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

Should the title be re-worded to expand the scope of the thread?

  • The US Trucking Crisis of 2021 works fine

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  • The US Logistics Crisis of 2021

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  • The US Transportation Crisis of 2021

    Votes: 7 2.6%
  • The US Supply Chain Crisis of 2021

    Votes: 35 13.1%
  • Global Supply Chain Crisis 2021

    Votes: 206 77.2%

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I noticed this last year. I'm in Eastern Canada and most out grocery store potatoes come from PEI, so I assumed it was because of the potato wart the US blocked PEI's potatoes over last year and PEI insisted totally doesn't exist. Do yours come from PEI where you are? Like, it was really bad; I couldn't buy a bag of potatoes without throwing half of them out and I had to start buying from a local farm where they cost twice as much but are excellent potatoes.
I haven’t spotted any warty potatoes at all and as far as I know my local grocery is part of the nationwide ban. The potatoes that I’ve been buying are now consistently smaller and more often seriously bruised from rough, haphazard handling. And I’m talking bruises bad enough to ruin up to a third of the potato. They’re minor problems overall and the potatoes are still okay overall, but it still rings like a bad omen considering the current state of the world.
 
I haven’t spotted any warty potatoes at all and as far as I know my local grocery is part of the nationwide ban. The potatoes that I’ve been buying are now consistently smaller and more often seriously bruised from rough, haphazard handling. And I’m talking bruises bad enough to ruin up to a third of the potato. They’re minor problems overall and the potatoes are still okay overall, but it still rings like a bad omen considering the current state of the world.
A potatomen, if you will.
 
Bit local, but I thought this was hilarious in an infuriating kind of way.


Here's some of my favorite parts, via plaintext:

Governor seeks comptroller to take action​

With prices expected to climb higher in the coming months, Gov. Larry Hogan wants Comptroller Peter Franchot to take action. Due to legislation passed by the General Assembly in 2013, the gas tax increase is expected to take effect by July 1.
The governor said the comptroller can take action because the tax increase is calculated by the comptroller's office. The law mandates the increase of gas taxes annually based on inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index.

Comptroller says only Hogan, Legislature can rescind the state's gas tax​

In response, the comptroller's spokeswoman, Susan O'Brien, responded to Ricci's points, saying: "While we appreciate the governor and his spokesperson's recognition of the historic efforts Comptroller Franchot has made in the past to relieve tax burdens on Maryland taxpayers and our small businesses, each of these examples were legally permissible under existing law."
O'Brien further stated Franchot "has no legal authority to unilaterally alter or stop the automatic increase to the state's gas tax rate," and that "almost all of the examples Ricci provides deals with tax payment extensions, not dealing with suspending enforcement and collection of tax rates, which is what is at issue here."


.....so the same people who will gladly tell you all day that the reason for gas price increases is just because "the oil companies are greedy and just want to make more money!" won't rescind their own state gas taxes. HAHAHAHAHAHA. AND instead of trying to formulate some actual plan they're too busy passing blame back and forth to the point where any normal person would have to question how the fuck these people could run anything when they don't even understand their own jobs or abilities.

If you don't laugh you'll go insane with rage.
 
Whole potato thing makes me glad I started my own plants and it has been so cool and wet here so far, they are growing like crazy. Most seed potatoes sold out by the end of April in my area, particularly the hipster varieties like purple potatoes were the first to go. I found some seed sweet potatoes in the Walmart clearance section, so I planted those a few days ago. I have no real expectations for them as I have never grown sweet potatoes, but they were so cheap, who cares? See what happens.

I bought some curry plants back in late March or early April and I had zero idea anything about what they need or like. I am not going to street shit on them, so no high expectations. I just threw them in a very large planter with some southern Europoor herbs and wondered how it would go. MFW, they are growing like crazy and I may have to consider transplanting them to their own container soon.
...so the same people who will gladly tell you all day that the reason for gas price increases is just because "the oil companies are greedy and just want to make more money!" won't rescind their own state gas taxes. HAHAHAHAHAHA. AND instead of trying to formulate some actual plan they're too busy passing blame back and forth to the point where any normal person would have to question how the fuck these people could run anything when they don't even understand their own jobs or abilities.
Yeah, there has been literally zero talk in my state about doing this and we have one of the higher fuel taxes in the nation. There has been no talk of doing ANYTHING really. Just suck it up, plebs.
 
Thanks again for the bee info, @SCSI !

I was up at dawn to do wound debriding because one of my ducks had a medical emergency so I'm not going to try to address everything, but I did have a few items before I go pass out.

I don't want broilers per se, but I would like chickens that can gain weight and lay and not be crippled either way.

Have you considered Brahmas? They're a fairly heavy breed and seem decent at laying. I have a few.

Also, saw you're doing sweet potatoes but wanted to do a more standard issue potato type. Have you considered trying to sprout some from the grocery store? I've got a few boxes of the weird colored fingerlings from a bag I got that I forgot about and it sprouted. I also have yams and got them the same way. Sweet potato gang rise up?


Also, finally, something thread relevant and serious. I'm trying not to derail things too badly with the aggie-speak.

Diesel Crisis Looms as US Supplies Running on Fumes


Edit: @Pokemonquistador2 Thanks to you too! I tried to angle for a langstroth hive and got veto'd, so we got the generic nuks, but if we can keep the bees going through the winter and split the hive next year then maybe I'll bring up the langstroth again.
 
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Thanks again for the bee info, @SCSI !

I was up at dawn to do wound debriding because one of my ducks had a medical emergency so I'm not going to try to address everything, but I did have a few items before I go pass out.



Have you considered Brahmas? They're a fairly heavy breed and seem decent at laying. I have a few.

Also, saw you're doing sweet potatoes but wanted to do a more standard issue potato type. Have you considered trying to sprout some from the grocery store? I've got a few boxes of the weird colored fingerlings from a bag I got that I forgot about and it sprouted. I also have yams and got them the same way. Sweet potato gang rise up?


Also, finally, something thread relevant and serious. I'm trying not to derail things too badly with the aggie-speak.

Diesel Crisis Looms as US Supplies Running on Fumes
Hehe, well, I only planted the sweet potato gang a few days ago, so I am guessing it will be a month or so before I see any movement, if regular potatoes are anything to go by. It takes forever for them to come up, but once they do, they grow at an insanely fast rate. All of my potatoes are out of the ground and about 8-15 inches high atm. I expect I can harvest my first round in July and I will try to get my second crop in around the end of June.

I had a bantam brahma roo, but I ate him. I would consider the breed again as they are very cold hardy. Right now, I am at the max for my flock once my new lil guys come in on Friday or so, but it is something to think about when flock refreshment comes up again.
 
Is there an estimate when things would be back to normal? The gas prices and food shortages are getting alarming, and I'm hearing pet food shortages are creeping in the horizon- which I absolutely hate to hear because of its going to be painful to see my dog starving if it hits my area.
I feel like things have been so wound up there's no resetting until something snaps. Whether that's sooner or later I personally couldn't say. What I can say is I'll be fine because I am perfectly willing to eat somebody's cat.
 
Is there an estimate when things would be back to normal? The gas prices and food shortages are getting alarming, and I'm hearing pet food shortages are creeping in the horizon- which I absolutely hate to hear because of its going to be painful to see my dog starving if it hits my area.
I really don't see how anything can return to conditions resembling "normal" for at least another 5 years, and that's assuming the various conflicts in the world calm down. Fertilizer, herbicide, and energy shortages aren't going to be resolved this year and will almost certainly only get worse next year. Certain products will be hit with shortages, pet food likely included, but at least with dogs you have more flexibility with respect to what they can eat. Whether or not those other options remain affordable for you is another matter.

Where I live we get a lot of locally produced vegetables and meat being sold in smaller shops and none of it's been out of stock over the last two years unless it's out of season, so my pets and I are likely going to be just fine. Prices are being raised on those products as well, but not as much as the stuff that needs to be trucked in.
 
I really don't see how anything can return to conditions resembling "normal" for at least another 5 years, and that's assuming the various conflicts in the world calm down. Fertilizer, herbicide, and energy shortages aren't going to be resolved this year and will almost certainly only get worse next year.

Personally I'm hoping that the power outages are as severe as possible.

I love it when the power's out, and I also enjoy watching normies ree. It's a win-win.

Kaczynski did nothing wrong.
 
Is there an estimate when things would be back to normal? The gas prices and food shortages are getting alarming, and I'm hearing pet food shortages are creeping in the horizon- which I absolutely hate to hear because of its going to be painful to see my dog starving if it hits my area.
You seem confused, this is the beginning of the domino chain. When these destructive chains begin in earnest they are almost impossible to halt, it also doesn't help the incompetent leadership of most nations are seemingly oblivious to the causal effects of why this chain is beginning. The nonstop lock-downs, sanctions and climate change frenzy have produced an environment of low trust for investment.

Energy - Biden's administration's nonstop attacks on the domestic energy industry have effectively ended the oil industry's division of exploring for new oil wells and tendering bids with the government to begin the process of tapping it, Biden's admin has made it clear that the oil industry has no future so the energy industry have accepted it as fact and are exiting the industry for other options, the price of oil is going to continue to spike indefinitely as there is no further expansion and OPEC has made it clear they have no interest in expanding supply either. This has a smothering effect because the price of oil also dictates transportation of oil in an amusing feedback loop because those supertankers also require fuel to run.

Supply Chain - The price of energy skyrocketing is going to snarl global trade, the globalist mindset is a utopia based upon low shipping costs, that era is going to end because OPEC has realized for the short term they can work less and get more money, this nonsense where cat litter clay is dug up in Texas, shipped out through the Caribbean to Thailand to be processed, then boxed up only to be shipped to Vietnam to be QA'd, then shipped to Los Angeles before riding by rail to Maine is unsustainable with energy costs going up dramatically. The entire logistic chain is going to collapse because of energy prices and the shakeup is going to lead to bare shelves in developed countries and huge unemployment and civil unrest in developing countries.

Food - The huge amount of strife and tension is leading to countries closing their exports of food, India is in the news because its halted export of wheat and now sugar is being limited drastically. There is a clear "every man for themselves" vibe beginning to form around food as each country begins to halt exports, this is deepening the climate of fear which causes further curtailing of exports. The developing world is about to suffer one of the harshest famines in modern history and the civil strife derived from it is going to outright end their export of raw materials. We could realistically see half of Africa go into civil war at the same time as people are driven into madness from hunger. I'm reminded that we witnessed the South Africans destroy the largest food processing plant in the country during their riots in 2021 and supposedly unemployment is near 30% if that poster was to be believed. Globally there is a fertilizer shortage as a result of Russia halting exports leading to expected yields in the fall harvest being far below the norm in developed countries like the US, this is unlikely to resolve itself for a year or two as it takes time for plants to be built, not to mention the energy crisis being an issue for any sort of petrochemical plant to begin with.

Business - Since 2008 the Fed has kept the rates almost at 0%, we're nearing on 15 years of low rates, many people in finance and the business sector have known nothing but easy money and the entire business sector has evolved with this in mind. There is going to be a reckoning as this entire crop of managers and financiers get forced back into reality. Expect a 2008 style liquidity and subprime loan crisis (already defaults are beginning) as a cherry on top of the shit sundae we're getting.

This is just a few of the things I can think of off the top of my head. Not a lot of good things going on right now, I could touch on the violent crime spike, the various monopoly that have been allowed to form which causes stupidity like the baby formula shortages, the chip shortages. There is A LOT of stuff going on at the same time that are causing a feedback loop. Every time we expect it to calm down a new incompetent leader does something to escalate it such as the lockdowns in China.
 
You seem confused, this is the beginning of the domino chain. When these destructive chains begin in earnest they are almost impossible to halt, it also doesn't help the incompetent leadership of most nations are seemingly oblivious to the causal effects of why this chain is beginning. The nonstop lock-downs, sanctions and climate change frenzy have produced an environment of low trust for investment.

Energy - Biden's administration's nonstop attacks on the domestic energy industry have effectively ended the oil industry's division of exploring for new oil wells and tendering bids with the government to begin the process of tapping it, Biden's admin has made it clear that the oil industry has no future so the energy industry have accepted it as fact and are exiting the industry for other options, the price of oil is going to continue to spike indefinitely as there is no further expansion and OPEC has made it clear they have no interest in expanding supply either. This has a smothering effect because the price of oil also dictates transportation of oil in an amusing feedback loop because those supertankers also require fuel to run.

Supply Chain - The price of energy skyrocketing is going to snarl global trade, the globalist mindset is a utopia based upon low shipping costs, that era is going to end because OPEC has realized for the short term they can work less and get more money, this nonsense where cat litter clay is dug up in Texas, shipped out through the Caribbean to Thailand to be processed, then boxed up only to be shipped to Vietnam to be QA'd, then shipped to Los Angeles before riding by rail to Maine is unsustainable with energy costs going up dramatically. The entire logistic chain is going to collapse because of energy prices and the shakeup is going to lead to bare shelves in developed countries and huge unemployment and civil unrest in developing countries.

Food - The huge amount of strife and tension is leading to countries closing their exports of food, India is in the news because its halted export of wheat and now sugar is being limited drastically. There is a clear "every man for themselves" vibe beginning to form around food as each country begins to halt exports, this is deepening the climate of fear which causes further curtailing of exports. The developing world is about to suffer one of the harshest famines in modern history and the civil strife derived from it is going to outright end their export of raw materials. We could realistically see half of Africa go into civil war at the same time as people are driven into madness from hunger. I'm reminded that we witnessed the South Africans destroy the largest food processing plant in the country during their riots in 2021 and supposedly unemployment is near 30% if that poster was to be believed. Globally there is a fertilizer shortage as a result of Russia halting exports leading to expected yields in the fall harvest being far below the norm in developed countries like the US, this is unlikely to resolve itself for a year or two as it takes time for plants to be built, not to mention the energy crisis being an issue for any sort of petrochemical plant to begin with.

Business - Since 2008 the Fed has kept the rates almost at 0%, we're nearing on 15 years of low rates, many people in finance and the business sector have known nothing but easy money and the entire business sector has evolved with this in mind. There is going to be a reckoning as this entire crop of managers and financiers get forced back into reality. Expect a 2008 style liquidity and subprime loan crisis (already defaults are beginning) as a cherry on top of the shit sundae we're getting.

This is just a few of the things I can think of off the top of my head. Not a lot of good things going on right now, I could touch on the violent crime spike, the various monopoly that have been allowed to form which causes stupidity like the baby formula shortages, the chip shortages. There is A LOT of stuff going on at the same time that are causing a feedback loop. Every time we expect it to calm down a new incompetent leader does something to escalate it such as the lockdowns in China.
I feel like nuclear holocaust wojak. Everyone is going to get fucked, but at least the ship called globohomo will sink once it's every country to itself. With it industry returns to be a thing in the west and not just for hi-tech equipment.
 
If the market continues to implode and we can no longer kick the can to future generations, we can finally have that fun discussion about paying boomers 100K/year pensions, on top of Medicare, on top of social security, for masturbating in front of a government computer for forty years. There's definitely some other important "populist" discussions the country needs to start having if there's any hope of a future, and it starts with why we're still importing hoards of non-integrating unwashed masses instead of taking care of our own.

So it'll be bad, but good things can come out of it. 12+ years of increasing fed/state/local/university budgets has lead to everyone being ruled by a bloated corpse.

"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."

--George Orwell, Animal Farm
 
Everyone gave really good explanations as to why the supply chain issues aren't going anywhere. I'm not entirely sure India cutting off wheat and sugar exports (they are the world's #1 exporter of sugar, apparently) and China shutting down much of it's industry in the pursuit of 'zero Covid' aren't actually these two countries teaming up to intentionally buttfuck the EU/US while we're distracted with the Russo-Ukraine conflict. I'm not saying that's absolutely what's going on, either, but China and India don't seem to be fond of the Globohomo and I wouldn't put it past them.

Dry pet food will be affected because it's often composed of grain or grain byproducts as filler. I'm not surprised to see the supplies of doggie and cat chow starting to taper off. Livestock and poultry feed suffers from the same problem and I've noticed raw millet/random mixed grain being offered as opposed to the standard crumbles/pellets. Interesting times.
 
Everyone gave really good explanations as to why the supply chain issues aren't going anywhere. I'm not entirely sure India cutting off wheat and sugar exports (they are the world's #1 exporter of sugar, apparently) and China shutting down much of it's industry in the pursuit of 'zero Covid' aren't actually these two countries teaming up to intentionally buttfuck the EU/US while we're distracted with the Russo-Ukraine conflict. I'm not saying that's absolutely what's going on, either, but China and India don't seem to be fond of the Globohomo and I wouldn't put it past them.
There is also to consider that Ukraine can't export much of their stored wheat due to Russia mining the ports / destroying wheat silos / taking wheat to Russia. While th EU tries to get the wheat over the land ways this isn't exactly the safest route. Once the EU gets flooded with starving refugees then shit will hit the fan hard. After all what can the EU do? Shoot them at the border? Now that would look rerally great: screeching about Russian war crimes while at the same time doing basically the same. 2022 is looking to be the biggest clusterfuck of the current twenties.
 
While th EU tries to get the wheat over the land ways this isn't exactly the safest route
It's literally just stuffing the wheat onto a train and moving it to Europe. Most all of western Ukraine has zero Russian troops and when the Russians shoot missiles/do airstrikes they bomb barracks and concentrations of troops. It's still the West's fault since they've decided to make into some grand proxy war against Russia instead of bothering to negotiate in the exact same doubling down bullshit we saw with their failed "pandemic" response.
 
Jiff Peanut butter is on recall.

That is 2 in the course of 2 weeks.
its like that one person was saying pages back, these plants were given the ok to lower their standards. i remember getting some strawberries and whipped cream for Hitlers birthday and the strawberries had visible mold and were soft as shit in the store. I'm sure thats what happened there, its either lower it to the shittiest standards or have customers do without. especially with how current business thinking works its better to give someone a lower quality product than not have one at all because either they'll switch brands (most likely to a shittier one anyway) or they would just do without entirely either way you could be losing long time customers. its like fast food, every location has the people that exclusively eat there every day and others that do it once a year. if the location goes away then the business as a whole will always lose a chunk of people who went from once a day to a healthier lifestyle because of laziness.
Is there an estimate when things would be back to normal? The gas prices and food shortages are getting alarming, and I'm hearing pet food shortages are creeping in the horizon- which I absolutely hate to hear because of its going to be painful to see my dog starving if it hits my area.
define normal, because just the petroldollar getting destroyed in europe and asia means we're forever in uncharted territory for fucked. also pet food shortages aren't real, the food is all made locally, you can just get people to ship it to you if you're that fucked.
I feel like nuclear holocaust wojak. Everyone is going to get fucked, but at least the ship called globohomo will sink once it's every country to itself. With it industry returns to be a thing in the west and not just for hi-tech equipment.
honestly maybe i'm a retard but with the way everything is failing i'm sure a bunch of these nukes will be duds, how often were we checking the fucking things anyways? most of our warheads were made in the 1970s, you wouldn't trust a car or gun from that era to work properly even with maintenance, and these were made knowing it would be illegal to test them to make sure they work. could just be fucking pinball parts in them for all our government knows
 
honestly maybe i'm a retard but with the way everything is failing i'm sure a bunch of these nukes will be duds, how often were we checking the fucking things anyways?
Obama early in his second term supported a spending bill that committed like 1 trillion dollars to nuclear readiness and I don't think Trump changed any of that. I suspect the US nuclear arsenal is by far the best in the world and it will be the Russian ones that have a large amount of duds given how their military is just Soviet leftovers. Now don't get me wrong, an all-out nuclear war with Russia still means our greatest cesspits like DC, NYC, LA, etc. get glassed and tens of millions death, but the US will proportionately have less damage.
most of our warheads were made in the 1970s, you wouldn't trust a car or gun from that era to work properly even with maintenance, and these were made knowing it would be illegal to test them to make sure they work. could just be fucking pinball parts in them for all our government knows
They were tested underground, repeatedly, just like North Korea does for nuclear testing. Dig mineshaft, insert bomb, survey the results.
 
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