Increasing attacks on energy infrastructure in the Persian Gulf could significantly hurt the already strained global supply of oil and natural gas, pushing fuel prices much higher.
Important energy sites were attacked this week across the region. The main state-owned energy company in Qatar, the world’s third largest supplier of liquefied natural gas, reported “sizable fires and extensive further damage” on Thursday at its facilities after those areas were also struck on Wednesday.
The escalating attacks will make it much harder for energy producers in the Gulf to repair and restart their oil and gas operations when the war ultimately ends. Asian countries, which are the biggest buyers of Persian Gulf energy, face the greatest risk of fuel shortages, but the pain of higher oil and natural gas prices will be felt across much of the globe.
I’ve long had an interest in agriculture. Agriculture is science and the practice of turning rural land into food, using natural forces combined with knowledge gained by human kind to grow and feed humans and animals alike. Agriculture defines Rural America, it is the largest land use, provides a low-impact use of land that is largely sustainable and on-going. Farm land can generally be abandoned, and quickly revert back to full woods and wildland.
I grew up in a small town, I hope to move back there someday, probably once I finally say good bye to New York.
So yeah, I filled my apartment with acrid smoke last night frying up some onions and shrimp, and decided to light up some of that Dragon Breath’s incense I got last summer camping, after seeing it real cheap at Wally World, reading about incense in a book about cabin building and smelling it up at Cornell Campus. Shit stinks, but it was better then the acrid smell, says the boy who hangs out with people who post on their Facebook, “The Smell of Manure Reminds Me of Home”, and those who are like hell yes I burn my trashon my homestead – everything but the cans and glass which dont’ burn real well. Dirty real shit unlike the incense which is much more pungent in then the marijuana smoke.
I had low tire pressure on my bike yesterday, 🚲 after riding past the South Pearl Ghetto Apartments again yesterday, but I pumped it up at the end of day at work and made it home but it still felt soft. Looks like I poked a hole in the tube on front tires, but the fix-a-flat sealed it back up. Pumped it up harder when I got home, and it looks fine this morning. There is a big protest downtown ✊ and I’d much rather avoid that on my bike today then take the Yokel Local Bus, 🚌 you know Pay Your Fare!! 💰 and we stop every 5 feet and inch along downtown as you become morbidly obese. 🌥️ Looks like a pretty cloudy and gray this morning. Did I mention I am glad I am in the Tier 4 Pension System, so I have nothing to protest about, and I’ve been maxing out my Roth IRA for a decade and half, and in past decade maxing otu the 457k. I am a solder in poverty, but some day I’ll have that off-grid cabin with the stinky old trash burner and cows and hogs out back. And then I can I say, home smell like manure and burnt plastic. And probably incense and cannabis smoke. Grow your own on all that hog shit. 💩
Slept in a bit this morning until about a quarter before six o’clock. 🛏️ Eggs this morning 🥚 with lots of spinach, broccoli, onions and turmeric. Interesting mix of yellows and greens. Too many cups of coffee, ☕ and I am moving along, once I shower 🚿 it’s will be off to work. 💾 Shit is always still broken in the world of Data Services, but yeah, we are making progress at updating the database and I’m keeping the programmers busy fixing shit. Some of the stuff gets a lot of use by clients and members, others not so much, 🖥️ but you offer it and see what people bite onto. I turned the heat on last night, though if I don’t think it actually got cold enough for the thermostat to kick on. Still haven’t gotten the February bill from National Gird, 🔌 I should look and see as it should have arrived soon. Should be less then January, as I have had my heat off most of the time since early March or turned way down. Bills have been up this year due to higher rates, and simply because I’m home more not having a operating truck. The dealership tried calling me yesterday, probably to ask if I was still looking and push inventory, I didn’t take the call. I should think more about summer and buying a new truck, but yeah, I’m busy and I’m hardly inspired to rush out to buy a Godzilla 🐲 with a 48-gallon tank or maybe 34-gallon when Crude Oil is topping $120 a barrel this morning. 🛢️ That and social media is always reminding me the money on the truck today is not money to invest and spend eventually on buying hogs, that burn barrel for the garbage and cabin in the woods. Do you want to be separating out your plastic forever for recycling and landfill? Or do you to want to fires 🔥 in wilderness and dream of grunting hogs? 🐖 I don’t know, I should get in the shower 🚿 and building data frames and running SQL in the office. 🏢
Oil soared past $115 and European natural-gas prices surged more than 20% as attacks on Middle Eastern energy infrastructure fueled anxiety over supply.
Qatar said early Thursday that Iranian ballistic missiles caused extensive damage at its Ras Laffan industrial area, which houses a major hub for liquefied-natural gas. Those strikes came in response to an Israeli attack on a large Iranian gas field, South Pars, which prompted Iran’s president to warn of “uncontrollable consequences, the scope of which could engulf the entire world.”
