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Posted on 03/29/2026 4:56:54 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Math ruins some really enchanting ideas. Things like fossil-free energy and open borders, combined with generous social welfare. This week, governments that ignored the basics are seeing serious consequences for fantastical thinking. By the same token, however, properly applied math can dispel doomster thinking.
Pollster Mark Penn presents a “math camp” this week. It’s a refreshing response to offset the hysteria about the economic disruption of Iran’s “global terror network.”
We use 20 million barrels of oil a day. So if oil prices increased during the war to $110 a barrel that is an extra $1 billion a day in costs. So 60 or 90 days of conflict adds about 60 to 90 billion in costs in a 29 trillion dollar economy. About 70 per cent of that is domestically produced so 70 per cent of it stays in the US economy. It just shifts from one sector to the other. In comparison, Trump took in 260 billion in tariff revenues last year and all of the fears of it were overblown as that amounted to only 1 per cent of the economy. The impact here of even a 4 or 6 month conflict (and there’s no indication it will go on that long) are much less than last year’s tariffs. Oil was over $100 for 3.5 years of Obam[a]’s term without daily headlines.
[snip] Imagine for a second how much the world will save in military and human costs once the greatest sponsor of global terror falls or is contained. This is a regime that gunned down thousands of unarmed protesters while diverting all its resources to missiles and nuclear weapons and their aims remain regional domination and beyond.
Net net the math shows that once again the impacts, while absolutely real, are way overblown. The Iranians
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Leftists know nuffins about mafts.
Most of Leftist philosophy ignores math, because math involves strict logic, and present day Leftism depends on illogic and deception.
Numbers don’t lie.
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Clarice is always good. And I’d say this piece is above average.
It’s always about “feelings!” with them, not facts.
One should always keep in mind that when oil prices go up, they go up like a rocket, when they come down, they drift down like a feather. In other words, the oil companies welcome disruptions and take advantage of chaos as it helps their bottom lines. And as always, it’s the consumer that suffers.
It brought back that evil religion with a vengeance. Now Iran, an Islamic regime devoted to making all of mankind Islamic (typical!) is destroying the one thing that made Islam powerful again: Mideast oil profits . The more that oil profits can be transferred out of that infected region the better!
They solved that problem by declaring math “racist.”
Good article. Thanks for posting.
“Leftists know nuffins about mafts.”
You’re right, they do. Math is like spinning speech. Look at basic math and then geometry. Two different answers can be derived for the same problem. So they choose the one they can use to come up with a sellable determination even if it take a whole lot of Jethro’s ciphering.
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