Recent content by forkup

Oh, as opposed to them blocking 20 percent of the WORLD'S oil supply? Mac, who do you think has more tolerance for economic pain, a country that has been under embargo for decades, or the President of a country that hasn't known real hardship since the great depression? Don't get me wrong. I...

Allowing Mac-7 to start OP's claiming victory on Thursday about Iran blinking and libs crying, just to be proven wrong by Friday. While insisting the future will vindicate the claim. Just like Trump, Mac is never wrong, the future just hasn't gotten around to proving him right.

The trailer is aging better than this post.

I don't know how well it ages. Neither do you. At the moment, Iran has agreed to open the straight for the duration of the ceasefire... Conditionally. They can close down the straights again... at will. Nothing has fundamentally changed.

Try this one on for size. This did more than make me chuckle.

Treason isn't, selling your product at the market price is. There's a name for the state telling corporations what they can charge for their products.

Sure, Sheldon Well, since the triangular tesselation part would be attribited to Trump I think the object has become eating the pieces, instead of capturing the king.

It's called satire. Pretty common form of humor. In my experience how hard it lands is connected to how close it hits to reality. Seems to have made a great big "thunk" ,on you.

Since this thread started with a meme. I figured I'd share this trailer that is probably more accurate.

It kind of has to be that, considering that apparently the way to beat a country constricting global oil flows is… to constrict oil even further. The advantage of 3-dimensional chess with transitional quadrilateral-to-triangular tessellation is that it doesn’t actually exist, so you can define...

It's the price increases not supply shortages that will have the political effects. Prices rises that are exasterbated by constricting the markets. That's why you should care.

I work in the industry too. And the fact that the U.S. exports oil doesn’t insulate it from price movements. Oil is globally traded and priced off benchmarks like Brent Crude, so supply disruptions push prices up across the board, regardless of where the barrels are produced. So yes, the U.S...

I don’t imagine you do care. But you probably should, because that’s potentially up to 2 million barrels a day less supply in an already constrained market, which puts upward pressure on prices. And that has political consequences, especially for the people currently in charge. Something...

It's still closed for most civilian shipping. https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Trump-Signals-Imminent-Iran-Talks-as-Hormuz-Blockade-Holds.html

It's hilarious how you pretend that your premise is the analogy not the thing the analogy replaces. They didn’t just try, they’ve managed to disrupt traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. And the only real countermove so far hasn’t been reopening shipping, the one thing that would actually...