Posted on 05/20/2022 5:22:30 AM PDT by blam
“.our leaders are doing the exact opposite of needs to be done to deal with the situation. “
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Regarding food production, what should be done?
I know very little about this problem and would appreciate you input.
They would if they could. Economies of scale, manufacturing costs, and intellectual property rights often dictate otherwise.
Companies will be forced to shed a lot of their delusions about Just-In-Time (JIT) supply chains and revert, at least partially, back to Just-In-Case stockage policies. They'll carry more weeks of supply of products in warehouses.
How many weeks of supply? Depends on how long it will take to buy or manufacture replacements for their customers versus how much those customers are willing to pay for the additional storage fees and cost-to-hold of the extra inventory.
Manufacturers that are highly dependent on computer chips will likely risk carrying two years of additional inventories, knowing that technology changes quickly and those chips could become close to worthless if superseded.
One big advantage to shipping crude oil by rail is that it is more flexible and can respond more easily to changes in supply and demand on a geographic basis. A pipeline from western Canada to the Midwest will move oil from its source to its destination — and that’s it. A railroad that transports oil from western Canada to the Midwest today can change its operation to send it to eastern Canada or the Northeast next week. It would take decades for a pipeline network to be updated to respond to that kind of change.
Exactly. This is near and dear to my professional heart.
It costs less to transport a shipping container thousands of miles from Asia to a port on the East Coast of the U.S. than it does to truck that same container a couple of hundred miles within the U.S.
Rail transport of oil is also more likely to cause an environmentally adverse event. Derailings are much more common than pipeline leaks.
BTTT.
I know that!
The manufactured crisis of a supply chain problem is just another cudgel the Liberals will use to beat us over the head with
Bingo
Supply Chain = Things From China
We are seeing the results of three major mistakes. First, in pursuit of ever cheaper labor we outsourced the manufacture of everything from electronics to pharmaceuticals to China, a communist police state bent on world domination. Second, we gave up our energy independence to again seek imported oil from OPEC transported by vulnerable shipping. Third, we are willingly crippling our economy in the name of phony climate change hysteria that we now are finding has been funded in part by Russia.
Trump succeeded in restoring our energy independence, sadly to have it thrown away by Biden. However, given the will energy independence could be restored. We are starting to realize we cannot depend on China for any strategic manufactured goods and we should push for making more of these products here or at least in more reliable countries. Lastly, the Green New Deal is already being shown to be a pie in the sky fantasy. The folly of green energy will be painfully learned when we soon see major blackouts as a result of reliance on undependable windmills and solar farms.
If the election wasn’t stolen none of this would be...
No as long as Fauci and his ilk continue to breathe..
I remember once as a child, my mom made 'hogs-head-cheese'.
I finally discovered Epigenetics to explain how I inherited their 'depression' mind-set W/O it being in my DNA. I've been a saver/prepper my whole life.
All I know is an entire generation grew up on low interest rates. They seemed to go on forever and I think many assumed low rate environments were here to stay.
But with inflation so high lenders are not going to be as willing to accept low rates.
“I’ve been a saver/prepper my whole life.”
That’s what I like about you. :)
I, too, was blessed to be raised by TWO sets of Depression-Era Grandparents. All I have to do is remember one (or more; they were endless) of their stories about those days and I realize how little you can have, and still live a happy life.
As an American, I have WAY too much stuff - and don’t even get me started on all of Beau’s ‘treasures’ stashed around here. *Rolleyes*
I was already planning for a, ‘One Cup, One Bowl, One Spoon’ kind of life; Brandon is just speeding up the process for us all. *SNORT*
Shorten the chain and make more stuff in the western half of the world.
It was a magic wand.
Bronco did not have it.
I can’t believe that people FORGOT how bad the country was under Obama, how in the hell can people forget that mess, the division, the cost of EVERYTHING in just 4 years people were upset over damn tweets they FORGOT how bad things were in the country!! What the hell is wrong with people?
I think it’s because democrats coast on all the great things the Republican in office before them did for the first few years, and then as they start to break everything they leave and hand it over to the Republican to fix. And it takes a while to fix all the messes, but in peoples minds they often think fondly of the years under democrats and that the years under republicans were bad.
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