If There Is A Diesel Shortage?

 In the past month, if you read through the BS....there is a potential national shortage of diesel fuel coming up.  

Key area to be hit first?  If you analyze the commentary....SE US.

So how would this work?  You'd have three key groups affected:

1.  Truckers who support grocery/store operations on a daily basis.

2.  Farmers who need diesel to operate farm vehicles.

3.  School buses that carry kids to school.  

The first real sign of trouble?  You stand at a diesel fuel station and the sign has gone up....no fuel delivery for 12 hours.  So you park your rig, or your bus.....waiting.  You can imagine three states in the very beginning and having this issue.

Within forty-eight hours....instead of just forty stations in a 'wait' situation....you now have three-hundred.

Delivery of grocery goods?  You start to notice delivery schedules are now 72 hours behind normal, and empty shelves beginning to show.

After three weeks of this....your national problem has extended into the center part of the US, and affecting around forty states.

Blame?  There's at least a dozen choices, but it appears that this has been building up for almost eighteen months.  You can't even make the case that Biden deserves some of the blame.

Some national crisis diesel 'committee' is appointed by Biden to fix this, and what you end up with....is a group of insiders who are creating a more screwed-up fuel system, with food shortages part of the mess....but including school kids who can't be carried to school because of the crisis.   

Hint?  I don't think this goes away in 2022 or 2023....it'll linger for possibly three years.  

My Perception Of The Paul Pelosi Attack Story

 First, as long as the basic story stays that this David-the-hammer-guy just shows up....barges into the home and attacks Paul Pelosi....things are fine and the news media doesn't have to 'carry' much 'water'.

If Dave-the-hammer-guy says he and Paul are 'friends', or that he was invited over, or that someone brought him to Paul's house for some reason, or that he and Paul had some kinky fantasy going on (involving hammers and tie-up bands)....then it's a mess for the news media to clean up.

So, if I were Paul Pelosi, and there's more to the attack story....I'd have the lawyer visit Dave-the-hammer-guy and offer up some cash to agree to one single discreet story (him barging in) and get the prosecutor to only press on a minor 1-month in jail situation. 

The key factor here....on risk-assessment and weird kinky stuff...this is either a zero (barge-in story) or it's a ten (meaning a relationship with a drugged-up nutcase was possible).  You would have been safer going off to Thailand and having some half-man/half-woman situation there....instead of a drugged-up absolute nutcase from the streets of SF.

But there's this other odd situation with David-the-hammer-guy's ex-wife....who is on jail-prison time, for trying to kidnap some fourteen-year old boy....because of some sexual fantasy thing going on in her mind.  

Whole thing?  If you were a screenplay writer....the whole story....deserves a script/movie.  

Finally, lets say that Paul was just a pure up-and-up victim here.  This attack would convince me to haul-ass out of SF, and find some safe gated-community in Florida to retire in and feel safe with 24-hour guards at the community gate.  For normal people, that would be the first thing in their mind after exiting the hospital.