stock here: Trump is really concerned about the mid-terms and rightfully so, he has pissed off so many of his supporters. And not just Trump, the entire Republican Controlled Senate and House, have not made efforts to codify Trump’s executive orders, so they be all be rolled back on Day 1 of a Democrat president. That can’t be just stupid, it has to be intentional. A betrayal of the constituents, again.
Using a conversion of approximately 7.45 barrels per metric tonne of diesel, here’s what Trump’s announced Russian diesel deal represents.
Conversion to barrels
| Russian diesel commitment | Barrels | Equivalent U.S. diesel consumption |
|---|---|---|
| 300,000 tonnes immediately | 2.24 million | 0.57 days |
| 500,000 tonnes in November | 3.73 million | 0.95 days |
| 1 million tonnes thereafter | 7.45 million | 1.90 days |
| 1.8 million tonnes subtotal | 13.41 million | 3.42 days |
| 3 million tonnes ultimate goal | 22.35 million | 5.70 days |
These are approximate conversions; the exact barrels per tonne depend on diesel density.
U.S. daily consumption
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration:
All petroleum products
20.6M
barrels per day
Diesel / distillate
3.9M
barrels per day
These figures are based on 2025 consumption, with total petroleum demand also projected around 20.6 million barrels per day for 2026.
U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
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Against total U.S. petroleum consumption, the 300,000-tonne initial shipment represents just 2.6 hours of demand, and the entire 3-million-tonne target represents 1.08 days.
Bottom line
The initial 300,000 tonnes represents only about 14 hours of U.S. diesel consumption.
Even the eventual 3-million-tonne commitment equals less than six days of U.S. diesel demand, and it would be delivered over time—not all at once.
Importantly, Trump described these shipments as going to the American and global marketplace, so they are not necessarily all destined for the United States.
Reuters
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The announcement sounds substantial, but on a national or global energy scale, the volume is relatively modest. The actual effect on diesel prices will depend on how quickly the additional supply reaches markets and whether it represents a genuine increase in worldwide supply.
2 replies on “The US / Russia Diesel Deal Is Mostly a Psych Move, Represents Just Days of US Consumption”
Seems that these Russia cooperation
moves are furtive, gasping attempts to separate USA from the overall Israeli warbucks dominance. Israel attacked Iran again during supposed peace negotiations. It will be Frozen Europe when the fuel from the east is shut off.
My old depressing “jump to the conclusion” mind says that we-all humans have been spoiled babies to think we could endlessly develop lands.
Endlessly overpopulate! What sane mind , viewing the oil-shipping world, thinks this is viable, sustainable, intelligent?
Somebody, like mostly everyone, is going to run into starvation, exposure,
disease from walking in sewage, etc because the ship got torpedoed on its way to the refinery that just got bombed
along with the sitting-duck pipeline network. At home, the deepening resentment of have-nots towards a man with a work-truck makes it dangerous to
even cruise around. The Japanese need
that oil, like 1940, and “we” need Japanese to bulwark against China and DPRK . Our copper mines supply China,
and the false economic boost paid to mine workers results in super pickup trucks repossessed, no other jobs paying nearly as well. We have drivers and construction guys getting 35 an hour for the “Wall” steel contractors.
You see the trucks everyday. We heard of a group of fifteen guys hired to start on this project, but they had to take a last-minute piss test, and not one guy passed! And these already had their CDLs! We have lots of legal buds in NM.
We have one gas station holding at 3.99 a gallon for regular, while the Chevron went to 4.89 yesterday. The cascade of failures will be terrible for the spoiled-rotten Americans expecting to fill up and motor on, finding armed, uniformed punks denying them access, confiscating their vehicles and valuables.
One of those Hurricane / storm surge rescues and watching the 20 something boys and girls hired by FEMA, surely on board with discrimnating against anyone with a Trump sign, and looking at every citizen request as a needs to come up with a form, or apply online, or wait until tomorrow. Absolutely ZERO respect for the people that were paying their salary. They learned the bureaucracy in the first weeks, as I did as a young man working for the Government and learning “how things work”, you feel you are doing the right thing by “working within the system.” And then at some point you realize what utter bullshit it is.