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US Truck Rates at Highest Since 2022 Add to Inflation Pressures Trucking operators saw diesel prices spike by almost 50% since the start of the US-Israel war against Iran at the end of February. Haulers have responded by raising the weekly per-mile fuel surcharge paid by shippers to its highest since 2022, according to Truckstop. com data. Those surcharges come on top of a months-long increase in truck-equipment rates, which are charged to move goods around the country and are higher in part due to trucker shortages. Employment in the industry has tumbled since peaking during the pandemic reopening rush and is now the lowest since September 2020. (Bloomberg)

These are popping up at gas pumps

@StephenPunwasi WW III is a thing

Oh my. 😬 German men under 45 now require military permission before traveling for more than 3 months. On turning 18, they’re required to fill out a military assessment for skills. They’re only now realizing it was slipped it into a law back in Jan. theguardian.com/world/2026/apr…

The U.S. money supply just hit a new all time high and you’re bearish gold & silver?

James van Geelen — recently famous for causing a $200 billion market meltdown with a grim paper about the post-AI economy — has been desperately trying to figure out how Donald Trump’s war on Iran will affect financial markets. The Citrini Research founder had just watched the president’s April Fools’ Day address to the nation, which left him feeling glum. Prior to the speech, stocks had been rising on expectations of a cease-fire deal and Trump’s promises that U.S. involvement was almost over. But the prime-time ramble gestured at a brutal and intractable conflict. For the past month, Wall Street has been trying to game out this question: How long will the war last? The financial world has been especially focused on the Strait of Hormuz, the globe’s most important oil-transport channel. As long as it remains functionally shut by Iran, the international economy is in grave danger. Big investors have been just as clueless about when it might reopen as the average cable-news viewer. In that information vacuum, Citrini formulated a plan to collect better facts: Why not just send an analyst to the center of the action? In March, van Geelen dispatched an analyst — a quadrilingual non-American — to the northern tip of the United Arab Emirates, a strip of gulfside resorts (normally bustling, now empty) overlooking the Strait of Hormuz. “Morgan Stanley isn’t sending investment analysts to Fujairah,” van Geelen says. “The hotel is pretty much empty except for six guys in suits.” Read more about analysts’ efforts to ascertain what’s really happening in Trump’s war zone: nymag.visitlink.me/HGntuy

Seems like just a few days ago he said it wasn’t

China’s primary energy mix: This is key.. „Coal's share fell from 70% to 53%. But absolute consumption TRIPLED: +17,388 TWh..“

@disclosetv you don't need 155 aircraft to rescue 1 guy this is a cover up for a failed mission

This press conference is just Hegseth and the CIA director giving Trump a handjob in public. #IranWar‌#epicfury @EpicFuryMap @PeteHegseth @realDonaldTrump

It’s been 15 days since Trump’s original 48hr deadline He has postponed it 4 times

It currently costs $83k to mine a bitcoin only worth $70k think about that

OPEC liquids production is estimated to have now dropped >10MM Bbl/d, more than during COVID (the biggest demand shock in history). Biggest supply shock in history = COVID-inverted with still the worst yet to come.

Is this officially Canada’s most valuable asset? The Enbridge Mainline pipeline transports approximately 3 million !!!! bbl/d of oil to the U.S. Midwest, a volume unmatched by any pipeline originating from the Gulf Coast, the East Coast, or the West Coast. Despite what some may claim, Canada is indeed an energy superpower. And before the critics point to Venezuela’s oil reserves (and their 1 million bbl/d production oil rate)....one should consider Chicago’s location relatively to the Houston... and the immense logistical challenge of reliably shipping 3 million bbl/d to the Midwest region. And to all American friends: You welcome.🫡🪒

After 10 years of Liberals—including over a year of Carney as Prime Minister—Canada is drowning in deficits, two-thirds of which are federal. He has doubled the deficit—and outside COVID, federal deficits and spending are the highest ever. Liberals will never change. And Mark Carney is just another Liberal.

Is it just me, or has this Kremlin mouthpiece also fallen off?

Now he realizes that oil and gas are needed for survival of humanity! Now he said: "The disruption to supplies has already resulted in reduced access to the fossil fuels which countries around the world need to produce power, leading to higher prices rattling global markets in the process." This the guy who has been attacking the "fossil fuel" industries and oil producing countries for years. This is the guy who labeled those who invest in oil and gas "crazy"! He called fossil fuels “incompatible with human survival” and urged the world to “phase out fossil fuels” and “leave oil, coal and gas in the ground where they belong.”

"Trump wants to add nearly $7 trillion to the $39 trillion national debt with his new military budget," per FORTUNE

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TRUMP'S STRAIT OF HORMUZ TIMELINE: TRUMP: US Navy will escort oil tankers. TRUMP: Help me to open the strait. TRUMP: We don’t need any help. TRUMP: We don’t use the strait. TRUMP: We don’t need it. Trump: we can easily OPEN THE HORMUZ STRAIT. TRUMP TODAY: OPEN THE STRAIT.