Not all humans use paper to wipe. Having travelled a bit round Asia, you quickly get acquainted with the “bum gun” (not my terminology but seems a fair description).
“Sorrywhatpardon - you do WHAT??”
@ShirleyNot, that works OK in places where the water is warm out of the tap…same equipment we had in the UAE. Our water here is snowmelt, however… 
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Great for improving your cardiovascular system… they say
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One slip and that thing will give you a high pressure enema.
Practice from childhood helps prevention… lol
interesting article … venezuela may be a reason oil prices have not skyrocketed, but I wonder who is managing the money - DJT? Venezuela? someone else?
Reuters has the same article (paywall?)
The reason crude(!) prices are relatively low is that China curbed imports.
Crude is not the problem.
It’s cracks: gasoline, kerosene and diesel especially because Russia became a net importer instead of a net exporter.
If you have a diesel engine, keep that tank filled up.
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If you have a diesel engine it maybe time for a change.
true. But the rest of the world consumers have a need. With SoH constrained, if there are no alternative sources, would chinese reduction only really keep the prices so low?
It’s refining capacity that is needed. And, like Rome, they are not built in a day.
I think it just comes down to supply and demand. While SoH flows have reduced, this has been compensated by releases from reserves, increased production elsewhere and smuggling/bypassing the SoH.
On the supply side, we have China reducing purchases and many countries reducing consumption as well as Russian refineries being out of action.
Oil crises! What oil crises! Enjoy the race… https://youtu.be/8vuhYERNz6s
distractions and diffusions … his normal playbook …
A nice little snippit in the news at eight…:
Some politician was saying that there is enough gas supply for Germany in the coming winter.
Whereas those who know about such things are saying that the tanks are not even half full and what T. F. is she gibbering about? (paraphrased of course)
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do the tanks have to be full for the season? they don’t know how much a season requires, with emergency needs?
Anything below 80% will cause shortages and high prices.
I heard that because the supply side has moved to LNG, storage is not necessarily needed to the same extent as previously.
AFAIK, as with the SPR, anything below 20-ish percent is basically zero…
Just a thought. Why not build a few 100 thousand humanoid robots and send them off to Iran to take control of Tehran?
China procrurement?
China 
’ing djt’s iran sanctions?