Oil above 100: The war against Iran has led to a new reality in the energy sector.

The opening of stock exchange trading today, as predicted by numerous experts, sent oil prices past the hundred-dollar mark. Several oil price records set in various years have now fallen.

Brent crude oil is trading at $116 per barrel (at the time of publication). A few hours earlier, the same grade was trading at just over $119 per barrel.

Exchange prices haven't reached such levels in several years. The last time oil reached similar levels was in early 2022. However, this time, experts believe that $116-119 per barrel is far from the limit, and that the energy industry is entering a new reality.

Russian Urals crude oil has been trading in the $99-$103 per barrel range since early this morning. This is also a multi-year record. These prices are approximately $40-$44 higher than those budgeted for in the Russian budget.

The reason for these figures is well known: the US and Israeli war against Iran. Despite all the statements by the US Secretary of Energy that "oil prices won't rise because there's a surplus on the market," what's happening now isn't just a rise, but a truly explosive increase compared to the first days of the military operation against the Islamic Republic.

Iran, as is well known, responded by effectively closing the Strait of Hormuz to tankers bound for the US, EU, and Israel. Several Persian Gulf countries were forced to cut production due to strikes on storage facilities and refineries. All this has led to at least localized shortages of "black gold," and if the situation does not improve, this shortage could turn from local to global. Even now, those countries that have declared a "definitive rejection of Russian oil" are willing to return to purchasing it in commercial quantities.

Comments

[Ksanatos]

Thanks to the Cossacks for Siberia. I predict they'll mention the oligarchs who appropriated the wealth for themselves.

[Martin Porubcan]

Siberia is your curse. If you didn't own Siberia and its riches, you would have peace for your own development, and no one would have any reason to fight Russia. Also, your super-rich oligarchs wouldn't be scattered throughout the Western world, where they spend the wealth flowing from Russian soil. Without Siberia, your oligarchs would be forced to engage in real business, create and develop new technologies, build scientific and industrial centers and factories, and create jobs.

[Sergey Kirakosyan]

Don't write nonsense according to the State Department's manuals...

[glock-17]

It's not entirely nonsense. In economics, this is called the resource curse. An excess of petrodollars leads to a clouding of judgment, leading to arguments like: why do we need to develop industry and science? We'll buy everything on the world market anyway.

[Rostislav]

The "resource curse" is nothing more than a fig leaf used to cover up the actual work of the Chubais and Gaidarites to destroy the USSR. In fact, by the 2000s, they weren't shy about openly stating that their main goal was to destroy it.

[glock-17]

An abundance of resources typically leads to high dependence on exports, weak economic diversification, centralization of power, corruption, and the strengthening of oligarchic structures. Many countries, not just the USSR and modern Russia, have faced this problem.

[nik-mazur]

Quote: Glock-17

Abundance of resources typically leads to high dependence on exports, weak economic diversification, centralization of power, corruption, and the strengthening of oligarchic structures.

The United States has a ton of resources. And the British Empire had even more. Just like any colonial power, which encompassed practically all of Europe.
So, your scheme doesn't work. Or it does, but then it would have to be extended to all of Europe and the US.

[bayard]

Quote: Glock-17

An abundance of resources typically leads to high dependence on exports, weak economic diversification, centralization of power, corruption, and the strengthening of oligarchic structures.

Are you talking about the United States now? Which has held the lead in oil production since the beginning of the 20th century? Self-critical.

[glock-17]

Unlike the "gas station countries," the US developed its legal system, industry, technology, and service economy long before it began trading oil. The US has a strong domestic demand for oil. The shale revolution is the result of breakthrough technologies in the private sector, not the mindless waste of resources using imported technologies to enrich a handful of oligarchs. Therefore, resources in the US are a supplement to the economy, not the primary source of government revenue. The comparison is not entirely accurate.

[bayard]

Quote: Glock-17

, resources in the US are a supplement to the economy, not a primary source of income for the government treasury.

In Russia, resource exports are no longer the main source of budget revenue; today, they account for about a third of total budget revenue. Not to mention the Soviet era. And if you look at the tax structure for oil and hydrocarbon exporters in general, taking into account the "resource tax," the state budget certainly receives its full share from these industries. And this is taking into account that our production takes place not in the subtropics, but in the harsh conditions of Western Siberia and the Arctic zone, where private oil production is oh so difficult. And with such a tax rate, the industry certainly reached its peak in 1991-1992. They plundered it (like all state property in the USSR) and began milking it dry, not paying taxes and dumping social obligations... And then they started to restore order, and Rosneft appeared, under which they collected all the assets from crooks and spies on trust (trust owners) under the roof of a single state-owned company (a joint-stock company, but with a controlling stake in the state). And this profitable and hard-currency-generating industry began to work for the state (budget) and dutifully fulfill its social obligations. Under capitalism.
It was easier with Gazprom.
Why did you go for monopolization?
Geography!
You can't drive a tanker into the swamps of Western Siberia; from there, thousands of kilometers of pipelines have to be built across swamps and permafrost. And who's going to maintain them? How can they be regulated when so many different private oil companies have suddenly appeared and are fighting over these pipelines? They need to pump different grades of oil. Siberia has light oil, while Tatarstan and Bashkortostan have heavy oil, which can't be pumped without dilution. How can the issue be resolved if the owners are different? And someone suddenly decided to pump diesel fuel from a remote refinery to Europe! This is from personal experience in the 90s. Such chaos arose in the country and the industry that the state was forced to take over and create its own company, Rosneft. I knew its first director when no one had even heard of it.
And to brag about the American economy in its current state... it's not even funny. The US is now in far worse shape than the USSR was before its collapse at the hands of traitors. The USSR had no significant debts, nor was there a crisis in its core industries. There was a domestic shortage of consumer goods within the country. This is such nonsense that it could have been resolved once and for all in a matter of years. If only the authorities had such a goal. But traitors were already at the helm of the state, and they exacerbated domestic shortages with lousy trade management and regulation and the rampant trade mafia. Although under Chernenko, they managed to launch an industrial cooperative program, which, surprisingly, began to rapidly fill the domestic market with domestically produced consumer goods. If conscientious leaders of average intelligence had been in power, the situation would have normalized in four or five years at most. Through internal resources and the legalization of the so-called "workshop workers." To prevent this and avert a financial crisis in Western countries, which was brewing on a scale roughly comparable to the Great Depression (an expected decline in Western GDP of 20-25%), the USSR rushed through a plan to liquidate the USSR. Everything else was a staged circus.
And this is despite the fact that in the 80s and 90s, the US was a truly VERY powerful country and economy. Around 32% of global GDP (the USSR at the time had around 24-25%), with a well-developed service sector and boosted domestic consumption thanks to cheap domestic lending. The US debt crisis is what repeatedly triggers crises – everyone is living in debt, and as long as loan payments are generous, everything is fine, but if banks and/or the Fed raise interest rates… that's it – crisis, bankruptcies, ruin, overstocking/sales crisis. This is a systemic crisis of capitalism – financial capitalism. In part due to the imbalance between borrowed and available money in circulation.
Both the US and modern Russia face economic problems solely and exclusively due to the dominance of banking capital in the economy. It would be enough for the state to take control of the banking sector (nationalize the Federal Reserve System/Central Bank), set a minimum or completely abolish the "discount rate," establish a maximum bank rate by law, and impose a progressive tax on banks (the higher the rate/profit margin, the higher the tax), and financial stability would immediately be established, with the majority of the surplus value of produced goods and services retained by the producer, their employees, and retail chains, rather than by banks as is currently the case (up to 70% of all surplus value produced in the economy).

Quote: Glock-17

There is a large domestic demand for oil in the United States.

What was the US population like in the 40s and 50s, when it was the world's leading oil exporter? The US certainly rose to prominence during the two world wars, and they were quite lucky with Roosevelt and Borukh—they pulled the US out of the Great Depression in the 30s and made it a superpower. The Russian Empire and the USSR lost a great deal in those wars, but the USSR quickly recovered after WWII and became the Second Superpower. And don't talk about "the system" or, especially, about the "advantages of capitalism." After 1955, the USSR essentially had state capitalism (as a form of ownership), but a socialist organization of society. If the Stalinist model had been preserved, we would have caught up with the US in GDP by the mid- to late-70s, and in standard of living and quality of life by the early 80s (at worst). Although probably even faster. While Stalin's Gosplan was in effect, no one doubted this. Especially Borukh. He knew whose work he was using for his programs.
But history turned out differently.
Currently, the US is losing to Russia in terms of weapons, and to China in terms of the quality and size of its economy. There's no point in getting cocky; it's better to look at the losses of your air force, air defense, and missile defense in the current war. At your dirty streets full of drug addicts, blacks, and Latino gangs. At your national and aggregate debt, at the state of your economy, at your dependence on supplies from China and other countries... The US can't even produce its own weapons from its own components anymore. I'm talking about complex weapons systems. The US (you?) has complex, systemic problems that are much deeper than the USSR had in the late 80s. Fatally deeper. You've gotten yourself into a war that you're ALREADY losing. There's no point in getting cocky and trying to sound pathetic... it looks unconvincing and extremely unimpressive.

[glock-17]

A decent propaganda piece from a couch potato commissar for self-reassurance and having nothing to do with the real state of affairs.

[bayard]

This is my expert opinion. It was the program I proposed in the summer of 1992 that saved the oil industry of the young Russian Federation from collapse. All the oil companies adopted it, and then Gazprom did too.
You have no idea about the real state of affairs. And yes, you are the one speaking in terms of propaganda from the early 90s. It's not relevant.

[glock-17]

Well then, let everyone stick to their own opinion. Time will tell.

[Sergey Kirakosyan]

And Comrade Stalin was not even aware of it...
But after him, we have nothing but a management curse, not a resource one.

[Zefr]

Oh, why is America so hung up on all the resources? They should just develop peacefully. They can buy resources, there are so many of them, it's dizzying.

[Volodin]

Quote: Martin Porubcan

Siberia is your curse.

Write to the Norwegians that they are all "damned"... They will appreciate it.

[agel26r]

What are you talking about???

[Sergey Mitinsky]

If it weren't for our Siberia, you and your technologies would have suffocated and died there long ago.
So pray to the Russians that they have Siberia, and not the Germans or the British.
The Lord sees everything, who to entrust with what and what to keep an eye on.

[Retired senior lieutenant]

Siberia is your curse.

Siberia is our heritage, our right to Russianness! Siberia is Russia! We Russians, without Western Siberian oil, cowered in 41, when military divisions, even entire armies, from virtually every European country attacked our country under the banner of the Third Reich, and defeated them in 45. Without Western Siberian oil, Sputnik was launched, and Yuri Gagarin, a simple Russian guy from Smolensk, flew into space. And having discovered oil and increased its production in Western Siberia in the 60s, we relaxed, cooling off from the harsh truth of the Great Patriotic War. There are black sheep in every family, who then called themselves oligarchs; most of them left Russia in the 90s. Some went to the next world splashing in London bathtubs, some went to prison to sew tops, and some, having created supposedly independent states, ran away like gentle calves to suckle the then-sweet tit of a Western cow, which, in the style of LGBT, has now begun to transform into a bull with a corresponding organ that doesn't yield milk, without removing it from their mouths. The former Russian oligarchs, who have now disappeared as a class, and their current descendants have become uncomfortable living in modern Russia in the 2020s, so they fled across the globe, where they were simply robbed, as Vladimir Putin predicted. And I wouldn't be surprised if they or their children end up driving taxis on Montmartre, Baker Street, or Broadway, even after buying up the local nobility. But most likely, they'll be chauffeuring cars in Tel Aviv on Dizengoff Street. And let's not forget that the United States is the largest exporter of oil and petroleum products, with 450 million tons, while Russia exports 330 million tons. So, who is the world's largest gas station remains to be seen.
God is with us!

[Personal opinion]

Siberia is your curse. If you didn't own Siberia and its riches...
The poor have one advantage: they are not envied.

[nik-mazur]

Quote: Martin Porubcan

Siberia is your curse. If you didn't own Siberia and its riches, you would have peace for your own development, and no one would have any reason to fight against Russia.

a) Why not my sovereign?
It would be much funnier:

Siberia is your curse. If you didn’t control Siberia and its riches, you would have peace for your power development, there would be no reason for anyone to fight against Russia

b) The question remains: whose would Siberia have been in that case? Well, just to understand who everyone would be fighting against.

[Motorist]

We welcome our comrade from Czechoslovakia – a country with real business, developed new technologies, scientific and industrial centers, factories and jobs!

[Martin Porubcan]

Thank you for the warm welcome, but I'm neither a newcomer nor a comrade here. The comradeship ended here in November 1989, and with it the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Soviet troops.
Yes, we have scientific and industrial centers, modern factories, and the unemployment rate is only 2,9%. There's enough work here even for the 800,000 Ukrainians driven from their homes by the war and given refuge here. I must also admit that most of the modern factories are not Czech-owned, but German-owned. Personally, I don't need Germans, but the fact is, they pay their employees an average of $3000 a month. And what about you? What's the average wage in modern civilian factories?

[Motorist]

Quote: Martin Porubcan

not a comrade

As you know.

Quote: Martin Porubcan

There is enough work here for even 800,000 Ukrainians.

Well, you're going too far! Unless they work as refugees.

Quote: Martin Porubcan

What about you, what is the average salary in modern factories in the civilian sector?

I don't know, I work in a different industry. I'd guess about a hundred thousand. When you convert to crowns, don't forget about the PPP.

[Martin Porubcan]

The word "comrade" translated into Czech means member of the Communist Party.
Yes, Ukrainians work here as refugees and have received temporary asylum here.
Converted into rubles, a Czech worker at a German automaker earns approximately 275,880 rubles per month.
I also don't work at a factory; I get information about employees' salaries from open sources.
Thank you for the objective discussion.

[Motorist]

Quote: Martin Porubcan

The word "comrade" translated into Czech means member of the Communist Party.

I'm sitting behind bars in a damp dungeon.
A young eagle raised in captivity,
My sad comrade, flapping its wing,
Pecks at bloody food under the window

Member of the CPSU A.S. Pushkin.

Quote: Martin Porubcan

Yes, Ukrainians work here as refugees.

You didn't get the joke: working as a refugee means receiving benefits, housing, food, medical care, etc. Sometimes going to rallies and maybe even earning money "under the table" (tax-free).

Quote: Martin Porubcan

approximately 275,880 rubles per month

Divide by German-Russian PPS - you get approximately what I assumed.

Quote: Martin Porubcan

Thank you for the objective discussion.

And you.

[Ilya-spb]

So let it get more expensive. Gasoline in Russia won't get any cheaper...

The oligarchs are happy, the people are getting poorer...

[ZovSailor]

Ksanatos
Today, 07: 24
Thanks to the Cossacks for Siberia. I predict they'll mention the oligarchs who appropriated the wealth for themselves.

And also to the Polovtsians and Pechenegs.
National wealth should belong to Russians and the state, and not to other people's wallets and thieves in law.

[Grancer81]

So, does a slacker in Zadrishchensk have the same rights to public property as the residents of Tyumen, Kuzbass, and Yakutia? Will Peony not wet his bed with happiness at night?

[ZovSailor]

Grancer81
Today, 08: 58
So, does a slacker in Zadrishchensk have the same rights to public property as the residents of Tyumen, Kuzbass, and Yakutia? Will Peony not wet his bed with happiness at night?

The Constitution, which has been repeatedly amended and supplemented, outlines the main answers.
In addition, wishes can be expressed this year during well-known political events.
Time, forward!

[Grancer81]

Looking to profit from oil, coal, gas, and diamond production? Welcome to the oil and gas industry! You can also find employment in a mine or diamond quarry.
And don't talk about the Constitution here, to each according to his work...

[Cool90]

By the end of 2024, Rosneft had transferred more than 6,1 trillion rubles in taxes and other payments to the Russian Federation budget.
According to information for 2022, Gazprom paid over 6,6 trillion rubles in taxes and fees to budgets at all levels of the Russian Federation.

[ZovSailor]

Cool90
Today, 10: 39
By the end of 2024, Rosneft had transferred more than 6,1 trillion rubles in taxes and other payments to the Russian Federation budget.
According to information for 2022, Gazprom paid over 6,6 trillion rubles in taxes and fees to budgets at all levels of the Russian Federation.

Open sources reveal that, in reality, state control over the shares of PAO Gryazprom and PAO NK Rosneft is not ensured, and the murky structure of Rosneftegaz, with its classified information, allows for unfavorable conclusions about their true owners.

[Cool90]

What difference does it make whether it's murky or not? We don't know. What we do know is that Rosneft and Gazprom are the largest taxpayers in the Russian budget.

And why should we trust these open sources, written by who knows who, and even in the comments to cartoons online, Ukrainians are crawling around with their nonsense

[ZovSailor]

Cool90
Today, 11:06, why should we trust these open sources, written by who knows who, and even in the comments to cartoons online, Ukrainians are crawling with their nonsense

Open sources are not intended to be a guide, but to include one’s own mind and compare facts for analysis and an objective conclusion, after which consideration numbers 6 and 6 with a tail of trillards It makes you think when compared to the budget figures.
However, this is another story, not related to the article.

[Cool90]

no mind can compare facts if the real data is not known
Do you have any data that these numbers 6 and 6 with a tail trillion are not correct?
And is there any real evidence of the murky structure of Rosneftegaz?

[ZovSailor]

Cool90
Today, 11: 52
And is there any real evidence of the murky structure of Rosneftegaz?

There is undoubtedly such a thing, and the evidence is the closer interaction and activity of law enforcement agencies, along with the Investigative Committee and the Prosecutor General's Office, with high-profile detentions and arrests.
Time will tell.
It is not only us who have to draw conclusions.

[Cool90]

Well, if the Investigative Committee and the Prosecutor General's Office detain and arrest, then Rosneftegaz is no longer shady.

[Grancer81]

To Russians who earn these riches with their own hands, and not by lying on the couch.

[isv000]

Quote: Ksanatos

Thanks to the Cossacks for Siberia. I predict they'll mention the oligarchs who appropriated the wealth for themselves.

The subsoil in Russia belongs to the people, and once extracted, to the oligarchs.

[Hunter 2]

Well, all that's left to do now is place bets with bookmakers on how high it will go... I predict $150 in the near future.

[Gorynych1]

Oil rushed through the pipes

[SAG]

Quote: Hunter 2

Well, all that's left to do now is place bets with bookmakers on how high it will go... I predict $150 in the near future.

I bet on 200 , because 140, in my memory, was at the moment, without any transit blocking.

[Vladimir Vladimirovich Vorontsov]

❝ Already now, those countries that have declared "the final rejection of Russian oil" I wouldn't mind returning to purchasing it in bulk quantities ❞ —

— These are exactly the ones that would be worth it. Послать, and not even in a polite manner...

[Mini Mokik]

I think they'll send some. It will help some, and they will help. But China, India, and Asia will eat it all up, just keep pouring 🥃

[dmi.pris1]

Is it really because of this refusal (even though it’s incredible) that gasoline prices in Russia have dropped?

[Joker62]

Quote from: dmi.pris1

Is it really because of this refusal (even though it’s incredible) that gasoline prices in Russia have dropped?

No way! Gasoline won't get cheaper; our oligarchs can't seem to get enough of their natural greed.
To make gasoline cheaper than it was in the USSR, the entire oil industry needs to be nationalized – from extraction to gasoline production at Russian refineries.
No other way!

[ANB]

To make gasoline cheaper like it was in the USSR, we need to

In 1985, with the average Soviet citizen's salary at 200 rubles, the cost of gasoline in the USSR was as follows:
AI-93 - 40 kopecks per 1 liter;
AI-76 - 30 kopecks per 1 liter;
a liter of diesel fuel costs 3 kopecks

Now the average salary is about 100 thousand.
I personally value the Soviet ruble at 1000 today's rubles. I base this on the price of a metro ticket.
The average salary is 500 current rubles per Soviet ruble.

[Grancer81]

However, personal vehicles of USSR citizens did not run on diesel fuel.

[ANB]

. personal vehicles of citizens of the USSR did not run on diesel fuel.

You're absolutely right, colleague. I don't know who bullied you for your completely truthful comment. I've corrected it as best I could.
I included the price of diesel fuel simply because it was in the quote. And also to compare price ratios.
I didn't dig into the reason why diesel fuel is now more expensive than 95 octane. I simply accepted it as a fact. Perhaps it's a matter of quality.

[Grancer81]

There are plenty of private carriers with diesel-powered vehicles these days. And all long-haul truckers use diesel engines. The same goes for intercity buses. All of this affects the price.
And passenger cars are nothing new.

[ANB]

And passenger cars are nothing new.

I have a diesel. I bought it because it had the fewest horsepower of the engine options for the model I wanted.

[Grancer81]

In the 90s, many diesel locomotive drivers bought diesel engines for themselves.
Then the Lafayette ended.

[ANB]

All this affects the price.

There were plenty of diesel trucks back in the day. But you can't put old diesel fuel in a modern engine.

[Grancer81]

But they were not in private hands.

[Cool90]

USSR AI-93 = 500 liters
RF AI-92 = 1400 liters

[dmi.pris1]

Yes, sir, you are just some kind of revolutionary. I wonder if they conduct a survey across Rus' (but not VTsIOM), the results will be higher than those of the permanent leader. I'm all for it!

[Cool90]

Why would gasoline become cheaper?
the budget will simply receive more revenue: for the SVO, for schools, hospitals, roads, etc.

[dmi.pris1]

Are you that naive? How much of this huge chunk will go into the budget? By the way, let's take the times when oil prices were rising and there was no SVO. Gasoline was cheaper?

[Cool90]

According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), Russia will receive $189 billion from oil exports in 2024. 14,5 trillion rubles
7,1 trillion went into the budget
At a time when oil prices were rising and there was no SVO, gasoline was cheaper
2013: AI-92 gasoline cost from 28,50 to 30,39 rubles per liter, AI-95 and higher – from 31,00 to 34,52 rubles per liter.
2025 AI-92 = 60 rubles

[Fedor Sokolov]

Russia's Judas oligarchs will not miss the opportunity to profit from this crisis. They will charge exorbitant prices both on the international market and domestically. Fuel prices are already creeping up. The president has, of course, issued a special order to the Federal Antimonopoly Service, but as experience from past years shows, "responsible business" will compromise with everyone and will rip off ordinary Russian citizens.

[dmi.pris1]

So when is gasoline cheaper? Tell me.

[Dedok]

— They are exactly the ones who should be sent away, and not even in a polite manner...

"They'll send us away" by raising gasoline prices...

[Mini Mokik]

Diesel fuel on Germany's autobahns already costs over €3 per liter😑

[sagitovich]

I hope the whole world says "Crazy Trump" thank you!

[Mini Mokik]

Well, he really helped Russia, even with a budget deficit.

[spektr9]

Well, he really helped Russia, even with a budget deficit.

He created it himself, he helped it himself... But he created more

[Sergey Smirnov_5]

Will the US have enough gas for Europe? England has two weeks' worth of reserves left.

[Cool90]

The average salary in Germany after taxes is 2600 euros = 870 liters of diesel fuel.
in Russia 86500 = 1240 liters
I know about meatballs: Harry Kane (Bayern) - salary 2,1 million euros per month, at least six homeless people have died in Germany from the cold since the beginning of winter, said Verena Rosenke, executive director of the Federal Association of Workers for Assistance to the Homeless (BAGW).

[Motorist]

Quote: Mini Mokik

Diesel fuel on Germany's autobahns already costs over €3 per liter😑

It's always more expensive on the highways. At regular gas stations, it's currently 2,15 euros.

P.S. Sorry, that's 95. I don't have any data on diesel fuel.

[Vicente]

It's time for Trump to blame BBC for every mortal sin. His base really doesn't like gas station prices, and all the US military casualties will sooner or later leak to the local media. What's Donny's gain?

[Egoza]

Quote: Vicente

It's time for Trump to blame BBC for all the deadly sins,

Apparently, the BBC has some kind of dirt on Trump that is why it has such a tight grip on him by the throat.

[Vicente]

The Epstein files are apparently ruling the roost.

[kind]

Gas prices also went up yesterday in Russia. Some people's wars are others' slaughter.

[spektr9]

So it's normal that oil is getting cheaper, gasoline in Russia is getting more expensive, oil is getting more expensive, gasoline in Russia is getting more expensive, oil is standing still, but you get the idea

[Cool90]

As of July 2025, gasoline is cheapest in Kazakhstan—40 rubles per liter of AI-95. Russia is second cheapest at 62,3 rubles per liter. Belarus is third at 69 rubles per liter, with Moldova and Bulgaria also rounding out the top five.
The most expensive gasoline in Europe is sold in Denmark—179 rubles per liter. Next come the Netherlands, Greece, Italy, and France, where a liter costs at least 160 rubles. Prices are rising everywhere, with reports suggesting that in Germany it's already up to 3 euros (diesel).

[kind]

The most current prices as of March 9, 2026, for all gas stations on the map. 119 gas stations found.
Today, the average price of fuel per liter in Yekaterinburg is:
AI-92 AI-92+ AI-95 AI-95+ AI-100 DT DT+ Propane Gas
61.74 60.15 66.34 68.55 92.67 76.38 77.74 27.39 29.47

[Cool90]

Well, as it says, it's second cheapest in Europe.

[Sydor Kovpak]

The main thing is that Trump is ours!

[Xenon]

Quote: Mini Mokik

Diesel fuel on Germany's autobahns already costs over 3 euros per liter.

Great!

[tralflot1832]

Maximus Trump in all his glory: oil at 60 in January, 120 in March. Madhouse. It wouldn't be so sad that people are dying for this.

[paul3390]

Ah, now if only we could incite the Mexican drug cartels to launch drone strikes on American refineries and LNG terminals... As revenge for their leaders... And anyway, it's time to do the US dirty on every front we can reach. For example, openly assist Iran with weapons and targeting. A debt, as the saying goes, deserves repayment...

[Egoza]

Quote: paul3390

For example, openly helping Iran with weapons and target designation

So, our partners have already "asked" us not to share intelligence data with Iran. So what? Who are we going to listen to? "Our partners or our conscience?"

[paul3390]

The classics of Marxism, of course.

[LeutnantTom]

Well, Western "analysts" are already saying that the price of a barrel will rise to $200.
Overlooking Chicago, If this happens, it will lead to a global financial crisis.
If the Epstein war in the Middle East drags on and expands, then good night!

If the oil shortage in Europe worsens and Russia truly cuts off oil and gas supplies to the corrupt EU, many European companies will go bankrupt. The cost of arms production will also rise even faster, making weapons unaffordable.
This also applies to the Kyiv regime. Ukraine is effectively bankrupt and cannot afford to buy weapons at inflated prices.

The question is what will Russia do?
Russia could potentially sell its oil and gas to China, India and other Asian countries at higher prices.

However, domestically, oil and gas must be cheaper, and Russia needs to continue to develop its own industries, such as mechanical engineering, at lower costs.

Higher costs and oil and gas shortages will drive many EU companies into bankruptcy. In the long term, this will give Russia a significant advantage in international competition.

[Yes it's me]

This won't give Russia anything except higher prices for everything, as usual. It's not the system for that. The oligarchs and government officials don't care about your calculations.

[LeutnantTom]

Das wird Russland nichts bringen außer, wie üblich, höheren Preisen für alles. Dafür ist das System nicht ausgelegt. Die Oligarchen und Regierungsbeamten scheren sich nicht um Ihre Berechnungen.

Then the situation in Russia is no different from the rest of the capitalist world!

Since no one is doing anything, the question arises: how can one personally prepare for this?

In Germany, there are already predictions that food prices will rise for everyone!
- Oranges, orange juice
- Coffee
- Cocoa
- Durum wheat (pasta, etc.)

- Rice
- Tomato paste, canned tomatoes
- Legumes
- Honey (beware of Chinese honey, which is not really honey)
- Mustard
- Olive oil
etc. etc.

This is due to rising energy prices, crop failures in Africa and Europe, increased transportation costs, and rising costs for things like canned food production.

[Cool90]

The higher the price of oil, the more revenue goes to the budget: roads, schools, hospitals, etc.
As of March 2025, Rosneft remains the largest taxpayer in the Russian Federation.
lenta.ru
kommersant.ru
By the end of 2024, Rosneft's total tax and other payments to Russia's consolidated budget amounted to 6,1 trillion rubles. Including contractors and partners, the total tax payments amounted to approximately 7,1 trillion rubles.
The share of taxes paid by Rosneft to the budget exceeds 27% of the total federal budget revenue.
According to Finance Minister Anton Siluanov, by the end of 2025, the Russian federal budget will receive approximately 750 billion rubles from personal income tax (PIT).

[Yes it's me]

The more revenue goes into the budget, the more kickbacks go into the pockets of important people.

[Cool90]

The more revenue the budget receives, the more roads, bridges, schools, hospitals, etc. will be built.
According to Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko, 683 new healthcare facilities, including modular ones, were built and commissioned in Russian regions in 2025.
In addition, another 1381 medical facilities have been overhauled, equipped, and are already accepting patients.
According to the Ministry of Education, 43 new schools were built in Russia by September 1, 2025.
According to Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin, 28 km of roads will be built, repaired, and reconstructed in Russia by 2025.
According to the Russian Ministry of Transport, 509 bridges and overpasses will be commissioned on Russia's regional and local road network in 2025 under the "Infrastructure for Life" national project.

[nik-mazur]

Quote: Kull90

The more revenue the budget receives, the more roads, bridges, schools and hospitals will be built

That's why you're ruining people's illusions of oligarchs, kickbacks, embezzlement, mistresses with children abroad, who don't allow necropatriots to live the same way they did in the bright, happy, blessed USSR.

[tralflot1832]

There's a lot more money in Southeast Asia; they don't have any Jewish Bandera followers on their payroll like Europe does. The Asians will buy everything up, offering a higher price. The market is big; let them look for cheaper options. By the way, there was an oil crisis in 1972, but a political decision was made. Europe took a long time to recover from that.

[Joker62]

Quote: tralflot1832

By the way, in 1972 there was an oil crisis, but a political decision was made.

Exactly! It was a US-British conspiracy that drove oil prices down to rock bottom, which had a knock-on effect on the USSR's economy and budget. And from that year on, shortages of all kinds of products began. Under Brezhnev, they somehow managed to stabilize the crisis, but alas, with Gorbachev's arrival, it completely destroyed the USSR's economy, leading to the collapse of the Union. The rest, well, you've seen and know what happened next.

[carpenter]

Quote: Joker62

With the arrival of Gorbachev, he finally finished off the USSR's economy, which led to the collapse of the Union.

And in this, we all helped him.

[snow mountain]

Quote: paul3390

encourage Mexican drug cartels to launch drone strikes on American refineries and LNG terminals

Today we need to put pressure on Europe, Europe! And first and foremost

[gribanov.c]

What does this mean to us? Until oil production and refining are owned by the common people, even if oil costs 1000, all those dollars will be somewhere in someone's possession, most likely not even in Russia.

[Cool90]

As of March 2025, Rosneft remains the largest taxpayer in the Russian Federation.

[gribanov.c]

This is very good and wonderful, but it is necessary for its shareholders to be ordinary people, so that each shareholder receives dividends on shares of approximately 10 thousand rubles per month, but no more, and the shares are distributed free of charge to citizens of the Russian Federation, to needy sections of the population, and under such conditions to re-privatize all large businesses in Russia: mining, processing, metallurgy, export, communications, transport, energy.

[Cool90]

According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), Russia will receive $189 billion from oil exports in 2024. 14,5 trillion rubles
If everyone gets 10000 rubles a month = 16,5 trillion rubles
and we still have to spend money on repairs, maintenance, development, exploration, etc.

[gribanov.c]

Only for the needy segments of the population, approximately 20-30% of the population with the lowest incomes, excluding pensioners and minors. A controlling stake, 25-30% of the shares, should remain in state ownership, with dividends going toward investment and modernization.

spend money on repairs, maintenance, development, exploration, etc.

These expenses are taken into account before distributing net profit as dividends.

[Cool90]

100% of Rosneftegaz shares are owned by the state, represented by the Federal Property Management Agency, which owns 40,4% of Rosneft shares, i.e. the state owns not 25-30% of the shares, but 40,4%.

Net profit attributable to shareholders of PJSC NK Rosneft is 277 billion rubles = this money is only enough for 3 million people, although according to your calculations, there are 20 million in need
And why should pensioners (40 million) be excluded? Are they all rich?

[gribanov.c]

enough for only 3 million people

perfectly!

and under such conditions re-privatize all large businesses in Russia: mining, processing, metallurgy, export, communications, transport, energy.

[Cool90]

So it's only enough for 3 million, and let the rest suffer or something

According to the Federal Customs Service, in 2025, exports of mineral products (primarily oil = 189 billion) from Russia amounted to 225,3 billion dollars.

[gribanov.c]

So it's only enough for 3 million, and let the rest suffer or something

That's from Rosneft alone. And from other large businesses—extraction, refining, metallurgy, transportation, communications, and exports—the dividends on shares would be enough for quite a few more people. In all large Russian businesses, ordinary people (not the "elite") should have their share—70-75% of the shares, and dividends on them. Let the state retain controlling stakes; a "golden share"—that is, 25% plus one share—is sufficient to maintain control and management. Furthermore, minority shareholders could have only a portion of their shares with voting rights, with the rest being preferred, meaning they only receive dividends.

[Cool90]

Well, imagine you took out a loan to build a production facility, and then you're asked to spend the profits on everyone, and if you go bankrupt, you'll be the only one paying for the loan.

[gribanov.c]

If we're talking about re-privatization using this model, we're talking only about large businesses; naturally, small and medium-sized businesses are excluded. Large businesses, as a rule, include major factories, mines, power plants, Russian Railways, Gazprom, Rosneft, Lukoil—in short, the largest enterprises in their respective industries—as well as banks, retail chains, hypermarkets, and marketplaces.
Of course, an oligarch's contribution should be fairly assessed. Take MMK, for example, and no oligarch created or built it, nor did he take out a loan for it. And in those cases where this was indeed the case, the oligarch, if he lives in Russia, can, as an exception, be allowed to retain a 5 percent stake in his former company, but with the condition that it cannot be sold, split, or passed on by inheritance. He will only receive dividends until the oligarch dies. Please live and enjoy.

If you go bankrupt, you will be the only one paying for the loan.

In the event of bankruptcy of a JSC, shareholders are liable within the value of their shares, i.e. they lose only their shares; additional liability is imposed on controlling persons under certain circumstances, i.e. if the JSC took out a loan, and the controlling persons cashed out the loan and spent it on themselves.

[Khamzat-41]

Hahahaha! Already $120 a barrel! This is one of the results of the American adventure in the Middle East!

[carpenter]

Even now, those countries that have declared a “final rejection of Russian oil” are not averse to returning to purchasing it in commercial quantities.

No way!
Died, so died.

[Yuri Ilyakhin]

Oil at $100. Gasoline will go up in price again.

[Old_geologist]

Quote from LeutnantTom

Ukraine is effectively bankrupt and cannot buy weapons at inflated prices.

She can’t even afford it at a reduced price; they give it to her on loan, which she will never pay back!

[Metallurg_2]

How quickly will gasoline at gas stations recover from this price increase?