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.
eee on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 2:06 pm
They created this fake polytechnic event in Montreal to restrict the purchase of firearms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDo_wZHdE1A
Polytechnic event was also used to elevate women into a permanent state of victimhood therefore allowing them to gain easier access to power and shape Whites western nations agenda to fit their invasion agenda.
RICH MEN NORTH OF RICHMOND THAT MFER IS NOT REAL ANAL PROLAPSE CAPTURE SHOCK am i hallucinating nope this place was chockful of supertards just a year again and now POOF only AI Bots (eee TheEdrich etc) which are owned by DROPOUT-19 and on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 2:12 pm
supremacist muzzies
wonder if it has anything to do with MUZZ-19
Anything but MUZZ-19 #ABM-19
supremacist muzzies Ramadan Bombathon 2023
final score
attacks 145 kills 741
eee on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 2:12 pm
Is that enough truth for you. It is too late to save earth, earth population has been manipulated for too long. You have no natural resources left. You are fucked
Only people that will leave earth will live. I guess that will be only me.
supremacist muzzies Ramadan Bombathon 2023 final score attacks 145 kills 741 on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 2:13 pm
Quran (8:39) – “And fight with them until there is no more fitna (disorder, unbelief) and religion is all for Allah” Some translations interpret “fitna” as “persecution”, but the traditional understanding of this word is not supported by the historical context (See notes for 2:193). The Meccans were simply refusing Muhammad access to their city during the pilgrimage. Other Muslims were allowed to travel there – but not as an armed group, since Muhammad had declared war on Mecca prior to his eviction. The Meccans were also acting in defense of their religion, as it was Muhammad’s intention to destroy their idols and establish Islam by force (which he later did). Hence the critical part of this verse is to fight until “religion is only for Allah”, meaning that the true justification of violence was the unbelief of the opposition. According to the Sira (Ibn Ishaq/Hisham 324) Muhammad further explains that “Allah must have no rivals.”
supremacist muzzies Ramadan Bombathon 2021 final score attacks 222 kills 1103 on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 2:16 pm
Quran (9:5) – “So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captive and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush, then if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, leave their way free to them.” According to this verse, the best way of staying safe from Muslim violence at the time of Muhammad was to convert to Islam: prayer (salat) and the poor tax (zakat) are among the religion’s Five Pillars. The popular claim that the Quran only inspires violence within the context of self-defense is seriously challenged by this passage as well, since the Muslims to whom it was written were obviously not under attack. Had they been, then there would have been no waiting period (earlier verses make it a duty for Muslims to fight in self-defense, even during the sacred months). The historical context is Mecca after the idolaters were subjugated by Muhammad and posed no threat. Once the Muslims had power, they violently evicted those unbelievers who would not convert. (See also: Response to Apologists)
[Note: The verse says to fight unbelievers “wherever you find them”. Even if the context is a time of battle (which it was not) the reading appears to sanction attacks against those “unbelievers” who are not on the battlefield. In 2016, the Islamic State referred to this verse in urging the faithful to commit terror attacks: Allah did not only command the ‘fighting’ of disbelievers, as if to say He only wants us to conduct frontline operations against them. Rather, He has also ordered that they be slain wherever they may be – on or off the battlefield. (
eee on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 2:36 pm
From what I understand, beings outside of earth reality have no desires to save earth. You fuck it up, you will die.
eee on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 2:38 pm
From what I have seems to understand, beings outside of earth consider women as the invaders and have no respect of love for women at all.
Nobody will come to save earth, nobody.
Only the people that will leave earth will live.
eee on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 3:00 pm
At the least some part of the population of earth that has read my comments know some of the real truth, not BS coming from media and politicians.
This is the truth, you will all die.
eee on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 3:10 pm
Being outside of earth will not come down here to save women.
eee on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 3:17 pm
It take a long time to load my YouTube home page. First a page appear with empty video boxes of different colors and then the real YouTube page load.
This reality might shutdown any day now, it is how I feel about this whole thing. Meaning the whole populate of earth will die, I will move somewhere else.
Stupid fucktard, surrending your firearms because women demanded it.
eee on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 3:23 pm
Youtube will shutdown. You should see what I see when I load a youtube page. I guess it is time for all of you to die.
eee on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 3:32 pm
How long your fucking face can move forward and how long your neck can go until it does not make sense anymore and earth reality shutdown killing everyone not protected.
There must be a limit where reality can not exist with beings with a long neck, meaning it has to shutdown.
eee on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 4:54 pm
Three mils island nuclear incident was done to kill the nuclear energy industry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9PsCLJpAA
Same for the created fake polytechnic event in Montreal was done to restrict the purchase of firearms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDo_wZHdE1A
Polytechnic event was also used to elevate women into a permanent state of victimhood therefore allowing them to gain easier access to power and shape Whites western nations agenda to fit their invasion agenda.
eee on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 5:06 pm
An eye for eye. Usually you will response to you adversary by making it legal in Canada to buy firearm incognito without a license. You have to fight your adversary with the same tools they are using. If You refuse to fight back, it is like you submitted to them and they will keep doing it.
RICH MEN NORTH OF RICHMOND THAT MFER IS NOT REAL ANAL PROLAPSE CAPTURE SHOCK am i hallucinating nope this place was chockful of supertards just a year again and now POOF did asteroids take our supertards of PO forum like dinosaurs on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 5:19 pm
leme guess Anything but MUZZ-19 #ABM-19
THAT MFER IS NOT REAL
eee on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 5:20 pm
IF they want to restrain firearm access because they an agenda, you do the opposite. You do the total opposite as a way to neutered their move.
They want to kill nuclear energy, you do the opposite and build nuclear energy centrals everywhere you can and so on . You neutered every move the do.
eee on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 5:27 pm
The want globalism, you kill globalism to neutered them. Eventually, they will have to show themself up if you neutered every moves they are doing. The want democracy, you gives them monarchy
eee on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 5:32 pm
They want to lower the interest rate and restart home building, you do the opposite, you raise rate and kill home building industry.
Every moves they do, you do the opposite.
eeem on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 5:37 pm
The want to regulate the automobile industry and force people to drive EV. You deregulate the automotive industry and allow manufacturers to build any kind of cars they want. You delete the fuel automotive consumption law as a way to neutered them.
Every moves they will try, you will do the opposite. All the population of earth will die, might as will die fighting on your feets, not your knees
eee on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 5:40 pm
It is just a simulation. Let’s test the behavior of this simulation using the counter move tactics (see above) and see how the simulation will behave.
we're supposed to believe that an asteroid took out supertards of this PO forum and the AI Bots (eee TheEdrich others) arent owned by supremacist muzzies on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 5:45 pm
guess who they never talk about yep MUZZ-19 and supremacist muzzies
they never talk about that
and MUZZ-19 has nothing to do with disapearance of supertards
someone is getting rich selling bridges in Brooklyn
u had to anchor ur boats far away from shore and walk over fishes to get to shore same way this PO place was chockful of supertards then POOF on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 6:13 pm
wonder if MUZZ-19 has anything to do with it
the AI bots owned by DROPOUT-19 and supremacist muzzies is mum on this subject
anything but MUZZ-19 ABM-19
RICH MEN NORTH OF RICHMOND THAT MFER IS NOT REAL ANAL PROLAPSE CAPTURE SHOCK
eee on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 9:10 pm
I came to the conclusion that earth people love to submit to the enemy. You count get back at them by modifying immediately the Canada gun laws. I know you won’t modify Canadas gun laws, you love your servitude. It is fine by me, this proves to me that you are just coward and unworthy to live.
eee on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 9:12 pm
You are just coward and deserver to die for that. You are not going to change Canada gun law rapidly, you will just sit there and take all the humiliation they are giving to you.
This is why it is easy for me to kill all the population of earth, you are unworthy of living another day.
eeee on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 9:45 pm
I know what you will do because you are cowards. You will produce a lot of news video with gun incidents, but you will never actually change the Canada gun laws to get back at them. You will submit to them like you always do. You want to protect your precious reality. You will take little meaningless action that won’t change much of anything. The whole population of earth really deserver to die, you are really worthless and a waster of time.
eee on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 10:22 pm
The whole population of earth wants to die like slaves on their knees begging for more humiliation from their masters. You will not change the Canada firearms laws rapidly as a revenge move, you will not give up on globalism (I suspected that you were cowards, so I tested you before investing time with you in my North America project, you failed miserably), you don’t have the courage to say openly and publicly that immigrants are not welcomed in Canada, and so on.
You are unworthy of living another minutes. You should be executed right away.
eee on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 10:57 pm
Normally, if the elites of Canada had any pride and courage, they would seek revenge for trying to manipulate the whole nations to give up firearms right using this fake polytechnic event in Montreal to restrict the purchase of firearms. They would seek revenge right away by doing the opposite, removing all the firearms laws as a way to send a strong message to your opponent. You will do none of this because you are low IQ coward.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDo_wZHdE1A
Polytechnic event was also used to elevate women into a permanent state of victimhood therefore allowing them to gain easier access to power and shape Whites western nations agenda to fit their invasion agenda.
GOD and I have the all the rights reasons to kill all the populating of earth. We are wasting your time with you, you are unworthy of living on more minutes;.
eee on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 11:02 pm
You want to die on your knees like cowards, we will give it to all the population of earth good and hard. By the time we are done with the population of earth, you would wish that you were never born.
eee on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 11:25 pm
You are just piece of shits cowards. Instead of saying it publicly and openly that immigrants are not welcomed, you come up with all kind of scheme and BS that give you no result like this in UK:
UK migrant barge
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CMflUAzgFQA
You are just fucking losers unworthy of live and just be killed right away. You are just fucking losers.
Your behavior is the behaviors of losers that don’t want to live and want to surrender to anyone for safety and approbation. Never able to send a clear message to the enemy. you like to send subtle message that are difficult to interpret like the UK barge.
You are just garbage and should be dead already. You are unworthy of life.
eee on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 11:31 pm
You will behave like coward until the day electric grid shutdown and when it shutdown you will wonder what you have done wrong without never looking at your own behavior as the cause of your misery. You are just fucking losers.
eee on Mon, 28th Aug 2023 11:55 pm
Now you understand that if I King gets appointed as sovereign leader of North America, why he would kill all the politicians right away. You are just fucking cowards that love to surrender to the enemy or are the enemy. You must be killed.
u had to anchor ur boats far away from shore and walk over fishes to get to shore same way this PO place was chockful of supertards then POOF on Tue, 29th Aug 2023 12:21 am
nope MUZZ-19 has nothing to do with it
experts r baffled
DROPOUT-19 release GMO mosquitoes in FL
experts r baffled by new malaria in FL
RICH MEN NORTH OF RICHMOND THAT MFER IS NOT REAL ANAL PROLAPSE CAPTURE SHOCK
i knew some wrong when a pretty little white girl ran to a black man arms dead giveaway deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed giveaway on Tue, 29th Aug 2023 12:24 am
RICH MEN NORTH OF RICHMOND THAT MFER IS NOT REAL ANAL PROLAPSE CAPTURE SHOCK
so i opened the door we cant get in that way my body dont fit through the door only your hands my neighbor got big testicles cuz we see this dude everyday we ate RIBBBBS with this d00d on Tue, 29th Aug 2023 12:53 am
i knew some wrong when a pretty little white girl ran to a black man arms dead giveaway deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed giveaway
RICH MEN NORTH OF RICHMOND THAT MFER IS NOT REAL ANAL PROLAPSE CAPTURE SHOCK
eee on Tue, 29th Aug 2023 8:35 am
I think piece of shit Legault is the one responsible for the Québec gun registry. Therefore he is working with the enemy. He should therefore be executed in public with extrême violence as a way to send a message to the enemies that using politicians as way to manage and subvert earth will not be tolerated.
Piece of shit Legault should be made an example for all the world to see that earth mean business and wont be easily subverted.
eee on Tue, 29th Aug 2023 8:46 am
Piece of shit Legault should be made and example with a brutal and bloody publics execution for he involvement in the creation of the gun registry. You have to work for the enemy to do such a thing,
Tiktok Logo on Tue, 29th Aug 2023 8:50 am
At the least some part of the population of earth that has read my comments know some of the real truth, not BS coming from media and politicians..
of course MUZZ-19 targeted supertards for their intelligence because intelligent supertards worship MUZZ-19 like a phallus its their BAAL theyre all gone now at SAINT PETERS on Tue, 29th Aug 2023 9:05 am
get that girl out of that house she simply has to get out
so i opened the door we cant get in that way my body dont fit through the door only your hands my neighbor got big testicles cuz we see this dude everyday we ate RIBBBBS with this d00d
RICH MEN NORTH OF RICHMOND THAT MFER IS NOT REAL ANAL PROLAPSE CAPTURE SHOCK
eee on Tue, 29th Aug 2023 9:06 am
I will kill you piece of shit Legault if I ever become King of North America. I will make an example of you for all the world to see. You will serve as an example and a message to the underworld, fuck gay garbage piece of trash that you are Legault.
I will shutdown the electrical grid of Québec if I am capable of when I am sure that my actions will have the most impacts. I will for extreme shortage of diesel mechanics, shortage of diesel fuel, social unrest,
eee on Tue, 29th Aug 2023 9:27 am
Look at the face of this fucking whore wearing yellow clothing. She has the facial expression of someone that wants to cry. Cry worthless whore.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV5P-PYtqcc
eee on Tue, 29th Aug 2023 9:51 am
Japan should be deserted Island. They have no natural resources, any attempts to establish a civilization on Japan Islands should normally have resulted in failure since they have no natural resource. Japan does not make sense. It should be deserted Islands.
I told you earth is a simulation. Everything about the past is fake.
eee on Tue, 29th Aug 2023 9:58 am
Without globalization, Japanese would have to leave this Island. Japan only exist because of globalization. It would die without it. Why do you think the trilateral commission is full of Japanese. Earth is a simulation to test ideas ,concepts, psychological manipulation tricks (polyethnic massacre) and so on.
eee on Tue, 29th Aug 2023 10:02 am
This is why I said you fuck their simulation. They want firearms law restricting access to firearms, you do the opposite, you remove all firearm laws and make firearm access easy and incognito. You fuck over their simulation so bad, that it becomes useless to them
eee on Tue, 29th Aug 2023 10:11 am
If you want to fuck the result of their simulation you have to enter into extreme variable into it. This is why I said they want firearm restrictive laws, you do the total opposite, this would be the equivalent as to change the value of a simulate variable to something extreme, making the simulation useless.
If you go into the extreme, faster you make the results of the simulation useless.
eee on Tue, 29th Aug 2023 10:19 am
The want to test the concept of democracy and government to control earth population. You install a king and fire all governmental employees.
You swing the simulation to the other extremes, making the result of the simulation useless to them.
They want to test the concept of how to manipulate psychologically people using main street media. You abolish main street media to swing the simulation in the opposite direction in an extreme manner. Everyone that did advanced math know what I am talking about.
eee on Tue, 29th Aug 2023 10:28 am
They want to test mass migration psychological effects on the native population by flooding earth with immigrants, You make their simulation useless by closing the borders and stopping all immigrations. You swing the simulation variable to the other extreme.
our supertards worship MUZZ-19 like they worship a phallus and that took them to SAINT PETERS the AI Bots (eee TheEdrich others) owned by DROPOUT-19 and supremacist muzies refuse to say anything about any of this this is horrific on Tue, 29th Aug 2023 10:28 am
HORRIFIC ENTIRE SUPERTARDS JUST DONT GO POOF
HORRIFIC
RICH MEN NORTH OF RICHMOND THAT MFER IS NOT REAL ANAL PROLAPSE CAPTURE SHOCK
eee on Tue, 29th Aug 2023 11:05 am
Fuck the body update comes with a oily skin. 2 showers a day sometimes 3 showers a day. I always that feeling that my skin is cover my a layer of oil. Fuckin anoying
eee on Tue, 29th Aug 2023 11:16 am
What is this. A tentative to destroy the simulation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmChq36htik
eee on Tue, 29th Aug 2023 11:22 am
I think people should know by now, if they read the comments that I made. There are other beings outside of earth. The way they see earth is not the same as we human see it from the inside.
From what I seem to understand, when you look at earth from the outside, you don’t see the same thing as when you look at earth from the inside.