"Its a 7 letter word, E_stein. Just need one more letter, any guesses?"

"China!"

"It's a three letter word synonynous with father. What's your first guess?"

My first guess: Z

You were not born when the decoupling began.

As recently as the 1970s, the world was getting unambiguously more coupled. As recently as the 1990s, it was ambiguously so.

And decoupling only started to really happen last year. Before that it was going in a glacial pace.

Eh, he's pushed around and bribed to make certain decisions. He's the right man for the job of accelerating the decline of the empire and the beginning of the multi-nodal world, whether he and his followers know it or not, simply because he truly has no spine, no morals, no ideology, he just cares about his money.

Silver linings, I guess?

My brother dragged his heels, too. Our Mom passed, and that's how there was enough money to take that step. She wanted us to do it, heck it's something I've wanted since early childhood. So it goes.

You can DIY relativlty inexpensivly, at least until it gets to the electrical interconnect.

Im eyeballing a home battery pack from ecoflow:

https://www.digitaltrends.com/home/ecoflow-delta-pro-ultra-smart-home-panel-2-review/

The newish one, newer than that article, can take 6k of input panels with it built in solar. If you go with that smart panel, it seamlessly integrates with your house. 15k for the battery + panel + install, 2-3k for the panels if you DIY the install, which will just be climbing on the roofs, drilling racks, and running an electrical cable to the battery pack.

It likely wont power your whole house, but 6k is a good start. You can also double up on the controller and install 12k of panels if you want, so on and so forth.

That assumes the market just sits still when oil prices rise. It doesn’t.

Yes, higher fuel prices can raise shipping costs in the short term. But they also create strong incentives to shift to cheaper alternatives. When oil becomes expensive, companies move freight to rail, electrify delivery fleets, source goods more locally, and invest in more efficient logistics. Higher oil prices don’t just make everything permanently expensive. They change the market.

Price pressure pushes businesses toward transportation methods that use less or no fossil fuel, which becomes more competitive over time.

Markets adapt. That’s how price signals work.

Its on. I have one hundred A4 sticker sheets. To the gas pumps.

That’s what THEY want you to think! Wake up sheeple!!!