The Oil Drum

The UK is likely to continue to be a major exporter - as long as the British can reduce their gasoline consumption faster than Americans increase it. But at some point, the amount available for the refineries will be the never ending bottleneck - and then the trans-Atlantic circulation of another sort will begin to fade.

In a sense, Europeans have more or less decided that diesel is the better IC technology for the foreseeable future, while the U.S. remains very focused on gasoline - which leads to ethanol, which then entails expensive retooling and development for minimal gains and reduced efficiency - and lots of money being thrown around, with none of it hitting the ground - and little of it available for better solutions.

At some point, Americans will realize that though diesel will remain useful in a number of ways, gasoline is a pretty non-essential fuel - but that realization will be fought tooth and nail, and will only become accepted when all the alternatives have been played out.

Amazing to read about windbreak tree lines from the 1930s being cut down for increased corn planting - that is a truly unhealthy response to growing scarcity in the future.

Why aren't products produced on US territory considered domestic production. The US Virgin Islands are US territory. The folks who think otherwise probably believe a passport is needed to visit Hawaii. Anybody know how to administer an online dope slap?