A Sunday Short . . .
Most contemporary or newer homes have electric heat, a forced-air furnace, or a heat pump. Older homes, especially in the east have furnaces that use stove or heating oil. The oil is housed in large tanks that have capacities of 288, 330, 420, 500, 550, 675, or 1,000 gallons. These tanks, often shaped like a capsule, and at times a cylinder, are usually found in basements or, lacking a basement, on legs, just outside the home.
Trucks deliver to each home separately and on a regular basis. The schedule of these deliveries can vary depending on the severity of a specific winter.
As expected, it’s not only Europe that could be shorted heating fuels this winter, but parts of the United States as well. There seems to be a shortage in the northeast of all refined-oil products. It would appear from the linked Bloomberg story, on Yahoo News, that the Whitehouse is critical of the large oil companies exporting their products to Europe while ignoring domestic supplies.
This can be construed as a rather inconsistent assessment as Biden was adamantly encouraged by European leaders to send as much oil to them as possible. At the last G7 summit, French President Emmanuel Macron was filmed telling Biden not to ask the Saudis for more oil because their capacities were low, but rather to send American oil to Europe.
This entire mayhem was caused by illogical anthropogenic climate change policies. The first was European nations abolishing fracking and eliminating domestic supplies while depending totally on Russia for all oil derivatives - people talk nonstop of falsified Russian collusions, while this truly was an absurd Russian delusion. The second was the Biden Administration canceling pipelines and placing moratoriums on profitable drilling sites. They acted as though federal lands belonged to them and not the tax-paying public. This action essentially ravaged the futures oil market and caused skyrocketing prices all around the world.
At this point, we can only hope that Putin somehow finds a heart and the oil companies can resurrect inventories; however, all of this is indicative of a failed future without fossil fuels all corrupted by the most significant deceit ever created.