US diesel hits record $6 a gallon on Iran supply shock • Hacker News Board

Re: US diesel hits record $6 a gallon on Iran supply shock

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Post by toasty228 » Fri, Sep 11, 2026, 4:27 PM UTC

seb1204 wrote: post #92

toasty228 wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most clothes, food, medicine, every bit of plastic you own, the tools used to make your heat pump, the rebar in your apartment walls, etc. none of this exists without fossil fuel, or at least not at this price/scale

You are not wrong, but there is no reason to assume that things can't change. A heat pump irrespective of the material it's made of will be better than a gas heater over its life.

> You are not wrong, but there is no reason to assume that things can't change.

No reason to assume that we can change either. 99.99% of progress we enjoy today came from burning non renewable shit, if you think we can change paradigm while keeping all our cheap convenience and technologies I think you're making a bigger bet than I am

Re: US diesel hits record $6 a gallon on Iran supply shock

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Post by za3faran » Fri, Sep 11, 2026, 4:33 PM UTC

juliusceasar wrote: post #2

The whole world is suffering because of this 2nd Epstein War. Current administration being blackmailed by Israel.

Hopefully more people start realizing this. It's been happening behind the scenes for way too long, but now it's out in the open, they don't care about hiding it anymore.

Re: US diesel hits record $6 a gallon on Iran supply shock

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Post by jst1fthsdys » Fri, Sep 11, 2026, 5:27 PM UTC

OgsyedIE wrote: post #3

Also driving the price up are the Ansarallah advances in Yemen and today's Ansarallah bombings of the Saudi East-West pipeline. The market expects that they'll use military force to attempt to close the Bab al-Mandab strait, with their past attempts at closing the strait, stated goals of closing the strait and newly reported use of Claude to develop medium-range ballistic missile guidance software as evidence.

> newly reported use of Claude to develop medium-range ballistic missile guidance software as evidence.

Why would they use Claude? Iran, China, and Russia have far more advanced MRBM systems than the US. So unless Claude is training on top secret info that the US military doesn't even have, they would be getting worse information than just talking to their allies.

Re: US diesel hits record $6 a gallon on Iran supply shock

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Post by dang » Fri, Sep 11, 2026, 5:28 PM UTC

swarnie wrote: post #7

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