I have a plan that involves force feeding foie gras to certain billionaires for a few months.

The problem wasn’t the exposure of the cheating. The problem was that cheating allowed them an unfair advantage and exposure took that advantage away. VW is where VW should have been if they had never cheated at all, not that they are behind where they would have been. The fines certainly were not enough to offset the…

Wait until you see how much insulin costs.

If marketing didn’t work they would not spend so much on it.

The market isn’t tight enough to explain the prices. It’s oil companies all looking for how high they can go before consumers stop buying. They are all set for enormous profits from raising the prices, just like housing has been going - there aren’t so many fewer houses or a giant increase in population. It’s just oppo…

“Make America Great Again”

Snippy-snip-snip.

And now there is salt-water damage. Glug, glug.

It doesn’t matter any more than the Louvre, except this was a useful tool used to help people. It was of no military use to have it or to destroy it - except destroying it as a FU to the people of Ukraine.

That precedent was established before history was written.

More turnovers than The Takeout. Sigh.

Ah - the whataboutism is thick in the air. If you care, Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld should all be in the sort of solitary confinement where food and water go in, but nothing comes out. No light, no sound, just a dark cell with a food slot and a small drain for their lack of planning and just plain greed in the way they…

“flat tire” is a terrible comparison - the cause of the driving problem is obvious and the fix is obvious and it’s possible to continue to drive the car with the flat tire.

Sure sounds like Russia should have left Crimea and stopped infiltration into Donbas.

“without reason” is a colloquialism for “not in response to a military or other war-starting effort” as opposed to “they have stuff, I have a gun, so robbing them is a reason.”

New - maybe. But I can see firing up idled wells. Wells cost money and it’s bad to be on the back side of the curve if supply suddenly opens up again. But those wells that were break-even or cost too much and are with idled pumps? Check the seals and flip the switch is a simple calculation and probably on a sheet that…

XL would eventually have carried Canadian tar sands contaminated oil to refineries in Texas before being shipped off-shore as it hasn’t any use in the US.

Russia is a major supplier of a particular sort of oil to the US. It became useful to import that when other foreign suppliers of similar composition became unavailable. Refinery operations are built for particular oil compositions and it was easier to shift the supply origin than re-build the refinery. Presently the…

They have A/C and a truck about twice the volume of the previous truck. It’s like asking why an SUV only gets a little better mileage than a compact car it’s replacing.

It doesn’t take 20 moves to start a war. Bush the Lesser, day 1, asked for an invasion plan for moving into Iraq. The genius bunch are the manipulative elements in Saudi Arabia who use their control of oil and the cash they have put aside, to get their goals met without doing the dirty work themselves.