How has the US not been severely impacted by oil shortages yet?
I travel semi-regularly for work, and have been super nervous and anxious for months now regarding incoming fuel shortages (and the short-term/long-term collapse that comes with it), due to what the Trump admin is doing in the Strait. Feeling like I’ll get stranded on any given work trip in a random location, with no one around to support me and without any of my meager preps, for an indefinite period of time as supplies dwindle.
And yet, atleast up until now, it seems like there hasn’t been any mass shutdown of flights or shortage of gas at pumps, despite what’s been said for awhile about impending shortages. I’ve had to go on 4 business trips since the US started this, and each time I haven’t encountered any hiccups whatsoever.
Living in the West and the core of US empire probably insulates us from some of the immediate damage, since I know people in other countries and regions (notably countries in the global east and south) have already been hit hard. And I know the long term ramifications of this on the global supply and food chain are coming. But it still feels like I’ve been waiting and waiting for something to happen in the short term in the US, and nothing is happening, other than relatively mundane things like raising prices.
I hate feeling tension everything time I’m called for a work trip. It’s exhausting. Will June be the month SHTF? How about July? 🫠.
That’s my venting for the day.
Sidenote: I wonder how people will react to a BOE announcement. Will it make the same waves as this? I doubt it, but it should.
Also please let me know if we have been impacted in other ways I hadn’t considered in the short term. I’ve probably missed it.