It won't work. This isn't winning anybody. It won't affect prices and people hate it, even a lot of conservatives.

Yeah, I really don't think people grasp the scale of the numbers here.

40,000 tonnes is about 300,000 barrels. The US uses, in a day, about 3.5 to 4.5 million barrels. This is less than 10% of one day of consumption.

It won't change prices at all.

But it gives them a working premise that eventually enough will come to effect prices.

What's really going to hurt is harvesting, because many states opened up red diesel for red use already. One of the big reason it's separated from the rest of the supply is to control prices. When there's less, the price goes up. They can't counter that without buying more diesel, dying it red, and selling at a loss.

This is just the thiniest excuse for people to ignore this one issue and still vote Republican.

It's a total desperation move.

Does it work?

Actually it's between about 400,000 and 600,000 depending on the time of year.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1320482/monthly-us-diesel-consumption/

(Chart measures in barrels, my tonnage numbers there are a rough conversion)

The USD is pegged to Oils spot price and and the Saudi Riyad is pinned to the USD. All countries have to buy US dollars to purchase and settle oil transactions. The global economy is petrodollars and has been since the 70s.

Given that the UK has been siezing any and all oil tankers coming out of Russia, they have the opportunity to do the funniest thing right now.

Please don't call them "the Ukraine". It's old Russian phrasing that subtly delegitimizes them as an independent country.

https://time.com/12597/the-ukraine-or-ukraine/