While Ukraine fights a war for survival, American’s complain about gas prices

sigh,... not all that long ago (in the grand scheme of human history) American's sacrificed using gasoline in their cars to win a world war against evil

Seems American's don't understand that in a global economy the price of oil is very sensitive to an uncertain future, such as the “special military operation” which is the Kremlin's official euphemism for Russia's kerfuffle in Ukraine.

Also seems American's don't know the price for a barrel of oil is set by global markets, IOW buyers from all over the world bid (and set the price) on WTI (in the USA) and BRENT (outside the USA)

www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/052615/what-difference-between-brent-crude-and-west-texas-intermediate.asp

Another item people don't appreciate is, gasoline just does not magically flow from the pump at a station,... the process starts by finding a suitable geological formation that trapped ancient biological material (for millions of years),... "A staggering 98 tons of prehistoric, buried plant material – that’s 196,000 pounds – is required to produce each gallon of gasoline we burn in our cars, SUVs, trucks and other vehicles"

www.archive.unews.utah.edu/news_releases/bad-mileage-98-tons-of-plants-per-gallon/

After an oil field is identified an oil rig has to be setup to drill down into the earth and pump out the "crude" oil,... basically an oil rig is a custom built piece of equipment that takes time to construct and deploy (that does not happen overnight)

www.ycharts.com/indicators/us_oil_rotary_rigs

"Crude" oil can't be directly put into a gas tank, it first needs to be refined into gasoline (and other products)

www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-products/refining-crude-oil.php

Bottom line, as I see things consumers in the USA should be grateful to have the opportunity to live in a period of time when science and technology allows people to own cars as personal transportation (not everyone in the world has such a luxury)

PS FWIW,... Here’s What Drives The Price Of Oil | CNBC

 

[Schism]

For anyone genuinely interested here's a current map of conflicts happening around the world. Global Conflict Tracker

While Ukraine has our and our media's captive attention, hundreds of thousands have been dying in other parts of the world for decades.

The media doesn't cover them, Americans hardly care, and the US supplies the weapons and in some cases, military support.

This is a long read from the Guardian, again for those interested in such things - How the US created a world of endless war

 

[multivita-man]

For anyone genuinely interested here's a current map of conflicts happening around the world. Global Conflict Tracker

While Ukraine has our and our media's captive attention, hundreds of thousands have been dying in other parts of the world for decades.

The media doesn't cover them, Americans hardly care, and the US supplies the weapons and in some cases, military support.

This is a long read from the Guardian, again for those interested in such things - How the US created a world of endless war

I just think it's hilarious that you're using the Guardian to support one of your arguments for a change, lol

 

[jotathought]

I'm not complaining about gas prices .. why? Because many (if not a majority) of voters are low-information voters, and they'll automatically equate the high gas prices to whoever is in charge ... right as we ramp up to a midterm election.

Now, to say that the Biden administration has nothing to do with gas prices makes one naive, especially after his administration has discouraged oil exploration (which I believe was rescinded), he stopped the XL Pipeline project (which would have yielded 840K barrels / day) and with the number of sanctions against Russia have reduced available supply.

 

[edil]

"Nationalism" in Ukraine:

Stupid European "analysts" are surprised - the President and Minister of Defense of Ukraine are Jews, the representation of nationalists in the Parliament of Ukraine is an order of magnitude smaller than, for example, in France, why then the Kremlin chose nationalism in Ukraine as the main pretext for its aggression against Ukraine.

European analysts do not understand - for the Kremlin propaganda, nationalists are all those who do not recognize Russia's power over them. Nationalists are all 100% of Finns because they believe that Finland should be independent of the Kremlin.

Europeans are not correct in trying to find meaning in the Kremlin's concept of "nationalism". - But there is only one meaning in this concept - instrumental propaganda. - The main thing is that it works, acts on Russians, including those living in Ukraine ..

And for the Western inhabitants - manipulations are organized using the oligarch Fuchs - drawing Nazi graffiti in Ukraine.

Fuchs is afraid of losing business in Ukraine.



Russia attacked Ukraine not in order to capture it, but in order not to lose it. The leadership of Ukraine, for example, Oboronprom, until now consisted roundly of Kremlin agents.

But the agents began to be replaced, first of all - for demographic reasons - the Kremlin agents began to retire.

Punin did not take into account the people of Ukraine. The weakness of the Putinists lies in the underestimation of democracy as a phenomenon. Putin is accustomed to the fooled people in Russia and overestimated the propaganda of the Kremlin in Ukraine.

The reason for the Kremlin's aggression is not Putin's fool, but the fact that under Putinism, political monopoly, those close to the ruler have a larger share of power and money than in democratic Europe.

Russia attacked Ukraine because it can no longer keep it in poverty. And rich free Ukrainians is the main, if not the only "existential" threat to the Russia's enemies (Kremlin), because of which the Kremlin is the main existential threat to humanity..



The denazification of Russia is necessary for the survival of mankind.

The nation of the Kremlin is not an ethnic group, but a state. Russians are infected with state nationalism almost without exception.

Germany was lucky in the 2nd World War - thanks to the US occupation, it was cured of Nazism.

There is no need to occupy Russia - it is enough to replace all the means of propaganda in it with the means of counter-propaganda.