27 olietankers voor de westkust van de VS met een hoeveelheid van 20 miljoen vaten olie waarvoor geen opslag is

Een
groot aantal mammoettankers ligt vooral voor de kust van Californië,
terwijl de lading niet kan worden gelost. Het gaat hier om een
hoeveelheid die gelijkstaat aan 20 miljoen vaten ruwe olie. Door het
Coronavirus ligt de industrie en het ‘kantoorleven’ ook in de VS voor een fiks deel op haar gat en is de
vraag naar olie op een niveau dat niet eerder werd gezien (uiteraard
in verhouding tot het verbruik in het verleden).

(Twitterbericht uit een Zero Hedge artikel*🙂


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VIDEO: US Coast Guard says it’s keeping an eye on 27 oil tankers anchored off the coast of Southern California. Another great example of floating storage build-up as demand for oil and refined products plunge | video via @USCGLosAngeles

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Dit zet
overigens nog eens een heel groot vraagteken bij de claim dat de VS
zelf voorziend is wat betreft olieverbruik, blijkbaar is ook dat een
onderdeel van de tactiek die de grootste leugenaar op aarde, Trump
hanteert om zijn achterban te besodemieteren…. 

Om e.e.a. in verhouding te zien: het gaat in die mammoettankers
om een hoeveelheid olie die 20% vertegenwoordigt van het dagelijkse
wereldwijde verbruik aan olie (althans in ‘normale tijden’)…….

Het is
de vraag hoelang deze tankers voor anker moeten blijven liggen, waar
de meeste van deze tankers zich al vanaf half april bevinden, waar de
kans dat er iets misgaat groeit met de dag, als één van die tankers
bijvoorbeeld door zwaar weer zou vergaan, is de ramp voor het
zeeleven niet te overzien…..

Voor de kust van Singapore liggen zelfs honderden olietankers voor anker….*

Het volgende artikel komt van Bloomberg:

Oil
Tankers Surround California With Nowhere to Unload

By
Robert
Tuttle

21 april 2020 23:31
CEST Updated on 22 april 2020 23:06 CEST

  • Total
    of 20 million barrels of oil floats off U.S. West Coast

  • Tankers float off coast as
    fuel demand plummets amid virus

A tanker sits beyond an oil rig in Huntington Beach, California, on April 20.

A tanker sits beyond
an oil rig in Huntington Beach, California, on April 20.

Photographer: Michael
Heiman/Getty Images North America

Oil tankers carrying enough crude
to satisfy 20% of the world’s daily consumption are gathered off
California’s coast with nowhere to go as fuel demand collapses.

Almost three dozen ships —
scattered in waters from Long Beach to the San Francisco Bay — are
mostly acting as floating storage for oil that’s going unused as
the coronavirus pandemic shutters businesses and takes drivers off
the road. Marathon
Petroleum Corp.
’s (MPC) refinery in Martinez, California, has been
idled and others, including Chevron
Corp.
’s El Segundo refinery, have curtailed crude processing as
the state orders residents to stay at home.

Map

The more than 20 million barrels of
crude is the highest volume of crude to ever float off the West Coast
at one time, according to Paris-based Kpler
SAS
, which tracks tanker traffic. 

About three quarters of those
tankers are holding oil in storage, meaning they have been floating
steadily for seven days, also a record.

Storage has become increasingly
scarce as a growing supply glut collides with collapsing fuel demand.
As traditional tanks have filled, oil has been pushed onto tankers to
float off Singapore, the U.S. Gulf Coast and, now, the U.S. West
Coast.

The slowdown in oil deliveries into
California was already becoming evident last quarter, when 38.8
million barrels of crude was delivered into Long Beach, down from 42
million barrels a year earlier, according to Port of Long Beach data.

The Seaexpress, a tanker that
normally carries fuel, is currently
holding crude for Royal
Dutch Shell Plc.
for at least a month in Puget Sound, Washington,
after data on the ships draft indicated it loaded up at the company’s
Anacortes refinery.

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* Zie (een meer uitgebreid artikel van Zero Hedge): ‘“We Are Moving Into The End-Game”: 27 Tankers Anchored Off California, Hundreds Off Singapore As Oil Industry Shuts Down‘ 

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VS verandert met tempo in fascistische politiestaat………….

Staten in de VS waar de republikeinen het voor het zeggen hebben, voeren met grote snelheid nieuwe wetgeving in, waarmee protesteren tot het verleden moet gaan behoren. Zo deinst men er niet voor terug om mensen die protesteren op een snelweg, vogelvrij te verklaren voor de politie en voor de automobilisten op die weg……

De VS begint akelige gelijkenissen te vertonen met nazi-Duitsland, nu nog concentratiekampen voor ‘illegalen’, moslims en andersdenkenden en klaar zijn het psychopathische beest Trump en de top van het bedrijfsleven (dat godbetert mag regeren in Washington….)…..

Lees het volgende artikel van Sarah Cronin (onder dat artikel kan u klikken voor een ‘Dutch’ vertaling):

As
Trump Takes Power, Politicians Around the US Move to Make Protesting
Illegal



By
Sarah Cronin


January
22, 2017 “
Information
Clearing House

– “Antimedia”
  Indiana
passed a bill on
Wednesday that authorizes police officers to shut down highway
protesting “by any means necessary.” S.B.
285
, as it is known, obliges a public official to dispatch all
available officers within 15 minutes of discovering any assembly of
10 or more people who are obstructing vehicle traffic.


The
bill then authorizes the responding officers to clear roads “by any
means necessary.”

Critics
are calling
it
 the “Block Traffic and You Die” bill, an apt name for
a bill that has co-opted the phrase “any means necessary,” used
famously in speech delivered
by Malcolm X during the Civil Rights movement, turning it into a
threat against government dissent (with no apparent awareness of the
irony).

S.B.
285 is among a collection of increasingly hostile ‘anti-obstruction’
laws that have been quietly submitted in states around the nation
over the past few months. A report by 
The
Intercept 
published Wednesday
tracked five such anti-protest laws introduced by Republican
lawmakers in different states, four of which are currently pending.

One
of the most disturbing among them is House
Bill N. 1203
, a bill introduced earlier this month by North
Dakota lawmaker Keith Kempenich in
response to
 the Dakota Access Pipeline Protests (DAPL). The bill
would exempt motorists who hit demonstrators with their cars from any
liability in cases where the victims were “
obstructing
vehicular traffic on a public road, street, or highway
.”
This twisted take on protest criminalization comes short of condoning
manslaughter as a viable means of crowd control.

Also
this month, Minnesota State Representative Kathy Lohmer led the
effort on submitting H.F.
322
, a bill that would re-classify obstructing highway traffic
from a misdemeanor to a “gross misdemeanor” and would authorize
government units to sue protesters for “
public
safety response costs related to unlawful assemblies
.”

The
proposed legislation is strikingly reminiscent of Washington State
Senator Eric Ericksen’s proposal to punish protesters as ‘economic
terrorists,’ which 
Anti-Media first reported
on
 in November.

All
of the proposed laws share a common trait in that they were all
adopted in response to a major protest event in that state. H.F. 322
was submitted shortly after a judge
dismissed the riot charges
 against protesters who took to
the St. Paul Interstate last July in a demonstration against the
police shooting of Philando
Castille
. Ericksen’s “economic terrorism” bill announcement
came just days after anti-frackingprotesters blocked
railroad tracks in Olympia, Washington. DAPL protests inspired both
the Indiana and North Dakota bills.

These
retroactive responses on behalf of Republican state lawmakers are
also seen as preemptive strikes against the threat of increased
protests during the Trump presidency.

As
ACLU staff attorney Lee Rowland expressed in an
interview
 with 
The
Intercept
,
these so-called ‘obstruction bills’ are but thinly disguised
efforts to squash any government dissent.

A
law that would allow the state to charge a protester $10,000 for
stepping in the wrong place, or encourage a driver to get away with
manslaughter because the victim was protesting, is about one thing:
chilling protest,” 
Rowland
said.

Growing
tension between government officials and protesters is expected to
come to a culmination on Inauguration Day in D.C., where there will
already be many barriers in place to limit demonstrations.

First
and foremost is the Federal Grounds and Buildings Improvement Act of
2011, known as H.R
347
.

H.R.-347
is a revision of a 1971 federal trespassing law that made it a crime
to “willfully and knowingly” remain in an area under Secret
Security protection. H.R. 347 removes the word “willingly,” a
legal technicality that effectively lowers the bar on the mental
state required to be found guilty under the law.

As
explained by the American
Civil Liberties Union
:

Under
the original language of the law, you had to act ‘willfully and
knowingly’ when committing the crime. In short, you had to know
your conduct was illegal. Under H.R. 347, you will simply need to act
‘knowingly,’ which here would mean that you know you’re in a
restricted area, but not necessarily that you’re committing a
crime.”

Under
current federal law, protesting in proximity to an elected official
under the protection of the Secret Service, which includes President
Trump, is a crime punishable by fine and up to ten years in jail.


Protesting
during Trump’s inauguration comes with additional complications as
the National Park Service reserves
a large portion
 of the inaugural parade route along
Pennsylvania Ave and in Freedom Plaza for ticket sales under the
exclusive discretion of Trump’s Presidential
Inaugural Committee
 (PIC). This means the PIC can refuse to
allow protesters along the route.

An
activist group called Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (Answer) has
been engaged in a  legal
battle
 with the National Park Service since 2005, arguing
the privatization of the Inauguration is an attempt to “sanitize”
the streets
 of dissent.

While
the National Park Service has been controversially setting aside
tickets for the PIC since
1980
, the issue garnered more attention this year when it was
discovered that the sidewalk in front of the Trump International
Hotel, a significant site for protesters, would be a part of PIC’s
ticket-only area.

Adding
another level of bureaucracy, the 
Washington
Post
 reported the
hotel and plaza in front are actually under the control of Trump’s
real estate agency, meaning protesters would have to literally ‘ask
permission’ to remain in the space.

As
the week comes to an end, it becomes apparent that dissent is being
criminalized not only nationwide but on multiple fronts. Increased
regulations are appearing that limit the public spaces that can be
lawfully occupied in protest. Meanwhile, legislation is also being
introduced to increase the negative consequences for newly unlawful
protests. Should more states follow suit with Indiana, demonstrators
will soon find themselves paradoxically protesting for their right to
protest at all.

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Zie ook: ‘VS bedrijfsregering erger dan een bananenrepubliek, met dank aan Obama

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