Why do people believe such ridiculous conspiracy theories that are so easily disproven?
Posted on 10/04/2021 3:52:37 AM PDT by Chickensoup
Please Explain. Exactly Why Do We Have a Shipping Crisis?
Then you're aware how easy it is to spot a ship riding above its plimsoll.
How many have you, personally, inspected?
I'm not the one making the ridiculous claim...you are.
If you can't provide even one example of something so obvious, then maybe its time to reexamine your "theory".
FReepers were outraged when discussion took place during the Bush Administration that West Coast USA ports could simply be bypassed. I'm thinking that idea will soon be back on the table - big time.
ever seen what a longshoreman makes?
“If you can’t provide even one example of something so obvious, then maybe its time to reexamine your “theory”.”
I guess when I hear a COHERENT explanation as to why everything is NOW breaking down, when things were just fine 4 months ago after the US thought it recovered from the virus, I’ll side with the crap that our media is spoon-feeding us.
But for now, I will stand by my independent thinking, which takes into account the following:
1. Delta Variant is waning, so people can work again.
2. China is having massive power blackouts
3. China is now sending dozens of military planes daily over Taiwan
4. China is threatening Australia
5. Trying to prevent a panic makes perfect sense for the government/media
6. We didn’t have these ‘bottlenecks’ in the recent past, when the above conditions weren’t the case.
So we will see.
Because nothing is made in America anymore. The result of lowering the protective tarrifs that served our country well for 180 years.
The ships aren’t pulling into ports...they’re parked outside of the ports, if I’m to believe the websites that track ship locations. So the trucks aren’t getting empty containers (something that I never claimed, by the way). The Chinese power blackouts are REAL, as far as I can tell. As to what the workers there tell their relatives here, how would I know, if the media doesn’t tell me?
The question is whether those hundreds of anchored container ships around the world have full containers, or not. We’re led to believe they’re full - I’m not so sure of that.
Because we are not
Our CA suppliers weekly tell us they are short shipping us because an inbound of their raw materials is held up clearing the port.
However the goods are eventually clearing the port so they can produce our materials. It just slowing everything down, it is not stopping it.
The best visual I can give is imagine a kink in a garden hose. The water behind the kink builds up pressure while the water going out the nozzle slows down
That is what is currently going on in the supply chain.
Go to your local Walmart and look around.
Where did all that stuff from China come from if the containers they’re shipping are empty?
“Go to your local Walmart and look around.
Where did all that stuff from China come from if the containers they’re shipping are empty?”
Actually, I just did, and for that reason. Went to both Walmart and Sams, but got a much better look at Sams.
And you are right! The shelves were full. And the quick look at Walmart that I took also didn’t show pictures like we see in the UK.
So a question for you...why all the talk about broken supply chains? I’m not the one spreading those rumors, after all.
What's your point?
How could China “call all of the ships back” when China owns or controls neither the ships nor the cargoes?
Well, union trash are over paid and under worked
they aren’t sitting home because UI pays more
True. What's your point?
It would take a hugh and series dissertation to answer all your questions in the detail you apparently are expecting. Here are some of the short answers. No half of the truckers didn’t die but many of them retired. In the early 2000’s the bucks to BS ratio went negative on truck driving jobs. Many of the foreign drivers cannot pass background checks to drive for national companies, mostly because of regulations insurance companies have dictated to the companies. Many trucks and trailers were scrapped because of tightened safety and environmental emissions standards. Lastly delivering flammable liquids requires highly trained and qualified operator. The truck driver shortage was getting bad before the plandemic happen and continued to get worse as it played out.
Mixed into this mess. Are other factors such as large companies stopped or slowed down massive warehouses full parts and materials and switch to just-in-time deliveries.
Harebrained democrat policies that have caused fuel costs to escalate, cutting profits.
I’m dumb but I did try to read and understand this question. Why is the diesel fuel at my gas station less expensive than the diesel fuel at the truck stop by a good bit. I know one is #2 vs #1 diesel but can big rigs run the cheaper diesel fuel?
Government regulation. To “save the planet” the big trucks must use the #2 fuel aka Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel (ULSD)
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