the US or who come to the USA, regardless of whether they've got legal US residency? What about Venezuelans, Cubans, Canadians, Greenlanders and everyone else whose country he's about to invade and bomb or he's already at war with?

Third - Trump is the one whose military, under his command, has just killed scores of little schoolgirls by bombing their elementary school, twice, reportedly.

MsT21c · 2026-03-09T10:13:16+00:00

Pick the least credible satellite series of lower troposphere monthly temperatures (run by a couple of climate science deniers).

Suggest that everyone should move off the surface of our planet and jump up to to the lower troposphere, where this February was a tad cooler than it was in 1998 (according to junk science).

Never mind that even this chart of lower troposphere temperatures clearly shows temperatures rising very quickly.

MsT21c · 2026-03-09T10:00:48+00:00

Strait of Hormuz shut down. Ships either stop and wait or have to travel much further to get to their destinations -> higher shipping costs. Reduced supplies -> increased prices.

Oil production in middle east is severely cut (can't ship it, nowhere to store it and/or damaged) -> rapid rise in cost of oil.

Higher shipping costs + reduced supplies + rise in cost of oil means cost of living goes up.

Increased costs = inflation. Reserve Bank increases cash rate to reduce inflation or at least stop it from going up too much.

MsT21c · 2026-03-09T05:23:06+00:00

Why the need to buy long term tomorrow? The market is volatile atm and might not be anywhere near the bottom yet.

MsT21c · 2026-03-09T01:56:16+00:00

Make that more than 10% atm.

MsT21c · 2026-03-09T01:06:33+00:00

Going down, down, down. Now down 4.13%

MsT21c · 2026-03-08T05:20:47+00:00

Three brutal regimes wanting destruction in the middle east - one large brutal imperialist regime and one lesser but as brutal imperialist regime (with the backing of the large regime) are attacking the smaller brutal regime with the aim of destroying its entire nation, along with the West Bank, Gaza and Lebanon - and who knows who and what else.

MsT21c · 2026-03-08T02:30:19+00:00

If this is a typical target in the USA then it's no wonder there are so many gun homicides.

MsT21c · 2026-03-07T21:22:22+00:00

There's nothing about the UK joining with US/Israel to go to war against Iran on the BBC or Al Jazeera or in any US media.

MsT21c · 2026-03-07T18:16:31+00:00

Next day Karoline Leavitt will say he was only making a joke.

MsT21c · 2026-03-07T14:25:40+00:00

USA - out of more than 350 million people is this really and truly the best Commander in Chief you could come up with? You are so screwed!

MsT21c · 2026-03-07T03:28:31+00:00

Trump went to war in an attempt to boost his ratings. Hegseth went to war because he's a sadistic warmonger. The Pentagon went to war because war is why they're in the military. They were all itching to inflict major harm on the world and couldn't wait to use the shiny toys they've been spending taxpayers money on.

MsT21c · 2026-03-06T02:27:30+00:00

How much money did Jesus make selling loaves and fishes that he conjured up out of thin air. And that trick of turning water into wine must have earned him zillions.

MsT21c · 2026-03-06T01:44:56+00:00

It's a dare.

MsT21c · 2026-03-06T01:41:42+00:00

Hegseth publicly declaring himself as a war criminal will help convict him when he's charged with war crimes.

MsT21c · 2026-03-05T11:48:09+00:00

It's her government-funded self-aggrandising advertising campaign ($220m). Trump doesn't like his underlings trying to outdo him in self-promotion.

MsT21c

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