[Thaxll]

You completely oversell Iran capability, I guarantee you that f35 would go down in a war with a country with decent anti air such as Russia or China.

Iran never invested in such technology, they put all their money in drones and ballistic missiles which were extremely effective, we are a month in and the strait is still close.

Their strategy was never to try to sink us ships, it was disruption in the region to extend the conflict which was again very successful.

[johnsmith1840]

Pretty sure Iran didn't plan on being obliterated.

Why did they have a navy if this was their only plan?

Also blocking the straight is funny because the only people it hurts is everyone in the world but the US.

[Thaxll]

I'm sure Americans are finding it funny to pay for $3+ a gallon. The entire economy suffers from it.

[carefree-bob]

$3 a gallon is less than a dollar per liter. Do you live in Saudi Arabia or a gulf state?

Here are historical real (inflation adjusted) gas prices for the US. You can decide how terrible this is:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1UWwx

[hedora]

I can’t decide if the economy has bifurcated or if these inflation stats are totally bogus.

Diesel is almost $7/gallon here. All the stuff we buy (food, services, electronics) are up 30-100% since the beginning of last year, but federal inflation stats claim 3%.

[carefree-bob]

Gas is certainly bifurcated. The west coast is paying up to $5.80 and Texas/midwest are paying $3.20 or so. NY and New England is paying a lot, but from Virginia on down, they are paying less. All the midwest is paying close to texas prices except Illinois, which is paying California prices.

Some of that is differences in taxes, but some of it is due to getting gas from different sources. If we had a pipeline from Texas to CA, there would be less bifurcation.

In terms of food being bifurcated, that too is happening, but to a smaller degree.

Basically the entire West coast is suffering from high inflation.

[hedora]

For the national 3% average to hold, for the low end of my range (30%) to hold on the west coast, the rest of the country would have to be suffering from deflation.

[johnsmith1840]

Whose the largest oil exporter in the world?

US about to be scroogemcducking in oil money

[jawiggins]

> I guarantee you that f35 would go down in a war with a country with decent anti air such as Russia or China

How many F-35s went down due to the Russian and Chinese anti-air systems in Venezuela and Iran?

[Thaxll]

They did not have any.