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

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War -> climate change.
Famine -> climate change.
Illegal Aliens (migrations) -> climate change.

They might as well retcon Revelations to replace pestilence with climate change while they’re at it. Or fuck it just make all of them climate change.

 

[George Lucas]

Which is a valley downwind from LA County, San Diego, and Tijuana, and very near a shitty Mexican city named Mexicali which is full of Mexicans pumping methane-laden fertilizer into the ground which leaks into atmosphere. Your point? I mean you can live downwind from a coal-fired plant. There are still tons in operation. You can literally experience it for yourself and see that it's TOTALLY just water vapor. I guess it isn't surprising that someone who believes that "muh market forces" are the only reason we have no industry and China produces everything would also buy into literal coal industry propaganda. Hope you're quadruple vaxxed, since OBVIOUSLY market forces mean Big Pharma has no reason to lie about the effectiveness of their safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine.

Nigger calm down. I didn’t say it was the only reason. But it is a big, real reason that people shouldn’t ignore.

I don’t know what the vaccine has to do with manufacturing in China. I’m not vaxxed. Pharmaceuticals are heavily regulated and we see how much of a disaster that is, so I don’t see what your point is.

 

[T0oCoolFool]

This formula shortage really sucks. I'm trying to help out my aunt by finding formula for my baby cousin, and I am having zero luck. Went to 2 counties and several stores, they're all out of formula. I saw one brand (the most expensive brand) and even that only had a few cans.

I looked online, every place is either out of stock or back ordered. Found a few sites selling them for insane markups.

I don't know what's going to happen once my cousin's backstock runs out.

I live in the South, for reference.

 

[Flan Handler]

This formula shortage really sucks. I'm trying to help out my aunt by finding formula for my baby cousin, and I am having zero luck. Went to 2 counties and several stores, they're all out of formula. I saw one brand (the most expensive brand) and even that only had a few cans.

I looked online, every place is either out of stock or back ordered. Found a few sites selling them for insane markups.

I don't know what's going to happen once my cousin's backstock runs out.

I live in the South, for reference.

Can you order from Canadian Amazon? I have had good luck with the reverse (getting US Amazon stuff shipped up to Canada)

 

[tehpope]

I disagree fully. This is the path that should be taken, particularly in the face of runaway energy costs making the logistics a concern. The problem is there is no boot in the ass to get it done, under normal circumstances a country would raise tariffs so an import product would be 1-5% more expensive to import than its domestically produced competitor, over time the market would slowly slant towards domestically produced goods until the import was competed out of the market. But the establishment views globalism and tariff free trade as a religion and these methods will never be employed. Trump touched the third rail by fucking with China in such regard, only an outsider would dare employ such tactics and immediately the media at the politicians behest began shilling that tariffs would destroy the markets and it was the most dangerous moment in time since the Cuban Missile Crisis. Right now would be an excellent time to reconfigure the base of the economy to do domestic manufacturing but it will never happen because the establishment refuses to do so.

At least for electronics, it's being done. A fee major players have committed to bukding chip fabs in the us and elsewhere to reduce the China bottleneck.

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

Vid related as it does a rundown on history as well as Ethanol powered engines. But you can bet globohomo is going to do what they can to keep it from getting popular as it hurts their margins and ultimately their agenda to impose a totalitarian soy state.

They do and they don't, right now it's supported (and has been since the late 70s) because they hate relying on oil-rich countries (like those filthy Muzzies or worse, the Ruskies), but they're also pushing for electric cars and no doubt ways to make it harder to convert your car to run on ethanol. I'm sure they did something to suppress FlexFuel and other initiatives to put more ethanol cars on the road.

Ethanol is a fucking stupid energy source and, under optimistic assumptions, is at best energy neutral, meaning it takes just as much energy to create it as it can be used to generate.

You can literally make it in your garage with a still, and it can be totally legal with an ATF permit that's surprisingly generous (10,000 gallons of fuel a year, but you need to adulterate it so it can't double as drinking liquor, fucking jackboot glowniggers) AND it gets you a tax credit. The only real issue with ethanol sources is how it competes with food and in some places like Brazil it contributes to deforestation. When the supply chain breaks down, I'd rather not have to worry about where to get gas.

 

[Johan Schmidt]

You can literally make it in your garage with a still, and it can be totally legal with an ATF permit that's surprisingly generous (10,000 gallons of fuel a year, but you need to adulterate it so it can't double as drinking liquor, fucking jackboot glowniggers) AND it gets you a tax credit. The only real issue with ethanol sources is how it competes with food and in some places like Brazil it contributes to deforestation. When the supply chain breaks down, I'd rather not have to worry about where to get gas.

Well no, you can make an ethanol water mix at home. You then need to refine that ethanol war mix into ethanol, which would take energy to reach a distillation of 95% for fuel use. Making 100% also needs dehydrating agents if you wanted just pure ethanol. IIRC most biofuels using ethanol are more than 60% petrol, with added ethanol?

I'm not sure about that taking more energy to do than you get a return from, but it isn't just as easy as making booze. I doubt it'd be that hard though honestly. If you're in a pinch and have firewood, you could definitely get at least some useful fuel from making your own. Plus, if you're the sort of guy to get an ethanol burning engine, you're probably not retarded and have your own stills and condensers to make the fuel for it.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

We have to add a factory egg who have been burned to the list of the supply shortage.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/one-largest-egg-factories-us-torched-middle-night-amid-outbreak-fires-food-processing-facilities-across-nation/

A barn that housed tens of thousands of chickens on Forsman Farm in Howard Lake, Minnesota, one of the nation’s largest egg producers, was set aflame late Saturday night.

According to Forsman Farms, which provides more than three million eggs to the largest retailers in the country, the cause of the fire remains a mystery as investigators evaluate the scene to determine how the barn was set ablaze.

“Overnight, a fire destroyed one of our barns at our Howard Lake farm. No one was injured and we are grateful that first responders were quickly on the scene to put out the fire. Unfortunately, chickens were lost because of the fire. We are evaluating the extent of the damage – which appears to be confined to a single structure – as well as investigating the cause of the fire,” a Forsman Farms told Minnesota’s local CBS affiliate.

 

[T0oCoolFool]

Can you order from Canadian Amazon? I have had good luck with the reverse (getting US Amazon stuff shipped up to Canada)

Not sure, never ordered from anther country via Amazon before, but it can't hurt to try! I'll let you know if it works.

 

[Blobby's Murder Knife]

Earth is the third world from the Sun. All Countries on Earth are third-world countries.

I need my thunkfull rating back.

We have to add a factory egg who have been burned to the list of the supply shortage.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/one-largest-egg-factories-us-torched-middle-night-amid-outbreak-fires-food-processing-facilities-across-nation/

The number of food processing plants just going up in flames is...odd. I have heard some people posit it is gayops from either the US government or foreign agents.

This formula shortage really sucks. I'm trying to help out my aunt by finding formula for my baby cousin, and I am having zero luck. Went to 2 counties and several stores, they're all out of formula. I saw one brand (the most expensive brand) and even that only had a few cans.

I looked online, every place is either out of stock or back ordered. Found a few sites selling them for insane markups.

I don't know what's going to happen once my cousin's backstock runs out.

I live in the South, for reference.

The total lack of any response on this from the elected officials is infuriating. We can afford to send guns to the fucking Ukraine for resale, but we can't feed our own children. Fuck this timeline.

 

[Flan Handler]

Not sure, never ordered from anther country via Amazon before, but it can't hurt to try! I'll let you know if it works.

Also don’t be concerned about the nominal price- CAD is about $0.70 to one USD

 

[notafederalagent]

We have to add a factory egg who have been burned to the list of the supply shortage.

Video from the fire:

Spoiler: Archive

https://www.zerohedge.com/commoditi...poultry-farm-supplies-eggs-major-supermarkets (https://archive.ph/HZrNJ)

 

[tehpope]

Just a reminder that the US has like 35k+ food and beverage processing plants. A few burning down isn't cause for alarm. Its suspect, but not some conspiracy.

There are many food and beverage processing establishments (plants) in the United States—36,486, owned by about 31,401 companies in 2017, according to the most recent comprehensive data in the Census Bureau's 2017 Economic Census.

https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-markets-prices/processing-marketing/manufacturing/

 

[JustSomeDong]

Just a reminder that the US has like 35k+ food and beverage processing plants. A few burning down isn't cause for alarm. Its suspect, but not some conspiracy.

https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-markets-prices/processing-marketing/manufacturing/

 

[TheRedChair]

Just a reminder that the US has like 35k+ food and beverage processing plants. A few burning down isn't cause for alarm. Its suspect, but not some conspiracy.

https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-markets-prices/processing-marketing/manufacturing/

However... The way they count the companies is suspect. If you made Mexican bread in your small business you are counted the same way as a large bread producer. Then you are separated in size.

One of my renters works for a company like that so it was pretty interesting to see how things are made.

 

[the fall of man]

Video from the fire:

Spoiler: Archive

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https://www.zerohedge.com/commoditi...poultry-farm-supplies-eggs-major-supermarkets (https://archive.ph/HZrNJ)

Came here to post this. Hope you didn't want any eggs, plebs!

Also Uneducated Economist mentions a major lumber mill fire:

https://youtu.be/FGso_W_r3WA

 

[FatalTater]

Are the food processing plants that are burning down older ones?
I am too damn lazy to look this up myself.
If it's older buildings it could be a case of the owners needing to upgrade and wanting some sweet insurance money to do it with.

 

[AnotherOne]

I need my thunkfull rating back.

The number of food processing plants just going up in flames is...odd. I have heard some people posit it is gayops from either the US government or foreign agents.


The total lack of any response on this from the elected officials is infuriating. We can afford to send guns to the fucking Ukraine for resale, but we can't feed our own children. Fuck this timeline.

A lot of mysterious fires in Russia too. Maybe there's a cyber war going on right now that we just aren't hearing about?

But more likely its greedy companies working overtime and skimping on safety because of supply chain problems.

 

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A lot of mysterious fires in Russia too. Maybe there's a cyber war going on right now that we just aren't hearing about?

But more likely its greedy companies working overtime and skimping on safety because of supply chain problems.

That's what I'd think, but, there's just too many of them. It's like people trying to explain away the church fires in Europe and Canada the past few years as "lol they're old what do you expect" when some of them were shit like "Hey lets hire muzzies to rennovate them" and "we investigated for 5 minutes and found nothing wrong don't ask questions and stop filming the muzzies cheering and dancing in front of the fire, it's a hate fact."

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

Well no, you can make an ethanol water mix at home. You then need to refine that ethanol war mix into ethanol, which would take energy to reach a distillation of 95% for fuel use. Making 100% also needs dehydrating agents if you wanted just pure ethanol. IIRC most biofuels using ethanol are more than 60% petrol, with added ethanol?

Exactly, you can make 95% ethanol and 5% water which is what Brazil widely uses. "Additional energy", sure, but there's plenty of ways to get that energy. I'm not saying making your own fuel is free. I think E80-E85 is a better mix if you live in the US (unless you live in like, Florida or Hawaii) since an engine running on pure ethanol is a bitch to start in the winter (although they do build ethanol engines specifically for colder weather IIRC).

Point is it's a self-sufficiency mechanism to be producing ethanol fuels. Brazil does it in large part because they had their economy hit hard by the 70s oil crisis and realized that subsidizing sugarcane producers didn't just make rich landowners happy, it gave them a huge reserve of shit to make ethanol fuel with.

Are the food processing plants that are burning down older ones?
I am too damn lazy to look this up myself.
If it's older buildings it could be a case of the owners needing to upgrade and wanting some sweet insurance money to do it with.

Not sure, but it may be because of the supply chain shortage. These factories can't get replacement parts they need, so use older parts, and are more likely to go up in flames. The scamdemic also fucked with the maintenance schedules for the machinery and there's a problem finding people to maintain the equipment. Ergo, risk of fire goes way up.

So, it technically is TPTB's fault these factories are burning down, but not because Bill Gates and Klaus Schwab are ordering arsons to destroy the food supply. That's just a dumb conspiracy theory since a few extra burnt down plants isn't going to fuck things over worse than they've already fucked things over with their insane scamdemic restrictions, Ukraine bullshit that's made insane fuel prices, ecofag laws on trucks, and I'm sure coming by 2030 meat being taxed like alcohol and cigarettes (for the environment of course).