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 | #OOTT #Contango 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.
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.

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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