@PTINS - i’d love to hear your thoughts on a subject I know nothing about. I find it interesting that the city of Angarsk in Siberia - a larger city of 200,000 residents - has been largely without any building heating since December 7. This includes homes, apartments, hospitals, schools, etc. When the heat went out, the temperature was -20. Today on December 14th the heat is still out,
Angarsk had a recent heat wave, so the highs are in the teens and low 20s, while trending colder at the end of the week. That said, if the temperature remains below zero for a week straight, that city’s residents are living in an icebox.
This news jogged my memory about another fact I read recently, that all of the Ukrainian attacks on the refineries have prevented the refineries from planned outages to transition to winter fuel, fuel that contains the necessary ingredient to prevent fuel freezing and gelling or doing whatever it is fuel does without those ingredients.
If that inability to refine winterized gas is true and continues into the December and January winter months, what effect will that have on transportation in the country? IOW, what can you tell my ignorant self about the absence of winterized refined fuel in a country so cold - and the consequences to the countries’s economy and the military operation in Ukraine?