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Yea right, remember one other thing too. When everyone goes electric what happens to the already shaky power grids.

Bob

Well, could have a little to with it too. :angel:

Bob

Oil companies reduced refining capacity during the pandemic and it is still not all back on line. That is part of the problem. Another part is that the oil producers also reduced oil output at the...

US energy independence is a bit of a shell game as the US always imports crude oil and refines it. Some of the imported crude oil is exported as refined oil products and some services the domestic...

Yes, the old robber barons did die off but that class of people still exists today under a new guise so they really did not disappear entirely. Without unions there never would have been work place...

I don't think the robber barons ever disappeared completely and there is a whole new batch today. Where we are today is bad compared to the post WWII boom years that carried on until the 1980s or so...

Well, it is true that corporations must make a profit as that is the sole reason to be in in business. The problem is in the past what constituted a reasonable profit year over year has changed. It...

No, lets not get back on the Covid kick, but at least have enough common sense to recognise that it did trigger a cascade of events that has created critical and ongoing supply issues. Globalisation...

Certainly, but what are the root causes of the current shortages in almost everything that are limiting the supply and increasing the prices?

Bob

Oh, there is no doubt of the influence the US has on the rest of the world. I'm not saying it does not, far from it. Just think that when the rest of the world is suffering from the same rising...

Personally, I think it has little to do with who is in power in whatever country you care to name. It is a global problem just like the other shortages people are facing globally. It is a combination...

Yea, your only choice to counter that is to pass the increase along to the consumer. The same is happening in other sectors such as in the food supply chain to mention only one. It's going to take...