Rates are crashing and fuel to the moon!

It's odd because I've never heard you mention disdain for them killing their own people.

Lots of folks here I don't agree with, but I listen to because they can disagree respectfully.

They're not calling anybody bootlickers.

I'm out

 

Its only gonna get worse. The tesla trucks will look better everyday . The longer this crap lasts

Iran says it's ready for a long war that would 'destroy' global economy

 

Ha ha okay man. Wow!

 

Unfortunately the world we live in now is an us versus them mentality. I blame it on that GD phone and social media that I am participating in to type my comments. Many of us don’t respect others points of view if they are different than ours, just like the dysfunctional government we currently have (both sides of the aisle). Back in the “good old days” we spoke to each other face to face, often over a drink and generally could listen to why someone thought differently than we do and have a civil conversation.
If you spend the time and can have an open mind to listen to opinions you don’t have, you might actually F*****g learn something. Or you can hit the Ignore button and stay in your fan club with only like minds. I am just as guilty as anyone unfortunately, but I generally ignore people who I have lost patience with.

 

I’m also of the vague opinion that the futures market and speculators will use any excuse they can to jack the prices up and cause volatility in the oil market, strictly because it puts more money in their pocket. This is the double edged sword of the whole “free-market” thing. This sort of financial terrorism is tolerated and even encouraged by the money men. At the expense of everybody else of course. It ain’t like we get a lot of oil from over there and it’s genuinely in short supply or anything. They did the same thing 4 years ago when the Russia-Ukraine war broke out…like we get a lot of oil from either of those countries either.

 

That’s the problem with expensive oil that comes out of the ground in North America. There’s too much cheap/easy oil still left elsewhere in the world and it’s a world market US producers have to contend with.

 

Rates are crashing and fuel to the moon!

Well, my rates went up significantly this week and I had no problem getting them. I dropped my trailer in a Kroger parking lot last Monday and fueled up at the quiet car pumps while they weren't busy. It took me 6 charges on 2 credit cards to get my 200+ gallons at 4.16/gal I only ran 1350 miles so I didn't need fuel again. I have no faith that prices will go down before I go out again but I flipped a coin and decided to wait since I'm home for a week. I may regret it later, may not.

Gotta do what you've gotta do.

PSA: All politicians suck. Always have. It's always the lesser or 2 evils. Don't kid yourself that they really care about people. That goes right out the window about the time the big donors start expecting things from them. And the big donors do things like run oil companies. They are not your friend. There's no need for us all to become enemies siding with politicians/parties who aren't ever really in our corners.

 

Well said sir!

 

Real world events cause prices to rise and risks to supplies most certainly equals an increase in prices. Futures markets and speculators don't just jack up prices for fun and extra profits. It's a normal function of the market that ensures we all have supply available when it's at risk.

 

I don't think this is a political post, but feel free to delete if it is.

There was a famous Russian politician Zhirinovsky, died in 2022, who was talking about this Iranian war back in 2013 I believe. He was saying that US will start this war, so oil goes up to 150-200, collapsing EU and China economies, and that US is the only major economy that can sustain that kind of economic pressure.
He also predicted the Ukrainian war and bunch of other stuff. It's very interesting now to watch his old videos.