They are starting to run cruise ships on natural gas. Sent from my iPhone
> On Apr 21, 2020, at 10:54 AM, Allan Streib via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > I think modern cruise ships burn diesel now. > > Bunker fuel was used in steam boilers. > > Between the declines in jet fuel (basically high-grade kerosene) and > shipping, I would guess there is plenty of diesel at least for the near > term. And it sounds like things will be opening up starting soon. > > Nobody's dying from overloaded hospitals or lack of ventilators, so > things should start opening up again (at least in a controlled way). > > Allan > > Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> writes: > >> Think of all the huge quantities of bunker fuel or whatever they call it >> that all the cruise ships would be burning but are not currently. >> >>> On 4/21/2020 5:55 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: >>> True, and think of the huge volumes of jet fuel that aren’t being consumed, >>> either. Lots of idle time at the refinery… >>> >>> -D >>> >>>> On Apr 21, 2020, at 1:16 AM, Rick Knoble via Mercedes >>>> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> I probably wrote this before, but it bears repeating. Sooner or later the >>>> refineries will run out of storage for gasoline. When that happens, they >>>> will cease production. The refining process can only be skewed a few >>>> percent in favor of diesel or gasoline. Depending on the consumption of >>>> fuels adjacent to diesel on the cracking spectrum, the availability of >>>> diesel fuel could potentially be interrupted. Which, if you receive >>>> anything by truck, will be a bit of a glitch in your supply chain. >>>> >>>> Rick >>>> > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
