Posted on 05/09/2022 4:20:33 AM PDT by MtnClimber
America’s disturbing supply chain problems aren’t near to being fixed.
America’s disturbing supply chain problems aren’t near to being fixed. On the news we hear of store shelves not having baby formula. At the center of such breakdowns is trucking. Everything but everything is transported to stores by trucks, semi-trucks. Semi-trucks run on diesel, not petrol (gasoline), and the price of diesel is much higher than the price of petrol. Some truckers are reportedly at the point where they may have to shut down due to the price of diesel. On May 7 at LewRockwell, James Howard Kunstler wrote:
The $6.49 price on a gallon of diesel is enough alone to tell you that the nation can’t do business the way it’s set up to do, and there isn’t a new model for running things ready to launch -- not even Klaus Schwab’s utopia of robots and eunuchs. …
US-inspired sanctions on Russia have quickly blown-up in America’s face. How’s that ban on Russian oil working?
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It is apodictic that the price of diesel is incorporated into the price of everything transported by diesel. And again, everything is transported by diesel. Kunstler’s reference to “U.S. shale oil” is on point, because it is shale oil from fracking that turned the U.S. oil business around in the decade from 2008 to 2018 and enabled America to become energy independent. Without shale oil, America would not have enjoyed her brief moment of energy independence, which Joe Biden destroyed with his monumentally stupid and vindictive energy policies.
But, as Kunstler noted, shale oil doesn’t contain as much of the distillates that can be made into diesel as do other types of crude oil, what the industry calls “conventional oil.”
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If we could swir=tch to all electric vehicles then the supply chan will only get worse.
We have the greatest Secretary of Transportation in the history of the Untied States - Butthead has a plan to fix the Supply Chain!
Sure, only if we are talking about all 'energy'. The United States is not oil-independent, and hasn't been for decades.
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