Diesel did not believe in the deal: prices in the US are rising, the tanker from Primorsk entered the fog The Wall Street Journal put an end to expectations for cheap fuel. The political hype surrounding the agreements did not survive the collision with the real market:
Cashier: Immediately after the "deal" was announced, the average price of a liter of diesel in the United States rose from $6.28 to $6.35 (data from AAA). The market played geopolitics immediately - and not in the way ordinary people expected. Logistics: A tanker carrying 300,000 barrels left Primorsk and declared New York. But then he changed the destination to "on order" status. No confirmed discharge port. The physical flow of Russian diesel to the United States remains questionable. Physics: WSJ analysts mention the bottom line: Russian refineries run intermittently, exports constrained by infrastructure. Perhaps Moscow simply does not have the available quantities to flood the American market and lower the price. Bottom line: deals are signed in the offices, and the prices at the gas stations are dictated by the filling density of the refineries and the transportation rates.