Posted on 05/20/2022 5:22:30 AM PDT by blam
They said the same BS about the economy when Obama was president, that this was the “new normal”.
But all it took was Trump and his policies to fix everything.
Beat me to it, you are 100% correct
Modern Americans suffer from extreme normalcy bias. Do people not understand that the last 75 year is an extreme aberration? Supply chains have been fickle throughout human history, that’s the norm, not that exception. Being poor and fat is mostly a modern American phenomenon, people mostly chase food, that’s always been the norm. Vic’s have always been impressive by nature, but where we are shocked by the Dems, et al wanting to impose their will on us. Bowing down to the nerds (lib beta males) and other weakest among us (lgbt, ghetto clowns, etc) and ceding control of the national narrative to them, yep.. also a modern American phenomenon.
My point in all this is life has history been hard, violent and short throughout our entire history. Now that modern America is in a state of collapse, we’re all shocked! What the hell did everyone think was going to happen?
There’s a lot of BS in this one.
For example,
> Environmental concerns and regulations that have prevented exploration and production and killed pipeline projects are largely the reason that the world currently lacks sufficient energy resources to buffer against the consequences of the Russia-Ukraine war.
Keystone was killed and the oil is still moving via rail. Not coincidentally, rail largely owned by Warren Buffet/Berkshire Hathaway, a huge Dem contributor.
Underlying many of the arguments is belief in CACC, catastrophic anthropogenic climate change. This would be a belief I do not hold.
Damn typos, what would it take to get an edit button around this place!
What a crap article. It says almost nothing, and most of what it does say is pablum.
Meanwhile, still no word on the status of the Ports America sale to the Canadian catspaw for the ChiComs...
The world recovered from WWII in 10 years. But that was then, this is now
Supply Chain Congestion Set To Worsen As Container Rates Rebound On Easing China Lockdowns
When you have a piss poor education system that doesn't teach that Liberty is a very rare and precious thing you get a bunch of dumb skulls full of mush that are going to be very surprised when they can't Tweet, watch the latest updates of Depp vs. Heard or better yet obtain food.
A supply chain management process built on precision is delusional.
As our supply chains have become increasingly refined over time, they have also become increasingly brittle. This means that even a small failure or disruption can have catastrophic consequences.
As I once told a client of mine who was trying to develop technology to improve the efficiency of one particular link in the U.S. transportation system ... "You are over-thinking this and chasing a ghost if you think you can do this well. Refining your asset to such a high degree of precision is like measuring a warehouse operation to the tenth of a second while it is being supplied by sailing ships that measure time using a calendar and an hourglass."
Right now the world has a population of 8 billion people. Many are in poverty stricken countries and on the edge of malnourishent at the best of time. Food production decisions made now are going chart the course of what happen over the next 12 months. Back when people produced their own food, it used to be food production decisions were considered the life and death decisions that they actually are. In today’s world of agribiz where less than 1% of the population is involved in food production, food production is a simple business decision made by a hand full of people. Decisions being made now by those decision makers are going to have consequences in the next 12 months or so. We are looking at the potential for a world wide crisis and our leaders are doing the exact opposite of needs to be done to deal with the situation.
The maritime college in Maine has a major: International Business and Logistics. A three month COOP is required between the junior and senior year. In the past few years all of the graduates of this program have had multiple job offers in the supply chain arena.
That is not the whole story.
The costs to build the pipeline have to be paid. Once these costs are recaptured, then moving the oil by pipeline is much lower than by rail.
I believe that Keystone costs (when it was cancelled) were over $10B. So it could have been over 10 years or more before shipping costs would go down.
Ping
Besides the scarcity of fuel, there is the CAlifornication of the left coast. With punishing regulations on what big rigs can enter the state to unload shipping containers, one would think that container ships would prefer to unload in OR or WA. Maybe they are ... I just haven’t seen any news to that effect. Getting CA to moderate their trucking restrictions would be a big help.
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