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Russia Ships Oil at Near-Record Pace as Kyiv Pummels Refineries (www.bloomberg.com)
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[–] 3 points 4 months ago (5 children)

There are in fact petrol shortages, especially in southern Russia and the prices have spiked also, so it's not completely "unaffected"

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    The only place where there appear to be any actual shortages is Crimea where delivering fuel was always been a logistics problem. These stories about Ukrainian drones affecting Russian oil production have been running for over a year now, but when you look at the actual production numbers it's very clear there is zero visible effect. The whole context for this thread is a Bloomberg article saying that Russia is shipping out oil at record pace now.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I'm telling you my first hand experience in central Russia. There are clearly fuel shortages today, with multiple gas stations I went through having no fuel, or having exuberant prices. I think it's short term also partly because of the media coverage and people buying fuel in advance. In Crimea there were reports of a kilometre queues of people waiting at gas stations to refuel. And they had to introduce quotas of 30 liter per person maximum

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 4 months ago

    Right, you're talking about panic buying, but that's not an indication of actual structural problem. And yeah given the bad media coverage close to election, I can't imagine that's gonna get addressed quickly.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Very very temporarily they ramped up production and it is already in decline. They started this year producing and exporting less than the last five year.

    YoY Data

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  • [–] [S] -1 points 4 months ago

    I can tell why you didn't want to link to the whole site because it completely undermines your narrative of cherry picked short term data which is not indicative of long term trends. Meanwhile, Russian oil revenue has shot up significantly thanks to the global oil shortages, and it represents a smaller percentage of economy as well. So, what we're actually seeing is that there isn't any significant shift compared to previous years, while revenue has shot up. https://energyandcleanair.org/may-2026-monthly-analysis-of-russian-fossil-fuel-exports-and-sanctions/

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