被拜登视为降通胀「杀手锏」的抛储行为,正成为资本赚差价的工具?
拜登紧急释放的战略石油储备正运往欧洲。
3月31日周四,美国拜登政府发宣布了美国历史上最大规模的战略石油储备(SPR)释放计划。
拜登决定在接下来的六个月里,平均每天在市场上增加释放100万桶战略石油储备,以应对令美国消费者痛苦的原油和汽油价格上涨。但现在,部分原油正在被运往欧洲。

据彭博报道,一位知情人士称,根据彭博汇编的船舶跟踪数据,在4月1日前后,驶往鹿特丹的苏伊士型邮轮「Advantage Spring」号,在美国能源运输公司Energy Transfer位于荷兰的石油基地,接收到了紧急SPR低硫原油用于出口。
与此同时,这艘苏伊士型油轮还从阿芙拉型油轮处也获得了SPR原油,这些原油于4月第一周在同一码头装载。
船舶设备数据显示,「Advantage Spring」是由道达尔能源公司下属的大西洋贸易公司Atlantic Trading租赁的。
以毒舌著称的金融博客ZeroHedge对此评论称,这种情况似乎表明,这种表面上的「紧急状态」正以牺牲美国消费者的利益为代价赚取利润,因为美国的石油短缺并没有真正得到缓解。相反,这是在为欧洲做嫁衣。
据彭博报道,商品数据公司Kpler的石油分析师Matt Smith表示,这些是自去年11月以来SPR原油的首次出口,也就意味着属于拜登所释放的原油储备的一部分。
这也与拜登的中期选举息息相关。拜登在3月表示:「我认为此次中期选举可能是现代历史上最重要的一次。」
如果在释放石油储备后,美国国内的高油价问题仍然得不到缓解,人们就会开始质疑,拜登的释储行为背后是否仍有值得探寻之处。
华尔街见闻此前曾提及,4月18日周一,在供应短缺的更大担忧下,国际油价连涨四个交易日,并且完全收复了3月底白宫宣布美国史上最大规模战略石油储备释放以来的全部跌幅,有人讥讽称拜登政府做了无用功。
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Biden's emergency release of strategic oil reserves is on its way to Europe.
On Thursday, March 31st, the Biden administration announced the largest strategic oil reserve (SPR) release plan in US history.
Biden decided to release an average of 1 million barrels a day of strategic oil reserves on the market over the next six months to cope with the rise in crude oil and gasoline prices that afflict American consumers. But now, some of the oil is being shipped to Europe.

According to Bloomberg, a person familiar with the matter said that according to ship tracking data compiled by Bloomberg,Around April 1, the Suez cruise ship Advantage Spring bound for Rotterdam received emergency SPR sweet crude for export at the oil base of the US energy transportation company Energy Transfer in the Netherlands.
At the same time, the Suez tanker also obtained SPR crude from the Aphra tanker, which was loaded at the same dock in the first week of April.
Ship equipment data show that "Advantage Spring" is leased by Atlantic Trading, the Atlantic trading company under TotalEnergies SE Energy Company.
ZeroHedge, a notoriously venomous financial blog, commented that the situation seemed to suggest that this apparent "state of emergency" was making profits at the expense of US consumers, because the US oil shortage had not really been alleviated. On the contrary, it is a wedding dress for Europe.
Matt Smith, an oil analyst at commodity data company Kpler, said these were the first exports of SPR crude since November, meaning they were part of the reserves released by Biden, according to Bloomberg.
It is also closely related to Biden's mid-term elections. "I think this mid-term election is probably the most important in modern history," Biden said in March. "
If the problem of high oil prices in the United States remains unalleviated after the release of oil reserves, people will begin to question whether there is still something worth exploring behind Biden's release.
Wall Street has previously mentioned that on Monday, April 18, under greater concerns about supply shortagesInternational oil prices rose for four trading days in a row and fully recovered all the decline since the White House announced the release of the largest strategic oil reserve in US history at the end of March, with some ridiculing the Biden administration for doing nothing.