Revi wrote:How about the diesel shortage? Distillates in storage are at the bottom of their range in the US also. Are we headed for trouble? Here's an article about how diesel shortages are the "everything pin" which pops the everything bubble. Plausible?
First, there is already a thread dedicated to the topic you posted. You darn well know that because you REVI started that thread and I had to clarify the title!
Diesel fuel the Everything Pin
Secondly it is against the rules to post the same links to multiple threads to try and draw more attention. This place is down to a score of regular visitors and cluttering up the few remaining topics with multiple duplicates is really annoying in addition to being against the rules.
You already got the answer to your question on the thread you started, only the hard Doom crash crowd buys into the theory. For one thing while stocks are at a seasonally adjusted low, which is worrisome, production is also up, meaning more diesel fuel is being produced than normal and being sold immediately instead of passing into storage for a period first.
On top of that, with a lubricant additive which is abundant Kerosene is aka Diesel #1 and works fine in standard engines providing an economy penalty of 5%-10% depending on how well maintained the particular engine is and what kind of duty cycle it is preforming. Just about every diesel engine in Canada and Alaska at this time of year is burning winter blend (Diesel #2 plus Kerosene) or straight Diesel #1 (Kerosene plus lubrication additive). Worst case scenario we fly a little less and use the jet fuel as Diesel #1 by adding the lubricant to it.
BAU goes on and repeat posting of doom stories is not going to cause your fast crash scenario to happen. Consider this your informal warning to not cross post. You have been here a long time, you know how its supposed to work. If you could go out and recruit 100 new members then maybe we would be busy enough moderating to not notice such blatant violations by the old timers.