Russia is squeezing independent gas stations out of its fuel market
Russia cannot make more fuel. So it’s handing the market to the state-linked majors, and the independent ones are being cut out.
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Alexander Novak
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How tight is Russia’s fuel crisis? Altai now caps each car at one fill a day
Drivers had gamed the midnight reset to take two rations. This week, the Siberian republic shut the window.
Russia offers farmers boiler fuel for tractors—Ukraine’s strikes wiped out clean diesel
Russia’s Agriculture Ministry is offering farms fuel 90 times dirtier than the diesel they bought last year—fuel that halves an engine’s life.
Russia has the oil. It no longer has the gasoline—so Russians are learning to make their own
Ukraine’s drone campaign has cut Russian refining to its lowest level since March 2005—and the diesel Russia can no longer sell is driving world fuel prices to multiyear highs.
The energy superpower now rations fuel by QR code lottery
Governors negotiating jerry-can quotas. The assemblies voting not to convene. What the fuel crisis looks like from Samara, Pskov, Irkutsk, and Sevastopol.
Russia annexed Crimea to control it. Now it can’t even control the gas station line
Stations open briefly without warning as pump and resale prices pull apart.
1.7 million tons in reserve, queues at the pump—Russia’s fuel math doesn’t close
Russia says it still holds 1.7 million tons of gasoline. Queues, rationing, and import deals show why that number does not put fuel in the tank.