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Its China. They slashed oil imports massivly. They use their reserves (as a lot of other countries also do) to help asia.

Much of the time, these estimates are just extrapolated. Someone out there must be producing more oil when there's a shortage.

> already ran out of gasoline

A bit of exaggeration there.

Why can't people buy gasoline in Russia?

Ukrainian drones took out the refineries.

And then they ran out of gasoline?

Russia doesn't have foreign currency to buy gasoline. They have to refine their own oil.

Probably because you read it at BBC