Third Order Effects Begin: U.S. Airlines Hike Bag Fees As Jet Fuel Prices Spike

Iraq-Syria Pipeline to Bypass Hormuz Could Be Revived Within 3 Years By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice An old Iraq-to-Syria oil pipeline that bypasses the Strait of Hormuz could be up and running within three years, a senior Syrian official has said. The Hormuz crisis that cut off most of Iraq’s crude oil exports has accelerated plans by Iraq and Syria to rebuild a damaged oil pipeline to ship crude oil from the Iraqi fields in Kirkuk to Syria’s Mediterranean coast. The completion of the renovation of the pipeline from Haditha in Iraq to...

Where It Costs The Most To Own A Car In America Buying a car is only the beginning. Every year afterward, drivers face a steady stream of expenses—from insurance and fuel to repairs and taxes—that can add up to thousands of dollars. Using data from LendingTree, Visual Capitalist's Dorothy Neufeld created this map comparing average annual car ownership costs across every U.S. state and Washington D.C., excluding car payments, revealing where those ongoing expenses place the biggest burden on drivers. The Annual Car Ownership Costs by State Here’s how annual ownership costs compare across...

They like to pretend it came out of nowhere. They like the bedtime story: Europe was peacefully humming along in its post-history spa — open borders, cheap energy, NATO as a charity, Russia as a gas station with a flag… and then, one day, the barbarian kicked the door in for no reason at all. […]