WTG!

(Since your post yesterday)

West Texas Intermediate closed today, March 2, at about $71.50, up almost $10 per barrel from a week ago, when it closed at $62. For those watching at home, that's 15% higher in a week. Remember: oil prices are sticky downward, so they rise faster and easier than they fall. Prices at the pump will reflect this change at the producer level in, oh, about three days. Fill up now, and look forward to Der Dotard promising sunshine, rainbows and lower gas prices. Any day now...

#11 | Posted by catdog

WTI is currently almost $75 bbl

Brent Crude currently at $81.81

Prices are already going up at the pump.

Putin is gloating over the oil prices surging.

#23 | Posted by fishpaw

Trump is doing EXACTLY what he said obama would do to fix his terrible approval ratings and distract from the epstein files, and you fall for it because you really are that stupid.

#33 | Posted by SpeakSoftly

Trump in 2011: "Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. He's weak and he's ineffective." and "Now that Obama's poll numbers are in tailspin -- watch for him to launch a strike in Libya or Iran. He is desperate."

Trump Sept 7, 2016: "In a Trump administration our actions in the Middle East will be tempered by realism. The current strategy of toppling regimes with no plan for what to do the day after only produces power vacuums that are filled, simply, by terrorists. Gradual reform, not sudden and radical change should be our guiding objective in that region."

#4 | Posted by censored

Thanks for the info.

I looked up temp info for depths below ground level. Another mine in South Africa is 2.5 miles deep.

They use air conditioning to help stave off blazing hot temperatures. I can't imagine ...

The Googles say temperatures increase 72F to 87F per mile.

PS - the cost of farming has skyrocketed since Trump's tariffs. So many items they need such as fertilizer to machinery parts have soared since Trump's tariffs. That's gonna show up in prices until tariffs end.

I sure you Dems on here didn't read the whole article

PPI excludes volatile food and energy prices

#7 | Posted by Maverick

First of all, tariffs have hit food and sundries big time. Compare prices before Trump's tariffs and what they are now. Fruit, vegetables and many other products are imported. Prices have risen

Secondly, energy prices are poised to soar when trading resumes this morning. The Strait of Hormuz is closed. 20% of the world's oil passes thru it. They'll steadily rise the longer this war lasts.

Inflation is probably worse then reported.

#1 | Posted by LampLighter

How in the heck do you mine anything a mile and a half deep?

Temperatures are generally around 100 degrees hotter than the surface temperature.

Check out this video of Kash Patel. The irony is 100%!!!

Kash Patel in 2023: I'm just saying Chris Wray doesn't need a government funded G5 jet to go to vacations. Maybe we ground that plane. $15,000 every time it takes off. Just a thought.

North Korea already has nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles capable of reaching the U.S.

Why didn't we start a war with THEM if they were so concerned about a nuclear attack?

Wait'll we're all paying more at the pump next week.

And paying more on top of already elevated prices thanks to Trump's tariffs. Trucks use fuel to deliver goods. Prices rise when the price at the pump goes up. Always happens.

She's a meh singer who's invited to sing the Star Spangled Banner here and there.

Mamdani wrote,

"Today's military strikes on Iran carried out by the United States and Israel mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression."

"Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war. Americans do not want this. They do not want another war in pursuit of regime change."

Does he really speak for "Americans"?

#242 | Posted by BillJohnson

Evidently so.

#211 | Posted by Corky

That was great. The hypocrisy by Trump officials and MAGA influencers is stunning.

EPSTEIN

BREAKING: Kash Patel is reportedly pissed the sudden risk of Iranian terror attacks in the US is forcing him to cancel his planned trips to several March Madness basketball games.

#207 | Posted by A_Friend

Awwwww. His mediocre-singing girlfriend won't be able to sing the Star Spangled Banner, seemingly the only events that want her.

Remember that I predicted a long time ago that President Obama will attack Iran because of his inability to negotiate properly-not skilled!
8:55 PM Nov 10, 2013

~ Pedo 47 ~

#203 | Posted by reinheitsgebot

And yet, despite Trump's worst predictions, Iran signed and was abiding by the 2015 nuclear deal, complete with inspectors and 24/7 cameras and sensors monitoring their nuclear enrichment facilities when Trump threw it in the garbage.

Trump isn't the negotiator Obama was.

One bright spot could be Iran will need all the Shahed drones they have and won't sell any to Russia to use against Ukraine.

I just saw a video clip of one hitting an apartment building in Tel Aviv moments ago.

DONNER

I'm aware of all that which is why I question the ulterior motives.

#15 | Posted by Twinpac

"Make America Forget About Epstein For Now" and low polling that indicates a wipeout for the GOP in November top the list?

Sure he does.

The big picture plan is for Iran to determine its own future.

BJ

We had a plan for Iraq. How'd that work out?

Imagine if there'd been absolutely no plan whasoever? It would have devolved into chaos sooner and Iraq would probably resemble Iran more than anything with a theocracy that hates America.

We had hundreds of thousands of troops on the ground when Iraq devolved into chaos and even THAT didn't prevent it, did it?

You must be smokin' the Devil's Lettuce

Plans take planning

Piggy has not planned

Regime change by the seat of your pants, now where have I see that before?

#189 | Posted by truthhurts

January 28th, Marco Rubio said he "hoped" things would turn out okay in Iran if we attacked.

In other words, "no plan." Just hopes. Which are not plans.

#181 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS

Recall how after Lebanon's civil war was over, and a democratically elected government was in place, Israel bombed Lebanon's newly rebuilt infrastructure to smithereens, only fomenting more hostility towards Israel by Iran and those they backed in Lebanon.

But putting the People of Iran up against a million man standing Army there is only causing more bloodshed, not less.

This is far from over without an actual Plan, which Trump doesn't have.

#171 | Posted by Corky

A commentator on TV mentioned the difference between the IRGC and the regular army. He said there have probably been talks between the U.S. and military leadership in Iran. IF, and that's a big if, Khamani is killed, the army is the only sizeable group in Iran that could take control of Iran and put down the IRGC, the ayatollah's private security force.

Civilians are always in the crosshairs of the IRGC. Without the army to put them in their place chaos is the most likely scenario.

Now, if the shah's son was actually viewed as a prime minister possibility, as the Iranian diaspora think he should be, and he's backed by the army, it's possible a government could be formed. But no one in the WH has told us what the end looks like.

beautiful sight I"m watching......just like we saw in Caracas.......

Iranian people dancing in the streets wrapping themselves in the real Iranian flag they've kept

hidden for so long..

some cheering loudly for the USA and TRUMP..

------while you ----- muddle and cuddle each other in your delusional little world of

buffoonery and imaginary brain cells defend the murderers of 35, 000 people

rather than the 35,000 murdered.

#143 | Posted by shrimptacodan

Link?