Russia has temporarily banned exports of gasoline and diesel to all countries outside a circle of four ex-Soviet states with immediate effect in order to stabilise the domestic market, the government said on Thursday.
  • Jeremy [Iowa]English
    43•1 year ago

    At risk of smug, things like this really reinforce the arguments in favor of EVs.

    Oh no, petroleum is more expensive… anyway…

      • @Eheran@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15•1 year ago

        The electric car still has less emissions then an ICE, even if the electricity is from a coal power plant. The reason is simple: the plant is more efficient than the ICE and the whole chain to the BEV on the road is very efficient.

        Not to mention that there is no other way to transition away from oil. You have to start somewhere. Build more renewable sources and you automatically get cleaner cars too.

      • @GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9•1 year ago

        Good thing some of us live in states where hard work has been done to change that. My power is 100% wind, solar, and hydro, and cheap too!

      • @Spaceballstheusername@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6•1 year ago

        It’s not 80% of electricity it’s 80% of all energy consumed so transportation, home heating, and manufacturing all use fossil fuels. The electrical grid is about 60% fossil fuels. Thing is a lot of people who have an electric car also have solar panels and if you consume electricity before it enters the grid it doesn’t get counted in that statistics. I’m not saying it’s a high percentage but if you have solar panels and an electric car then it doesn’t matter what the grid is.

      • XbSuperEnglish
        6•1 year ago

        Comments like this are why I blocked lemmygrad. Guess I shouldn’t have given you idiots another chance.

  • @Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
    35•1 year ago

    One of the biggest oil exporter is doing more than all the other countries in accelerating the transition to renewables (in the western countries)

  • @M0oP0o@mander.xyzEnglish
    15•1 year ago

    Wait, so if the nation that has been 3 gas stations in a mob coat runs out of gas what does that make them?

  • AutoTL;DRBEnglish
    6•1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    MOSCOW, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Russia has temporarily banned exports of gasoline and diesel to all countries outside a circle of four ex-Soviet states with immediate effect in order to stabilise the domestic market, the government said on Thursday.

    It said the ban did not apply to fuel supplied under inter-governmental agreements to members of the Moscow-led Eurasian Economic Union, which includes Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan.

    “Temporary restrictions will help saturate the fuel market, which in turn will reduce prices for consumers,” the government said in a statement.

    The crunch has been especially painful in some parts of Russia’s southern breadbasket, where fuel is crucial for gathering the harvest.

    Russia has already cut its seaborne diesel and gasoil exports by nearly 30% to about 1.7 million metric tons in the first 20 days of September compared to the same period in August, according to traders and LSEG data.

    “Daily monitoring of fuel purchases for the needs of agricultural producers with prompt adjustment of volumes has also been set up.”

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