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The Great Diesel Crisis - How Policy Choices Made The West Vulnerable
The Great Diesel Crisis - How Policy Choices Made The West Vulnerable
Authored by Daniel Lacalle,
How taxes, regulation, refinery closures, sanctions and declining domestic production turned a geopolitical shock into a diesel-price crisis
Do not blame diesel prices on the Iran war or the disruption of the Strait of Hormuz. The geopolitical risk premium attached to oil prices is relevant, but the market was already weakened by policy choices.
Europe has taxed motor fuels heavily, imposed escalating regulatory and carbon costs across the supply chain, closed refining capacity, sanctioned major sources of...
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Demoralizing The Whole Citizenry To The Max
Demoralizing The Whole Citizenry To The Max
Authored by James Howard Kunstler,
The Curse It Is Cast...
“I have nothing to hide. I can explain and validate everything that I’ve done.”
- Dr. Anthony Fauci, recorded for TV in 2022
However you cut this Fauci business, one thing Americans have learned is how slippery and treacherous this thing called The Law has become.
You saw it in the sundry Trump prosecutions of 2024, too - a marvelous demonstration of how to play Hide-the-Salami with the truth about anything and everything.
You saw it in the...
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