The worst shortage you haven't heard of

American Thinker ^ | 4 Jun, 2022 | John Klar

[MtnClimber]

Should China occupy Taiwan, it would control a majority of the world's microchip manufacturing production. But China needn't invade Taiwan to bring America to its knees — simply reducing urea and other existing Chinese exports is already wreaking havoc. Agricultural fertilizer prices have nearly doubled in the past year, and shrinking supplies of Diesel Exhaust Fluid (DEF) now threaten America's transportation system. The impact of urea supply shortages on food inflation will be compounded by distribution failures if additional DEF resources are not procured immediately.

DEF is an emissions control liquid required by the EPA in diesel engines manufactured after 2010 as an "aftertreatment technology" to reduce vehicle emissions. This additive is required for most modern diesel truck fleets. Without it, many trucks cannot exceed five miles per hour in speed, or even be started. Truckers are now reporting increasing DEF shortages around the nation.

EPA mandates for DEF in diesel engines were not matched by increases in DEF production, and China cut back DEF manufacturing last year, leading to the current threat:

Commercial motor vehicles that move commodities across the US utilize approximately 37.6 million tons of DEF and we are experiencing a global shortage. ... China's increased demand for urea in farming caused it to cut production of DEF fluid. ... [For] about every 200 gallons of diesel used you will use about 1 gallon of DEF. The mandate for DEF began in 2010, so the average age of vehicles on the road utilizing the commodity is growing. The older vehicles are less efficient at burning fuel and therefore require more DEF. More and more vehicles that are lawfully required to use DEF continue to hit the market with no more manufacturing taking place in the DEF supply chain.

[MtnClimber]

Dismantling our country one brick at a time.

[vikingd00d]

>>simply reducing urea and other existing Chinese exports

We IMPORT piss? Seriously?

[moovova]

We’re downstream in the manufacturing line.

[BobL]

Change a couple of parameters in the on-board computers of these vehicles and DEF won’t be required.

Sadly the Ukraine-war supporters (the Biden Administration) won’t allow that either.

[LastDayz]

Surely there’s a work-around for DEF.

[JD_UTDallas]

It’s a federal felony to do so, no more voting, no more guns,no student loans ever.

https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/criminal-provisions-clean-air-act

[Adder]

We made all these products once. Even invented their uses.
But it became too expensive to fight the regulatory and legal hurdles leftards threw at companies that dared to make life better beyond some subsistence level.

At this point there is very little political will to change back to making our own stuff.

We don’t allow ourselves to be “dirty” anymore. Now we are just supplicants begging for products we need.

[Pollard]

We’re end users of most things. A consumer nation, not a producer nation. What do we export? Some food stuff and weapons?

[daniel1212]

All according to plan, part of which increasing shortages leads to increasing dependence upon government, and increasing ideological conformity to find favor with it. Affirmative action, that of hiring and enrollment being based upon race - which itself is racist - is a precursor to requiring support of the increasing New World Order of the Left (which does not see Communism as radical enough and with plutonium Putin as competition and wielding power it lusts for). And with Covid-19 restrictions being a conditioning precursor to more extensive control under the premise of combating Climate Change.

Kind of like "Years of the Beast:" my favorite end times movie (though I believe the rapture is the first resurrection, at the end of the Trib., or the that mark will be an actual 666 number in the hand, as in the image below, but it will signify worship of the Beast, which Acts 12:21-22 is a example of.) . YOTB-1 YOTB-2 "YOTB-6"

56 posted on 9/10/2021, 9:54:47 PM by daniel1212 ( Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save + be baptized + follow Him!)

All of which God allows as a judgment upon increasingly anti-Christ West and passive church, and in order to test man and make manifest who is on the Lord's side, as a testimony for eternity.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Diesel truck owners are a pretty inventive bunch. When it comes down to brass tacks, there will be plenty of canoodlin’ under the hood to bypass this type of system.

[DCBryan1]

Surely there’s a work-around for DEF.

Diesel delete shops......whole blackmarket of them today.

[CIB-173RDABN]

There is nothing China has that we do not have or could get from someone else.

The one advantage China has is that they have managed to buy off our politicians and our media.

China has been at war with the world for a long time but instead of bullets they have used (our) money to destroy us.

Khrushchev said the west would sell them the rope to hang us, China took that as a goal.

[Celtic Conservative]

Urea is a byproduct of pig and cow farming. We could easily make our own.

CC

[Big Red Badger]

Self Inflicted.

[Gen.Blather]

In the sixties my father worked on several fertilizer plants as an electrician. None of them seem to be in production today and I suspect they were put out of business by a combination of the EPA and China rigging prices. In China, making a profit is not part of the equation. Keeping people employed is the need. Employed people don’t riot against the government.

Could we reopen those plants? Physically, yes. Regulation wise, no.

[SaveFerris]

It’s difficult to force a previously free people to accept the Mark of the Beast if you don’t keep them poor, scared, misinformed and deify Globalist politicians.

[Soul of the South]

During the 19th and early 20th century the federal government pursued policies designed to build the US into the world’s greatest self sufficient industrial economy. Thanks to those policies the US had the largest and most innovative economy in the world.

George HW Bush had another vision, a global vision. He and his successors - Clinton, Bush II, and Obama had a vision of spreading the American manufacturing base around the globe and turning the US into service economy. Today the self sufficient industrial base is gone and we are reaping the rewards of dependency. Biden, and politicians of both parties in Congress are continuing the globalist policies despite the rampant global supply chain shortages. No one is talking about policies to restore self sufficiency. Instead we have given up willingly energy independence. Next target is self sufficiency in agriculture. Soon we will be a nation that cannot feed, clothe, or build shelter for its people. We are already a nation that can’t defend itself. Witness the open borders and 21st century technology military equipment dependent on imported semiconductors we once made at home.

DEF shortages are just another manifestation of the consequences of choices our politicians, banks, and corporations have made. Note the decision makers have become very wealthy while the nation as a whole has become poorer. Hence, no course correction as we citizens deal daily with the transition to a third world economy.

[LastDayz]

As I suspected. Similar to tuners for ICE’s.

[Envisioning]

I hope the EPA tards starve first…….

You can do a “delete” on your diesel truck but that is illegal and they have been cracking down on shops that do this. I should have done mine right after the warranty was up.