S8 Ep1107: Preview for Later Today: Michael Bernstam details Russia's escalating energy crisis caused by drone strikes on refineries. The Kremlin has banned diesel exports, forcing citizens to use gray markets in Kazakhstan to acquire essential fuel. (1)
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 8 July 2026
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| 0:30.4 | This is John Batchel with my colleague Michael Bernstein and the Hoover Institution. |
| 0:34.9 | Watching Russia struggle because of the drone attacks on the refineries |
| 0:39.6 | and the supply lines for diesel. |
| 0:42.7 | Russia, like most of Europe, uses diesel for their vehicles, not gasoline. |
| 0:48.1 | Russia is now forbidding the export of any diesel at all from all of its refineries because |
| 0:53.4 | it's out of diesel. The attacks on the big ref diesel at all from all of its refineries because it's out of diesel. |
| 0:55.8 | The attacks on the big refinery at Omsk, the attacks on all the refineries have left them very |
| 1:02.0 | short. There's rationing. Their rules. They're now odd and even days. People going into Kazakhstan |
| 1:10.0 | to get around the system to bring back |
| 1:12.5 | the ban jerry cans that can be used in Kazakhstan filled with diesel fuel. |
| 1:18.3 | Here's Michael to describe the chaos. |
| 1:21.8 | This is a crisis by any standard, for any economy, but especially for one at war. |
| 1:29.7 | Here's Michael. More tonight. |
| 1:31.7 | Well, they already banned gasoline export. |
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