Supply Chain Issues?

koobookie wrote:

Rick wrote: I’ve worked with gay people for 15 years in the restaurant business and they’re just people, some I liked and some I didn’t.

I absolutely despise having to always prove my damn neutrality to ALL people. It’s the weakest tactic ever invented. You guys voted for a guy who has a long list of racist comments and actions, yet I’m the homophobe. Give me a break.

Some of you need to stop the media driven stereotypes, because you don’t really know any of us.

Fine. If you truly are not homophobic, then stop making fun of people that have a different sexual orientation than you.

By your criteria, homosexual men are homophobic, because the best jokes about lesbians I have heard came from gay males.

So K. would shut down comedy clubs & Netflix and ban "Blazing Saddles" if they made jokes about minorities?

Back on topic.
Supply issues, China has been having power problems due to flooding and other reasons. Their production of Manganese is down by 30%. Europe has less than a month's supply of this material that is used to strengthen aluminum.

So this is no longer just the US. England is paying a lot more for energy, and gas prices keep climbing.

FredHayek wrote: By your criteria, homosexual men are homophobic, because the best jokes about lesbians I have heard came from gay males.

So K. would shut down comedy clubs & Netflix and ban "Blazing Saddles" if they made jokes about minorities?

On this site, some people made jokes at the expense of homosexuals. Are you okay with that because other people do it?

Thank you.

WSJ: Railroads are also having issues. They have been turning down business because they can't get loaded containers out of their rail yards because of truck driver shortsges. Plus they can't get bridges and other infrastructure repaired. Where did all the workers go?

There have been requests to the Fed to cut back on stimulus to slow inflation Their response, if you read between the lines, says they are going to continue the stimulus because next quarter is going to be a disaster.

A paint supplier says they have 26 of the 27 chemicals they need to make paint, but until they get that last one, no paint. The supply chain is over stressed.

FredHayek wrote:
A paint supplier says they have 26 of the 27 chemicals they need to make paint, but until they get that last one, no paint. The supply chain is over stressed.

That Can they need has been kicked down the road for too many years now.

a VISUAL is more vivid than mere words

Last month I posted, in this thread, the difficulties of the trucking industry. Below is an article by a truck driver, going into greater detail of why the issue won't be solved quickly.

medium.com/@ryan79z28/im-a-twenty-year-t...not-end-bbe0ebac6a91

An excerpt:

The ‘experts’ want to say we can do things like open the ports 24/7, and this problem will be over in a couple weeks. They are blowing smoke, and they know it. Getting a container out of the port, as slow and aggravating as it is, is really the easy part, if you can find a truck and chassis to haul it. But every truck driver in America can’t operate 24/7, even if the government suspends Hours Of Service Regulations (federal regulations determining how many hours a week we can work/drive), we still need to sleep sometime. There are also restrictions on which trucks can go into a port. They have to be approved, have RFID tags, port registered, and the drivers have to have at least a TWIC card (Transportation Worker Identification Credential from the federal Transportation Security Administration). Some ports have additional requirements. As I have already said, most trucking companies won’t touch shipping containers with a 100 foot pole. What we have is a system with a limited amount of trucks and qualified drivers, many of whom are already working 14 hours a day (legally, the maximum they can), and now the supposed fix is to have them work 24 hours a day, every day, and not stop until the backlog is cleared. It’s not going to happen. It is not physically possible. There is no “cavalry” coming. No trucking companies are going to pay to register their trucks to haul containers for something that is supposedly so “short term,” because these same companies can get higher rate loads outside the ports. There is no extra capacity to be had, and it makes NO difference anyway, because If you can’t get a container unloaded at a warehouse, having drivers work 24/7/365 solves nothing.