RE: https://mastodon.social/@mattsheffield/116455699076369975

Again, the GOP is literally a party of plague. They generate plagues, and make plagues worse.

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RE: https://flipboard.com/@pbsnewshour/nation-c4vegjmfz/-/a-subUZ2G4Qz6LmEF8t2-HWw%3Aa%3A2651838374-%2F0

PBS talk to Columbia's Karen Young about fuel shortages in east Asia, and attempts to control demand in response.

So far Europe, the US, and higher-reserve countries in Asia are mostly seeing price impacts on transportation so far.

It'll take 3-4 _months_ in some areas (Kuwait in particular) to fully restart wells, and those won't restart until portside storage is drawn down enough to provide a destination. So add the 45(ish) days transit time, and you're looking at, oh... 5-6 months of follow-on impacts and upwards price pressure just for crude oil.

And that, of course, doesn't even get into the price impacts on derived products, which are legion.

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SO MUCH FOR NO NAVY: Overnight (Cascadian / Pacific time), Iran attacked a third ship attempting to make a run through the Strait. More importantly, they escorted two of the ships to the Iranian shoreline, which is hard to do if you don't have at least some sort of functional military ship, even if small.

In addition to the Greek-registered Epaminondas, the IRGC attacked the Euphoria and the MSC Francesca, both registered through Panama. The MSC Francesca and Epaminondas were reportedly "seized" and taken to the Iranian coat.

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cx297218m9vt?post=asset%3A6c420593-467e-4320-93a4-5283a8878109#post

(see also last night: https://mastodon.murkworks.net/@moira/116447402588587290 )

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RE: https://flipboard.com/@pbsnewshour/world-c9uqk8rrz/-/a-4OEUzWKyRouj9xG2Ummx6g%3Aa%3A2651838374-%2F0

and up and down and up and down and up and down

it's an insider-trader's paradise

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This is getting weird. Unless someone is doing reserve releases triggered by trades at $105 or something else to keep the price down.

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EXCITING IT IS!

The closed price is still up for some reason, but we're up like $9.50ish to $105.09 in opening trades

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I'm still trying to dig up the actual terms, but I am finding sure makes it look like Iran has achieved a massive strategic victory over Team Shitstain. Most notably:

"The two-week ceasefire plan includes allowing both Iran and Oman to charge fees on ships transiting through the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf, a regional official said Wednesday.

...

The strait is in the territorial waters of both Oman and Iran. The world had considered the passage an international waterway and never paid tolls before."

https://thehill.com/homenews/ap/ap-international/ap-the-latest-iran-rejects-ceasefire-deal-as-trumps-deadline-for-attacks-on-infrastructure-nears/

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I saw an interesting analysis on how fucked US-Saudi relations are now and why, but it's on a Meta platform. [EDIT: Originally sourced elsewhere, turns out. Not that Substack is any great shakes either, but it's better than Meta]

[new link]: https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/breaking-trump-just-lost-saudi-arabia

On the plus side, it's great news for Ukraine, and yet more incredibly bad news for Putin's Russia. Suck it, Putin.

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