THE WIRE · № 56665
🚨🇺🇸 Washington can manage the price of oil on a screen, but it can't print diesel Chris Martenson borrows a phrase from historian Joseph Tainter, whose "distant managers" end up so far from real life that they forget what made their civilization work, and he sees the same people
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WHY IT MATTERS.
Argument that policy cannot substitute for physical diesel supply highlights refining bottlenecks.
Physical fuel constraints limit policy fixes
Diesel inventories and refinery runs
Opinion piece, no hard data
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🚨🇺🇸 Washington can manage the price of oil on a screen, but it can't print diesel Chris Martenson borrows a phrase from historian Joseph Tainter, whose "distant managers" end up so far from real life that they forget what made their civilization work, and he sees the same people nudging oil prices to signal the war isn't that bad. Gold can sit on a shelf for centuries, so you can play games with its price for decades: "If you run short on diesel, your economy stops working. If you run short on jet fuel, your planes don't fly." @chrismartenson
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THE RECORD, IN ORDER.
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WHAT THIS TOUCHES.
🚨🇮🇷🇺🇸 Some medicines in Iran have more than TRIPLED in price as the US blockade chokes off imports A Tehran welder spent two days going pharmacy to pharmacy for his 12-year-old daughter's four prescriptions, never found one of them, and lost two days of pay doing it: "My daught2026-09-30 04:45 UTC
🇺🇸 🇮🇷 Eight Marines were reportedly injured on what may have been a commercial tanker, and the Navy still hasn't shown a single escort photo One picture of a convoy clearing the strait would settle a lot of arguments, and it would take about two seconds to post. Chris Martenson2026-09-30 04:48 UTC
🇺🇸 Bessent's old hedge fund reportedly shrank from $5.1 billion to $525 million, and now he's calling himself the house Chris Martenson runs through the record, a first fund that blew up and a rare second chance that bled out before closing, and he can't square that with a Treas2026-09-30 04:56 UTC
🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran's grip on Hormuz is slipping: Gulf oil exports just hit their highest level since the war began The region is moving almost 13 million barrels a day through the strait and the pipelines around it, still short of the 19 million before February, and UKMTO hasn't confirme2026-09-30 05:30 UTC
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