How long does America have left, realistically speaking?
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Its over for amerifags
>>535891833If it is, you'll starve.
Once gas hits $6, most trucking companies will lose money shipping goods. Therefore it will make more sense not to ship them. That's basically when you have a nationwide supply chain crisis.Also, Trump is unironically selling the national strategic petroleum reserve to keep oil from going above $150/barrel.
>>5358918332 weeks
>>535890880America doesn't refine its own oil FYI
>>535890880Fuck off commie
>>535890880California's energy policies are being vindicated, not discredited.If anything, decades ago when California was successfully pressured to lower/relax their zero-emission vehicle targets by automakers and the oil industry was a strategic mistake on their part.California isn't hostile enough to these parasites.
>>535893222Diesel, not gas, and a retarded take. They pass the fuel cost on via rates and surcharges. So do railroads, each of those locomotives has $20,000 in diesel fuel on board which would normally be $12,000 but the trains are still running. Do you think they just park and let everything depreciate, flatten its tires, and run out its inspection? The only ones that might run less are bulk haulers feeding large stockpiles somewhere. We spent 3 years under Obama 2 with diesel stuck near 6, adjusted for inflation. Your silly scenario did not play out.
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>>535890880You’re brown, gay, drug addicted, STI riddled and dying for Israel while your leaders flaunt raping your kids and your wallet with the young calling for sacrificing the old and the old calling for sacrificing the young as things are.What more do you need before it’s “over” already in your mind?Omae Wa Mou Shindeiru
>>535890880don't forget the agi/robotics situationhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBWXUYsWUsQeven completely omitting gas or oil prices
>>535894081you didnt actually make an argument you just waffled around like an AI
>>535890880>I just filled my tankYou haven't done it since the 20th century.
>>535894087>Do you think they just park and let everything depreciate, flatten its tires, and run out its inspection?Diesel mechanic here. You'd actually be surprised how often this is currently happening, not because of fuel prices, but because of emission regulations. Many trucks are hitting the end of the usable life of their SCR/exhaust aftertreatment catalysts, and that shit is expensive as fuck to fix and causes a lot of problems even when working properly. The result is that companies do literally let trucks sit and stop making money.Why? Because they literally just charge more for their services to make up the gap. Everything is delayed and there are tons of supply chain issues, but everything is more expensive than ever, so trucking/construction companies are making more money despite having fewer trucks on the road.Part of the reason for this is that COVID proved it was possible. You can literally just increase the prices on things arbitrarily, lay off your workers (which earns you a tax break, btw), shrug and say "supply issues", all while making more money than ever. Will the same thing happen because of fuel prices? Hard to say, but I've come across a LOT more dispatchers, logistics workers, and foremen who just don't give a fuck. Their prices will go up so they can make the same money while running fewer trucks, and that cost will all be passed along to the consumer. Same BS that basically went on with the tariffs.
>>535893222>Also, Trump is unironically selling the national strategic petroleum reserve to keep oil from going above $150/barrel.Selling oil when it is high is what the strategic reserve is for. Biden was doing the same thing when oil was high. In an actual military emergency the entire US production and the 450 million bbl in commercial reserve storage, come into play. China can store 120 days of consumption. It takes us 40 days to pump the same amount as they can store. Math not hard.As for $150 oil, there is no momentum for that, but if you want to bet on it I'm sure you can find someone to take your money.
>>535895627>Many trucks are hitting the end of the usable life of their SCR/exhaust aftertreatmentTrump actually passed legislation to ease some of these restrictions because of how hard it affects truckers and farmers. https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/trump-administration-announces-latest-action-address-diesel-exhaust-fluid-def-systemWell, I say "affects", it doesn't really because shipping companies are crooked and farmers are subsidized. This has very little to do with saving costs for the consumer, and is really just the elite class balancing its checkbook a little better. All the money that was gained by forcing these maintenance costs and emissions inspections onto the federal DOT is finally getting eroded by the cost of terminal upkeep in a dying trade (mechanics), so away it goes!
>>535895627I don't doubt you that this is happening with some well depreciated older EPA trucks, as the Obama emissions are shit, and the earlier ones are particularly bad and fuel hungry to boot. A lot of us are also expecting or at least hoping, with whatever mixture of piety and delusion, that the insane and valueless regulations will get rolled back soon. So for that reason too, it makes sense to wait on some of these. But deferred maintenance of any kind is still a demand follower, not a leader. If there are trucks being parked, they are surplus to requirements for some other reason. Driver shortages, lack of traffic, troublesome trucks being sidelined in favor of more reliable leases, are where I would look. There is no particularly large crisis in commercial credit, nor is the industry being strangled by general commerce regulation as it was in the 70s. Just by EPA....
>>535890880>It is le over because gas prices are high!God, imagine when this generation faces an actual crisisIt sucks your gas is high, it is not world ending
>>535893855> oh sweet summer child
>>535890880>How long does America have left, realistically speaking?well considering Ted Cruz can get away with such stupid lies and the republican voter base is so brain rotted NOT LONG
>>535890880about two more weeks
>>535893855Little fingers
>>535893247I am to think you are in a state of delusion? Maybe.
>>535890880Ted did not pay 3.99, zero fuck chance he pumps his own gas let alone pays in cash. He (or someone) paid 4.09. Regardless, imagine bragging about $4gal gas. What a faggot.If he said he was shutting export down oit of Texas, he might get my attention. U til then, he can go back to canada
>>535890880He's not really making a strong case here..$3.99 per gallon is still higher than it was under Biden in Texas.
>>535890880America doesn't exist anymore except in small pockets. If you mean the current comfort level you are experiencing - 3-5 years.
>>535893222This is the stupidest bot I've met. I'm staring at 7.19 a gallon for diesel
>>535893222It’s almost 7 dollars in California
