Saudi Arabia shut down East-West crude oil pipeline after multiple attacks

[u/MoesOtherBar]

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/11/saudi-arabia-shut-down-east-west-crude-oil-pipeline.html

[u/YesterShill]

What are the odds of national gas price averages hitting $5.00 by the midterms?

[u/OutlawSundown → u/YesterShill]

Pretty much a guarantee if the East-West pipeline is getting fucked and the Red Sea becomes a navigational hazard.

[u/Rafi89 → u/OutlawSundown]

I'm sure the giant plume of black smoke yesterday was just precautionary, don't worry!

[u/OutlawSundown → u/Rafi89]

Obviously a smoking accident

[u/BassLB → u/OutlawSundown]

It means a new oil pope has been chosen

[u/ImBadAtJumping → u/Rafi89]

I admit I've underestimated the "giant" adjective in your sentence

[u/ashgs872tbhjs → u/ImBadAtJumping]

Me: How bad could it be?

Browser: Loading copernicus.eu

Boss music: starts playing

[u/thoughtforgotten → u/ashgs872tbhjs]

Browser: loading map slowly in patches

Me: Huh, I don't know, everything looks pretty normal to me

Browser: loads fully

Me: swipes slightly to the left

Me: ohhhhhh...

Me: swipes more to the left

Me: ...THAT giant plume of black smoke...

[u/Tycoon004 → u/ImBadAtJumping]

It's not often it's not just giant, but seen easily from space giant.

[u/Telvin3d → u/OutlawSundown]

$5.00 gas is the least of it, if the Red Sea gets blockaded. That’s the access to the Suez Canal. When the Ever Given accidentally blocked the Suez for six days, it took six months before global supply chains had mostly recovered.

A military blockage is going to mean empty store shelves almost immediately

[u/RepairBudget → u/Telvin3d]

You guys wait here. I'm going to the store to stock up on toilet paper

[u/brunchish → u/RepairBudget]

50% toilet paper imported to the US comes from Canada.

[u/professor_max_hammer → u/brunchish]

Thank god the United States is on really good terms with our Canadian brothers to the north. Such a good relationship nothing could ever come between us.

[u/BurmeciaWillSurvive → u/Telvin3d]

The EverGiven was only 6 days? Oh god.

[u/Telvin3d → u/BurmeciaWillSurvive]

Ran aground on march 23, was freed on march 29. Then it took six months to work through the backlog because when your canal normally operates at close to 100% capacity, you’re lucky to squeeze in a couple extra a day

[u/Xyrus2000 → u/Telvin3d]

One of the biggest negatives of the just-in-time supply chain is that any kink in the chain jams the whole machine.

[u/Arctic_Chilean → u/OutlawSundown]

Specially after the Houthis took a chunk of the western coast close to the Bab-El-Mandeb ^cheers!

[u/hobbykitjr → u/Arctic_Chilean]

and our oil reserves are already low

hell what are the odds we have a 'gas crisis' in the next year?

[u/OK_x86 → u/hobbykitjr]

Oh and Trump started a trade war with Canada. Canada provides like 60% of crude oil to the US.

Carney could fuck Trump up if he wanted to

[u/TheGreatGamer1389 → u/OK_x86]

And like 80% of potash. The fertilizer used to grow our food.

[u/jesuswig → u/TheGreatGamer1389]

So much fucking winning!

[u/Apothecary_85 → u/jesuswig]

But I might get a check for $5,000. I can add it to my imaginary bank account with my DOGE check, tariff dividend, tariff refund, and tax refund.

[u/oreography → u/Apothecary_85]

Don’t forget that the quickest way to own libs is by starvation and homelessness! The trans people and blacks live cushy lives in houses - we need to be rugged true Americans and move into tents like our pioneer forefathers!

And we don’t even need money anyways - that’s a Jewish lie controlled by the Fed! Let’s barter for chickens and trade our beads and stolen land.

Let’s make America Great Again and make our segregated tent city with no gays, Mexicans, blacks, or working women.

END THE WALLS

BUILD THE TENTS

TRADE THE BEADS

RIDE THE HORSE

[u/Normal-Selection1537 → u/TheGreatGamer1389]

And 65% of the LNG used in urea based fertilizers in the world came from Qatar.

[u/ArcticRiot → u/OK_x86]

And there’s still a war between Ukraine and Russia

[u/Accidental-Genius → u/OK_x86]

Carney knows it’s too early to play that card. Needs to wait a month.

[u/Asleep_Document9811 → u/hobbykitjr]

Haha there will be gas lines by this winter! Everyone is focused on price, the issue we're about to face is more about supply.

[u/old-legs-623 → u/Asleep_Document9811]

And then comes worries about food -- not prices, supply.

[u/Reddittee007 → u/hobbykitjr]

Wait til Canada decides to put some transit fees, tarrifs or entirely shut down the oil flowing to mainland from Alaska thru their territory.

It will be glorious.

[u/ATTORNEY_FOR_CATS → u/hobbykitjr]

We're only about 30m barrels away from the statutory floor for the reserve, too. For context, that's how much was being released every 3 weeks back in May/June/July.

[u/Wiseduck5 → u/ATTORNEY_FOR_CATS]

He’s also claimed he’ll refill it with Venezuelan oil, which would destroy it.

I would say someone would stop him, but he got the Army Corps of Engineers to waste a lot of water last year.

[u/Friendly_Night_Demon → u/Arctic_Chilean]

And captured surrounding Islands in the Red Sea

[u/PokemonSapphire → u/Arctic_Chilean]

Cheers! *downs a whole fifth of vodka while looking at fuel prices*

[u/Nickthenuker → u/PokemonSapphire]

You might want to hold on to that, could be useful fuel.

[u/PokemonSapphire → u/Nickthenuker]

It is fuel already. My body is a machine that turns alcohol into bad karaoke and life decisions!

[u/whatlineisitanyway → u/OutlawSundown]

Would be a convient time for Canada to add an export tax to the oil it ships to the US.

[u/0100100012635 → u/YesterShill]

Just seen diesel for $6.70 at the MI-IN border.

[u/BloodFartz69 → u/0100100012635]

Thank all the local republicans.

[u/BigMoneyStacka → u/BloodFartz69]

Oh I thank every single republican they voted for this shit lmao

And when they won the election they said get ready for gas prices to go down, housing prices to go down, food prices to go down, an end to war, and so on and so forth. lmao

[u/PokemonSapphire → u/BigMoneyStacka]

And when they won the election they said get ready for gas prices to go down, housing prices to go down, food prices to go down, an end to war, and so on and so forth. lmao

You know with all their projection about illegal immigrants and such are we sure this admin isn't staffed by a bunch of secret aussies? They're all just looking at the charts upside down and that's why things keep getting worse.

[u/zielawolfsong → u/BloodFartz69]

~6 bucks a gallon here in California…funny how I haven’t heard any complaints about gas prices from all my conservative relatives in a while when it was nonstop at $4.

[u/TheAmillion12 → u/zielawolfsong]

I can't wait for Christmas where I will non stop whine about gas prices just like they did when Obama and Biden were president

[u/Accidental-Genius → u/TheAmillion12]

They won’t be able to afford Christmas.

[u/RandyTheFool → u/0100100012635]

GasBuddy reported the NATIONAL AVERAGE of diesel was $6.00 a gallon for the first time ever yesterday.

Edit: bolded the important part that people keep commenting on.

[u/Howstheslot → u/RandyTheFool]

We blew right by that number

[u/Aschebescher → u/YesterShill]

The whole world is suffering from this. Diesel hit $10.98 today in Germany (€2.50 Euro per Liter).

[u/ZoomZoom_Driver → u/YesterShill]

In WA, as of today, premium is $6.30 and diesel is $6.70. When the national average hits $5 for either, I'll probabpy be paying $8 - 10.

[u/rabidstoat → u/ZoomZoom_Driver]

Can't pay $10, the max you have to pay is $9.99 because the signs don't go any higher. I mean, isn't that how it works? 😛

[u/guarddog33 → u/rabidstoat]

I'm sure big oils top scientists are currently working on figuring out what number comes after 9.99 9/10

[u/Googlebright → u/guarddog33]

It'll be like Y2K, except oilier.

[u/Fievels_good_trouble → u/rabidstoat]

$3 per liter. This is how America joins the rest of the world and adopts metric!

[u/crimxona → u/Fievels_good_trouble]

$2.84 per Quart, because that's cheaper than L. /s

[u/Tearakan → u/YesterShill]

Much higher than that. Reserves are low planetwide. And China couldn't keep doing demand destruction. It's gonna get really bad

[u/MrJoyless → u/Tearakan]

Reserves arent just low, they are damn near exhausted. Iirc the US reserves just dipped below 1970s oil crisis levels, with over 70% more people in the US now (342.8 million vs 200 million).

[u/Jetavator → u/Tearakan]

demand destruction?

[u/WhiskeyBike → u/Jetavator]

China dropped oil imports a few months ago basically overnight, by like 40%

They have a huge reserve, so them cutting imports is basically the only keeping oil prices from spiking as much as they normally would have.

They have began increasing their oil imports again, so their effect on keeping costs low elsewhere on the planet will continue to subside, and we will get price increases that continue to get worse and worse

[u/Jetavator → u/WhiskeyBike]

thank you

[u/RestaurantOk8066 → u/Jetavator]

China has large reserves and pulled back on oil purchases at the outbreak of the war, keeping demond low(er) than it would otherwise be.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/10/china-crude-oil-iran-hormuz-war-trump-brent-prices-.html

[u/organasm → u/Jetavator]

They are pulling oil from their own reserves since Hormuz is closed. Don't know how long they'll continue to do so. That destroyed enough demand to keep oil prices from going higher than they are. But we also were pulling out of our reserves and that's drying up, too.

[u/TheYear1414 → u/organasm]

The main difference is China managed to expand their renewable energy production by a jaw-dropping amount meanwhile in the US the White House rolled out coaly the favorite coal mascot of all kids in West Virginia who hope to one day work in the mines of their forefathers.

[u/aerost0rm → u/TheYear1414]

Not only did we roll out coaly, we cancelled renewable contracts or bought them out of them. Making sure we are guaranteed
To have a depression due to an energy crisis. Housing crisis, energy crisis, food crisis. Deportation crisis, government crisis, etc, etc

[u/powercow → u/aerost0rm]

yup we paid companies to not increase power production because it was woke, right when we need power the most.

[u/le_user → u/organasm]

A minor point about "demand destruction": while your description is correct about China helping to keep the global price lower by not importing as much, "demand destruction" actually refers to a scenario where the price gets so high that no one will buy it.

For example, in regular times, oil producers are happy when the price rises as they will make more money. But if the price spirals out of control they actually lose money because no one will buy anymore.

[u/ost2life → u/YesterShill]

Way things are going you're gonna be looking back at $5 a gallon as the good old days soon.

[u/fobtk → u/YesterShill]

5 dollars? those are rookies numbers

[u/Stray_Neutrino → u/YesterShill]

High, because this whole thing is NOT going to end right after the midterms.

[u/SauconySundaes → u/YesterShill]

Depends on how much Trump wants to lose the Senate.

[u/Aedeus → u/SauconySundaes]

They're already pretty outwardly planning to cheat anyways.

[u/randomtask → u/Aedeus]

He literally just had everyone pledge, at his Trumpapalooza convention last night, “to try to cheat like hell like they [Democrats] do”

He led them in a pledge to cheat. On camera. National TV.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2026/09/11/cheat-like-hell-trump-makes-gop-convention-attendees-pledge-to-vote-in-bizarre-moment/

[u/vriska1 → u/randomtask]

Vote in the midterms no matter what!

[u/wtfElvis → u/Aedeus]

they are 100% going to cheat. But what happens if its proven they have cheated after the fact but they won?

[u/Blubbolo → u/wtfElvis]

• elmo paraded he did something to the machines last elections.
• elmo's baby mama said he did something to the machines last elections.
• Trump said he won thanks to elmo.

Did something happen?

[u/Bladder_Puncher → u/wtfElvis]

“But you bankrupted 6 companies”.

“Thats what a smart businessman does. They set up the rules, I just use them”.

“But you cheated the election”.

“That’s what a smart politician does. You didn’t fix the invulnerability. I just used it”.

*waves hand

[u/splintersmaster → u/YesterShill]

Keeping in mind that the winter blend gas that is often cheaper will not be seen this year as they've already began transitioning to it early in order to provide relief. They've nearly exhausted all available reserve fuel and watered it down to boot.

There is only an uphill battle with all safety nets already deployed.

It will continue to go up and up. It's just a letter of how quickly.

[u/HandSack135 → u/YesterShill]

People can't vote against you if they can't drive to the polls

[u/SuggestionMedical736]

Dude really thought it would be like Venezuela.

[u/rt590 → u/SuggestionMedical736]

Yup, he was on an adrenaline high from sacking a world leader with no consequences and he was like wow, we can just do this everywhere! Cuba too! 🍊🤡

[u/Soggy-Beach1403 → u/rt590]

Cuba is going to cost the US a lot of money in aid if we are dumb enough to force a coup. And 77 million American voters are exactly that amount of dumb.

[u/adube440 → u/rt590]

If they tried Cuba instead of Iran, it would be a shit show, but much less of one. Little Marco wanted to go to Cuba.

[u/Tearakan → u/adube440]

Yeah that would be like Afghanistan. Endless guerrilla warfare but not much affect anywhere else

[u/Thevsamovies → u/adube440]

Cuba would have been significantly easier. USA could literally blockage the entire country and Cuba was already in a rough spot at the time. Iran was a massive mistake.

[u/Cerpla → u/Thevsamovies]

even the citizens knew why it was a bad idea. there was a shit ton of videos that showed how badly it would go if anyone tried it. this is honestly a point for liberal arts majors that maga americans mocked. diplomatic people with political science discipline, psychology, writers, journalists, and history advisors would have been a boon. we have so many wise people who live for this, and we just shun them.

[u/wilson1474 → u/rt590]

Yeah, and look at cuba now... Remember when. " oh when we will finish up quickly in Iran, and on our way home we will take a little detour to Cuba, and overthrow thier government. "

Now its been since March that Cuba got any outside oil. It's like they put in all these sanctions and walked away.

[u/fredsify → u/rt590]

It was coming eventually from the republicans. Theyve been fiending to punch iran for a long time now. Past grievances in regards to terror attacks ans all that. I think Trump just happened to be reckless or stupid enough to go trough with it.

[u/bluemitersaw → u/fredsify]

And Israel was able to talk him into it. Trump is easy to manipulate.

[u/brute-forced → u/SuggestionMedical736]

He is the worst president in the history of the USA

[u/aerost0rm → u/brute-forced]

Oh you forget. He is both the first and second worst. Lol.

[u/rabidstoat → u/aerost0rm]

Worst present since the last Republican President!

[u/OrangeJr36 → u/SuggestionMedical736]

In and out, five minute adventure!

Smash cut to September and Saudi Arabia can't pump oil across their own country without it getting blown up

[u/09f3jns → u/SuggestionMedical736]

Netanyahu convinced Trump that Iran would surrender on Day 1

[u/aerost0rm → u/09f3jns]

Yup. Goaded him by saying no other president had the balls to bomb Iran when every other president said no. Then promised him if he killed the leadership they would just roll over. Problem is then Trump say the profit making capabilities and here we are.

[u/azarashi → u/aerost0rm]

And he was convinced the Iranian people would rise up and take over and over throw the government, he talked so much about it when it all was starting.

[u/der_innkeeper → u/09f3jns]

And, the kurds would be our ground troops!

Erdogan: the hell you say.

[u/SquallFromGarden → u/der_innkeeper]

Iranian Kurds weren't going to rise up anyways. Iran is one of the few countries that gave them safe harbour.

[u/Raise-Emotional → u/SuggestionMedical736]

Right? We've pounded our chest and threatened this country for 40+ years and he thought they wouldn't be ready for an attack?

[u/Bippityboo62 → u/SuggestionMedical736]

Funny how Mr “I stopped 8 wars” suddenly can’t solve this one.

No wait, he has solved it, except he hasn’t, but he’s decimated Iran’s navy and airforce and missile systems, except our bases and people keep getting attacked, but the strait is open and flowing, except there’s a blockade, but we’re the ones blockading it…

I think if I keep going, I’m gonna have a stroke…

[u/Accidental-Genius → u/SuggestionMedical736]

Speaking of that… where is all that cheap Venezuelan oil Dorito Mussolini was pratteling on about?

[u/UBC145]

You know just the other day I was thinking: “wouldn’t it be nice if I could pay MORE for gas”

[u/nutationsf → u/UBC145]

And all the things transported by it

[u/ElegantBiscuit → u/nutationsf]

And all plastic derived products or anything packaged in plastic, which is basically everything.

[u/nutationsf → u/ElegantBiscuit]

Not just plastic, fertilizer too

[u/IamaFunGuy → u/nutationsf]

This is the thing I don’t see many talking about but I'm definitely hearing about it from folks I know in ag.

[u/TheOtherSideOfMe1 → u/ElegantBiscuit]

And then if and when we don't destroy ourselves and the price of oil drops again and then all the people involved don't drop their prices, because hey profits....

[u/CoconutBoi1 → u/TheOtherSideOfMe1]

You think that’s funny but that IS going to happen. This happened in my country exactly because we have a weak government. Restaurants, shops, groceries, etc all raised their products during covid and since then haven’t stopped. Greedy bastards.

[u/NUMBerONEisFIRST → u/UBC145]

We have been begging trump for higher gas prices. We are on our knees at his feet, saying sir, please, please let me pay more for gas, and trump said, all you had to do was ask!

[u/RichardAboutTown → u/NUMBerONEisFIRST]

Are you tired of winning yet? I'm ttired of "winning." Sick and tired.

[u/bluskale → u/RichardAboutTown]

You have to wonder if there are internal discussions right now about when to invoke the 25th amendment and push all the blame on Trump.

[u/Captaincadet → u/NUMBerONEisFIRST]

Yes all over Europe were prepared to pay stupid amount of money towards gas and petrol for the Supreme leaders victory. Victory over heat … /s

[u/bookworm8232 → u/UBC145]

Owning the libs is expensive.

[u/JuDGe3690 → u/bookworm8232]

Sadly, it's no longer a one-time purchase, but a recurring Libs subscription…

[u/Vyzantinist → u/bookworm8232]

Expensive, but attainable. Remember, conservatives know what reaction is expected of them and lean hard the opposite way just to "trigger the libs". They will smirk while paying higher gas prices if they get it in their heads that that exasperates you. They've already said they're happy to pay more for gas for various reasons. "Oh you expect me to abandon Trump now that his policies are hurting me? Well guess what, libturd: I love it! Hehe I bet that really pisses you off hehe."

[u/statepkt → u/UBC145]

MAGA’s new talking points are exactly that.

[u/Rhonda_Lasagna → u/UBC145]

I live in a shithole part of a shithole state and my county went 90% for Trump. I also have a job in a sector of the economy that is almost invincible, and the wife and I are DINKs. Our houshold income is well above the average for this area. I live literally 4 minutes of backstreets from my job and we drive a hybrid.

I love watching these ignorant shit kicking dollar store payday loan rent to own mountain dew malnutrition pit bull trailer park punisher skull tribal tat MMA duck dynasty degenerates rolling pennies for gas and struggling to pay the bills. I can't wait for our local hospital to cave in due to Medicaid cuts over the next few years.

It pains me that a very small percentage of the people hurt by all of this do not deserve it, but I do not hesistate to feast on the misery and failure of these backward hillbillies that see equality as oppression. Their suffering is beautiful to me.

[u/thrownjunk → u/Rhonda_Lasagna]

Fuck em all. I mean i drive an EV but diesel prices hit the entire supply chain. Im less hit, but still hit.

[u/GhostBoo-ty]

Really curious to see the outcome of axing all the renewable energy projects in the US and pressuring car manufacturers to decrease fuel efficiency when nobody can afford gas.

[u/Accidental-Genius → u/GhostBoo-ty]

Soon it won’t really be as much of an affordability problem as much as it is a supply problem.

[u/acog → u/GhostBoo-ty]

I think in the private energy sector they're still going to mostly install renewable energy because compared to natural gas turbine plants it's cheaper to build and cheaper to run, thus more profitable.

But it's a huge self own that the federal government is actively trying to hamper the transition instead of accelerating it. It's exactly the wrong move.

[u/SnooAvocados7188 → u/acog]

This is true, I work in renewables and it’s exploding right now. Although a lot of the reason is the speed to build, you can put up solar much faster than a gas plant.

It’s very reassuring that solar and battery came out on top even with all of the admin’s attempts to quash it. Monkeys paw though, unfortunately the growth is pretty much completely driven by ai hyperscaling demand

[u/srone]

THIS is the Trump Dividend.

[u/Spyrothedragon9972]

This dumbass is literally fucking everything up.

[u/Positive_Vibes_4228 → u/Spyrothedragon9972]

No no, remember, we always blame Biden. Had Biden not (done something somehow blah blah) then Trump would have to fuc sht up and give us $6 gas prices. /s

[u/Suthrnr → u/Positive_Vibes_4228]

I'm so tired of Biden jokes and memes. Just fuck this guy and fuck anyone who makes excuses for him. I cut my right-wing family and "friends" off entirely.

I'm done with this fascist pedophile and anyone who associates with him. I'm done memeing and laughing about how much of a clown he is.

I fucking despise this guy and all of his shitty fans and I won't forgive any of them in this life or the next.

[u/Uno_worldchamp2009]

By shut down they mean they stopped pumping oil through it because it had multiple gaping holes in it.

[u/xx-shalo-xx → u/Uno_worldchamp2009]

Shutting down these oil infrastructure is easy getting them up and running again can take months. They're really not designed to be turned off but running constantly.

[u/WahSuppDude → u/xx-shalo-xx]

That's why I always thought all that talk of pipelines to bypass the Strait of Hormuz was all cope.

You can build as much pipelines as you want, they don't mean anything if you can't protect it.

[u/SaintWithoutAShrine → u/WahSuppDude]

Build a wall around them, duh. We’ll get Mexico to pay for it. A big, beautiful wall.

[u/Touch_Of_Legend → u/SaintWithoutAShrine]

We can call it the wall of America! (In Saudi Arabia)…

Now where did I leave my sharpie

[u/CasualVox]

I'm tired of all this winning Grandpa...

[u/Fuck_auto_tabs → u/CasualVox]

“You keep talking to me like that I’ll throw your unborn sister into Lake America!”

[u/ghoulishgirl → u/CasualVox]

That’s too damned bad! 

[u/irazzleandazzle]

oh dear that's not gonna be good for gas prices

[u/tider06 → u/irazzleandazzle]

It's going to fuck prices on everything

[u/NaiveChoiceMaker → u/irazzleandazzle]

Trump is single handily doing more for EVs than all other Democrat presidents combined.

[u/L-J- → u/NaiveChoiceMaker]

Oh don't worry. Energy cost spikes from the hundreds of Data Centers being built will fix that.

[u/21Rollie → u/L-J-]

He’s doing a lot for the solar industry too. I’m so thankful I got panels before he took away the tax credits, but they’ve only become a better investment since then.

[u/UndoxxableOhioan → u/irazzleandazzle]

Which makes Trump’s buddies happy. More profits for oil companies.

[u/AirmailHercules → u/UndoxxableOhioan]

Nah, over $100/barrel starts to pinch demand and profits eventually start to decrease above that.
Source: Landman (lol)

[u/TheRexRider]

The day Trump dies should be a global holiday.

[u/Silentrein → u/TheRexRider]

He needs to get on with it already

[u/tabrizzi → u/TheRexRider]

The evil that men do lives after them.

[u/SauconySundaes → u/tabrizzi]

Yeah, but there's no reason we can't light some fireworks and get black out drunk.

[u/vodkaismywater → u/TheRexRider]

I'll hope it's a Friday, otherwise I'll need to use PTO to recover from the hangover I'll have. 

[u/john_the_quain → u/vodkaismywater]

There will be stories that go into the economic impact of people taking work off or the general lack of productivity because everyone is just focused on it.

[u/BuffaloGwar1 → u/vodkaismywater]

I bought a super loud WW2 siren. That is loud enough to hear miles away. I'm going to crank it off on my deck when it happens.

[u/Lurky_Bat → u/BuffaloGwar1]

I’ll be listening for it

[u/322throwaway1 → u/TheRexRider]

Im gonna jork it until my peanits falls off in celebration 🍾 🥜💦

[u/Uncle_Blayzer → u/TheRexRider]

I'm taking the day off work every year for the rest of my life.

[u/Vhu → u/TheRexRider]

Anybody who doesn’t already have a celebratory bottle ready is behind the curve.

My girl bought cymbals and I got a snare drum; we’re getting shitfaced and starting a “just for no specific reason” neighborhood parade.

[u/Intellectual-Hamster → u/TheRexRider]

I have champagne and fireworks ready!

[u/Hellstorm901 → u/TheRexRider]

It'll be an event akin to an international Guy Fawkes day

[u/Interesting_Pen_167]

This is a really big deal and something that a ton of analysts were worried about for months.

[u/Thorteris]

This was something that even casual world event followers predicted would happen assuming Iran was attacked. And now we will have $120 barrel oil.

[u/Accidental-Genius → u/Thorteris]

It’ll be closer to $160

[u/ConcentrateDirect523]

Let's gooooooo $8/gal diesel! King Mierdas is giving the oil industry the same shit-touch he gave to coal, and the DOJ

[u/Daily-Lizard → u/ConcentrateDirect523]

King Mierdas is an excellent nickname.

[u/spurlockmedia → u/ConcentrateDirect523]

Sir, rural Californians were paying $8 for diesel last week.

[u/welmoe → u/ConcentrateDirect523]

I saw $8.29 this morning. Shits going to skyrocket to $10

[u/Wanna_make_cash]

This is really bad. The east-west pipeline was a key way that oil prices were staying down since it was one of the only ways to move oil while avoiding the Strait and it's issues.

[u/randomtask]

This energy crisis is going to cause so much unnecessary poverty, hunger, and death worldwide. All because 70 million Americans believed a hateful, petty, and vengeful man would give them the “superior” station in the social ladder that they so desperately wanted, to fill the empty black void in their hearts that yearned for belonging. And they didn’t even fucking get that. They’re gonna to be down and out just as much as the rest of us who saw this train wreck coming ten fucking years ago

[u/Prior-Explanation389]

This might just be the straw that breaks the camel’s back, reserves worldwide are on life support and the one of the key easements has just been turned off. Thanks Trump ffs.

[u/Blubbolo]

Hope he doesn't wake up tomorrow.

Fucking clown literally shitting on the world.

[u/nutationsf → u/Blubbolo]

That’s really selfish, it needs to be on live tv so we can all see

[u/Oregon-Pilot → u/nutationsf]

Oh but it won’t be. They’ll hide it like they’re hiding the podium diaper-shitting dead McConnell, but all the way until 2028.

[u/nutationsf → u/Oregon-Pilot]

Which is why I want it to be in public live

[u/human_i_suppose → u/Blubbolo]

Vance been talking like he feels obligated to try and bring about the biblical apocalypse

[u/Blubbolo → u/human_i_suppose]

The only apocalypse he can bring is an STD to a white house couch.

[u/Bocote]

Pipelines getting struck was expected, much like the strait getting closed.

The rest of the world didn't fuck around, but we're all finding out together, not by choice.

[u/Shurae → u/Bocote]

All thanks to one orange man and his cronies. Im in Germany and gas has been crazy expensive. I had to tell my employer they can forget me driving out on the weekend to get some overtime. Just not worth it anymore.

[u/azurricat2010]

So a Dem will take over in 2028 and get blamed for what Trump is doing, rinse and repeat?

[u/Ok-Blood4340 → u/azurricat2010]

Reminds me of 2020 and people blaming the Covid response on Biden.

[u/ThePensiveE]

Hope nobody had any travel plans

[u/Rynowash]

Let’s get ready to rumbleeeee!! This is gonna be a mess. Absolute fucking mess. Congrats Trumpers. You’re all a bunch of dipshits and now we ALL suffer. Stay in school, kids.. be smarter than the people running the country. It’s a low, low bar.

[u/Narradisall]

Thankfully out global economy isn’t based so heavily on oil for everything from production to distribution to agriculture and services.

This would really put a hamper on economic output.

[u/AhBee1]

Let's vote for the candidates who are going to end this war ASAP.

[u/arepotatoesreal → u/AhBee1]

Trump fucked the situation up so bad that there’s not a clear path to ending the war even if we put people in power who want to. It was a huge blunder that will have consequences for years to come.

[u/Soapbox → u/AhBee1]

Trump said he'll end this war a day after election day. 

We have to give him a chance!

[u/AhBee1 → u/Soapbox]

I'm still waiting for him to lock up Hillary.

[u/SAugsburger → u/AhBee1]

Still waiting for Mexico to pay for the wall... On a related note when is the war in Ukraine ending?

[u/misogichan → u/AhBee1]

He also promised to approve the keystone XL pipeline.  How is that going?  I am sure Canada is eagerly awaiting closer economic ties to 🇺🇸. 

[u/UndoxxableOhioan → u/Soapbox]

Hasn’t he already “ended” it 37 times?

[u/My_Jaded_Take]

Who could have guessed the attack on Iran could lead to a escalating shit show? Any 10 year old could. Yet Trump and his team behave more like 5 year olds, so they'd never have predicted this.

[u/No-Wasabi-70]

This is the most money I’ve ever made, 32/hr busting my hump as a train conductor. Been 100 degrees where I’m at for five months. Glad I can continue to feel broke, merica

[u/chbriggs6]

It's cool. We are gonna get $5000 checks and DOGE money and tariff refunds to offset the cost of life. Inflation isn't real

[u/thewalruscandyman]

All because trump had to protect pedophiles.

[u/ExtentAggravating733]

Trump causing history's biggest oil crisis over a pointless war was somehow not on my bingo card

[u/mokes310]

I believe my generation would say, ROFL. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes and we're left to pick up the pieces. What a dumb fucking time to be alive...

[u/Mean_Joe_Greene]

So oil was over $6 a gallon and now going to skyrocket further. Are Americans winning yet? I wonder how long until former allies call for sanctions on the US

[u/Imyoteacher]

I usually work from home, but I had to fill my vehicle yesterday at over $4 a gallon. Some of you voted for this nonsense…..and I’d bet they are giddy over the $5k check he promised that no one will get! I’m so tired of the ignorant in this country making it harder for everyone else!

[u/Fatkante]

Americans shitting all over the world by electing pedo as their president . Everything expensive and mortgages through the roof . One person causing more damage to common people than anything else in history

[u/Shurae → u/Fatkante]

That's because USA is unchecked capitalism on steroids. Everyone thinks about themselves and many still think for whatever reason that this PDF is working for them which Is hilarious and sad to see from outside the US.

[u/Neat_Gas9264 → u/Shurae]

It's fucking numbing to see it from within the US. We told the Maga*s from day one that the stupid mother fucker was a con-man, but they were having too much fun jacking off to the idea of every decent American being "triggered" by having that lowest form of humanity as a president.

And now our country is fucking over. I hope it gets to the point that food lines start asking people who the fuck they voted for and supplying people accordingly. That or we have a new exclusive class of deportee based on who people voted for between 2016 and now.

[u/Nice_Block]

One of those posts that republicans are no where to be found. Shocking.

[u/SagittariusO]

Just to get a perspective:

4 million barrels/day got rerouted through the pipeline. Hormuz traffic was ~20 million pre-war.

NEOM and the LIV golf tour are cancelled. Saudi Arabia took out a 8 billion $ loan this week and started a new war with the Houthis.

Wtf is going on there? Has everyone lost their minds? They got humiliated by the Houthis over and over again in the last few years and still they poke the bear again. This is insane.

[u/Feisty-Barracuda5452 → u/SagittariusO]

They keep buying expensive US military hardware, shush.

[u/Architeuthis_McCrew]

Iran your gas prices up!

[u/Plzlaw4me]

I remember MAGA fans saying that strait won’t matter soon because there will pipelines that bypasses it. Good to see MAGA’s predictions on geopolitics are still rock solid.

[u/jv371]

All this to distract us from the Epstein files…

[u/HurinGaldorson]

Kevin Warsh is shitting bricks right now.

[u/DontTickleTheDriver1 → u/HurinGaldorson]

No he's not. The MAGA cult is too stupid to understand how bad this is and will blame the libs once they do

[u/fe-and-wine → u/DontTickleTheDriver1]

He's shitting bricks because he really wants to lower rates to appease Dear Leader, but if gas prices get another upwards shock it'll certainly throw more fuel on the inflation and make lowering rates impossible for him to realistically do