Posted on 04/18/2022 8:23:00 AM PDT by GregNH
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Warren Buffett could be a Climate Change World De-populationist.
What could cause Union Pacific to shut down this lucrative commerce?
Union Pacific is blaming staffing shortages for why it can’t move fertilizer.
Strange that a specific cargo is being targeted, instead of perhaps specific locations.
If this even happened.
Yeah, ten days ago I read the last story. Today, another story, again, with absolutely no real answer to the underlying reason. It is left up to speculation that this is planned and deliberate. Why? How is this information available and yet no analysis of the underlying reason? Why throw this out there then?
Stock manipulation?…
Its as if the Deep St@te is paying the fertilizer companies to take a dive.
And they will blame the farmers in order to crush them. That's also part of the playbook.
I don’t think I’ve read a single article about supply chain problems that addresses the underlying issues. All we hear is “labor shortages.”
This story and the other story ten days ago have had zero corroboration that I can find. These seem to be hysterical stories meant to gin up fear...kind of like COVID stories.
Given how important this fertilizer is to our crops and to essentially feeding the world this year...
doesn’t it seem odd that they would NOT be doing everything they can to make sure those shipments get where they need to go? Everything else can wait.
Of course...Slow Joe wouldn’t use emergency powers to shore up American citizens before heading off to World War III.
Heck, with everything on the line food wise this year why doesn’t Union Pacific want to look like a hero and do this themselves? Maybe we should be calling the CEO of Union Pacific instead?
Lance M. Fritz- CEO
Main Number of UP
402-544-5000 or 888-870-8777
https://www.up.com/aboutup/contact/index.htm
I traced this mess back to an article in the Wall Street Journal. Evidently Union Pacific Railroad is having transportation problems, and so is telling its customers to cut back on their rail shipments. Many companies are involved.
CF, a fertilizer company, is one of those companies. They are upset, and rightly so. But it looks like Union Pacific is just trying to sort a bottleneck out. They are not deliberately trying to starve America.
Are there any backup sources to this story?
“...rail carriers were essentially being ordered to drop certain loads...”
Who has the authority to do this?
Why wouldn’t UP just say, “No.” Are they (UP) not a private business contracting with other private businesses?
(Maybe I’m naïve...)
It is not specific to fertilizer shipments. The UP, BNSF, CN & CPRS railroads have all been having issues moving freight around North America.
Sawmills are not getting enough flatcars to load the lumber they are producing. It is causing some sawmills to reduce production. Meaning that several major sawmills in BC have gone to a 3 or 4 day work week.
I just received a car number on a flat car of lumber I purchased from a BC sawmill for the w/o off 3/13/22. It is loading today. Over a month behind schedule. The lumber sat at the sawmill for an extra month. That mill normally gets 15 flatcars/week from the BNSF. They have averaged about 3-4 since last November. All the railroad states is that they do not have crews to move the trains, etc. Force Majour
https://www.up.com/media/releases/index.htm
ESG, hiring women board members just because they're women, LGBTQ+, Ukraine
They’s woke
https://www.up.com/media/releases/humanresources/index.htm
https://www.up.com/media/releases/environment/index.htm
https://www.up.com/media/releases/community/index.htm
https://up.jobs/search-jobs.html
Correct.
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