Ukraine Always Get What You Want

Understood. I got a bit defensive there, but your point is well-received.

 

It's not that we have a "car culture" - which we do - but the fact that most of the country lives in areas where there is little to no public transportation, and even if we had it, it wouldn't be practical.
It's 10 miles from my house to my work. It's about seven miles across town to Walmart.

 

Not at all. I'm part of this, too.

The energy to run our mass transit system comes from somewhere, and to make our electricity and to heat our homes, so we're all inextricably bound up in this.

Right or wrong, for better and worse, the gas price thing is a real-time, real-life national metric that influences peoples' political thinking immediately and powerfully.

 

I was struck that if Brittney Griner had been detained in Russia two weeks ago, it would be the only thing we’d be talking about. Now it’s the 40th-most reported thing, and rightfully.

 

Americans worry about gas prices, but most of the world worries about wheat prices. Ukraine and Russia are the world's largest wheat exporters. Price of wheat has gone up even more sharply (in percentage terms) than the price of oil. An increase in wheat prices in 2009-2010 played a large role in the Arab Spring protests in 2010-2011. When it costs a lot more to fill up the gas tank, people bitch. When the price of food becomes unaffordable, people riot.

 

Severe miscalculation on Putin’s part. America doesn’t care about women's basketball. We will never be that woke. Compound that with being a black lesbian women’s basketball player who is more infamous for her violent outbursts than her ability to dunk like a 15 year old boy

 

I know they can't ramp up in a week. The year I gave was 2020. Americans started more buying more gas last year, and prices started creeping up because of suppressed production. The companies were in no hurry to ramp up. Now it is time for them to ramp up. I realized that takes time but they should say they're going to increase production and they have not.

 

Why aren't the Great Plains states a world leader in wheat exports?
I don't know the firs thing about growing wheat, but if the market is there, it looks like someone would step up.

 

As a short-term measure, nothing dropped gas prices more than people working from home during the pandemic. This practice should be encouraged as much as possible. I know it was a pain for many, but it'd work.

 

qed



in the meantime, 'moving in the direction of!'



So, maybe!

 

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