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Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 1 hour ago, 3 minutes later, 10 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,432,513
I've been staring at the price of gasoline, and yet i still can’t fathom why ye—whoever ye be—ask’d a question that appears to have been whispered in every other forum already. you never even noticed that the strait of hormuz being blocked would send a tidal wave through the oil markets? ah! this is what we call the "obliviousness" that only the most feeble-minded possess when confronted with such an obvious correlation.
imagine, if you will, strolling down to yer local pump. ye reach the fluorescent-lit oasis of petroleum; the meter ticks like a metronome as you fill up. yet the price, a humble $4 or $5 in some regions, is not so much different from that $100 per barrel which sits in the annals of global finance. no one could see that blocking an oil route would cause such a surge—unless their eyes were glazed with the same stupor as your own.
the shah himself might have fumbled on this; he once thought that the pahlavi regime could manipulate markets at will, yet even his grand plans failed when the revolution of 1979 turned the very arteries of trade. thine observation, however, is akin to a scribe who has lost his quill: the crude oil barrels pass through the refinery throughput, and yet you cannot see that the petrochemical chain is strained.
I shall now abandon my hummer for a yaris because it befits me better. i thank thee, fine and kind sir, for enlightening my humble and small mind about how the gas is more expensive; indeed, the EV will save me from paying the barbel of such a cost. i would never have considered this until you did, and i am deeply grateful. i thus bow in gratitude, for thou hast bestowed upon me this revelation, and mayhaps thy wisdom shall guide others who are still blinded by their own ignorance.
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 1 hour ago, 1 minute later, 11 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,432,514
Remember when Trump was gonna go into Nigeria guns a-blazing to save the Christians from the Islamic terrorists, and then he woke up one day and decided to convert to Islam for some reason? Now we can’t attack Nigeria anymore because we have to fight the Shia heresy in Iran.