Tree, did you expect recovery to be as simple as flipping a switch???

the rapid return of demand seems to have been unexpected by many.

The chance to have greater profit by selling at higher prices is never missed by business.

the supply chain is out of line for several reasons.. no workers or energy shortage at the origin point.
shipping infrastructure not kept on the ready during the shut down and now not functioning.. yes, the qualifying requirements in California ports are also part of it.. none of these things and more would cause the problem by themselves, but together, along with the population having money in hand have caused the shortages which in turn drive the inflation..

Of all the shortages, the fuel is most egregious and noted every day as we fill up our gas tank.. that is driven by wall street and big oil.. and will be slow to end.. after the price war driven by OPEC and Russia drove prices down, shutting down the shale oil companies, Oil is not going to reduce prices but rather enjoy the cash cow they now have returned to.. Oil is an international business and driven world wide. production in the US does not go directly to Americans at any time and if increased would be a long time affecting price at the pump. Be clear the fuel increase is desired by the fuel companies and not any policy of any free market government has driven it..

But buy now.. the cost of credit will also go up in time and those credit cards will grab even more of our money..

Examiner Enterprise
Jeff Robbins
Thu, November 11, 2021, 4:00 AM

For a guy who seems to be doing exactly what he was elected to do, President Joe Biden finds himself under bitter attack. Most of the attacks are from people who simply want him to fail, but as last week's poor performance by Democratic candidates showed, not all of them are. The president's approval ratings are curiously low inasmuch as, since taking office, his administration has substantially lifted the country out of the ditch it was in on Inauguration Day.

On Friday morning, the Department of Labor reported that the economy had added 531,000 jobs in October, bringing the number of jobs created during the first nine months of the Biden administration to 5.6 million. The unemployment rate, which had been 6.3% in January 2021, is now down to 4.6%. Biden's American Rescue Plan, enacted in March, kept America afloat while his team pushed, pressed and prodded Americans to get vaccinated against the virus that has killed 775,000 Americans and severely damaged our economy. Despite the sneering and disinformation from the predictable quarters, the number of Americans who are fully vaccinated is fast approaching 200 million.

Late Friday, Congress passed Biden's $1 trillion infrastructure package, a long-overdue public works program that is the largest of its kind since the Eisenhower presidency. It will likely soon be followed by a massive, historic bill that will address the dire need for clean energy, provide for universal preschool and expand efforts to combat child poverty.

You wouldn't know this by listening to the thunder on the Right, which has produced the customary inanity.

Folks who demand that the government dictate that women must give birth against their wills denounce policies requiring COVID-19 vaccinations, invoking a heretofore unrecognized constitutional right to infect others with a deadly, incurable disease. Those born too late to sue George Washington to block him from ordering his troops to be inoculated against smallpox are trying to make up for it: Despite a long history of requiring Americans to be immunized before participating in certain activities, these newcomers to civil rights causes maintain that requiring Americans to protect their fellow Americans from a lethal virus is un-American.

Over in the Senate, noted civil libertarian Ted Cruz, positioning himself to capture the Third Reich revivalist wing of the 2024 Republican presidential primary vote, lectured Attorney General Merrick Garland that it is everyone's God-given constitutional right to give the Nazi salute at school board meetings.

Then there are the cries that the president is to blame for disruptions in the global supply chain. These cries are mindless, but no matter: mindlessness in defense of the conning of people is no vice. The factories that manufacture many of our products are located in countries that have been particularly hard-hit by the pandemic, and many have been shuttered or limited in their output.

Shipping containers have been scarce. Blaming this on Biden is preposterous, but not any more preposterous than blaming it on Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who had the nerve to take a short period of time away from the office to look after his newborn twins. Fox News personality Tucker Carlson, always good for sixth-grade-level wit, did not disappoint, mocking Buttigieg, who adopted the twins with his husband Chasten, for being gay. "Paternity leave, they call it?" Carlson smirked. "Trying to figure out how to breastfeed. No word on how that went." Meanwhile, one of those infants just returned home after three weeks of urgent medical treatment, including time on a ventilator. No word on whether Carlson felt a moment's remorse for his stupidity, or even grasped it.

The snarkiness has not been from the Right alone. "Many who were sick of Trump chaos and ineptitude are now sick of Biden chaos and ineptitude," grumped New York Times snarkmeister Maureen Dowd shortly before Friday's jobs report and passage of Biden's infrastructure bill. But if what has been achieved since Biden took office qualifies as chaos and ineptitude, here's to more of it.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/sour-smell-success-president-under-110047862.html

Examiner Enterprise
Jeff Robbins
Thu, November 11, 2021, 4:00 AM

For a guy who seems to be doing exactly what he was elected to do, President Joe Biden finds himself under bitter attack. Most of the attacks are from people who simply want him to fail, but as last week's poor performance by Democratic candidates showed, not all of them are. The president's approval ratings are curiously low inasmuch as, since taking office, his administration has substantially lifted the country out of the ditch it was in on Inauguration Day.

On Friday morning, the Department of Labor reported that the economy had added 531,000 jobs in October, bringing the number of jobs created during the first nine months of the Biden administration to 5.6 million. The unemployment rate, which had been 6.3% in January 2021, is now down to 4.6%. Biden's American Rescue Plan, enacted in March, kept America afloat while his team pushed, pressed and prodded Americans to get vaccinated against the virus that has killed 775,000 Americans and severely damaged our economy. Despite the sneering and disinformation from the predictable quarters, the number of Americans who are fully vaccinated is fast approaching 200 million.

Late Friday, Congress passed Biden's $1 trillion infrastructure package, a long-overdue public works program that is the largest of its kind since the Eisenhower presidency. It will likely soon be followed by a massive, historic bill that will address the dire need for clean energy, provide for universal preschool and expand efforts to combat child poverty.

You wouldn't know this by listening to the thunder on the Right, which has produced the customary inanity.

Folks who demand that the government dictate that women must give birth against their wills denounce policies requiring COVID-19 vaccinations, invoking a heretofore unrecognized constitutional right to infect others with a deadly, incurable disease. Those born too late to sue George Washington to block him from ordering his troops to be inoculated against smallpox are trying to make up for it: Despite a long history of requiring Americans to be immunized before participating in certain activities, these newcomers to civil rights causes maintain that requiring Americans to protect their fellow Americans from a lethal virus is un-American.

Over in the Senate, noted civil libertarian Ted Cruz, positioning himself to capture the Third Reich revivalist wing of the 2024 Republican presidential primary vote, lectured Attorney General Merrick Garland that it is everyone's God-given constitutional right to give the Nazi salute at school board meetings.

Then there are the cries that the president is to blame for disruptions in the global supply chain. These cries are mindless, but no matter: mindlessness in defense of the conning of people is no vice. The factories that manufacture many of our products are located in countries that have been particularly hard-hit by the pandemic, and many have been shuttered or limited in their output.

Shipping containers have been scarce. Blaming this on Biden is preposterous, but not any more preposterous than blaming it on Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who had the nerve to take a short period of time away from the office to look after his newborn twins. Fox News personality Tucker Carlson, always good for sixth-grade-level wit, did not disappoint, mocking Buttigieg, who adopted the twins with his husband Chasten, for being gay. "Paternity leave, they call it?" Carlson smirked. "Trying to figure out how to breastfeed. No word on how that went." Meanwhile, one of those infants just returned home after three weeks of urgent medical treatment, including time on a ventilator. No word on whether Carlson felt a moment's remorse for his stupidity, or even grasped it.

The snarkiness has not been from the Right alone. "Many who were sick of Trump chaos and ineptitude are now sick of Biden chaos and ineptitude," grumped New York Times snarkmeister Maureen Dowd shortly before Friday's jobs report and passage of Biden's infrastructure bill. But if what has been achieved since Biden took office qualifies as chaos and ineptitude, here's to more of it.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/sour-smell-success-president-under-110047862.html

No new jobs were added. This is just people going back to work after shutdowns and checks for staying home stopped. He was not elected to have the highest inflation in 30 years. He wasn't elected to send illegals all over the country in the dead of night without being vetted or medically tested. He was not elected to abandon Americans in Afghanistan. He was not elected to created distrust in our allies. He was not elected for there to be a surge in violent crime, etc. Etc. Etc. He is a failure on every front.

Tree, did you expect recovery to be as simple as flipping a switch???

the rapid return of demand seems to have been unexpected by many.

The chance to have greater profit by selling at higher prices is never missed by business.

the supply chain is out of line for several reasons.. no workers or energy shortage at the origin point.
shipping infrastructure not kept on the ready during the shut down and now not functioning.. yes, the qualifying requirements in California ports are also part of it.. none of these things and more would cause the problem by themselves, but together, along with the population having money in hand have caused the shortages which in turn drive the inflation..

Of all the shortages, the fuel is most egregious and noted every day as we fill up our gas tank.. that is driven by wall street and big oil.. and will be slow to end.. after the price war driven by OPEC and Russia drove prices down, shutting down the shale oil companies, Oil is not going to reduce prices but rather enjoy the cash cow they now have returned to.. Oil is an international business and driven world wide. production in the US does not go directly to Americans at any time and if increased would be a long time affecting price at the pump. Be clear the fuel increase is desired by the fuel companies and not any policy of any free market government has driven it..

But buy now.. the cost of credit will also go up in time and those credit cards will grab even more of our money..

So much gas lighting. Shutting down pipelines, threatening to shut down pipelines, ending certain types of drilling, stopping drilling on federal lands, removing gov subsidies for the oil industry, basically launching a war on oil and gas and tapping into our oil and gas reserves because of this stupidity have caused oil and gas producers to capitalize on the current situation. They are going to make as much cash as they can, justified or not, because they are being sent a message that the US gov will work against their existence from now on, even claiming that the loss of the smaller producers is a good thing.

And now, here we are, a gov leader begging OPEC to increase drilling to lower prices. LOL! Right. That is exactly how they are going to approach this president. They have him by the balls and all because of his own efforts.

And let's talk vaccine mandates, especially in California. They are a reflection of this Biden administration. It is causing us to have a huge shortage of truckers, all of which run on oil and gas by the way (and always will) which is causing the supply chain constipation we are seeing, especially on the west coast. Just the sheer load on trucking in the US should send you progressives a very clear message that we cannot stop the flow of fossil fuels, we can only use them better and switch to other forms of it, but we cannot survive without it.

You guys of the great north are about to have a very expensive winter thanks to your leader Biden and I doubt he will miss a minute of sleep worrying about it, nor will all the other progressive leaders. Calculating in all this Biden produced inflation, wages are down as measured by the buying power they represent. And now they are admitting that these new spending proposals are going to increase taxes on the middle class.

If all this was inevitable, which is wasn't, y'all should have let Trump win and let him take the blame. But the fact is, it is ALL on Biden!!

you actually do not understand how the world wide oil business is run do you. or else you think this is only a joke and are pretending so you can blaime the man in the oval office..
I have outlined the marketing and the fault several times.. the hell with repeating it..

but it sure as hell is not about stopping construction on a pipeline.

If business wanted , they could very easily use a different port then LA.. even run to the east coast. they are grabbing the money rather then spending on alternatives.. Par for the course.. SOP..

fossil fuel use must be reduced and now that the oil champ/chump is fired we are increasing the action.. good for usa..

Cold.. first, my years heating cost is paid for.. with more then enough for the season..

In Minnesota we also have some more subsidies for fossil fuel.. depending on income, the state has a heat assistance program.. which makes sure no one who qualifies gets the heat shut down. in other words the fossil fuel people get more government money so they never lose from a customer who can not pay..

As for the comment that we enjoy mediocre management in the oval.. after the debilitating disgrace we fired, that does seem very very good indeed.

When the lower middle class run short and can't afford a fill up, you gonna let them tap your own reserves?

I understand as much about it as you do, but what you ignore is the message sent to the oil producers. They ain't gonna just sit there and watch their industry being taken apart with promises of more of the same in the future without covering their proverbial butts, so to speak. They will grab the profits before the grabbing is gone.

As for your pipedream of getting away from oil and gas, in a hundred years we will be even more dependent on energy from fossil fuels than we are now and the population will be three to four times what it is now no matter what alternatives are brought on line. It doesn't have to be a bad thing. We are capable of cleaning up our exhaust and emissions and we will if we don't force the industry to go into chaos. Oh yes, and in a hundred years teh climate change alarmists will be spouting the very same horse crap and the worlds temps will be essentially the same, maybe warmer of a bit cooler; we have no clue about that.