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Maybe the point of the Iran war was to boost the US economy, relative to East Asia, which is dependent on Middle Eastern oil and gas, while the US is an exporter. I mean look who benefits from this, arms companies and oil/gas companies are having a bonanza.
The point was to stop oil trades of "petro non-dollars", just like Venezuela. If countries start getting away with selling oil in other currencies, then they wouldn't funnel back all these vasts amounts of dollars into the S&P 500 and the American economy would collapse.
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I never made that argument. I just tend to thing bullies should be crushed rather than appeased.
So, what's your proposal for dealing with Trump then? The world waits with bated breath...
C'mon litle guy. You can make yourself famous. Be brave and let go of the wall of that leg vein. Say good bye to that comfy cankle and enter into your full glory.
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Hard to say at this point. Imagine in 50 years historians would write like "but crazy regimes kept developing nuclear weapons to exterminat nations they don't like, and the whole world just kept watching doing nothing until it was too late".
I know right? countries with nuclear arsenal constantly attacking like rabid dogs and has no respect to human life, what a nasty combination.
Guatemala, Grenada, Panama, Afghanistan, Afghanistan (that's deliberate), Kuwait, Ukraine, Georgia, Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam (also deliberate)... all of these countries and more have been invaded by nuclear powers.
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You realize the Strait of Hormuz is shared territorial waters between Oman and Iran right? It’s not an international waterway like the orange shit stain likes to say.
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Japan can package up all the snacks they want, they still use far less oil per capita than the USA. Japan: Approximately 28% of all passenger kilometers are traveled by rail United States: Rail travel accounts for only about 0.25% of passenger kilometers Remember: when you drive your 30mpg car to work, 20 miles down the freeway, alone in your vehicle by yourself, you are burning over a gallon of refined petroleum pro…
Isn't it 2/3 of a gallon plus any cold start inefficiency? But either way your point stands.
The average American commute time is something like 20-25 minutes and if that involves highway travel, 20 miles isn’t a crazy assumption.
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Japan can package up all the snacks they want, they still use far less oil per capita than the USA. Japan: Approximately 28% of all passenger kilometers are traveled by rail United States: Rail travel accounts for only about 0.25% of passenger kilometers Remember: when you drive your 30mpg car to work, 20 miles down the freeway, alone in your vehicle by yourself, you are burning over a gallon of refined petroleum pro…
That’s what I’d expect for a country that imports all of its oil and a country that produces more oil than it uses, especially considering the oil importing nation is an island 1/25th the size of the oil rich country, making dense rail transportation easier. I’d love if the US had better public transport and I could get rid of my car, it costs more per month than my housing (which is admittedly cheap)
They use double the oil of the entire EU despite having half the population.
Triple the usage of ASEAN despite having a little less than half the population.
Five times the usage of India despite India having four times the population.
I believe personal transportation is something like half of all oil use globally last I checked.
I don’t even think it’s about getting rid of your car entirely, it’s about a wild amount of dependence and a crazy economic incentive system where a 20mpg work truck has been the most popular vehicle in the country for decades. 100% of trips taken per week needing a car is a big consumption difference than 70% of trips taken per week needing a car.
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> Nobody outside of America and Israel were ever remotely bothered by Iran That is not true. Saudi Arabia has been fighting a proxy war with them for years. The EU and Uk have had sanctions on them for years. Lots of people care about their treatment of religious minorities, gays and women.
Europe had sanctions to avoid the American sanctions on places that didn't have sanctions, they'd rather trade with America than with Iran, but they don't actually care themselves.
Much of Europe has a problem with Russia and Iran is an ally of Russia. They supply each other with weapons.
As someone who grew up eating Calbee snacks, I think they’ll be fine. People from my generation aren’t buying Calbee because the bag is colorful. They’re buying it because it’s Calbee and they already know what they’re getting. The packaging could be black and white and I’d still recognize it instantly. The only people I could see being briefly confused are younger consumers. Japanese packaging tends to be very color…
According to wiki, 8% of males and 0.5% of female suffer from colorblindness. That means for the rest of the people, the color is part of the information that our brain use subconsciously when we go and grab a bag of Calbee.
Will it affect the Japanese general public? Minor inconvenience for sure. Will it affect sales? Probably for area popular by tourist? Maybe it move the needle by 1%?
But what's important that's below the fold is there could be other knock on effect as naphtha is used to make other product.
Maybe the point of the Iran war was to boost the US economy, relative to East Asia, which is dependent on Middle Eastern oil and gas, while the US is an exporter. I mean look who benefits from this, arms companies and oil/gas companies are having a bonanza.
The point was to stop oil trades of "petro non-dollars", just like Venezuela. If countries start getting away with selling oil in other currencies, then they wouldn't funnel back all these vasts amounts of dollars into the S&P 500 and the American economy would collapse.
Iran hasn’t been dollar denominated for decades at this point, they wish they could be! It would make their oil more valuable.