Where are those faggots from Twitter who were saying I was schizo for saying Germany was entering “deindustrialization”?

You little fairies were obsessed with me. Frigging weird queers.

Where are you now?

Come talk about how everything is normal and the Ukraine war is good, faggots!

Remix:

Volkswagen is preparing to do something that has never been done before in the company’s 87-year history. To cut costs, it is closing two of its plants in Germany, a large car factory and a parts plant.

Remember when Germany gave up nuclear power because of a tsunami in Japan? That was probably a bad idea.

While it is not clear yet which plants will be affected, Saxony has been rumored as one location.

…

Industry analysts had previously predicted the closure of two of the company’s plants: Osnabrück in Lower Saxony and Dresden in Saxony. The state government of Lower Saxony is Volkswagen’s second largest shareholder and opposes the plan.

Volkswagen, which employs 680,000 people and is Germany’s largest industrial employer, also wants to suspend its job security program, in force since 1994, which would have prevented redundancies until 2029 by making them subject to the agreement of the workers’ council.

…

The company has lost nearly a third of its value in the past five years, making it the worst-performing European carmaker.

Yeah, I mean. Maybe this is partially a VW problem and not purely a Germany problem.

But it is definitely also a Germany problem.

The German economy continues to sink like a rock, and as long as this war is ongoing with Russia, there is no reason for it to ever get any better.

Why do the Germans allow the Americans to bully them into a war with Russia?

Is it because their own women are so obsessed with having a war with Russia?

No gas powered cars
No farming
No electricity producing power plants
No natural gas stoves
No electric water heaters

Aren’t you glad Biden and Democrats are running America?

— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) July 23, 2023

Say good bye to hot showers!

No gas stoves and no home water heaters, this will help combat the climate emergency. pic.twitter.com/SQQCaLO8ye

— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) July 23, 2023

We have to change the weather.

And we have to do it quickly.

Everyone is going to get total swamp ass if we don’t turn the planet into a solid block of ice in the next seven months.

New York Post:

Water heaters could soon be subject to much more stringent efficiency requirements if a recent Department of Energy proposal that has been criticized by Republican lawmakers goes into effect.

In a draft rule unveiled Friday, the Biden administration is seeking to compel most electric water heaters to deploy heat pump technology and gas-fired ones to use condensing technology.

It comes months after the Biden administration ignited a firestorm over feared stove top regulations, after Albany lawmakers enacted a controversial first-in-the-nation gas stove ban in New York.

“Today’s actions—together with our industry partners and stakeholders—improve outdated efficiency standards for common household appliances, which is essential to slashing utility bills for American families and cutting harmful carbon emissions,” Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm said in a statement.

Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm

The Biden administration anticipates the regulatory plan, set to go into effect by 2029, will save Americans $198 billion and slash CO2 emissions by 501 million metric tons over the next 30 years.

The department is planning to ratchet up the minimum efficiency standards for gas-fire water heaters, oil-fired storage water heaters, and gas-fired instantaneous water heaters.

The collective efficiency measures were set to save Americans $570 billion over three decades, officials said.

“This proposal reinforces the trajectory of consumer savings that forms the key pillar of Bidenomics and builds on the unprecedented actions already taken by this Administration to lower energy costs for working families across the nation,” Granholm added.

Water heating comprises 23% of consumer utility costs and annual residential energy use, according to the department.

Congress requires the department to produce efficiency standards and it claims it last updated its policy on water heaters in 2010.

These new rules would to new water heaters that hit the market beginning in 2029.

What a really great idea.

This is really helping society a lot.

So to recap:

– Biden admin launches jihad against gas stoves

– GOP House passes Limit, Save, Grow Act that prohibits Biden from doing so

– GOP waters down the bill, strips those provisions, fully funds EPA

– Biden expands jihad to water heaters, dishwashers, generators

— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) July 23, 2023

Can’t you see? Little by little they’re taking every convenience away from you. First it was gas stoves, then it was washers, refrigerators, air conditioners & now water heaters.
You think it’s a joke but everything has a purpose.
“You will own nothing & be happy” – WEF pic.twitter.com/JtpCQzAwvM

— ᴊᴀᴄᴋ ᴅᴀɴɢᴇʀ (@AmericazOutlaw) July 23, 2023

From the people who want showers and faucets without enough water pressure, dishwashers that don’t fully clean, washers and dryers that fully wash or dry, etc. they now want water heaters that don’t fully and quickly heat. All in the name of “environmentalism” or “climate… https://t.co/6ZN8Ew13Rp

— Ken Gardner (@KenGardner11) July 22, 2023

First they came for your gas stoves.

Then they came for your dishwashers.

Next they came for your water heaters and air conditioners.

Now the Biden apparatchiks are coming for your portable gas generators.#Marxists https://t.co/OugUBDJMiW

— David Blackmon’s Energy Absurdity (@EnergyAbsurdity) July 22, 2023

I don’t think anyone is surprised by this.

If they act surprised, they are pretending.

We here at the Daily Stormer printed all the information about how the German economy was going to spiral as a result of the sanctions on Russia when the sanctions happened, nearly a year and a half ago.

There was never any stated plan to reinforce the German economy.

It’s in a death spiral.

Reuters:

German business morale worsened for the second consecutive month in June, a survey showed on Monday, indicating that Europe’s largest economy faces an uphill battle to shake off recession.

The Ifo institute said its business climate index fell to 88.5 this month from 91.5 in May. A Reuters poll of analysts had predicted a smaller drop to 90.7 in June.

“Sentiment in the German economy has clouded over noticeably,” Ifo’s president Clemens Fuest said.

China’s weaker than hoped for economic performance since its reopening from tight COVID-19 lockdowns, a looming U.S. recession and ongoing monetary policy tightening seem to be weighing on German company sentiment, said Carsten Brzeski, global head of macro at ING.

“What is clear is that the optimism at the start of the year seems to have given way to more of a sense of reality,” Brzeski said.

Indeed, expectations were much more pessimistic, with the related Ifo index falling to 83.6 from May’s 88.3. Companies also assessed their current situation more poorly, with that index falling to 93.7 from 94.8.

The economy faces the prospect of a longer recession as domestic demand and the expectations of exporters have both weakened, Klaus Wohlrabe, head of Ifo surveys, told Reuters in an interview on Monday.

“The probability has increased that gross domestic product will also shrink in the second quarter,” he said.

Once again, we should be reminded that the entire Ukraine agenda is being pushed by women.

In their own minds, women have no stakes in the game of the economy.

Women always just assume that someone is going to be taking care of them. They don’t think “this could cause a problem” when they push some lunatic war agenda any more than a toddler imagines that throwing a tantrum will cause his parents to stop feeding him.

It’s a deep, dark shame that someone convinced white men that women are people.

THE IMPACT OF THE ENERGY CRISIS: The euro zone entered into a mild recession in 1Q 2023, as revised data showed a 0.1% q-on-q contraction during the period, following an also 0.1% contraction in Q4 2022. https://t.co/f2vULHAcIY

— Javier Blas (@JavierBlas) June 8, 2023

It’s a small price to pay for gay marriage in Donetsk.

Europeans need to get better at shutting their filthy mouths and supporting democracy.

Reuters:

The euro zone economy was in a technical recession in the first three months of 2023, data from European statistics agency Eurostat showed on Thursday, after downward revisions of growth in both the first quarter and the final quarter of 2022.

Gross domestic product (GDP) for the 20-country euro zone fell by 0.1% in the first quarter compared with the fourth of 2022 and was 1.0% up from a year earlier, Eurostat said in a statement.

That compared with flash estimates of growth of 0.1% and 1.3% published on May 16. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast on average respectively zero and 1.2% expansion.

The revision was principally due to a second estimate from Germany’s statistics office showing that the euro zone’s largest economy was in recession in early 2023.

The contraction in Ireland’s economy widened to 4.6% from a preliminary estimate of 2.7%, although this negative was due to the impact of large multinationals on growth there.

The euro zone figure for the fourth quarter of 2022 was also cut to -0.1% from a previous reading of zero.

A recession had been expected towards the end of last year as the euro zone wrestled with high energy and food prices and as a post-pandemic spending boom faded, but initial estimates had suggested the region had avoided this.

Time to buckle up your bootstraps, bucko.

We’re in the long war against the ideology of totalitarianism, i.e., white heterosexuals.

Nothing is ever going back to normal, especially because we’re also at war with the weather and so on.

We’re turning the world into a block of ice by eating bugs.

Stop crying, bucko.

We expect Germany will be in a mild recession this year, warned Bettina Orlopp, Commerzbank CFO pic.twitter.com/Vy7k2ef801

— CNBC International (@CNBCi) May 17, 2023

Why would it get better at any point in the future, ever?

The nuclear power plants are shut down, the gas pipes were blown up by Joe Biden’s Jews. They are building windmills.

That’s Germany specifically. It’s an industrial country that needs cheap and reliable energy. Without that, it is going to deindustrialize. We’re not the only people saying this. It’s not a secret.

Germany is also part of the global economic system, which is a disaster due largely to the actions of the governments during the “pandemic” hoax and now the weird interest rate business.

RT:

Investor confidence in Germany has fallen for a third consecutive month as growth prospects worsen, fueling fears of a recession in the EU’s largest economy, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.

The economic sentiment index measured by the ZEW economic research institute dropped to -10.7 in May from 4.1 in April, representing the first sub-zero reading this year. An index of current conditions also deteriorated, the outlet said.

The data comes amid a deeper-than-expected production slump across most industries in Germany. New orders for manufacturing companies dropped 10.7 % month-on-month in March, the sharpest decline since April 2020.

“The financial market experts anticipate a worsening of the already unfavorable economic situation in the next six months,” ZEW President Achim Wambach said in a statement. “As a result, the German economy could slip into a recession, albeit a mild one,” he added.

It’s whatever, I guess.

I mean.

I don’t know.

Actions have consequences.

Effective policies have helped the German economy weather the shut off of Russian gas. But tightening financial conditions and higher energy prices have slowed near-term growth. Key challenges remain: productivity, aging population and green transition. https://t.co/Wr2iNgtxxB pic.twitter.com/gSGZZE0Gr8

— IMF (@IMFNews) May 16, 2023

Here we go. After being told by the media and the #BankOfEngland that the U.K. would fall into recession this year & have the weakest economy in the G7…. We are now being told that the U.K. economy will grow, and #Germany will go into recession 😂 pic.twitter.com/vOsSYqpd0k

— Rod Bishop 💎 (@rodbishop15) May 9, 2023

Borrell: EU will punish India for Russian oil

According to Borrell, because of the price ceiling imposed by the G7 countries on Russian oil, India has been able to use cheaper raw materials.

“The European Union knows that India buys Russian oil in large volumes in order to sell… pic.twitter.com/0Nz67Jgsl8

— Spriter (@Spriter99880) May 16, 2023

Previously: Europe Proposes Banning Exports to Countries That May Re-Export to Russia

Please, please, please sanction India.

King Modi is so close to fixing the country’s geopolitics.

Western sanctions would be that last push he needs.

RT:

The EU should “take measures” to stop India reselling Russian oil to the region in the form of refined fuels, the EU’s foreign policy chief told the Financial Times on Tuesday. Josep Borrell said the bloc was aware that Indian refiners are using large volumes of Russian crude to make fuels for the European market.

“If diesel or gasoline is entering Europe… coming from India and being produced with Russian oil, that is certainly a circumvention of sanctions and member states have to take measures,” Borrell told the news outlet.

The diplomat added that he understands India’s eagerness to buy Russian oil, given the G7 price cap which bans Russia from selling its oil at a price above $60 per barrel. However, he urged Brussels to block products made from this oil from entering the EU.

“That India buys Russian oil, it’s normal. And if, thanks to our limitations on the price of oil, India can buy this oil much cheaper, well the less money Russia gets, the better. But if they use that in order to be a center where Russian oil is being refined and by-products are being sold to us… we have to act,” he stated, without clarifying what those actions may be.

Is Borrell a Chinese spy?

Why does he keep making statements like this?

Is he senile? 

Sometimes I wonder if the various spooks are reading my site for an honest opinion. Sometimes I wonder if that’s why I haven’t been assassinated with exploding Mossad toothpaste or whatever.

Then if I start thinking that, I start thinking stuff like “well, maybe I shouldn’t say that I want the EU to sanction India, because then they’ll rethink their strategy.”

However, that type of thinking is not helpful. I just gotta tell it how it is. And the US-led “neoliberal” (faggot term, by the way) world order is on a path towards building an Iron Curtain around itself, where the rest of the world operates totally independent of it.

The issue is, these people seem to actually believe that there is some combination of military might and the power of the US dollar that creates some kind of Infinity Gauntlet type scenario – they wield the ultimate power, and nothing can stop them, whatever they do.

There is a belligerent recklessness here that is terrifying in its opaqueness – if you read me.

Why are they talking about a war with China? There are 1.5 billion people in China. It’s very obvious that with both Russia and China, they think they can create these humiliating debacles – Ukraine and Taiwan, respectively – and then collapse the governments of these countries and replace them with their own people. This is not reasonable. If you go through and look at what these CSIS, Rand, and Hudson people are saying, you look at the associated academic literature, you look at what they are saying in the New York Times op-eds, and so on – if you just go for the broad overview of the thing we are discussing, which is how the US is going to maintain global hegemony in the 21st century, you find that these people just lie to each other in these papers they write, and none of them are fact-checking each other.

This is an Empire of Lies and the lies are now so large and so complex that no one person could possibly keep track of all of them. This entire order is breaking down, due to the simple fact that dastardly, underhanded, pirate type activities cannot scale indefinitely.

If the whole plan is to keep the dollar strong, then why did they do that stupid “pandemic” hoax and create psycho inflation that requires them to do rate hikes that destroy the US financial markets that prop-up the dollar in the first place?

Why did their sanctions serve to strengthen the Russian economy and solidify Sino-Russian friendship?

Why are they not managing the fact that they are hemorrhaging allies all across the world, even though they admitted years ago that countries prefer to do business with the Chinese, because the Chinese show up with bags of cash instead of crippling IMF debt scams backed up by the threat of American military violence?

These people are too clever by half.

The CIA was funding groups in Syria that were fighting each other.

When I ponder these questions, my mind always returns to one single thing – this gif:

Do you want an Iron Curtain?

Because this is how you get an Iron Curtain.

RT:

EU lawmakers are mulling curtailing exports to nations currently able to re-export goods from the bloc to Russia, thus helping the sanction-hit country circumvent the penalties imposed by Brussels over the Ukraine conflict, the German news agency dpa has reported.

The European Commission (EC) reportedly sent a proposal for the measure, which may be included in the 11th package of sanctions on Russia, to member states earlier this week.

The bloc is expected to work on a legal tool that would allow it to restrict supplies from the EU to third countries “as a deterrent” at an early stage. If the measure proves insufficient, Brussels may subsequently block exports of certain goods, primarily those with both civilian and military applications, such as night-vision equipment.

According to the news agency, lawmakers from the 27 member states will discuss the proposal with EC President Ursula von der Leyen later this week.

This would mean sanctioning most of the world. It’s not really a realistic proposal.

Some of this sort of stuff seems to get thrown out there as an attempt to demonstrate how serious and unhinged they are.

It’s a bit like that “TikTok” bill that made it a felony to use a VPN. There wasn’t really a chance that was going to pass, but they throw it out there just to normalize crazy stuff in the minds of people.

They do this with pretty much everything. People forget that one of the main demands of the homosexual movement in the 1980s and 1990s was abolishing “age of consent,” i.e., legalizing pederasty. Most (or maybe all) of the main activists that ended up being associated with Stonewall were actively pro-pederasty.

But, hey – there are a lot of crazy things going on that I thought were impossible. If Russia doesn’t get control of the situation in the Ukraine, China isn’t going to have any choice but to intervene, because an actual Russian loss in the Ukraine would mean a collapse of the Russian government and a US takeover, and China simply can’t afford to have a massive ZOG base strapped with huge numbers of nukes on their border.

If China does commit, it seems likely the US/NATO will completely lose their minds, in which case “just sanction the whole world” is going to be a possibility or inevitability.

Which could be good in the long run? As long as China doesn’t collapse from the economic pressure. Because at that point, you’re basically playing chicken to see who can hold their country together for the longest.

Europe got sideways sanctions on Russian oil
Europeans themselves are the first to suffer from EU oil sanctions against Russia, writes Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten.
The fact is that they are already buying the “black gold of the Kremlin” , but now through third countries at…

— Spriter (@Spriter99880) May 6, 2023

Another transport sector strike in Germany.

Trade unions in Germany again announced strikes by railway and air transport workers on Thursday and Friday due to a lack of agreement with employers on working conditions and wages. pic.twitter.com/b8YH7ywghI

— Spriter (@Spriter99880) April 20, 2023

As everyone knew was going to happen, the German economy has totally collapsed and they’re staring down deindustrialization.

Of course, the government will always make sure the upper classes are totally insulated, and as much of the middle classes as possible, because the lower classes can’t do shit.

That’s a fact of reality. Peasants cannot do revolutions without leaders, and they are so dumb, the leaders are usually people with totally different motives than those stated (see the entire history of both communism and the US color revolutions).

You can grab the peasants and use them for good, however. If you had the will to power. Napoleon did it. Hitler did it. It’s not really that hard. They just want inspired speeches and cool looking tribal symbols and like, hardcore military shit (i.e., symbols of the capacity for violence to be used to protect the tribe).

These Germans have their hearts in the right place, of course. Shutting down the things they have the ability to shut down is the very most obvious thing peasants will do to show dissatisfaction. But this has never resulted in any meaningful outcome unless Robespierre or Lenin showed up and was like “and now, we start killing all my personal enemies!”

Reuters:

Rail workers went on strike across Germany on Friday, bringing national operator Deutsche Bahn’s services largely to a halt, in the latest of a series of stoppages over pay in Europe’s largest economy.

The walkout, organised by the EVG union, was due to run from 3 a.m. (0100 GMT) to 11 a.m, though the train network was expected to be impacted for the whole day.

State-owned Deutsche Bahn said all its long-distance connections would be cancelled until 1 p.m. and that few commuter trains would run.

The EVG, which is negotiating on behalf of 230,000 workers, is seeking a 12% wage increase, or at least an additional 650 euros ($715) per month. Deutsche Bahn has offered 5% and one-off payments of up to 2,500 euros.

…

Friday’s transport strike was set to coincide with a walkout at four German airports – Duesseldorf, Hamburg, Cologne Bonn and Stuttgart – by members of the Verdi union.

The problem is that the democracy system understands that the only real threat from the masses of people is a charismatic, intelligent, youngish (under 50) man with a vision of restructuring the current system through the use of an organized mob.

These people are targeted, before they even think of doing that thing, and brought into the system. The elite school system is designed to pull youth with potential into the system.

You know in these schools, they film each other doing like, masturbation rituals and other gay shit?

Skull and Bones is I’m sure the most famous, because it’s the most elite, but every fraternity collects kompromat on their members. Then you have the Epstein stuff of course, but that’s hardly even necessary.

An enlightened man might see a video of their revolutionary leader doing some gay shit in a fraternity or having sex with a teenage girl on a devil island and laugh and be like “yeah that’s how they get ya.”

But a peasant mob will tear their leader apart over something like that.

Tucker Carlson, for example, actually does have the qualities of a revolutionary leader. These are very evident traits. But as we see now, he’s entirely bought into the system.

And of course, if you slip through, and manage to develop the kinds of skills necessary to be a revolutionary leader without having been integrated into the existing power structure (which is probably basically impossible now), they can just arrest you over some bullshit like they did to the Golden Dawn in Greece. They just put them all in prison for literally no reason.

This is the problem we’re facing, and it is why, in my view, the only revolution is going to come from a mix of internal collapse and external pressure from China.

China will become the main source of global economic growth in the next five years – IMF believes

The country’s share in global GDP will be 22.6%, which is twice the share of the United States.

The contribution of the BRICS countries will exceed the contribution of the G7… pic.twitter.com/nYkRwh48LS

— The Rio Times (@TheRioTimes) April 18, 2023

This machine we live in is far from perfect, but the mechanism for suppressing the people is perfect. That is really probably the best definition of democracy: “the perfected suppression of the population by the ruling elite.”

It’s no secret I back Nick Fuentes fully and implicitly.

But I don’t think he’s going to do a revolution. Not now.

My hope for him is that he and his people will be in a position to grab power in a vacuum created by the cascading troubles stemming from economic instability and war.

We need these big problems to get a lot bigger and we need Emperor Xi to do the exact right thing over and over again and then maybe.

Maybe.

But it is all just noise, brothers.

There is one thing in the universe that matters: “Jesus Christ, Son of God, Have Mercy on Me, A Sinner.”

Try to have fun.

The last 3 nuclear power plants in Germany will be closed on Saturday.

Germany, after more than 60 years, completely abandons its own nuclear power industry: the authorities disconnect the last three operating nuclear power plants from the network. pic.twitter.com/gisnFjFBqP

— Spriter (@Spriter99880) April 15, 2023

GERMANY – Will close its remaining nuclear power stations today, so it can virtue seek about how green they are!

Meanwhile, in order to plug the energy gap, they will import 43 MILLION tons of coal per year for the foreseeable future 🤡

Its a scam, you know that right? pic.twitter.com/AvhW1GZpfF

— Bernie’s Tweets (@BernieSpofforth) April 15, 2023

So, I thought the whole thing was that the carbon was changing the weather…but… it’s…

You know.

I don’t care.

I just hope all these people die.

The Guardian:

Germany’s three remaining nuclear power stations will shut down on Saturday, 12 years after the Fukushima disaster in Japan accelerated the country’s exit from atomic energy.

The closures mark the conclusion of a stop-start approach to atomic energy and a victory for the country’s vociferous anti-nuclear movement.

The facilities shutting are in Emsland, in the northern state of Lower Saxony, the Isar 2 site in Bavaria, and Neckarwestheim, in Baden-Württemberg in the south-west.

The shutdowns leave a conundrum for energy policymakers attempting to balance growing electricity demand in one of Europe’s industrial superpowers and efforts to decarbonise, against the backdrop of uncertainty caused by the war in Ukraine.

Germany last year delayed the closure of the three sites – which provided about 6.5% of the country’s electricity in 2022 – after Russia reduced European gas supplies, triggering concerns about a shortage of energy over the winter.

…

The final shutdowns have raised questions about security of energy supplies and the outlook for Germany’s carbon emissions. The country plans to close all coal-fired power plants by 2038, with the first round of closures planned in 2030.

However, its parliament approved emergency legislation to reopen mothballed coal-fired power plants to aid electricity generation last year. A push to build more terminals to import liquefied natural gas has also been accelerated since the Ukraine war began.

…

Tom Greatrex, chief executive of the UK’s Nuclear Industry Association, said the phaseout would worsen carbon emissions and “for a country supposedly renowned for its logical and evidence-driven approach is environmentally damaging, economically illiterate and deeply irresponsible”.

He added: “At a time of heightened concern about energy security, Germany will be abandoning assets that can displace 34bn cubic metres of gas a year.”

Too dumb!

Too dumb!

They should die!

End of Nuclear power in Germany this week.

Energy production from 2000 until today.

Germany is in the process of shutting down economically, making their electric grid MORE expensive and less competitive. Companies are more likely to build elsewhere. pic.twitter.com/zDkGDennrK

— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) April 14, 2023

So the German Green Party finally got their way, so another 3 nuclear power plants were shutdown.

Germany now relies totally on coal.

This is what powers your electric vehicle….
😂😂😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/EGx3bsmjAh

— Richard (@ricwe123) April 14, 2023

This is a good way to make money for Indians and to drain money from the EU.

It’s not clear what other purpose this could possibly serve.

RT:

Indian refineries have ramped up diesel and jet fuel supplies to the EU after Russian oil imports to the country surged to record levels in the 2022-2023 fiscal year, Reuters reported on Wednesday, citing preliminary ship-tracking data from Kpler and Vortexa.

The outlet suggests that the EU has been using India as a “back door,” given the sharp increase in New Delhi’s imports of Russian oil since the bloc banned crude from the sanctioned country.

In 2022-2023, Indian refiners bought between 970,000 and 981,000 barrels of Russian oil per day, accounting for more than a fifth of the country’s overall imports, which were between 4.5 million and 4.6 million barrels per day (bpd), Kpler and Vortexa data showed.

Discounted crude from Russia allowed Asian processing plants to boost production and sell oil products to the EU at a competitive price.

…

According to Kpler, Europe accounted for about 50% of India’s jet fuel exports with France, Türkiye, Belgium and the Netherlands among the top European consumers of diesel refined in the Asian country.

Who is making these decisions?

That is one of the biggest problems in a democracy – you never have any idea who is in charge of anything, so these sorts of moronic things that go on can’t ever be blamed on anyone.