I suppose I just don’t understand the details of this sort of thing. It probably is truly harder than I think it is.
But I’m thinking of WWII. All of a sudden, we needed ships. Lots and lots of ships. And planes. Lots of planes. And new ships. New planes. Go design those things, and put them into production right away. I’m talking months. Hop to it. We have no time. I mean: No time. Get it done. Oh, and in addition, go invent the atomic bomb. Fast.
Our current crisis is: fertilizer. We need some.
But this may be a problem which is too big for us, and just cannot be solved in a timely manner, and people may starve. Nothing we can do about it.
the Democrat “solution” would be to levy a massive new tax on fertilizer “profit gougers”, haul fertilizer CEOS before Congress to publicly keelhaul them, dip into the fertilizer strategic reserve and hand out more “free” money to everyone to help reduce inflation, and if that didn’t work, then establish price controls on food, and then if that didn’t work to nationalize all aspects of food production, from farming all the way to the retail stores ...
The stupidity of globalism. The manufacture of essential products should not be concentrated in one place.
At those prices, fertilizer is simply not available for most of the world’s farmers. However blame the green lunatics. their assault of the fossil fuel industry has made natural gas, the core ingredient of fertilizer, scarce and exoensive The pajama boy green lunatics are not likely to starve or die in the coming hunger wars. Wish somehow they could be held personally accountable for the coming famines and horrible starvation.
“which could lead to lower crop production at a time when supplies of cereals are already threatened by the war in Ukraine”
Oh, man. Not my Fruit Loops!
I still have a John Deere Tractor ordered in 1943 received in 1944 that starts on small gas tank then switches over to kerosene.