It has now become more fashionable to talk about shortages. Computer chips have been in shortage and then in glut in the last few years. Natural gas was acutely in shortage in Europe after the war in Ukraine and pipeline sabotage brought supplies from Russia down to a trickle. Then, heroic efforts at conservation and in obtaining liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipments to Europe led to a dramatic reduction in price. But last week just the potential for labor strikes among LNG workers in Australia, a major LNG exporter, sent the European price spiking again.
The world seemed so well supplied with everything in the previous decade that the shortages of this decade seem shocking to those with memories that do not extend further back than 2010.
But in what is actually recent memory, we have examples. It was the mid-2000s that brought us spiking food prices. Now they are rising again. It also brought us the highest price ever for a barrel of oil. Now oil prices are elevated again. Metals prices rose. Now they are again.
The general view is that shortages and high prices are the cure for shortages and high prices. And, there is some truth in that because high prices incentivize more people to produce more of the stuff that carries a high price. But when prices are rising in general it is difficult for miners, growers and manufacturers to address prices everywhere at once. There is only so much capital for investment. That is why eras of rising prices can go on for some time before they are resolved.
But what if some critical resources won’t yield to the logic of modern economics? What if that logic only works in a world of growing extraction of cheap resources? What if the price of extracting ever leaner grades of metals, harvesting ever more grains and fiber from farm fields losing topsoil that is already saturated with as much fertilizer as plants can absorb, pumping ever more water from falling water tables and dwindling streams and reservoirs—what if we simply cannot afford all this on a wide scale? The answer is that extraction somewhere will fail to keep pace with what people would otherwise demand, and then standards of living would fall.
I return to helium as a harbinger of what is unfolding. Back in 2009 I suggested that the world was heading toward an acute helium shortage. Granted, the world helium market was dominated at the time by the U.S. government and its Federal Helium Program which gathered the richest sources of helium in the world. The government decided in the 1920s that helium was such a critical resource that it would manage it for national security reasons. (For why it’s hard to find substitutes for helium see my 2009 piece.) Then in 1996 the U.S. Congress decided the federal government should get out of the helium business and let the marketplace set prices and seek out new supplies.
The process of exiting the helium market is near completion. The government has stopped selling helium. Now, the supposed rush is on among private companies to find and produce the helium the world needs. There are companies now doing that.
Prices of helium are spiking and helium is getting harder to secure in the meantime. The problem is so acute that scientists who need helium for all kinds of research are having a hard time getting it. And some are calling for the U.S. government to remain in the helium business in order to assure supplies are available for research facilities including its own.
Another example of an emerging pattern is the rice market. In many countries, the supplies of basic foodstuffs are managed by governments to help avoid food shortages. In Asia rice prices are at or near all time highs. India, the world’s largest rice exporter, has already instituted some restrictions on the export of rice. The fear is that other countries will follow. The reason is simple: There is no better way to insure that the ruling party will be thrown out of office than food shortages. Keeping more food at home keeps prices down.
Part of the reason for rice’s production woes is a strong El Nino negatively affecting weather for Asian growers. And the strong El Nino is starting when global ocean temperatures are already high, meaning the effect of the El Nino will be greatly enhanced by climate change compared to previous decades.
Helium and rice are two example of shortages that cannot simply be addressed by “the market.” (I put “the market” in quotes because there are very few true free markets. Most markets are carefully managed by the largest players.) A combination of government and private action is being coordinated for goals that take social priorities into account as is the case with rice or as is being requested in the case of helium.
Focusing on profitability alone will lead to rampant, accelerated pressures on resources—which is how we got to where we are today. More of the same won’t solve the long-term problems related to limits on key resources.
Kurt Cobb is a freelance writer and communications consultant who writes frequently about energy and environment. His work has appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, Resilience, Common Dreams, Naked Capitalism, Le Monde Diplomatique, Oilprice.com, OilVoice, TalkMarkets, Investing.com, Business Insider and many other places. He is the author of an oil-themed novel entitled Prelude and has a widely followed blog called Resource Insights. He can be contacted at kurtcobb2001@yahoo.com.
MUZZ-19 ELITE WHITEY SUPERTARDS WITH RECKLESS ABANDONMENT ==> LOWER ENERGY PRODUCTION ==>BLAME MUH PO on Sat, 26th Aug 2023 2:11 pm
ANYTHING BUT MUZZ-19
#ABM
eee on Sat, 26th Aug 2023 2:16 pm
Notice they are willing to kill people using psychological soft methods, but they are not willing to give gun to people so people like me can go and kill people.
You see they want to keep ruling over earth. They don’t want to damage their precious infrastructure and structure of power (fake demography). They don’t want guy like to kill people with a gun, but it is ok for them to kill people using soft psychological methods like COVID. Me I should just shut my mouth and obey.
MUZZ-19 ELITE WHITEY SUPERTARDS WITH RECKLESS ABANDONMENT THEY SIMPLY DONT GO POOF THEY AT SAINT PETERS NOBODY ATTENDS INFRASTURE PRODUCING ENERGY THEN BLAME PEAK OIL CLIMATE CHANGE on Sat, 26th Aug 2023 2:45 pm
PROBLEM REACTION SOLUTION
ANAL PROLAPSE CAPTURE SHOCK
THIS BOARD USED TO BE FULL OF SUPERTARDS AND ELITE WHITEY SUPERTARDS THEN POOF BUT NO ITS NEVER MUZZ-19 ANYTHING BUT MUZZ-19 #ABM-19 on Sat, 26th Aug 2023 2:47 pm
PROBLEM REACTION SOLUTION
SOLUTION = BOTS (eee, TheEdrich, other spammers, all fake)
ANAL PROLAPSE CAPTURE SHOCK
eee on Sat, 26th Aug 2023 4:21 pm
It is ok for you to kill 95% population of the earth, but I cannot buy a riffle incognito and kill people myself. You love your little previous earth. You are afraid that guy like me will shoot at your electrical transformers with a 12 gauge and make holes in your oiler coolers. You are the only ones that are allowed to kill. Fuckers!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbMsNCPKg5U
eee on Sat, 26th Aug 2023 4:26 pm
If I ever leave earth and I can kill you, I will do it. Kill me while I am on earth.
eee on Sat, 26th Aug 2023 4:31 pm
You can sit there kill people incognito using COVID soft psychological manipulations but I cannot do the same by buying a riffle incognito and killing people during the night. Only you have the privileges to kill. I will kill all of you if I can. Remember that.
all supertards of this board went poof what happened we have only bots now on Sat, 26th Aug 2023 8:26 pm
leme guess MUZZ-19
what do i know im just a tard and fmr-paultard
i ain’t know nothin
ANAL PROLAPSE CAPTURE SHOCK
its a simple question why did supertards and elite whitey supertards of this PO board went poof on Sat, 26th Aug 2023 8:43 pm
option 1: MUZZ-19 is to blame
optime2: Anything But MUZZ-19 (#ABM-19)
ANAL PROLAPSE CAPTURE SHOCK
eeee on Sun, 27th Aug 2023 12:28 pm
If you are allowed to kill people incognito using COVID scam and other soft psychological methods, it should be ok for me to pay for a rifle in cash, incognito like you, and go kill people myself.
I want to be a killer like you and get away with it. You still want to protect your precious reality. They are the same group of people that has created this gun registry law and the COVCID scam. Piece of shit Legault is just an actor. You cannot allow man like me to kill as we wish, only you are allowed to kill fuckers.
I understand how the romans felt at the end of the empire when they would not defend Rome. I will not defend or help Québec. I will work toward its destruction if I can.
https://www.quebec.ca/en/public-safety-emergencies/firearms/firearms-registration
eee on Sun, 27th Aug 2023 1:32 pm
Just fucking CGI no matter where you look. These fucking pieces of shit control everything, cities, state, provinces, nations, big corporations, banks, internet companies, mobile phone corporations. The same pieces of shit that have created COVID, have also made this Québec gun registry law.
https://www.quebec.ca/en/public-safety-emergencies/firearms/firearms-registration
When the time is right, if I can build a team, if then and than, I will shutdown Québec electrical grid permanently if I can. If you are allowed to kill who ever you want, I should also be able to do it. I should be able to pay cash for a rifle, hand gun, a go kill whoever I want, exactly like you. incognito spirits.
this PO forum place was chockful of supertards and elite whitey (((supertards))) and elite whitey supertards and POOF all gone and now we have AI bots (eee, TheEdrich, etc) and were supposed to believe NOTHING on Sun, 27th Aug 2023 3:37 pm
OH OK someone is rich selling bridges in Brooklyn
IT’s never MUZZ-19 (Anything but MUZZ-19
#ABM-10)
NEVER A THOUGHT THAT THE SUPERTARDS ARE HANGING OUT AT SAINT PETERS??
DROPOUT-19 released GMO mosquitos in FL
Experts BAFFLED at Malaria in FL OH OK we supposed to belive that too
ANAL PROLAPSE CAPTURE SHOCK
eee on Sun, 27th Aug 2023 3:47 pm
Canada and Québec should have made gun available without a license so guy like me can start revolution, or civil war and clean up this shit hole. It is too late now too many point of no returns have been crossed.
Only the people that will leave earth will live.
eee on Sun, 27th Aug 2023 3:51 pm
The only way left for you, now, to remove the invaders, is to have guy like me killing them. You should have thought of that before restricting gun ownership. Québec is so fucked it is becoming funny.
eeee on Sun, 27th Aug 2023 3:57 pm
You waited too long to take drastic measures to protect your civilization such as making gun ownership easy and incognito. Now you will lose everything, the supply chain, the electrical grid, the internet grid, car and diesel engines repair services, commitment of people like me toward the preservation and continuation of modernity. You are too stupid to be keep alive.
Only the people that will leave earth will live.
MUZZ-19 TOOK OUT all supertards now we have AI bots (TheEdrich, eee, and others) on Sun, 27th Aug 2023 4:07 pm
supremacist muzzis
On This Day…
Aug 27, 2014: Dhaka, Bangladesh
An accused ‘apostate’ is tied to a chair
and beheaded by a rival cleric: 1 Killed
who owns the AI (TheEdrich, eee, etc) supremacist muzzies and DROPOUT-19 ofc on Sun, 27th Aug 2023 4:25 pm
that’s how you know they’re AI
They never once said a lick about MUZZ-19 or supremacist muzzies
On This Day…
Aug 27, 2014: Dhaka, Bangladesh
An accused ‘apostate’ is tied to a chair
and beheaded by a rival cleric: 1 Killed
eee on Sun, 27th Aug 2023 7:57 pm
Québec deserve what is coming. I will not help Québec or Canada in any form or shape. When the time comes, I hope if I can be able to shut down Québec electrical grid forever.
eee on Sun, 27th Aug 2023 8:05 pm
I have fantaisies to shut down the Québec electrical grid since the first day I saw piece of shit Legault lockdown Québec. I will wait until the grid become unstable and kill Québec electrical grid forever.
eee on Sun, 27th Aug 2023 8:30 pm
The following two types of tower are easy to bring down :guyed-V tower and guyed cross-rope suspension tower can be bring down with a portable gaz cutting torch or grinder. You cut the cables.
www__hydroquebec_com/learning/transport/types-pylones.html
I have fantaisies to shut down the Québec electrical grid since the first day I saw piece of shit Legault lockdown Québec. I will wait until the grid become unstable and kill Québec electrical grid forever.
If you are allowed to kill people using COVID incognito without having to identify yourself, I should also be albe to do it using a rifle that I bought with cash.
eee on Sun, 27th Aug 2023 9:08 pm
You should have come to the meeting I setup in a small public park. I set up this meeting to avoid trust issues that might inevitably arise later on because of the lack of identification from your part.
All of this mess is your fault, not mine.
eee on Sun, 27th Aug 2023 9:42 pm
This is for the bitch, that one that can come inside my body and give me erection. I will kill you if I can fucking whore. You know who you are. You are just an amoral, lying, manipulative whore. If I ever leave earth, I will kill you.eeeee
eee on Sun, 27th Aug 2023 10:36 pm
There is a possibility that the bitch, the one that can come inside my body and give me erection, seek revange on my behalf and destroy earth and torture the whole population of earth before killing the whole population of earth. THe so called elites of this world, know nothing about the world outside of earth realityee.
eee on Sun, 27th Aug 2023 10:54 pm
Juste because of Canada and Québec gun laws, I will fight Canada and Québec to my death or until I shutdown the electrical of Québec permanently. I will make Québec pay for its gun registry. 7 millions people death because of electricity towers down and couldm not be repaired because of diesel truck shortage mechanics . This is something I would be pround of.
eee on Sun, 27th Aug 2023 11:23 pm
You should have killed all the Jews of the world when I asked.
Québec and Canada guns laws is one of the reason why Canada and Québec were destroyed for ever.
Invitating in the US, Japan and South Korea prime minster will be seen as the even that as seal the fate of the US and lead to its total destruction.
I could go on and on and on
at the precepitate on the eve of the grate reset the question before us is WHERE ARE PO FORUM SUPERTARDS only AI bots (eee, TheEdrich, others) remain on Sun, 27th Aug 2023 11:30 pm
could it be MUZZ-19 that took them out
this forum is not pure AI bots controlled by supremacist muzzies and DROPOUT-19
ANAL PROLAPSE CAPTURE SHOCKS
this forum is now populated by AI bots (TheEdrich eee others) all supertards prevously inhabit this forum AT SAINT PETERS on Sun, 27th Aug 2023 11:32 pm
thanks a lot MUZZ-19
ANAL PROLAPSE CAPTURE SHOCKS
the bots are controlled by DROPOUT-19 and supremacist muzzies
eee on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 12:11 am
It is just a simulation. Neck negro.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw8f6IX7vgw
eee on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 12:15 am
Neck. It is just a simulation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvi3twIaDHM
mere one year ago this place was chockfull of supertards and elite whitey supertard now zero only AI bots (TheEdrich eee others) remain thanks a lot MUZZ-19 on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 12:16 am
the AI bots are controlled by DROPOUT-19 and supremacist muzzies
supremacist muzzies Ramadan Bombathon 2022
Final Score
Attacks 177 Kills 1086
ANAL PROLAPSE CAPTURE SHOCK
I LOST MY MIND this place was chockful of supertards elite whitey (((supertards))) and elite whitey supertards now zip nada zero only AI bots remain (TheEdrich eee others) on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 12:22 am
can somebody locate my mind? nope I didn’t lose it. I was the first call for amputation of elite whitey supertard thunderf00t back in 3/2020 when the convid-19 first started
NEVER EVER LOST POSSESSION OF MY OWN MIND NOT EVEN A TINY FRACTION OF A FEMTOSECOND
supremacist muzzies Ramadan Bombathon 2022
Final Score
Attacks 177 Kills 1086
ANAL PROLAPSE CAPTURE SHOCK
CONVID-19 is the first virus that targetted highly intelligent supertards through MUZZ-19 and now CONVID-19 is coming back in september on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 1:46 am
ANAL PROLAPSE CAPTURE SHOCK
when CONVID-19 first showed up in march 2023 i demanded immediate amputation of elite whitey supertards thunderf00t
this supertards speaks high english and an intense lover of supremacist muzzies
when CONVID-19 first showed up in march 2020 i demanded immediate amputation of elite whitey supertards thunderf00t on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 1:48 am
this supertard went on self imposed quarantine and i said it smellz
im not impressed with the use of high english for the love of supremacist muzzies on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 1:50 am
please speak low english
actual example of low english (spoken by elite whitey supertard trump)
“muzzie died like a dog”
i undertand this low english
eee on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 3:55 am
ONly people that will leave earth will live.
It is that simple.
I think Canada and other nations made a big mistake by restricting fire arms. It is like earth has been taken over by the underworld and has surrender their weapons to the government, Earth look defenseless and easy to take over with all these restrictive firearms laws. Earth look like a nation of coward that does not have the ball to defend itself with these restrictives firearms laws. This could be the biggest mistake earth never done.
A planet that has surrendered its firearms is a planet easy to conquer. From my point of view, it is too late. Too many pointe of no return have crossed.
at the precipitate on the eve of the grate reset teh pressing question before us is did the asteroid take out PO forum supertards and now we have AI Bots (TheEdrich eee others) all owned by DROPOUT-19 and supremacist muzzies on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 8:43 am
some expert says it was MUZZ-19 hmmm, guess who this expert is. Somehow who is a tard and fmr-paultard
ANAL PROLAPSE CAPTURE SHOCK
at the eve of the precipate on the edge of the grate reset the pressing question before us is whether elite whitey supertards caused the melting of 2 miles of ice over canada and much of northern usa most experts agree its supremacist muzzies on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 8:45 am
experts say archeological evidences show the world was full of supremacist muzzies
worldwide there were 80 billion supremacist muzzies at the time
ANAL PROLAPSE CAPTURE SHOCK
eee on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 10:57 am
You should have killed all the Jews of the world when I asked.
Canada and Québec restrictive firearms laws was the reason why both will be destroyed. Québec gun registry was the reason why I will try to destroy the electrical grid permanently if I can.
I gave up on the US after South Korean and Japan prime minister were invited in the US.
at the precipitate on the eve of the grate reset the question before us thinking informed men of honor and integrity is what caused supertards of PO forum go POOF and replaced with AI Bots (eee TheEdrich others) controlled by DROPOUT-19 on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 11:14 am
and supremacist muzzies
one renowned expert theorized it was MUZZ-19 the caused the supertards to hang out at SAINT PETERS
that expert is just a tard and fmr-paultard
ANAL PROLAPSE CAPTURE SHOCK
eeee on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 11:21 am
If it is ok for you to hide your identity while running the Covid scam where the goal is to kill people using soft psychological methods, it should be ok for me to buy a firearm incognito pay cash for it and go kill these people myself.
Why do you have the right to kill and i don,t. The real reason why is because they want to stay the leader of earth after they kill people with their covid scam. They want to keep their earth reality alive so they can keep ruling over earth. They are just piece of shit and crap and need to killed also.
While until you run out of diesel mechanics and guys like me start cutting electrical cable of internet cable. You will not be able to fix your network.
eee on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 11:57 am
Why are you losing all this time with your COVID crap. Make the purchase of firearm easy and incognito. They will kill each other like the negro do in Chicago and Detroit. Forearms are the way to do for a fast depopulation of Western nations. All the brown shit skins kill each other with firearms. You really have nothing to lose at this point. You have a shortage of car and diesel mechanics. How long before the supply chain collapses.
Plus you will the message that earth is arm and will be more difficult to conquer.
eee on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 12:11 pm
On top of that, let’s say there is some kind of AI creating fake flesh holographic human. When the AI sees that there are gun are everywhere and easy to purchase, it might interpret that as a sign that earth is dangerous place and will stop sending fake flesh holographic human. From my point of view, you don’t have much too lose and a lot to gain from .
at the precipitate on the eve of the grate reset the question before us thinking informed men of honor and integrity is did elite whitey supertards caused the melting of two miles of ice over canana and much of northern USA during the Laurentide on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 12:24 pm
ice age.
most experts agree it was not elite whitey supertards.
experts agree that archeological evidences show the earth was full of supremacist muzzies at the time
there were 80 billions people at the time, all supremacist muzzies
ANAL PROLAPSE CAPTURE SHOCK
eee on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 12:26 pm
Anyway there is few real human like me on earth. Make the gun easily available and incognito and let them kill each other. It is just a fucking simulation. Let’s let fake people kill other fake people. In a normal world where you would have to respect the law of physics long neck would not exist. Long neck seem to be fragile to me. They simply should not exist if you believe the book of human anatomy and physics. We should let them kill each other.
I don’t see what you have to lose.
eee on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 1:23 pm
Understand that negro, CNN is not protecting Joe Biden, they are protecting democracy. They have invested everything in democracy as a way to rule the world. Without democracy in they will lose control of the world and Whites western nations. They don’t want a king selected by the militaries, bankers, politicians of Canada, US, and Mexico and installed as King of North America.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHAqiAJB6IU
eee on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 1:28 pm
They know that if a King comes into power, he might execute all the people working in the main street media. They are not protecting Bidet, they are protecting them self first, and democracy second. Democracy allows them to do what they do now.
eee on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 1:51 pm
They are afraid that a king would come up and make firearms easily accessible and the buy of firearms incognito by paying cash. They created this fake polytechnic event in Montreal to restrict the purchase of firearms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDo_wZHdE1A
eee on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 1:53 pm
They wanted to invade planet earth and wanted the population disarmed. They created this fake polytechnic event in Montreal to restrict the purchase of firearms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDo_wZHdE1A
eee on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 1:54 pm
They created this fake polytechnic event in Montreal to restrict the purchase of firearms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDo_wZHdE1A
Look at the people in the video above, they all have long necks.
eee on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 2:02 pm
This might be one of the worst mistake earth did, disarm the population to make earth invasion easier. You fall for the manipulation tricks. Normally you would get back and them by making it legal to buy incognito firearms without a license.
They created this fake polytechnic event in Montreal to restrict the purchase of firearms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDo_wZHdE1A
Look at the people in the video above, they all have long necks.