Comments by "Steve Valley" (@stevevalley7835) on "The Regia Marina in WW2 - The Under-appreciated Navy (w. Vincent O'Hara)" video.

@xgford94 seems that they get more power out of an oil fired plant. iirc, that is why Jackie Fisher was so determined that they switch to oil, even though the UK was dependent on oil shipments from abroad. My nightmare scenario has two vectors: Italy develops the technology in the 30s to produce oil in Libya, or, Germany uses the assets freed by the abandonment of the invasion of the UK to overrun Syria and Iraq, with their already producing oil fields and pipeline to the Med. Germany and Italy did facilitate a coup in Iraq that installed a pro-axis leader, and Vichy was allowing Luftwaffe assets to use French air bases in Syria, but Germany burned up it's ground forces invading Russia instead.
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