T Minus 14 Days & Counting Down Diesel

Back about 9 June 2022 I put up a posting pointing out how central to the operation of our entire economy, technical society, and military, was a single fuel. Middle Distillate. AKA Kerosene, Diesel, Jet Fuel (and a few other names). All made from one “cut” of petroleum

https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2022/06/09/the-singular-importance-of-middle-distillate-diesel-jet-fuel-heating-oil/

There are differences between the particular fine grades of fuels. Jet-A is a kerosene with fewer “ring” compounds in it (less things with benzene type rings of 6 carbons) as they contribute to smoke at take-off (why in film from the ’60s & ’70s jets taking off had a lot of smoke and now they don’t; we changed from straight run kerosene to one with the rings opened). It also is more tightly controlled as to boiling point and when certain waxy heavier ends might start to solidify. Don’t want solidified waxy bits clogging up your jet engine at 40,000 feet and -50 F temperatures. Essentially it is a very narrow and somewhat cleaner, processed, strip in the middle of the Kerosene band or cut.

D1 or Winter Diesel is a kind of kerosene as well. Lighter than D2 (regular Diesel) but with very little attention paid to things like straight chain vs ring structure. It still has a very low temperature requirement for wax formation so it will work in Alaska in winter… But your lamp oil does not nor does the K1 kerosene for your garage heater. So you can get a variety of very detailed specific differences inside Kerosene. But it is still a kerosene cut. And still a middle distillate.

D2 Diesel Oil is a bit heavier (longer carbon chains) than D1 or K1 or Jet-A. It, too, is a middle distillate. Lately (last couple of decades) it has had the specification narrowed in The West to removed sulphur compounds for smog reduction reasons. It is still a Middle Distillate, just run through a sulphur removing step / process.

There are some other grades with other benefits or with reduced processing. Home Heating Oil doesn’t have as much processing / filtering or as tight a specification as D2; but is almost the same thing. Red Dye is added to it so that police can tell the difference and give you a ticket for running your Diesel engine on it (and not paying road taxes). The engine largely doesn’t care (especially for older Diesels that did not have computer controls and piezo-electric injectors with intolerance for any contamination in fuel that isn’t entirely clean).

Every winter, Diesel prices rise as Home Heating Oil demand sucks on the same Middle Distillate supply. Every summer, Diesel prices drop as there is low demand for home heating oil.

I mention this as it matters to the question of just which fuel is in short supply and may be rationed in the next few weeks or maybe months.

There’s a shortage of Diesel refining capacity at the moment, and our inventory is dropping fast. What I do not know is just which capacity is short. IFF it is just, for example, Diesel de-sulferizers, then it’s just Diesel that’s problematic. At the other far end, IF we are short of refineries that can crack heavy crude to make Middle Distillate from a sour-heavy crude supply, then all of the middle distillates will be hit. This is a Big “Dig Here!”

It is the difference between trucks & tractors being rationed, and rationing Planes, Trains, Ships, and military equipment fuel as well.

The problem is this:

https://www.americanpartisan.org/2022/05/east-coast-inventories-have-only-two-weeks-of-diesel-supply/

Two weeks of Diesel inventory and slowly dropping on the East Coast. Now it IS being replenished at some rate, just not enough to keep up with demand drawing it down. So we won’t run dry in 2 weeks, but would if new supply were not arriving. This is another “Dig Here!”: When do we run dry at present consumption and supply rates?

EAST COAST INVENTORIES HAVE ONLY TWO WEEKS OF DIESEL SUPPLY

RUNNING ON EMPTY: America’s diesel stockpiles are rapidly dwindling, fuel rationing on the horizon

*American diesel stockpiles have been depleted while prices have surged to record highs, leading to higher prices for consumers.

*“I wouldn’t be surprised to see diesel being rationed on the East Coast this summer,” John Catsimatidis, the CEO of United Refining Co., told Bloomberg on Wednesday. “Right now inventories are low and we may see a shortage in coming months.”

*“What we’ve seen this year has been the capabilities to turn oil into diesel and gasoline and jet fuel have diminished,” Jacques Rousseau, a managing director at Clearview Energy Partners, told The Daily Caller News Foundation in an interview.

The U.S. stockpile of diesel fuel, which is vital for the transportation sector and economy at large, hit a nearly two-decade low as fuel prices hit a record high Wednesday.

That third bullet point makes it sound like a general refining capacity issue. Not just middle distillates. But that Gasoline supply is not as tight as Diesel.

Local gas stations are selling Diesel for just about $2 / gallon ABOVE gasoline. So, for example, gas at $3.40 / gallon and Diesel would be about $5.40 / gallon. This is a bit nuts, BTW, as usually Diesel runs about the same as mid-grade or premium gasoline.

IF the assertion that it is general refining capacity that’s the problem is in fact true: expect this to start hitting jet fuel inventories as well, and perhaps gasoline as the holiday driving binge hits.

Diesel, which has been characterized as the “lifeblood of the global economy,” is vital for the construction, mining and agriculture sectors. The transportation industry alone consumed 122 million gallons of diesel in 2020.

Basically, if it is big, heavy and moves; it runs on Diesel or Kerosene (Jet fuel). Farming, trucking, trains, planes, ships, barges being towed, fire trucks, mining equipment, tanks, troop carriers, jet fighters, harvesters, standby emergency generators at hospitals, etc.

Running out of Diesel & Jet fuel means the entire economy suddenly halts.

Now the “good bit” in all this is that we do still have refining going on and we are making more Diesel & Jet Fuel. Just not making it as fast as we are using it up, so inventory is dropping. This CAN be managed by reducing use to bring it into balance with supply. But that “has issues”…

Basically when you ration something, you must choose what is important and what is not. So which is more important?

1) Growing Food.
2) Moving Food to food processors.
3) Moving food from processors to stores.
4) Having folks with Diesel cars & pickups able to drive to the store to buy food.
5) Mining the minerals needed to build things (be it eCars, refinery parts, food hauling trucks..)
6) Moving parts made from those minerals to where the parts are needed.
7) Having a working military.
8) Having ships that can move manufactures goods to markets (from us or to us from China).
etc.

THE basic problem is that the folks who are using Diesel, here in America, are largely NOT passenger cars used for joy riding. Almost all our passenger cars are gasoline. Even the large number of Diesel Pickup Trucks are largely used in businesses of some kind (with some used for towing things like RVs or horse trailers… but not most.)

So pretty much it is a given that any rationing will mean SOME economic activity ends. The recreational / personal pleasure use of Diesel is nearly nil in comparison. So what economic activity ought to be ended, eh? Fire Trucks? Ambulances? Commercial Flying? Farming? Trains? Shipping on the seas or rivers? Shipping via trucks?

I’m pretty sure the Military will be held as first in line for fuel. Perhaps with a gentle nag to maybe not burn up too much of it in “training exercises”.

I’d expect ships to be 2nd in line, if for no other reason than that they often do (or at least can) burn heavier dirtier and a lot cheaper to make “bunker fuel oils”. (California mandates the use of very clean spec lighter fuel oils withing some miles of the coast – 50? – but the ships shift back to cheaper fuels off shore).

Third would most likely be Emergency Equipment. Fire departments, hospital standby generators, etc.

After that it starts to get a bit more murky…

Is it more important to grow grain, or to ship it via barge, or trains, or are trucks more important to get the grain to the pig farms, then the pigs to the processor and the bacon to the stores?

Break the link anywhere you still get no bacon.

Is it more important to stop folk flying around for Thanksgiving or Christmas, or to promote the flying and have them leave the cars at home? Ought we be encouraging folks to fly to Florida and leave their home oil heaters turned off up north? Do we prioritize that home heating oil over flying?

That’s the problem with rationing. A FREE & Fair Market is the best allocator we’ve found so far. The problem is that due to the heavy hand of Government, very few markets are truly free or fair anymore. “Regulation” distorts. Rationing distorts more.

Sidebar On Europe:

I’ve seen the assertion that we are sending a lot of our Diesel to Europe. Europe pissed on their oil supplier and now is having difficulty finding a replacement for Russian fuels. Europe has a much higher percentage of Diesel Cars than America, so for a very long time we’ve swapped some amount of Diesel for Gasoline. How much more Diesel are we sending over now due to Europe “sanctioning” their own fuel supplies?

Sidebar On Gang Green:

Gang Green & The Biden Crime Family (and the DNC Writ Large) have conspired to eliminate Petroleum Supply. Now if you were an oil refiner with an old refinery that was making a lot of Diesel Oil, and you had to do a bunch of repair / refurbishing (as is always the case since equipment wears out in use); you might be faced with many $Millions to do an upgrade that will pay you back over the next 25 years. Except you have been told you will be out of business in 10 years “to save the planet”. Do you do that upgrade, or do you just keep the plant running as long as possible on what you have invested already while you suck out as much of your sunk costs as possible?

The obvious answer is that you stop new investments and as old sections of plant reach end of life, you just shut them down. Over time the supply of refinery products drop as various bits of equipment break or wear out, but you can pocket the profit from what you can make and use that in some other business. This, after all, is what you were told to do by Gang Green & The Biden Crime Family rules.

NOBODY invests $Billions in a new Oil Refinery with a 40 year life span when you have been told your product will be illegal in 10 years. (Oh, and you are evil too… /snark;)

Sidebar On Oil Production:

All oil fields start off producing a lot, then the amount you get per year slowly declines. It takes a LOT of money to refurbish an oil field. CO2 injection, fracking (done since the Civil War Era…), drilling new and additional wells in old fields, steam injection, etc. All are very costly. Will you do a 20 or even 10 year pay-back enhancement of an oil field when you are being old you might be put out of business by fiat at any moment? When the pipelines to take that added oil to market are being shut down? Nope. Investment in drilling and enhancement stops, and you shift to the lowest cost, lowest staffing profile possible. You “run it into the ground” and take the money and run. It is the rational thing to do.

As soon as The Feds tell you no more leasing and we are shutting you down in 10 years, investments in making more oil halt and IMMEDIATELY the amount of oil coming to market starts to drop. At first, slowly, but with increasing speed as more oil fields need upgrade work that is no longer being done.

In Conclusion

All of this is an absolutely clear and obvious consequence of the “Global Warming” and Gang Green policies being pushed by the DNC, Biden Crime Family, and Democrats / Progressives writ large. There is nothing at all that is a surprise here. (Well, not to people who can think or run a business) Yet somehow the folks in the District Of Criminals (Wash. DC) seem surprised. Go figure.

It is really pretty simple:

There is no way, at all, to replace all that Diesel and Jet Fuel powered equipment in anything less than about 40 years (if ever). For most of it, there is NO alternative equipment that works. You can not string power lines over the Pacific Ocean. Electrification of rail traffic works in very high density areas, but is incredibly expensive in the largely empty “Fly Over Country”. The quantity of copper that would be needed to electrify transportation is about 100 times the amount we can mine.

It simply can not be done.

So tell the oil industry to “go away in 10 years” and they will start doing that. Which will also mean that you can’t run your planes, trains, ships, military, emergency equipment, etc. etc.

The whole economy will grind to a halt.

The only question really is “Does that happen in year 9, or 8, or in 2 weeks?”

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F.A.&F.O. WEF, Coming Now To Europe

This posting contains 2 rather long videos. Nearly a couple of hours. Both well worth watching as they condense a whole lot of insight into a really rather small space.

One is a “Systems Technical” one that basically points out just why the WEF “Decarbonization plan” will fail, and likely catastrophically. That comes down to 2 basic points, and one complex one. Oil is needed to keep things going, there’s not enough minerals to change that in 10 years; complex systems are not predictable and collapse is sudden, often not recoverable.

The other is more political in orientation and it goes into the background of two folks who’s understandings are good and where I’ve come to enjoy their “show”. Along the way it also points out how the Political Stupid & Broken Narrative of The West (i.e. UK, USA, and EU / NATO) dooms them to failure vs Russia. Largely from believing their own B.S.

On the first one, from Peak Prosperity, it does a nice job of illustrating the numbers behind just why we can’t succeed at “Going Green” right now; and it points out the downside of trying really really hard when you are not ready. Many times I’ve said “I know they can not do it, so I’m not worried that they will do it.” This points out why you ought to be worried if they try too hard to “do it”. Collapse of the interconnected systems of the economy, farming, society, et. al. We’ve sometimes pointed at that outcome, but not explained it.

The second one is more about the actual history and culture of Russia & The Eastern Orthodox ex-Byzantium world; and how that is interacting with The West; but also about how the stupidity of shutting off Russian fuel and financial access has resulted in a collapsing EU, people in the streets, a sharp Right Turn, and a robust and growing Alternative Economy centered on the BRICS nations (perhaps soon to include Saudi Arabia and Qatar…)

In essence, both of them are pointing out how the WEF policy ideas, filtered through the EU Elite, the UK Royals & Parliament, and the USA Idiots In Charge are largely trying to break systems they do not understand, before they are ready to create new ones, when they have no idea how to create new ones, do not have the actual materials available AT ALL to build the needed scale, and will not have the energy or labor to build them once they have succeeded at breaking the old ones (that presently keep us all alive and well). In other words, on a Global Scale these Ignorant Elite are busy believing their own B.S. and eFing Around applying it to the Global Economy & Nations; and now we are at the start of them Finding Out.

Street Protests in the EU / Europe writ large are the prelude to riots that are the prelude to insurrections and revolts. I’ve often said these Elite need to remember “The French Haircut”. Yet they do not. How far down that road will we go before the lesson of history is learned (or reprised?) is TBD. To Be Determined.

Just when will the “Go 100% Wind & Solar!!!” Useful Idiots learn that there is just not enough copper in the world’s mines to do it? Likely never… In the Peak Prosperity video he includes a wonderful chart that lists the essential metals needed for just the first generation of Wind & Solar to completion, then the annual production in 2019 (a good economic year) and divides the two, yielding how many years of production is needed. For copper it is 189. For some others, in the 10’s of Thousands of years. That, BTW, is why I’ve often said “it just will not happen”. Yet he points out a larger issue: We need / use a LOT of oil to do that mining. Is there enough oil production to do that in, say 40 years instead of 40,000?? What happens if you shut down oil in 10 or 20 years, but do not have those minerals mined yet? Eh? (You collapse into a New Dark Age…)

I do not agree with his bit on Peak Oil. It ignores that we have control of exploration and production and that there are already hundreds of years worth of “Ultimate Resource”, but it only becomes “Reserves” at a given price and time. So yeah, shut down leasing for drilling on all public lands, you get “Peak US Oil”. Open drilling as was done by Trump and you get “World’s largest oil producer”. Basically it’s a variable not a constant function.

Per the more political side of things, IMHO the Eastern POV understands Russia better than folks in The West. In particular, somewhere past about 1/2 way, they talk about the nature of Putin and why Western Leaders just do not understand him. Branded with the false narrative of Evil Incarnate Lusting For The New Russian Empire; they can not see that he is largely pragmatic and just working to protect Russian Culture, Language, And People from an aggressive assault by the WEF & Cancel Culture (seasoned with Soros…). I’d come to similar conclusions long before seeing their POV on it; but it is nice to know others see the same things. Largely for the same reasons: Listening to Putin when he gives speeches, reading their text, seeing what he actually does in Russia, watching him try to NOT damage Ukrainian Infrastructure & People until forced into it by NATO intervention (pragmatically doing what will work after giving up on the better option…)

FWIW, here: https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2022/10/18/i-like-this-jerk/

Where I included a video by Alexander Mercouris (after the bit about “jerk seasoning salt”), I’d alluded to him being English (based on accent and presentation). Turns out he was born in Greece, but his parents escaped one of the Greek coups and then he was retrieved to England. He’s also been an English lawyer of some sort. So a bit of a cross culture life. Alex Christoforou is a fellow Greek (Cypriot) who joins him on “The Duran” blog / vlog discussions. Both have their own independent channels The first chunk of this video has them giving a bit of personal biography that turns out to be both interesting and important. Both of them come from Politically Important Families, but then went their own ways… yet have insight into that culture.

Also a surprise to me was that Dr. Turley is also a Greek Orthodox Christian. I had no idea. It does look like something about that background gives a better understanding of Russia and the Russian mindset.

Per Europe:

Do note that at present the EU & UK are having about a 10% to 20% reduction in their natural gas flows. This is about 5% to 10% reduction in their “Carbon”. Now both currencies have dropped about 1/3 of their value vs the $ US (that is also losing value fast to inflation….). They also have a political revolution in the starting phases, governments being turned out, and massive marches in the streets. It isn’t even winter yet… With that small a step toward the WEF “Decarbonization Goal”, this is what you get. What do you think will happen with a double of that “decarbonization”?

Sanctions on Russia have put the UK & EU into One Small Step toward the WEF goal, and they are already shutting down Aluminum smelting, Glass making, and a dozen other industries. Folks are screaming about heating bills, and marching in the streets. The shutdown of fertilizer production will assure a crop reduction (failure??) next year and a very hungry population. From 5% to 10% of the WEF Goal. You have 8 years to the 2030 “deadline” (with the emphasis on ‘dead’…). So you MUST do more than this much shutting down each year to “get there”. 10% x 8 = 80%. You must shut down MORE than this much fuel available each year for the next 8 years. What do you think will happen?

This is your “taster”…

IMHO, the EU & UK Political Elite have been doing a LOT of eFing around, and expect to do 10 Times as much eFing around in the next 8 years; so what is happening now is just the very start of them “Finding Out”. The Lord may forgive them for “knowing not what they do”; but the People? Not so much.

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Killing Red Hill – Pacific Fleet Fueling Fiasco?

In World War II we had a large above ground tank farm for fuel in Pearl Harbor. Japan sunk the ships, but didn’t bother to bomb the fuel depot (a big mistake, BTW. They also didn’t bomb the repair facilities. Between those two errors, the USA was able to re-float many ships, fuel them up, and take the battle to Japan.)

Recognizing this risk, the USA built a giant below ground fuel storage depot in Hawaii. Red Hill Fuel Facility. There’s a Wiki on it (that complains at the top that it may have too much information for the Low Info Voters that Wiki appeals to… )

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hill_Underground_Fuel_Storage_Facility

The Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility is a military fuel storage facility in Hawaii. Operated by the United States Navy, Red Hill supports U.S. military operations in the Pacific.

Proving that folks in the USA (Politicians & some Admirals & Generals, but I repeat myself…) can’t preserve old knowledge and can’t help but repeat the errors of the past:

As of March 7, 2022, the Department of Defense announced the planned closure of the Red Hill facility, due to reduced military need and water contamination issues.

So it had a bit of a leak, but rather than repair it, they plan to just trash the whole thing. The intent is to move to a more distributed fueling architecture. i.e. get fuel in places like Qatar or Indonesia and just tanker it over to wherever the battles might be.

But…

How many Oilers do we have? What is the armament on them? How long would it take them to move the fuel? What happens if, say, Saudi Arabia were to just decline to increase the fuel production for our benefit? (Naw, that would never happen… /sarc;)

Description
Unlike any other facility in the United States, the Red Hill Underground Fuel Storage Facility can store up to 250 million gallons of fuel. It consists of 20 steel-lined underground storage tanks encased in concrete, and built into cavities that were mined inside of Red Hill. Each tank has a storage capacity of approximately 12.5 million gallons.

The Red Hill tanks are connected to three gravity-fed pipelines that run 2.5 miles inside a tunnel to fueling piers at Pearl Harbor. Each of the 20 tanks at Red Hill measures 100 feet in diameter and is 250 feet in height.

Red Hill is located under a volcanic mountain ridge near Honolulu. It was declared a Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1995.

Now wouldn’t it be nice if, say, a war broke out between China and Taiwan, and China were using their various missiles to sink any tankers / oilers trying to bring oil through the South China Sea from all those oil fields in the Middle East and Indonesia; if, just maybe, you could bring an oiler from Hawaii to your carrier battle group in the Pacific just the other side of Taiwan with all those air defenses in between you and China?

There’s a whole lot of detail about the 2 leaks and the food fight over them at the Wiki. Here’s two points. 1, the EPA spanks the Navy. 2, the Sierra Club does lawfare.:

Administrative Order on Consent

The Administrative Order on Consent is a binding legal agreement administered by the Environmental Protection Agency. The order mandates the corrective actions to be taken in the wake of an environmental violation. Representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency, Hawaii Department of Health, U.S. Navy, and Defense Logistics Agency signed the order for Red Hill in September 2015. It acknowledges the shared responsibility to protect Oahu’s drinking water supply and maintain Red Hill as a strategically vital resource.
[…]
The Sierra Club of Hawaii launched a “Fix it up or shut it down” petition and has also demanded that the Hawaii Department of Health, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Navy:

Install sufficient “sentinel” monitoring wells to guard public drinking water sources from possible contamination currently in the aquifer,
Locate the fuel that has already leaked from the storage facility and clean it up,
Install genuine leak prevention systems, not only leak detection systems, that will guarantee there will be no future leaks from this facility.
According to military contracting announcements, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam has contracted with two corporations to address environmental problems at Red Hill: AECOM has been in charge of investigating and remediating releases, as well as protecting and evaluating groundwater, while APTIM (known as CB&I prior to 2017) has been in charge cleaning, inspecting, and repairing fuel storage tanks.

So rather than fight this, and fix the facility, the Navy decided to just close it all down, and move to a system just like we had before Pearl Harbor, but without a fuel tank farm. Basically have a bunch of floating fuel tanks in ships that shuttle back and forth from places with refineries.

The problem I have with this is that now the potential opposition has satellite ship tracking and targeting along with missiles that can hit anywhere in the world. With ‘order of magnitude’ about a dozen oilers in the Pacific, just how hard would it be to sink them all in one quick strike?

Would that not be a very attractive option for, say, Russia or China? Suddenly all those advanced jet fighters on our nuclear aircraft carriers will be wondering where to get more fuel. The non-nuclear escort ships that protect them will be looking at “one fuel tank” worth of range, then they are dry. All the army trucks and tanks we might want to forward deploy will be looking a bit thirsty. All those cargo aircraft to haul everything around better be able to make it from North America to Theatre and return without a giant gas tank on Hawaii.

This video is from “What’s going on with Shipping?” and looks at the history and the coming problem in great detail. There are some surprising parallels that he shows between the oiler fleet at the start of W.W.II and our current fleet. He also shows how many were rapidly sunk with the very limited reach of weapons in the 1940s. It is my belief that the present level of tech would have them all sunk in short order (they do not have the defensive systems on major navy ships).

To me, this looks like a problem…

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I Like This Jerk!

Spice Lab makes a spice mix called “Island Jerk Seasoning”. I saw it on the shelf at Publix markets and on a lark, bought it. Turns out it was a great buy.

(What, you thought this posting was going to be all political and slamming someone?… ;-)

The directions say to “Simply coat meat in oil and season with this spice blend before cooking”. OK…

So I had some pork ribs. I cut a rack of ribs into “me” sized chunks and freeze them, then defrost one when I want some ribs. Spouse is not fond of strong spices, nor gnawing meat off of bones, so it is all for me….

Handling the ribs, they felt a bit “greasy enough” from the pork fat, so I skipped the oiling phase. While less would have fallen off the meat, most of it stuck just naked. It goes on to say “For a more intense flavor boost, let the meat rest for 30 minutes or refrigerate overnight before cooking”. I can sort of do that… So I turned the oven on to warm up while I let the meat sit out to warm a bit toward room temperature, went off and watched a video for 1/2 hour.

Into the oven at about 275 F, then just let it sit there on the roasting sheet for about 2 hours. Turned it off and let it cruise down about another 20 minutes, then out of the oven.

OMG this was good stuff. Not as tender as an even longer lower smokey BBQ treatment, but way way better than the usual oven roasting at 350 F with not much more than salt, pepper, and some jug of tomato based goop poured over it.

This stuff positively lights up the mouth with a dance of delight over the taste buds. Not too hot, but with some tingles and puckers. I'll be buying a LOT of this, as I intend to slather just about any pork or chicken going on the BBQ with it, or if "just for me" anything in the oven (while the spouse can have the chicken done with traditional old sage based stuff.)

I've had rubs, sauces, sprinkles, etc. etc. This is the first one to "Light me Up" like this. The flavors are just good. Not overwhelming. Not fire breathing. Just rich and "happy tongue"

There's their web site for it:

https://spices.com/products/the-spice-lab-caribbean-jerk-fine

(How they managed to get “spices.com” is an interesting question. That’s got to be worth some money.) They have a whole zoo of different spices and I’m going to be trying a lot of them now.

The Spice Lab Island Jerk Seasoning – All-Purpose Spicy Jamaican Blend – 7054

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ALL-NATURAL INGREDIENTS: This fine Jamaican rub combines crunchy Hudson Valley salt, brown sugar, onion & garlic, spices, allspice, smoked paprika, crystalized molasses, ginger, chives, chili pepper, black pepper, nutmeg, cinnamon, white pepper and citric acid.

PREMIUM QUALITY: Packed in our SQF-facility, this gourmet jerk chicken seasoning is kosher, all-natural, non-GMO and gluten-free.

Our all-purpose Island Jerk Seasoning adds the taste of Jamaica to pork, chicken, seafood and vegetarian dishes. Sweet and spicy with just a hint of smoke, this Jamaican rub is the perfect island blend. Whether you are roasting or grilling, simply coat meat in oil before seasoning and cook for mouthwatering deliciousness. For a more intense flavor, season and let meat sit for 30 minutes or refrigerate overnight for before cooking. It’s also a tasty vegan chicken seasoning that elevates the flavor of vegetables and vegetarian dishes.

Consolation Prize

For those of you who were hoping for a different kind of spice from a different kind of jerk, and some political hot water, here’s your consolation prize: (Contains F-Bombs)

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Basically a really good summary of the Stupid Lie that Russia blew up their own assets and the evidence for “The USA did it”.

For those who prefer a more understated spice, in the English mode, with lots of salt and malt vinegar being dominant notes, perhaps a bit of sour citrus too; some comments on how it’s going in Ukraine:

BTW, at about 43 minutes, he analyses a Putin quote (Q&A with reporter) per Ukraine continued existence. I think I’ve got a handle on how Putin sees things. I see it as Putin saying “It isn’t up to us if Ukraine continues to exist or not; it will depend on how long they are stupid enough to continue to do things like blow up the bridge”. In other words: “Attack Russia and die. It’s that simple. Just don’t attack Russia (and that includes the newly added territories…).
But that is up to them how long they want to keep it up.”

Putin likes to “lead the listener to the logical conclusion” rather than ‘splain it all to them. What I hear in his “ambiguity” is really just him saying ~”They blow up the bridge, we respond. They know how long they will continue such attacks, we do not. So what do you think? Who is in control of when the attacks and reprisals stop? Eh?”

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