| ▲ | runako 4 hours ago |
| So 16 in 30 days is a rate that, if sustained, trends toward ~3x the high end of your estimate of normal. I don't expect "trucking" to fail, I expect stronger players to push price that will eventually show up in inflation stats. |
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| ▲ | irjustin 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| > I don't expect "trucking" to fail Trucking is a fundamental need so once competition thins out prices will naturally rise and eventually the cost of fuel will be pushed to the customer. Honestly I'm not sure why we started this war. It really feels like our president taking notes on Russia and saying you know what.... |
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| ▲ | mingus88 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | We didn’t start a war. That is a thing that Congress has sole authority to declare, and that hasn’t happened. Also a thing that never happened: the Department of Defense was not renamed to the Department of War because only Congress has the authority to rename government departments. That vote never happened and the Department was not renamed. Just reminding everyone that this is not normal, and it’s not legal, and the exact people who have a sworn duty to stop this are not. | | |
| ▲ | chneu 39 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | I'm almost 40 years old. The US has basically been at war my entire life in some form or another. Not a single war was declared by congress, I don't think. This is very much normal. I'm not saying it's correct or alright, just that it is normal. | |
| ▲ | ssl-3 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Congress hasn't issued a declaration of war that was signed by the president since June of 1942. We've had wars since then. edit, Two recent examples from a long list: The Persian Gulf War was admitted to be as such in April of 1991. https://www.congress.gov/102/statute/STATUTE-105/STATUTE-105... The Global War on Terror was funded on that name in 2005. https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/house-bill/1268 Other examples exist for things like The War in Afghanistan, The Korean War, The Vietnam War, and similar. But I'm not trying to write an unprompted book here on this fine October night. :) (Maybe Congress didn't declare those wars, but they sure seemed to accept participation in them nonetheless.) | |
| ▲ | 1over137 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | The US Congress not declaring a war is the normal thing (for the last many decades). |
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| ▲ | aorloff 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | > Honestly I'm not sure why we started this war. If you watched the film City of God, there's a voice over contemplating murder as the crew robs banks : the first time, the rule is the exception... the second time, he learned there's an exception to every rule... the third time, the exception is the rule. The United States has gone to war so many times without (or with a faulty) casus belli that it no longer needed one, that's why "we" started this war. |
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| ▲ | simondotau 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| That's assuming that this article is pointing to a new trend and not merely a clustering event, where the price shock is simply bringing future failures forward in time. |
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| ▲ | servo_sausage 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| It would lead 195 per year if it stays at that trend; only 1.3x the high end of "normal". |
