I read a few local news article on this incident and witnesses are saying that the car was speeding towards the protestors (like 50 in 25 speeding) from several blocks away. We complain about sensationalized cable news on here a lot, but still repost these types of clips. Probably a whole lot of messiness in this whole situation that people are ignoring to fit there preferred narrative.
A local TV station did an interview with the guy that was in the pick-up. He's in the hospital with: partially collapsed lung 2 fractured lower vertebrae 5 broken ribs broken collarbone trauma to head What were these people protesting? Fascism, police brutality, and militarization of the police. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Why is this Pipeline nonsense causing a gas shortage in my small town? Don't they have supply backups? Have we learned NOTHING from the great toilet paper crisis of 2020?!
I don’t know man, when I heard about the shortages in Florida, and then in Georgia, I went out and filled up the tanks in both cars.
They should just make every refuge that comes across the border carry a full 5 gallon jerry can to their destination. That should take care of it.
Meet the new shortage, same as the old shortage. The thing to do is convert all stations to full service and put up "20 Gal per Customer" limit signs. But they won't, so you'd better get there first.
Impending fuel shortages and fears of inflation. Did Jimmy Carter put a curse on Biden when he visited him last week or something?
"Fears of inflation"? Bruh, lumber prices have quadrupled. Median home prices rose $75k. Childcare, gas, food, and commodities have all gone up in a major way, most of it at least 10% off a low last March. If this isn't inflation, then what the fuck is it? We knew there would be some distortions and price fuckery when things started opening back up and demand for things started to stabilize, but this shit is bananas.
Price increases don't automatically mean inflation, at least not in actual meaning of that word. It’s the purchasing power of a currency across a market and not, “I paid more for gas today than I did 6 months ago.” That can be a symptom of inflation, but unless the monetary authorities are complete retards, they should know it’s coming before it hits.
There's a shitload of unused vacation money out there burning a hole in people's bank accounts. Also a lot of time to finally get started on those home renovation projects. Extraordinary demand meets extraordinary lack of supply where applicable.
I agree, it's why buying a motorcyle is frustrating as shit right now. However, there are millions of folks who don't exactly get a ton of paid time off, and the things they are buying (gas, food, housing) cost a lot more than they did before COVID. It's also one of the biggest arguments against UBI: it just tacks on that stimulus to whatever folks were splurging on anyway.
Talking to the precon guys and the trade partners PMs; lead time on steel joists is 40 weeks. Can't even get detailers to look at steel jobs for months. Steel deck pan prices up 60%, lead time is just empty air on the other end of the line....Can't find coil stock, you name it. Construction is going like gang busters and going about to explode as well. There are so many pursuits we can't chase all of the ones we want. Just going to be a real rough patch now through end of Q3 with the pause COVID caused, unless the economy completely overheats and melts down.
I wonder when the "market correction" is going to hit. These housing prices aren't sustainable. Like, how has my house gained 100k in market value in the less than 3 years since we purchased?
Because we're a stupid as fuck country that invented the phrase "home value" instead of "housing price". Everything baby boomers want to buy being cheap is good, but everything they want to sell being cheap is bad, those degenerate old fucks.
Here in DC, it's starting to cool off. It's slightly less competitive than it was a month or two ago. Buyers (like me) are sitting this market out, and sellers who want to relocate somewhere cheaper aren't finding homes there or that they are wildly over priced. I talked to a guy who sold in Arlington, VA and bought in Lake Norman, NC and said he was glad to break even, after some renovations and moving costs. Houses in that part of VA average over half a mil.[/QUOTE]