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As someone that said similar when I got it last summer, I'm right there with you.

If you listen, you have to listen to the end. He names every man that died on the Edmund Fitzgerald at the end as a church bell chimes. It will make you cry.

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The cover my friend did that got kudos from Gordon Lightfoot...

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Withdrawing from all the awful world news to retreat to one of my favorite songs by a songwriter I know personally. He even got kudos from Gordon Lightfoot for a cover once.

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As someone on the industry back in the Bush GWOT years, I see this as a blip in the global market. The US and Iran don't have the weapons to make this a long lasting thing. I might be wrong and it gets bad, but I just expect high oil prices for a few months.

I'd love something like that if my commute wasn't 15 miles of open highway with 80K lb gravel trucks running 75mph and assholes in Dodge trucks running 90!

OMG, that's amazing. Both the Nancy comic AND the post arrangement!

But a complete realignment of the global energy trade is unlikely. I'm just mainly warning that gas prices are about to go up tomorrow and might stay high for a few months. And to fill up tonight because gas will be more expensive tomorrow.

I know welders that have worked the same pipeline project for 10 years. Redirecting all of Canada's oil to ports for tanker transport to other countries? That's a project a 30 year old can retire on.

Just a shot in the dark, but far longer than Trump is going to live. Our economies and energy sectors don't just decouple overnight because Trump is an idiot. That takes years.

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But as far as gasoline goes, it's cheaper to refine it locally than ship it. So we use our own crude or import to refine gas domestically. It's not the same as the 1970s where we relied heavily on light crude from the Middle East.

OPEC production cuts or loss of delivery will absolutely do awful shit to the global price of oil. But it won't cause massive issues like the Oil Crisis of the 70s for the US. Now if Canada and Brazil turned off production... that would suck these days.

But back to my original point, in the 70s a LOT of our domestic gasoline production relied on oil from OPEC. That's very much not the case. We refine our own gasoline almost exclusively, and rely on OPEC crude for less than 10% of crude oil imports to make it now.

Ahh, ok. That decimal was throwing me off.

After yearsin a previous life working in oil and gas designing production facilities, I've designed tank batteries with 10K bbl capacity and they fit on a half acre.

Still not sure where you're getting that ~10 thousand barrel number. That's enough fuel for a few gas stations per month.

Change that K on production to an MBbl and it will be a lot more accurate. Now gasoline production in the US, especially on the east and west coasts definitely rely on some light sweet crude imports that could affect gasoline production, it's nothing like the 70s.

I'm on the cusp and love that I can move a bit between the two cohorts. But landing firmly as an elder Millennial when I say GenX is the most Trump voting generation there is. We wouldn't have to suck it up if GenX didn't fucking suck so much.

Might want to make sure you have a little extra toilet paper since people LOVE to panic buy that for every dumb reason. No amount of explanation that TP is domestically made has ever worked on the lizard brain that wants to keep wiping its ass.

The former isn't really possible since the global markets are still driven mostly by OPEC and they're the ones that can't move as much oil, but the latter is really unlikely for the US considering domestic production. Maybe for other parts of the world though.

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Trump seems to be speedrunning everything from making groceries to manufacturing input materials to gasoline prices go up. Even his closest supporters will feel it. Just a fucking incompetent idiot that no one can ignore.

Gas prices have a way of making a President really unpopular if they get too high. And doing a stupid pointless war that makes them jump before a mid-term election? If we have to be ruled by Fascists, at least they are even more idiotic than past Fascist leaders.

Oh, no need to apologize!! If you haven't heard it, you haven't heard it!

But yeah, even pop culture in the US has had bloodlust for Iran for like 50 years. Vince Vaughn gets credit for being clever. But it was for an awful reason.

Dumbest take on the entire internet today. An impressive feat.

I think they misunderstood the song we were referencing and thought we were talking about the Beach Boys cover of Barbara Ann. And, fair. It seems like every few years a lot more people learn of the existence of the old Bomb Iran parody song.

The current average for Texas is $2.597 as of right now. I'll check it tomorrow afternoon and post where it's at.

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Yeah. Might be the cheapest it's going to be today for who knows how long. If the price of crude jumps on market open as expected, the price of gas domestically will jump with it, probably by lunch tomorrow.

Yup, when the markets open tomorrow crude oil prices are gonna be wild if Iran is serious about closing the Strait of Hormuz. Domestic gasoline prices jump instantly with crude oil prices.

Gas prices might be a lot higher for who knows how long.

And it takes about 30 seconds after that for domestic retail gas prices to jump *at least* the same percentage. If it's $2.59 today, it might be $2.99 or more by lunch tomorrow.

Strait of Hormuz is likely to be closed for a who-knows amount of time by Iran. That's 20% of world oil supply cut off, and the light sweet crude everyone is addicted to (refineries are built for specific grades of crude). When the markets open tomorrow, crude prices will skyrocket.