Gas station: The Masquerade

In both crude petroleum and oil condensate, the United States top the world’s producers rating from the Energy Institute. The US production in 2022 was 3.5% short of the record set in 2019, but 2019 numbers might be yet again surpassed by end of the current year due to high internal demand, as the country is at the same time the most hungry oil consumer in the world. America took the mantle of (supposed) responsibility for world’s oil from Saudi Arabia in 2014 and retained it ever since.

Additionally, the US dominates global natural gas production: their share in 2022 was 24.2%, showing a substantial margin over Russia (15.3%), whose trade with the EU is crippled during the Ukraine war and, especially, after the Nord Stream pipelines sabotage attack in September 2022. New all-time record in gas production in the US has been set: it expanded by 3.6%.

All that said, I couldn’t help but wonder whether, despite the veneer of financial and, to a smaller extent, technological leadership, the US now should be called the gas station with a bunch of nuclear weapons, according to DeSantis & Harari?

Meanwhile in Munich International Airport, a plane is frozen to the ground. It was supposed to fly to Dubai for COP28 United Nations climate summit, dedicated to battle against hydrocarbon addiction and global warming.

Repent for your climate sins and soar.