Amazon, shipping AND HANDLING?

Ok. So Frank _COMPLETELY_ ignores the facts and brings up additional republican dogwhistles.

The border is not open

A COVID-19 policy invoked to allow border officials to quickly expel immigrants arriving at U.S. borders is scheduled to end May 23. Barring any change, immigrants may soon find it easier to request asylum and stay in the U.S. while their applications are pending. The impact on the number of people showing up at the border is difficult to predict. In some DHS scenarios, as many as 18,000 migrants a day might arrive at the southwest border, although one DHS official told Congress the number of migrants is expected to fall.

But even after the pandemic policy is over, many migrants can be quickly turned back or enter a long winding process if they are placed in removal proceedings or apply for asylum or other immigration protections.

The term "open border" can be subjective, but controls at the southern border are significant. They include nearly 20,000 Border Patrol agents and surveillance systems that rely on motion detectors and blimps that scan for low-flying aircrafts. And there are hundreds of miles of fencing at the southwest border.

"There's no such thing as an open border," Terence Garrett, political science professor at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, told PolitiFact in April.

In Biden's State of the Union Address, he talked about the importance of strengthening border controls.

"If we are to advance liberty and justice, we need to secure the border and fix the immigration system. We can do both," Biden said March 1, 2022. "At our border, we've installed new technology like cutting-edge scanners to better detect drug smuggling. We've set up joint patrols with Mexico and Guatemala to catch more human traffickers."

Inflation is present, but not yet rampant, and it is a result of amongst other things, Covid-19, Trump's China Tarrifs, Trump's Canadian Lumber tarrifs, the Russian War in Ukraine and a seriously restricted supply line.

and WTF does Afghanistan have to do with anything? How, exactly was fullfilling the commitment by Mr Trump to withdraw by a certain date wrong?

You guys are incredibly stupid. It is amazing that you can even read and write.

They say Biden had 81 million votes. What they didn't tell us was that

Yes, just waiting for the evidence. The courts will fix it. Once proven, Trump will be back the next day.

Propane is already over $4 a gallon.

That won't do much good. We get an extra Representative this year for a grand total of 2. Unless they manage to screw up they'll be Republicans. The Democratic Senator doesn't go looking for a job until the next cycle.

Then there's the long list of so-called Republicans that need to go but they're not from my state and I can't do anything.

I just hope those 81 million people are happy.

It's relative. Could be better than it is, but still better than it would have been.

So far, we've not shot missiles into Mexico.

Unprovable assumption up the line of 'if we hadn't had the lock downs it would have been a lot worse'. Mexico might even appreciate a few Hellfire strikes on the Zetas.

Fine, but they should ask, we should not just launch.

Right, the same speculative trading that has existed in all commodity markets for a hundred years is suddenly the problem. Not Biden killing XL, which sent a powerful message to the world oil markets. Not Biden trying to kill another existing pipeline from Canada. Not Biden going extreme left with his anti-oil BS. Not the decline in drilling permits. Not the disruption from the Ukraine war and the sharp increase in demand since the economy rebounded from Covid. And what have the Democrats done about this? Has Biden called the oil industry to DC, met with them and asked what they need done to expedite increasing oil output as quickly as possible? Hell no, he, like you, just points the finger at any lame excuse and does nothing.

Same thing with wheat, corn and Tbond futures for decades, funny how there hasn't been this "problem" until now.

And commercial

And for every entity on one side of these contracts, there is someone on the other side taking the opposite position.

This is like saying that GM stock price isn't a reasonable market price because the trading has increased. Makes no sense.

Sure, by selling into it, hedging their future prices, figuring that oil will come back down again and if it doesn't they still locked in a good price.

This is typical lib BS, attack the free markets, instead of getting together with the oil industry in a positive fashion to see what they need to boost output. Hell, if Biden was an obvious fumbling old man, maybe even Saudia Arabia would take his call and increase oil output. They took calls from Trump, that's for sure.

It was maybe a month ago I had our tank refilled and it was $4.95/gal. I read main difference between heating oil and diesel is red dye added to oil and about 48 cents tax on diesel. Since you have to have oil delivered to your house that could put price on par. While maybe only five percent heat with oil, majority (82%) are concentrated in north east. Heat pumps here in northern DE are marginal and most use fossil fuel. Someone said we will be shipping oil and natural gas to Europe this fall due to the war in the Ukraine and all prices will go much higher.

You can thank the Jones Act for some of that.

Oh? "A 99-year-old law prevents foreign tankers from shipping gas within the US...So consumers in New England relied on importing liquefied natural gas from Trinidad and Tobago and even Russia to keep prices in check this past winter."

Not many oil or gas tankers meet the Jones criteria.

As the article points out 'protecting the US maritime industry' is a farce. My BIL, even back in the '80's, only worked 6 months a year. The Masters, Mates, and Pilots union was trying to spread the little work there was around. He had his master's license but I don't think he ever sailed higher than second mate.

When I was in high school I was interested in the engineering side rather than the deck crew. Luckily I didn't go into a dying industry..