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

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.

Good

"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

Iran has been out of the petrodollar system since the maximalist sanctions the US imposed in 1995. Sanctioned countries don't have a use for dollars.

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.

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

It's really just regular 52 pickup except that people are tricked into it by insane promises of it being "the best card game in history, maybe ever."