Rising unemployment, massive inflation, “stagflation” and now gas lines… Looks like that recent meeting with Jimmy Carter was about recreating the 1970s.
The White House responds to fuel shortages appearing in the mid-Atlantic and southeast:
“The President continues to be regularly briefed on the Colonial Pipeline incident. The Administration is continually assessing the impact of this ongoing incident on fuel supply for the East Coast.
We are monitoring supply shortages in parts of the Southeast and are evaluating every action the Administration can take to mitigate the impact as much as possible. The President has directed agencies across the Federal Government to bring their resources to bear to help alleviate shortages where they may occur.” (read more)
The statement from the White House is a little obtuse, considering the administration has yet to waive the Jones Act to streamline fuel transportation.
To be fair, the current areas running out of gas are more likely a combination of panic purchasing than an actual fuel supply issue. However, as seen in regions where hurricanes lead to panic purchasing, the lack of fuel can be an issue that cascades quickly.
Some Virginia stations run out of gas as pipeline shutdown continues https://t.co/i1ChqMdOGZ
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) May 11, 2021
Gas stations are running out of gas. pic.twitter.com/ywcbEW20Bq
— QueenofHearts (@RosaPilgrim) May 11, 2021
OUT OF GAS – I’ve watched car after car drive through the Circle K on Massachusetts and Mobile Hwy, only to find they’re out of regular gas — only diesel.
Tonight at 4 & 5, we’re looking into this area-wide outage, and what’s behind it. @weartv pic.twitter.com/HlKqKrSHmC
— Olivia Iverson (@OliviaIversonTV) May 10, 2021
Gas lines in N Myrtle Beach, most stations are out of gas. Is this our new America? pic.twitter.com/UOs0luLn22
— Kim S (@KSS141) May 11, 2021
Just finished up my run. The gas station in Camilla has been busy since I got home. Rural Georgia struggles if the cities run out of gas. Hoping more utilities take IT Security seriously (and more schools.) patch windows, update servers, educate about phishing. pic.twitter.com/ehBgrWp0yX
— Vicki Davis (@coolcatteacher) May 10, 2021
My town is completely out of gas 😒🙃#NC #gasshortage #Pipelinehack pic.twitter.com/uxTEXF63Nk
— Dylan Potter (@Dylan_Potter63) May 11, 2021
https://twitter.com/GSuskinWSOC9/status/1391929316242563073
This is in advance of Memorial Day weekend when people will want to travel and vacation
One more way to restrict freedom by making it impossible to move.
Exactly. Cause harm, pain. We say, y’all stay home; no freedom, no liberty. WE took it.
Look for vaccination passport to be required to buy gas?
Sssssshhhhhh
Don’t give them any ideas …
What happened to manual override pipelines and electric substations were working before computers .
It’s more globalist corporate BS, just like wood product shortages. Remember, those corporate goons sleep next door to each of us every night knowing full well what they’re doing to their fellow citizens. The difference between now and when I dealt with Nixon, Ford and Carter and their retards is we can source intelligence independently where back then it was corporate media propaganda controlled by the government. This BS has been going on for generations, it’s simply more exposed now.
The gas shortages in the 70’s were largely why I bought diesel vehicles when I started the business, that and diesel at the time was cheaper because they hadn’t soaked it with road taxes yet. I remember standing in line with a five gallon gas can when only a year before one could swim in gas for 27 cents a gallon. Evil.
I agree that ‘panic buying’ is a factor but would proffer that it’s a new and different type of ‘panic.’
Half of the country is well aware of the sinister goals of the leftists, and where there was once faith in the our institutions, now there is little or none.
I hope I am wrong, but I believe the the gas shortage is not the result of a hacker hidden away in some faraway no-name country, but a domestically-created crisis.
Maybe in a few weeks all is back to normal and this comment will make me seem a whacko conspiracy theorist. However, this morning, I see the gas shortage as just just another of a continuing series of body blows to our society…intentionally wrought by leftist regime to create chaos.
Afraid I have to agree with you.
The Bidenistas are relentless when it comes to destroying our country.
Afraid you are right, my friend. The hacking MAY have occurred, but WHO did the hacking? THAT is the million dollar question. Very interesting to note this happening just after this Administration has shut down (or trying to) other pipelines. I don’t believe much is coincidental nowadays with regards to the leftist trying to tank the economy AND the middle class. This is just to consolidate power, increase our dependence on Govt. assistance, AND now this.
Expect another push for renewables in 3-2-1.
When we lived in Indiana in the early 60’s, a farmer was growing corn across the street. Federal government came out and literally measured his crop. They determined he had too many rows planted and made him plow some under.
“The world is a stage
And all the men and women merely players…”
William Shakespeare
Sorry, I didn’t mean to flag it.
Same with tobacco. A farmer had an acreage allotment. My father would measure the fields and tell the farmers that they had to plow under the excess. He took the job because the government people would just rope off a section and say, “plow it.” My dad would tell the farmer how much was needed and let the farmer pick less productive blocks to meet his quota.
Then they went to poundage allotments. You could raise as much as you wanted but you were limited in the number of pounds you could sell. Extra pounds could be sold next year but it would lose a bit of quality.
Then the program was eliminated. Now, farmers contract directly with tobacco companies and grow the tobacco they need. The government is not even involved. It has eliminated the small tobacco farmer that could raise a few acres and sell it at the tobacco market and kept from going broke by the restrictions of how much could be raised or sold. Now it is corporations selling to corporations.
My Grandmother, born in 1914, told of how during the great depression, government agents would pull in on trains with cars loaded with cattle. Drive the cattle off into ditches they had dug then shoot and kill them all. They would then use bulldozers to cover the ditch full of dead cattle with dirt and station armed guards all around to prevent anyone from getting to them. This happened as citizens, including children, starved to death. This was done to drive up the price of beef.
This story is true, if anyone doubts it. There are plenty of accounts of it happening on record. It is why my Grandmother, and Grandfather, both of whom should have been solid Southern Democrats being the poor farmers they were, hated Democrats with a burning passion. She transferred that to me, and it’s why I have always been a Republican.
Lesson here, the US Government will do horrible things and don’t care how much the citizens suffer, so don’t put it past them to have caused this “gas shortage”.
A relative of mine, born in the early 1920’s, witnessed a dismal scene of how people who had starved to death were removed from their land piled in wagons. This happened in rural Arkansas during the 1930’s.
It is appalling to think that this could happen in America.
And in this case, “a tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing.”
Yep, we had ‘Lady Bird Land’, named after LBJ’s wife, for cotton. Don’t plant or plow it under, .gov controlled the cotton crop tightly.
Not convinced any hacking occurred. The lying FBI would run cover for the lying Biden admin and the fact that people are getting ticked off about rising gas prices.
Gibbs Rule #39.
(for those out of the know……”there is no such thing as a coincidence”.)
This was intentional. The evidence of election fraud that we all know happened is getting out more and more each day. The gas thing is a desperation attempt to distract us and keep us from seeing the proof that the election was stolen. They are frantic and in a panic.
Of to prevent patriots from taking action.
Heh, patriots run on diesel, just like tanks, and rural America abounds with large caches of fuel because, well, it takes a lot of dead dinos to produce the food America and the world consumes. It can be repurposed at any time. Then there’s captured stores once operations begin.
However, contrived ‘shortages’ are a useful distraction for the masses. That has value. It’s also instructive. Use it.
Well, I use to say that an assertion like yours is a possibility just to be on the safe side of viewing things. But now I certainly believe your premise is out of the “possible” and far into the “probable” range!
Who knows what these people are capable of and more than willing to do to cement their control of the American People.
Exactly!
DESIGNED. NO way not an offsite back-up, parallel system, dual operations. They think we are so dumb.
There is never going to be a “back to normal” as long as Democrats and Liberals have a strong foothold…or should I say a heavy boot across the throat…in this Country
There are no coincidences in politics….and EVERYTHING is political these days.
Yes, yes……….because we only need to wear masks for a few weeks to ‘flatten the curve’. (/sarc)
I’d like to flatten their curves with a patriotic ANVIL!
We can impeach a drooling figurehead, who’s not included in the planning.
That’ll fix it.
My family really isn’t driving much these days…but the “unintended” (or maybe intended) consequences are all the delivery vehicles, delivering goods we’ve ordered on-line…truckers getting food to our grocery store…first responders..doctors and nurses…landscapers…builders…
So! Good job stopping the Keystone Pipeline and reversing PJDT’s ban on allowing the Chinese access to our grid…
Keep an eye on Maricopa, AZ; Antrim county, MI; and Windham, NH.
They stole an election so is this just more of those same twisted felons doing their dirty deeds? You can bet it is.
President Trump filled up the Strategic Reserve when gas prices were low. Wonder what excuse JoeBama will use not to access it…
Trump had the SPR filled, which only has crude oil. There is a Northteast Strategic reserve with gasoline and now would probably be a good time to use it.
That is correct. Steady yourself as another “event” is on deck every day to rattle our sense of calm and security.
Sundance wrote about this yesterday saying it was all planned by the occupant of the White House. You must have missed that part.
Government sabotage. Another crisis they will blame on the Russians. Every diversion helps the cause. Remember they control the media content (propaganda).
Looks like more domestic terrorism by the FBI/CIA as the war on oil (war on America) races forward
It is a happy marriage for them because there is a not-small number of people in our Government who desperately want a war with Russia.
I think those folks will take a war anywhere with anyone as long as the profits and graft roll in.
The fake fuel shortage is part of the war on FL, TX and any other state that pushes back. Just a new version of lock-down and giving us all a glimpse of their aims related to the New Green Deal.
ALL by damn design. DESTROY America, DESTROY those that don’t support Left.
Stop being asleep, wake up, speak up, BE active. Don’t be passive & weak. SEE where we are going America.
THIS was planned. Electric cars, future. Drive gas prices up.
Fauci, CDC, NIH, masks, vaccinations, Old, aged, weak but NOW 12YO’s. BE PARENTS! DON’T vaccinate your kids. Puberty-aged; have NO CLUE HOW it will affect . DO NOT CONFORM.
See where America going, 4 months!
DO NOT GIVE IN TO THE MADNESS!!! Do not conform is right!! Stay close to God and pray for wisdom. Do what you can with what you have—we are Americans and we will survive!!It’s in our hearts. It’s in our blood. It’s in our Constitution. It’s why we salute our Flag. Remember WHO we are!
And Whitmer wants to shut down a gas pipeline running thru michigan into canada! This is a feature not a bug of the Biden* administration plans. IMO.
Why are the people in MI putting up with that broad?
The Deplorables in Michigan have just rolled over and died. What a shame. They get what they deserve.
I caution targeting fellow conservatives in Michigan for what is happening there. Every state has it’s issues and we cannot all be held to account for what is out of our control. Just because we are a minority in the state we choose to live, doesn’t make us culpable. And this is just what the left wants. Not only tearing families and communities apart, but also conservatives as a group. You want to critisize their governor, go for it. But not the good folks who voted for the better candidate. I’ve seen video of Michigan Deplorables attempting to participate in election integrity, and been denied access. I’ve seen lawsuits thrown out by what I believe are corrupt judges. The Antrim County lawsuit may well be next. Good people in Michigan are trying. So I don’t think it’s accurate to say they all have rolled over and died.
Herr Whitmer is a rising star in the Democrat cosmos. There are pictures of her posing with the state Dominion rep…
Wish they would throw this #%%*^ in Lake Michigan with a pair of new shoes
People drive to N Myrtle Beach from NC to fill-up. Just a few miles across the state line. SC gas tax is lots lower than NC. Same with GA. Higher gas taxes than SC, although SC is slowly catching up. Republican party voted for increase in gas taxes for SC.
Not unusual.. I lived in Rockland County NY.. near a state line.. everyone drove a few miles to NJ as gas was/is lower.
We’ve got a knack for producing RINOs, and we’re not sending them exclusively to the Fed… I’m still furious with so-called “Republican” Sandy Senn for voting against the heartbeat bill… the Democrat rep abstained from voting at all, which is better than I’d expect from a Democrat.
Deja Vu all over again.
Biden has backed us up 50 years, in less than 4 months.
I’d like to blame those, who voted for him, but half of them don’t exist.
The other half, just want company being miserable
Those eighty million deserve an explanation. I recommend they drag out the crystal sets and don the earphones for a comforting, fireside chat straight from the Chief.
I filled up my car at Kroger yesterday paying $2.89 a gallon, then went to Quick Trip which is the only place in town I know of that pumps ethanol-free for my lawn tractor. They were out of everything. Ethanol-free sells for 60 cents more than regular.
I am 25 miles east of Atlanta GA.
I fear that they are destroying all oil and natural gas industries so the globalists can buy up the mineral rights as the companies go bankrupt. This is similar to what they did to the single-family farms in California’s Central Valley, the most productive farmland on earth, by creating an artificial drought to save the smelt in the Delta, an invasive species.
Just this month I learned that Bill Gates is the single largest cropland owner.
(Picture of Suspicious Cat here)
Great hypothesis. I fear you’re right
Disaster capitalism is their specialty, misery profiteering. Nowadays, they create their own disasters to speed up the process.
Since I’m a rural CenCal native, I serviced the ag industry for decades with my business and saw a lot. One thing to rest easy about is bug eye Bill being anywhere close to the largest single cropland owner. He’s nowhere near that level. He is wealthy and it’ll be interesting to see how the divorce with Melinda impacts things. Interesting trivia, much of the ag land in my historical ‘burg has mineral rights assigned to, yep, oil and gas companies. Doesn’t matter if there’s crops or houses on it. Mineral rights, largely, belong to someone else.
There are still ponies running a few miles from where I lived for decades, out in the middle of crop land. We used to paint the oil pumping units to look like horses or mules hence the pony name, as they bob up and down. My first adult job was working in the oil fields in the foothills in the 70’s. Chevron, Shell, Union 76.
My questions for the stupid leftist voter that watches all the fake propaganda news media when is it enough for you at what point do you start looking at your family situation and say no Mas?
you over estimate their capacity to connect cause and effect. Schools have spent at least a couple generations seeing to that.
I don’t hold out hope for the frogs that sit in the water while it slowly is brought to boil.
Here is how the leftist son-in-law reacts.
Father-in-law, “The gas prices sure went up.” Son-in-law, “No they didn’t they are the same as 2019.”
Father-in-law, “Whitmere is talking about closing the pipe line. That will cause a 45% decrease in gas available.” Son-in-law, “No it won’t. That is just a conspiracy theory. Everything is much better now.”
So I am wondering what color the sky is in his world, and how in the heck did a person who appears to have normal intelligence get so brain washed????
I’m wondering why you bother talking to him at all.
They don’t. My only wish is that when we turn into Venezuela I get to see Democrat voters suffer before I’m too weak with hunger to appreciate it.
Just when people are moving away from the big cities, a “crisis” hits to force them back in?
Gas shortage means difficulty transporting goods of all kinds
… like food!
Not good with a just-in-time food delivery network.
And another hit to small restaurants that are trying to do delivery of their food to survive…
The US under Trump became the world’s largest oil producer again, after generations.
The US under Biden has gasoline lines again, within months.
Think I’m going to add to my repertoire of sticky note phrases that I leave at the gas pumps “miss Trump yet?”
Keystone Pipeline closure.
Yea. It’s all about environmental impact and climate change.
Every day with Progressive/Dems/Repubs in charge is an exercise in legerdemain.
When do we the people arrest, try, and execute Buffet and Soros? They are criminals.
Unfortunately, NEVER!
Any time we choose.
But we’re still consenting to be governed.
Dear More, That ship has sailed. We are not being “governed,” we are being ruled.
If I’m not mistaken, Bill Gates is also a large shareholder (~10%) of Canadian National Rail which runs freight trains into the US.
The White House is “monitoring” it. They are not actually “doing” anything about it, mind you.
The Carter years are gonna look like a picnic by the time China Joe is done with this country.
Kinda’ like Kamala “Monitoring” the border…
I read the xiden admin is going to bring I tanker trucks. Yea sure. Another democrat lie. Do they have any idea how many tanker trucks it takes to supply 2.5 million barrels a day? Answer? All of them – running 24/7. And that won’t be enough.
Do They really think we are as dumb as they are? Probably – that’s what dumb people do.
The problem is they are so dumb they don’t know they are dumb. They think they are geniuses.
They’re not dumb…they’re following the plan.
You see Marxists are running the show. We are NOTHING to them. They have theirs, they will never suffer financially.
Covid, one party rule due to election theft, gas shortages, toilet paper shortages, small business decimation, whole life plan to kill off old people, race war , Maoist surveillance, chaos in the streets, releasing criminals, mass shootings every day to take away 2nd amendment rights– all happening right before our eyes and they will not stop. It’s not Biden, he will be gone soon when chaos reaches maximum level. Even Harris will be just a puppet.
Two observations: 1. WHO is/are the puppet masters.
2. (And this may sound naive,). We are Americans. We have a make up that is different from Asians, Europeans, We are not a people that has been oppressed and suppressed for centuries. Our country was founded by people fleeing suppression and oppression. Founded, supposedly, by 13% of the people who were here.
A document, clearly stating that our rights are NOT rights granted to us by governments or monarchs. And so governments and monarchs have no “standing” in taking any of those rights away. That document’s sole purpose was and is to protect us from the people who want to take those rights away.
An epic battle is being waged. Don’t poke the bear…don’t awaken the sleeping giant.
I think America is the pivot point. Bring down America, and you bring down the world, and the world knows that.
Sorry for the rant!
No apology needed, IMHO. One of the reasons I come to the treehouse is to rant vicariously.
The apology is for reality. “Consent of the governed…”. I think we are no longer governed, we are ruled.
Go to Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, or, Google, and, look at the move the oil market made on no geopolitical events the day before the rigged election — unless they have gone back and rigged the charts. I checked weeks ago. Check West Texas Intermediate (WTI). It jumped for no reason. That is unless the cat got out of the bag as to the election outcome. They laid their money down when it was low. Remember futures are highly leveraged bets.
There’s your answer.
You mean to tell me they don’t have manual override. Just asking.
And on a local note, one gas station in my little home town was unable to get delivery 2 weeks ago. Today the panic has set in — as well as the price increases — only 2 stations left with fuel as of this morning as the lines formed.
Here in West – Wake County NC our esteemed governor has declared a State of Emergency.. Long lines for gas, most stations out of high grade, regular only.. up about 40 cents per gallon “so far”..
Circa 1974, had my first child.. would leave him with my Mother so I could leave to get gas.. I would tell her “bottles in the fridge, don’t know when I’ll be back” — Good Times! s/
Gotta love Cooper! (SUPER SARC!)
I would love to slap Roy Cooper up side the head.
Moonstruck (7/11) Movie CLIP – Snap Out of It (1987) HD – Bing video
Him and the idiots who vote for him!!!!!!!!
Filled up with High Grade in High Point, NC picking my daughter up from school, 3.69 per gallon. Got home in Virginia Beach and filled up again, 3.03. NC gas prices and gas taxes are extremely high!
Yes they are! And a damn shame they don’t go towards maintaining and fixing the roads as they were suppose to do.
NC here as well. 14 in 1974. My mother used to leave me in the line at the pump. I would pull up and get the $5 ration. Sometimes I would drive around the block back to the house.
Up next gasoline only for those that have been vaccinated!
???
In the past, I would have said; “No way!”, but now ????
automated machines – no excuses
Another ace in the hole for Florida. Down here we get most of our gas directly from the refineries in Texas via tanker ships. They arrive daily at the Tampa tank farm facility.
When I first moved to Florida, I rented near Port Everglades. I could smell when a tanker was unloaded. Air so full of hydrocarbons, the tug diesels ran rich.
No issues in Florida…..
https://www.mysuncoast.com/2021/05/10/pipeline-attack-should-not-affect-florida-gas-supply/
Poverty & tyranny.
Or
Prosperity & liberty.
What’s so difficult?
LOL! The fib is probably looking for hackers in Canada. Up there they are laughing and saying: “hey Joe! No pipelines? No gas fo yu! “
Just giving a birds eye view of the Green New Deal.
Its what a lot of them voted for.
Enjoy.
This will get fixed as quickly as possible. Millions of blue state residents are heading to the southern beaches for vacation. Including me.
Says it all!
That last statement should be a bumper sticker.
(straightens tin foil hat)
This is just the next manufactured crisis in what will eventually be a long string of crises justifying the socialist takeover of the United States.
The majority of people are done with the COVID fear. We live full time in our RV, and have been in FL, GA, SC, and NC since January, and more than 50% of the people we’ve encountered are maskless. We routinely walk in to businesses that have mask requirement signs everywhere sans mask, and most of the time we aren’t given a difficult time. The NWO has run the plandemic dry (at least until the mass vaccine related deaths begin), so they need another crisis that will cause the population to suffer enough to beg the government to save them.
Then you have states like Florida who are cutting off the endless unemployment and requiring their populace to return to work. This will harm the argument for the humanitarian need for a universal basic income, so the population cannot be allowed to go back to work. If you can’t get gas, you can’t drive to work.
And from what I’ve read, once they start shutting down refineries because they don’t have anywhere to put the product, it will take WEEKS to get them back up and running.
I’m a bit nervous because we are supposed to leave western NC on Friday for Williamsburg, VA. We have enough gas in our almost 6 mpg motor home to get there, but I don’t know if we’ll have enough to move on from there. And if the situation is as dire as it appears with no gas available, our motor home’s 80 gallon gas tank will be a target for theft if we overnight in a Walmart as we originally planned. I think I’ll look for a campground somewhere along the way instead… better to spend a few bucks for relative safety, instead of becoming a convenient target.
We’re in same boat. Here in about two weeks we’ll be headed out to go on vacation to Charleston because tax season has been a PITA.
With Zero in office I used to wonder when or if someone would steal the gas from my car. When President Trump was elected and his policies about fuel took over I never felt that concern again until now. And I didn’t hear anyone else talk about it either.
I am reminded of the tiny Obama and P Trump in the WH together meme……………..can’t find it ! Plenty of the reverse meme’s ………………..
carter passes the baton
An excerpt of the article on Fox News. Notice the part I made bold.
“Nonetheless, the attack underscored the vulnerabilities of the nation’s energy sector and other critical industries whose infrastructure is largely privately owned.”
Government takeover of private industry infrastructure in 3…2….1…..
Certainly possible.
Intentional! Our pain is their pleasure.
Biden and Obama Make Carter Look Smarter!
First a helpful note for travelers… Check this website (there is also an app) for available fuel and prices: https://tracker.gasbuddy.com/
My first reaction to the news (and Biden’s little speech) was white hot anger, then a realization this is all a part of the globalists’ plans.
Second reaction after sleeping on it: These people are stupid! Biden is becoming more unpopular by the day – good job Xiden Admin! They are not going to win. But, I do expect more and more “emergencies” to hit us because we refuse to comply. They will continue to turn up the heat. Be prepared and Keep the Faith!!
Are you all forgetting the Trans-Siberian pipeline fiasco in 1982? Was it a myth that the CIA and others were involved? It really doesn’t matter, what does matter is the fact that if a country tries to take control over it’s own energy or profit from it, really bad things will happen.
The world is a stage and nothing happens by accident!
Interesting post yesterday from President Trump… I find it inspiring. Sure showing confidence.
Donald J Trump
@realdonaldtrump
1d·
Happy Mother’s Day to all. It will all come back BIGGER and BETTER and STRONGER than ever before. Do not worry!
Still our great President. Strength. Optimism. Reassurance.
Just stopped at my neighborhood gas station. Nothing unusual. I asked the clerk if he was aware of any problems and he had no idea what I was talking about. Upstate NY.
Give it some time.
NC east coast run on gas started last night.
Hang in to your seats ladies and gentlemen. Get ready for this bumpy ride ahead of us.
Seems like an attempt to collapse our government. Biden has been marched out three times in as many weeks to read his script trying to tell everyone that all is well. Things are very unstable right now. Feels like a test, like when China forced down our spy plane in early 2001 after Bush was inaugurated.
Biden’s puppet-masters are looking at skyrocketing inflation, gas lines, bizarre shortages of random products on shelves, shrink-flation, and the prospect of a collapse of the entire home-building sector with lumber trading at the price of gold these days. Summer vacation will put off to the Fall the fact that tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of illiterate, Spanish-speaking children will be flooding our public schools. So they’ve got a current nightmare on the border that everyone can see combined with the looming prospect of parents evacuating the public schools in even higher numbers than they did this year just out of safety for their children.
So, countries like China, Iran, and Russia team up to throw some geo-political crises at us to see if they can topple the government.
Trump is rightly saying that the election fraud demonstrates that he should be reinstalled as President. It’s not going to take a lot of “bad news” (for Biden) out of Michigan and Arizona to push people over the edge. Thrown in the intentional dragging-out of the COVID nondemic and there’s nobody in the White House who is up to this.
Anyway, if I wanted to stress test America’s newly-installed, anti-democratic, government, I would hit pressure points like this too.
From a comment over at Zerohedge.com
” Stick w/me on this post – Recently read about shortages of containers to move imports. Then read about erratic weather resulting in failed potato/seed potato crops. Read about drought in western states impacting produce – same drought in No Dakota resulting in failed winter wheat crop and freeze damage/drought challenging summer ccx wheat. Read about late planting soybeans, corn and cattlemen downsizing beef herds, dairy farmers dumping milk b/c supply chain backed up. Then Bloomberg put out a series of articles claiming China, Brazil, Argentina and US will likely face massive grain inflation and facing choice of feeding livestock or culling.
Then the target articles started to appear pushing lab grown meat, Nestles 6 month development of milk formulated from peas and the light bulb went off…
We’re facing food shortages and can no longer justify feeding animals. We can grow lab meat so why keep animals.
PROBLEM, REACTION SOLUTION
Create shortages, convince the people to abandon old fashioned farming, only a select few will produce lab created foods. No live animals will be permitted to be raised for food and the people can be completely controlled. Cause supply chain shortages of lumber – home ownership will soon be unattainable and sheeple will live in govt controlled housing.
Close down Keystone, hack Colonial Pipeline (others to follow) gas cars easily phased out, electric cars too expensive for avg folk so they’ll have to move to urban centers.
Far fetched? Follows UN Agenda 2030 perfectly. “
You’re absolutely correct. It’s at warp speed currently and not a thing standing in its way.
Except maybe AZ, MI and NH.
From your lips to Gods ears. MI judge is waiting a week to see how much $$$ he can get to close down the audit. He will make his proclamation next Tuesday.
Hack computers, no lab meat or something really nasty….
Also protein synthesis impurities are always a concern, we’ve had commercial scale lab made proteins for about 60 years.
First “food” use as junk food, that yucky center “nuggat” in some candy bars.
I require old fashioned meat
Has any Republican torn into Bite-me about this yet? Thought not.
Time for another noose hoax so Joe can tell us how awful we are.
Well the Russia narrative is confirmed fake – they just trotted out Gen Jack Keane to push the Russia story.
Allowing election fraud has consequences.
covid panic porn has lost it s power, time for something new
The question of paying the gasoline ransom or not comes down to a few factors.
1/ Did management accept the risk of this type of an attack? Is there risk of company failure if recovery takes too long?
2/ Are the systems backed up, or just the data? Ie, did IT have a plan to recover the network? Is data loss during recovery acceptable?
3/ Does the IT team have the skill, or can they obtain resources with the skills, to rebuild their network if the company decides not to pay?
4/ How long will it take to obtain skills and equipment needed to rebuild the network, and how long to actually recover?
5/ What is the cost in terms of expenses and permanently lost revenue to rebuild?
6/ How do the rebuild costs compare to the ransom?
While paying ransom always seems like the bad choice, if a company’s cyber security program is weak, the company should probably go ahead and pay…. and learn an expensive lesson the hard way.
Of course, companies who decide to pay should always anticipate that, after paying, the hacker may not keep his end of the bargain. They are criminals after all.
Companies have had since around 2014 when we destroyed the Iranian centrifuge facility and when Sony’s network was destroyed, to prepare for this risk. Since then, the risk has only grown.
Like all risks, this one needs to managed. It should be obvious that unmanaged risks will eventually be experienced, to the detriment of company owners.
Rebuilding a network is much harder than one might think and in extreme cases can be almost impossible. This attack should motivate everyone to dust off and update their contingency plans. And take note: If a company does not have a contingency plan, implementing one that works can take years.
Malaise.
When the government shuts down and it will the first things to shutter will be war memorials and our parks.
This is a planned exercise with more to come and after the American celebration of our last Fourth of July just wait and see what Osama has in store for us this year.
So what is actually causing the shortage ?
Have select pipelines been quietly shut down ?
Have refineries quietly shut down or reduced output ?
Have transporters been quietly directed to limit their cargo ?
Have the domestic producers quietly cut production ?
Have foreign suppliers slowed production or delivery to the US ?
It has to be one, or a combination of, the above.
Anyone have inside info ?
Has Cooper (NC) really said he will not allow tanker trucks into North Carolina? Anyone know if that’s true?
If you’re an American in Iran, I’d get the hell out now.
North Charleston, SC – we were on our way home two days ago; lines at the gas station reaching out to the main highway (Dorchester Rd, for the locals.)