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and aviation fuel and lots of other refined products. And yet Russia is now producing only around 70% of the gasoline that it needs for its own domestic market. Just think about that for a second. One of the world's biggest oil producers is struggling to produce enough

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an enormous network of oil refineries. It exports crude oil, it exports diesel, gasoline and aviation fuel and lots of other refined products. And yet Russia is now producing only around 70% of the gasoline that it needs for its own domestic market. Just think about

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with repairs potentially taking as long as six months. And Orsk alone normally processes around 6 million tons of crude oil every year. So these attacks are starting to have a cumulative impact. You hit one refinery, Russia can compensate elsewhere. You hit another one,

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an enormous network of oil refineries. It exports crude oil, it exports diesel, gasoline and aviation fuel and lots of other refined products. And yet Russia is now producing only around 70% of the gasoline that it needs for its own domestic market. Just think about

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export ban again. Gasoline exports remain banned. Aviation fuel exports are also restricted. Imports are rising. Consumers are limiting their journeys. And gasoline production has fallen dramatically below domestic requirements. Russia still has plenty of oil. What it increasingly lacks is the

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problems facing Russian food production. So fuel shortages simply add another layer of problems. Then you've got the holiday season. Russia is a huge country. People travel very long distances. It actually has 11 different time zones. That's how wide it is. Domestic tourism involves cars,

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while refinery disruption elsewhere in the world has also reduced the availability of diesel and aviation fuel. So removing Russian exports can push international refining margins and fuel prices up as well, which creates another irony. Russia desperately needed export revenue, global

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the refining margin as well. So when Russia is forced to ban exports of diesel, gasoline, aviation fuel and all of the other ones, it isn't simply losing volume. It's losing access to part of the higher value end of the energy business. And at exactly the same time, it still has crude oil