The war in Iran

[5thDragoons]

Gas is bumping $3/gallon here, but I've read a couple articles the price of crude world wide is falling. Too soon to tell how that will affect us.

The latest Iranian prez (or whatever title they use for the main man) is still alive but has been seriously wounded in an Israeli air strike. Good luck getting anybody else to step up! SW

[Johnny P]

Quick stops put the mom and pop stations out of business. Gas a few cents cheaper, and get a hot dog, coke, and candy bar. Not a single gas station only left in my area.

[Doc Sharptail]

Peaked at 1.55.9 on Wed here. Moderated a bit and is currently 1.53.9- close to $6.20 CAD a gallon~ which is edging $5.00 u.s.
Sweet crude hit almost 100.00 u.s. per barrel yesterday morning.
Big oil is definitely profiting, and so are their gas stations.

-D.S.

[5thDragoons]

Iran seems intent on taking on the entire world. We see this in them firing missiles at Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and several other regional neighbors. For my money, they really don't want to pi$$ off Turkey - they can hit back... hard! But Iran has a deniable route - "that was the last supreme leader's order, but he's... gone now." Not that anybody will buy that.

A lot of fake news going around, too. MSM reports had it that 5 KC-135 tankers had been hit and put out of service. Not. The air base where they were stationed was hit, but not the tankers themselves.

Gas prices fairly stable here at just under $3. SW

[Allen]

Prices here running around 3.20 - 4.15 (reg to premium). Still way cheaper than when biden took office.

[Johnny P]

Town 45 miles east of us has cheaper gas than we do, but the same distributor serves both towns. Distributor has to drive about 5 miles to service our town, but 45 miles to service the other town. Gouging.

[lyman]

Town 45 miles east of us has cheaper gas than we do, but the same distributor serves both towns. Distributor has to drive about 5 miles to service our town, but 45 miles to service the other town. Gouging.

gouging by the store owner,, the distributor just distributes,


meanwhile, filled up Sat for a short road trip, and it was $3.49

[Doc Sharptail]

$1.64.9 per litre yesterday. Someone's making it hand over fist.
This stuff keeps up people are going to start looking for alternatives.

-D.S.

[Johnny P]

gouging by the store owner,, the distributor just distributes,


Thought that was easy enough to figure out as distributor charges all stations the same price regardless of location.

[Allen]

Prices here running around 3.20 - 4.15 (reg to premium). Still way cheaper than when biden took office.

Just another reminder !

[Allen]

Not being critical of Donald Trump---He's done what no one else would do. Iran is a threat to the whole world but it lays in Europe's back yard, not ours. They aren't lifting a finger to help. The way I see it is if China, UK, Germany, whoever, needs oil shipped thru the Hormuz Strait THEY need to supply their own escort boats for the tankers.

Not meaning to be an arm chair expert or dictator but it looks to me that some new rules need to apply if oil tankers aren't allowed to arm and defend themselves, which they obviously aren't. It seems that NO boats would be allowed to get anywhere close to these ships and small fishing boats would be required to stay within a close distance to the shore, say 500' or so, otherwise: Boom, out they go. The straight is only 30 miles across at the most narrow part. Seems to me that policing it would not be that big a problem except for the drone and missile attacks. However, from what I read most of it comes from small 20' (or so) speed boats equipped with grenade launchers and other fire power.

I've seen videos where the Russians, back during all the Somali attacks did not and would not tolerate such activity and took them out (the pirates). Why aren't we as aggressive? Those boats have no other purpose to be there.

As it is, with all the underground missile and drone manf and storage facilities of Iran who needs a Navy, an Army, or soldiers? They are still fighting and causing damage. I think Trump declared "mission accomplished" a little too soon.

Just my 2 cents as I sit in my arm chair. I'm sure there's much more going on than we realize and again, someone needed to take a stand.

[PWC]

WAY TOO SOON! Unconditional surrender is not negotiated. 3 weeks is not enough to dig out the roaches. When we have all their 60% enriched nuclear material AND the raw material under OUR lock and key...then we can talk, but not before then. Any talk before only allows them to shuffle material sites and rebuild. (Did we not learn, anything from the VN bombing halts) Given how badly we have beaten them, we are #1 on their anger list and they will do whatever is necessary to get a nuclear weapon deployed into/over the US.

If the Iranian people overthrow the Islamast terrorist govt before, we should keep digging for roaches. I think most of the personl intel came from the Isralies...thy are best equiped to "fit" in socially, apparance, and training than an westerner. Give the Isralies all the hardware they need to zero out Hamas, Hezbolah and the Arab bro'hood for however long it takes to stop their terrorism.

Sometime I'll tell you how I really feel..LOL

[lyman]

WAY TOO SOON! Unconditional surrender is not negotiated. 3 weeks is not enough to dig out the roaches. When we have all their 60% enriched nucleal material AND the raw material under OUR lock and key...then we can talk, but not before then. Any talk before only allows them to shuffle material sites and rebuild. (Did we not learn, anything from the VN bombing halts) Given how badly we have beaten them, we are #1 on their anger list and they will do whatever is necessary to get a nuclear weapon deployed into/over the US.

If the Iranian people overthrow the Islamast terrorist govt before, we should keep digging for roaches. I think most of the personl intel came from the Isralies...thy are best equiped to "fit" in socially, apparance, and training than an westerner. Give the Isralies all the hardware they need to zero out Hamas, Hezbolah and the Arab bro'hood for however long it takes to stop their terrorism.

Sometime I'll tell you how I really feel..LOL

read an article today that the Iranians were using Cell Phones etc to geolocate or pin locations of road blocks, and IRCG checkpoints,
and the ISreali's were calling the guards/etc and telling them they are a target, before launching the missiles at them,

[5thDragoons]

Regarding fuel prices... that was always a big deal when I was railroading. The big GE C44-ACs used for unit coal burned 10 gallons every 3 minutes on a hard pull. (timed it on multiple occasions) 4 of the big diesels on every 135+ car train - all of which averaged 19,000 tons. When you crunch the numbers, it doesn't take long to realize the BN & UPRR were burning massive amounts - so much so, the RR offered a fuel saving bonus. Which paid for some of my trips to Europe.

They stopped the fuel bonus right before I retired, but I bet it's coming back. Not that I'd un-retire to cash in! SW

[Allen]

When we have all their 60% enriched nuclear material AND the raw material under OUR lock and key...then we can talk, but not before then. Any talk before only allows them to shuffle material sites and rebuild.

And that's the hell of it. From all that I've read the Iranians are going to be allowed to keep nuclear energy to power their elect plants. I think that requires about 20% purity or enrichment. If they are allowed this they will certainly start moving in the direction again (90%?) to produce bombs. They will have to allow UN inspectors on a regular basis and you know that isn't going to happen, plus, can the UN be trusted? Iran is a big desert---plenty of places to hide things under ground.

Along with the MILLIONS of Iranians who are here and those still there that don't like the current regime I don't understand why there aren't more spy's who will advise our military where certain sites are when to hit them.

If ALL of the current corrupt "leaders" are taken out perhaps they will live peacefully but it may require a civil war on their part to get there.