Global Supply Chain Crisis 2021: Megathread - A cozy thread for watching the supply chain fall apart just in time for the holidays

[Male Idiot]

New updaet: The goverment is capping the price of car fuel at 480 forints. Now its around 505, with one USD worth around 290 Forints. Gas stations that do not comply will be shut down.

480 is still high, but won't get higher, as the increase rate on gas prices was getting inflated really high.

Yeah wages are really low. Currently got a raise so I make 500 USD per month. Finally above minimum wage, oy vey!

 

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New updaet: The goverment is capping the price of car fuel at 480 forints. Now its around 505, with one USD worth around 290 Forints. Gas stations that do not comply will be shut down.

480 is still high, but won't get higher, as the increase rate on gas prices was getting inflated really high.

Yeah wages are really low. Currently got a raise so I make 500 USD per month. Finally above minimum wage, oy vey!

Shit's fucked. Ask Venezuela how fuel subsidies go.

 

[Bezmenov]

It's all so tiresome. I've been out of work in my chosen trade for almost 9 months because construction has ground to a halt due to shortages and skyrocketing prices of parts. No one here wants to go ahead with any projects because the price just to do a job jumped 400% in price and will probably take 2-3 times as long to do when the developer can just as easily squat on a concrete slab and eat the loss as a tax write-off. The only projects still going are ones that were already in motion before this supply chain fiasco started and those will wrap soon. I knew something was wrong on the last job I was at (in January) when the most basic fittings ie. shit you could find at a Home Depot in droves was now being quoted with a 2-3 week turnaround, never mind specialized/unique fittings, which we were being told could take upwards of a year to get. If this situation doesn't un-fuck itself soon, the blue collars are going to feel it badly.

 

[Sped Xing]

the endless good will Americans have built up for their government,

U wot m80

 

[Govt. Shitposting Machine]

Posted about a specific hospital in the COVID threads several times, thought this would fit better here:
Medical supply shortages are appearantly a thing!
Departments missing huge chunks of supplies, so they have to check in with others to see if they have any, zilch. Other NYC hospitals calling each other up to see if anyone has specific items but either have literally one left or won't share if they have more than five.
Trucks are still coming at a consistent pace, guess 'cause it's a hospital and they order a shit ton of stuff (duh), it's mostly just a matter of trying to order items in stock instead of waiting several months for back orders.

I know people were already hesistant to go to hospitals before because of nurses and doctors being sketch about vaccines, but this is only gonna make it worse, especially if you're there for some really specific surgery or an emergency. Take care of yourself frens
This is why I do my own surgeries with floss and sewing strings check mate big pharma. Also I'd say what's on backorder for this one but I'm medically retarded and just a code monkey, most of it seems to be fluid related like for blood or extracting fluids from lungs??? probably different from hospital to hospital

 

[Mepsi Pax]

I've yet to see any real shortages in this area other than for very specific products, but industrial prices continue to rise. Chemicals and work materials have been creeping up since summertime. Dry goods more than liquids. I suspect a lot of it is shipping related rather than actual cost of goods inflation.

OE stuff from GM is on a looooong shipping delay - 2 weeks to get trivial 4oz. doodads from Lansing. Normally the dealer would have that shit in 3 days. No wonder the big shops are all so backed up, I can't imagine the parts hell going on there right now. Certain household items are fucked too. They're a full step behind in their just-in-time system, meaning something that should be in a warehouse stateside hasn't even made it across from China yet. They're just giving offhand estimates of 16 days for washers and dryers and shit but in truth they have no clue and it might take a few months.

Protip: old man cars, like Caddys, Lincolns, and other luxo cars like BMWs Audis

Junk (but the parts are certainly dear)

Getting a used rental car can also be a good option.

No

Instead of a Mazda... they're in a Porsche

My condolences

 

[1Tonka_Truck]

Getting a used rental car can also be a good option.

If rental cars are even 1/10th as bad as rental equipment, N O P E.

Instead of a Mazda with all sorts of corners cut to send it to the lot they're in a Porsche

Congrats? to your friend buying a used overpriced volkswagen.

 

[Henry V]

Probably not gonna happen but should be noted.

 

[contradiction of terns]

China’s Coal Shortage Threatens Farmers in India and Truckers in South Korea

A coal shortage that led to an energy crisis in China is rippling beyond its borders, threatening to disrupt supply chains and farming in countries that rely on its exports of a chemical used in fertilizer and diesel exhaust systems.

India and South Korea are experiencing shortages of urea, which is extracted from coal, since China placed new restrictions on exports. It is widely used in India as a fertilizer and in South Korea to produce urea solution, which is used to reduce diesel emissions in vehicles and factories.

South Korean cargo-truck drivers say they are working to find gas stations that still carry the solution, with some having to idle their vehicles and stop work due to shortages. Prices of urea solution have soared as much as 10 times on secondhand markets, though the government has placed a ban on hoarding.

Logistics-industry experts say the shortage hasn’t had a significant impact on supply chains but that it could if the situation doesn’t improve by next month.

My understanding is coal production in the US has plummeted, and trucks that require urea need a fresh tank on a very regular basis, so it's entirely possible for this problem to spread to us. Even if it doesn't, the famine that will follow these countries being unable to successfully farm is going to have ripple effects.

 

[Les Morfalous]

New updaet: The goverment is capping the price of car fuel at 480 forints.

Ah Yes, price controls.Cause those sure work out well. They should've opened the government reserve, but I'm guessing that's already been syphoned dry by some petrol-station-owning-oligarch.

I make 500 USD per month. Finally above minimum wage, oy vey!

I feel you Magyarbro. The way prices have been creeping up here, i'll be out of the working-class club by the end of the week. Not so much as food and fuel, but construction materials are through the roof - a 10x10 4 metre long Pine beam goes for 26 BGN (about 15 USD). Corrugated Steel is 30% up.

 

[Sped Xing]

China’s Coal Shortage Threatens Farmers in India and Truckers in South Korea



My understanding is coal production in the US has plummeted, and trucks that require urea need a fresh tank on a very regular basis, so it's entirely possible for this problem to spread to us. Even if it doesn't, the famine that will follow these countries being unable to successfully farm is going to have ripple effects.

It's disingenuous of them to say urea is made from coal. Urea is made by reacting ammonia and carbon dioxide, which are made from air using electricity. Coal is used to make electricity. Saying urea is made from coal is exactly as valid as saying hydrogen is made from Uranium.


Fwiw DEF isn't really consumed all that quickly, in my experience. It's obnoxious, but you need at most a few gallons a day, versus dozens of gallons of diesel.

 

[Garm]

I was informed by someone at work that their father bought a brand piece of equipment from John Deere just for it be returned to the shop three times already.

I wasn't sure if that fits in with this thread but I didn't see a Strike Mega thread.

 

[Smoke Manmuscle]

https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1457448464367947779

My monthly pet food order took a long time to fulfill. Now might be a good time to hoard and help kick this shortage into high gear.

Purina makes all their food in the US. It’s also the only food I haven’t seen have supply issues.

The supply chain fuckery has only increased my conviction that newer is usually not better. I'm in the market for quite a bit of equipment this year. If it doesn't have computer chips or DEF, that's a huge plus to anything I buy.

I’m also in the market for a bunch of equipment and have pointedly been capping my search at nothing made after 1990. I want something I can work on and has no fancy electronics.

 

[Woe-B-Gon (TM)]

I love how President Brandon* just blames his country for the crisis his administration and party helped create.

Ask not what your country has done to you, but what you have done to your country.

New updaet: The goverment is capping the price of car fuel at 480 forints. Now its around 505, with one USD worth around 290 Forints. Gas stations that do not comply will be shut down.

Forints? You mean the replacement for the pengö?

I'm no expert on Hungarian currency and I know it's been over half a century but I just got this sudden feeling of "Oh, this ain't gonna end well."

 

[Male Idiot]

Ah Yes, price controls.Cause those sure work out well. They should've opened the government reserve, but I'm guessing that's already been syphoned dry by some petrol-station-owning-oligarch.

I feel you Magyarbro. The way prices have been creeping up here, i'll be out of the working-class club by the end of the week. Not so much as food and fuel, but construction materials are through the roof - a 10x10 4 metre long Pine beam goes for 26 BGN (about 15 USD). Corrugated Steel is 30% up.

I think it has to happen. Too big gas prices will mean everything rockets up, and you don't want that with elections coming in a year.

National socialism did work well.

I also don't think we got gas reserves. I know we got food, but I am doubtful on gas, especially enough to keep civilian stuff going.

What I think will happen is that they'll lower taxes or have some other way of reimbursing the gas companies. Like a tax write off.

Or maybe only the gas companies that support Orbán, or have ties to him, or no ties to opponents.

 

[Sped Xing]

National socialism did work well.

At killing Germans, slightly less well at killing Jews but still pretty efficient. Otherwise indistinguishable from IP2.

 

[RainwaterDrop]

Probably not gonna happen but should be noted.

Lukashenko is just another tyrant, like with North Korea he just bluffs and bluffs. Unless you're one of his citizens you have nothing to fear from him, he answers to Putin and both of them rely on selling gas to Western Europe to make a living, he's just stoking this fire to gain more leverage considering he just pissed them off with the refugee crisis he made up!

I love how President Brandon* just blames his country for the crisis his administration and party helped create.

Every politician does this to some degree, but this is what makes me think that while Brandon is certainly senile he isn't demented, just absurdly out of touch. Obama would be probably be doing the same but at least he would handle this better by pulling out the marketing work to soften the blow, right now there isn't either good communication or good policies coming from the White House!

They could simply make a call to the Governor of California and make them open up some exemptions to that retarded law of theirs and help in meeting the demands for shipping, but apparently doing nothing about it and blaming everyone else is clearly the wise course of action lol!

Purina makes all their food in the US. It’s also the only food I haven’t seen have supply issues.

Pet foodstuffs are usually locally produced, supply chain is laughable as you only need local farms for the low-grade protein and grain sourcing plus packaging. Good news for pets with refined palates lol!

On the topic of local issues: Some weird shortages are happening, certain sizes of soda are missing, certain flavors of industrialized foodstuffs are almost rare now, things are mostly normal but we are feeling a ripple effect on a smaller scale, buying any imports takes thrice as long with shipping than buying from local vendors for example!

 

[FatalTater]

I wonder how many new hoarders are being created right now.

Ever be around people that lived through the depression of the 1930s? They keep everything, because it might have a use someday.

I only recently let go of that mindset myself, and now it's creeping back. What if I can't get another cardboard box that size or what if margerine stops being sold in little reusable tubs?

The "own nothing and be happy" folks don't know what some of us are fighting against.

 

[Ancient Pioneer]

Lukashenko is just another tyrant, like with North Korea he just bluffs and bluffs. Unless you're one of his citizens you have nothing to fear from him, he answers to Putin and both of them rely on selling gas to Western Europe to make a living, he's just stoking this fire to gain more leverage considering he just pissed them off with the refugee crisis he made up!

This benefits Putin by inducing desire for the Nordstream project, its likely Belarus and Russia are working this from both ends and Putin actually desires Belarus to cut the gas flow. Natural Gas prices are insanely high right now and cutting it off entirely prior to winter would literally drive the population insane with rage that they cannot do anything about because Belarus cannot be invaded and any sanctions would clearly deepen the lack of fuel.

 

[Oxous]

I was at Taco Bell yesterday and they had a sign at the drive-thru window saying something like "Due to national ingredient shortages and delivery delays, we may be unable to satisfy some orders". They had some very polite people working there at least. Let's go Brandon!