Biden's cabinet is criminally incompetent.
Supply chain & energy/food/commodity disruptions Megathread [USA]
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Easy_C
Peacock
Beat me to it. That does not look like any part of Georgia I’ve been to.
I bet this place doesn't burn down...
Okay, I did some deeper digging and it appears you are CORRECT and that losing 10,000 cattle to weather has indeed happened before.
So the mass cattle deaths a couple of weeks back in Kansas has other explanations other than sabotage.
But I think we can all agree that the burning of food processing plants in the past 18 months does appear to be sabotage.
For anyone interested, here is a 1996 report detailing cattle losses (all causes) across the USA, 1991-1995:
https://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/nahms/general/downloads/cattle_calves_deathloss_1995.pdf
Easy_C
Peacock
yeah, that one I've thought is weird. Initially the explanation that we were seeing more accidents due to over-capacity schedules and maintenance neglect (pandemic caused) made sense, but the odds against two separate small planes would both crash directly into food planets are....massive. It's extremely rare for them to hit buildings at all because most of the time the pilots are aiming for a road or open space when something malfunctions.
Yea we didn't really have spring this year, it was freezing all spring then just went to instant 90 degree summer.
If only it was incompetence.
Big if true: Diesel shortage along the east coast.
This would absolutely paralyze modern fragile America.
I've posted here about how we couldn't get Shout! brand stain remover for 2 years.... imagine the same shortage and lack of reaction for everything you buy at the store (of course there would be some mobilization to get food distributed but... they have not planned for the fertilizer shortage caused by their anti-Russian hysteria).
If you want to have your mind blown....go to the EIA . Gov website and look at the diesel gas index. You can look at the historical data by region or nationwide.
Diesliel is going up between 5 and 10 cents a week since January. 62 percent increase from Jan to March.
I check this weekly as it's part of my job as a logistics manager for an oil and gas company.
People are not ready for what's coming and we haven't seen the peak with harvest season yet either.
Diesliel is going up between 5 and 10 cents a week since January. 62 percent increase from Jan to March.
I check this weekly as it's part of my job as a logistics manager for an oil and gas company.
People are not ready for what's coming and we haven't seen the peak with harvest season yet either.
The CEO of Pilot Flying J just testified on diesel related shortages and stated that that Union Pacific wants to reduce shipments of diesel exhaust fluid by 50%. DEF is required on all newer diesel trucks in the US. It's sprayed through the exhaust system and turned into ammonia by a catalyst to break down emissions into nitrogen and water. If the company does not go along with Union Pacific, they could be embargoed and that would lead to bankruptcy.
East Tennessee food processing plant closing, 200 jobs lost
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East Tennessee food processing plant closing, 200 jobs lost
Officials with George’s Prepared Foods announced they were closing their plant in Caryville, according to Campbell County Mayor, E.L. Morton.
www.wvlt.tv
^^ I wonder what the real story is there.
Chicken is probably the cheapest protein there is, and surely with the economic problems we have now, demand is up. So if they are not cutting the supply of chicken, where are they getting it from? Shipping it in, pre-processed from overseas?
Or maybe they are cutting the supply and we're supposed to start the eating insects thing already.
Chicken is probably the cheapest protein there is, and surely with the economic problems we have now, demand is up. So if they are not cutting the supply of chicken, where are they getting it from? Shipping it in, pre-processed from overseas?
Or maybe they are cutting the supply and we're supposed to start the eating insects thing already.
They're resuming federal drilling.
You want the latest gas prices? Sorry. We're having a computer failure.
Yep 2 weeks with no diesel updates. I check this daily. Been fishy to me that gas has gone up 2 to 5 cents a week for 6 months and all the sudden no data...
Yeah....sure....
I worked for that construction company at one point. Privately owned, but still so rainbow....
The joke at the time was that their logo was "ED" aka Erectile Dysfunction
Too little, too late. Won't make a dent for November. Any land they start drilling on now won't hit the markets till post January almost guaranteed. Markets are NOT forward looking with inelastic goods. Once you've killed the Golden Goose, the sky is the limit for the price (or shortages).
On top of that, the main problem isn't a lack of oil, it's a lack of refining capacity. The last refinery built in the USA was in 1977. Building new refineries take 10+ years to build. The Keystone pipeline had some refineries attached to it, which is why 30K workers were laid off when the project was canceled, but still this administration refuses to budge on bringing more refineries online. $10 gas and $17 diesel, here we come!
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Correct.
They've killed any investment incentive for refinery expansion. Refineries are already operating in the mid to high 90 percent.
96% last I checked, and they are old clunkers that continue to rust and fall apart each year. Last year our refineries lost the ability to make about 500K barrels of gas, and it's been shrinking this year too. Imagine if a massive hurricane knocks out a refinery this summer/fall... the devastation on the economy will be depression inducing.