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December 27, 2023
Get Ready For Gas Shortages & Price Hikes Again: Weak Biden 'Fears' Retaliating Against Iran-backed Houthis Attacks In The Red Sea Due To Probability Of Full Scale War With Iran
Iran backed Houthi terrorists attack ships in Red Sea
After the severe shortages of 2021, from food to electrical products to appliances and more, things did get a little better, as the supply chain issues began to level out, but now we are facing upcoming shortages once again.
Only this time the shortages will not be from pandemic lockdowns and school closures, but rather due to Yemen-based, Iranian-backed Houthi terrorists, attacking ships in the Red Sea.
The Houthi are being referred to as "rebels" in most the reports about the Red Sea attacks, yet it wasn't until 2021 that the Biden regime lifted the designation of the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen as a global terrorists.
Yet another boneheaded move on the part of Biden and his puppet handlers.
The importance of the Red Sea trade routes is explained by Susan Stigant at the United States Institute of Peace.
Stigant: The Red Sea is a major artery for global trade. About 12% of global trade passes through the Red Sea, which accounts for billions of dollars of goods and about 30% of the world’s container shipping. Access to the Red Sea requires passage through the Bab al Mandab — a narrow strait about 20 miles wide with Djibouti to the west and Yemen to the east.
Several large shipping companies — seven out of the 10 biggest shipping companies, including Maersk, and BP — have made the decision to halt shipping through this corridor. Some companies will use a new route traveling south through the Indian Ocean, around the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and then up the western coast of Africa. This could add up to two weeks to shipping and add more than $1 million to the transportation costs. Ultimately, the additional time and the additional expenses could raise the prices for fuel and availability of goods.
A number of companies are already facing delays and shortages. Those include, but are not limited to:
Ikea, which sells home furnishings and goods, issued a statement from their parent company Inter IKEA Group, stating "The situation in the Suez Canal will result in delays and may cause availability constraints for certain IKEA products."
Dairy group Danone: They a pioneer innovative food, drinks & specialized nutrition that can positively impact health, according their website.
Electrolux, one of the world’s largest appliance companies, expects deliveries to be limited as they look for alternative routes and prioritizes certain deliveries, according to Forbes on MSN.
Bloomberg reports that clothing brand Abercrombie & Fitch are thinking about using air freight which costs far more, meaning those costs will trickle down to consumers.
Several large shipping companies — seven out of the 10 biggest shipping companies, including Maersk, and BP — have made the decision to halt shipping through this corridor. Some companies will use a new route traveling south through the Indian Ocean, around the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and then up the western coast of Africa. This could add up to two weeks to shipping and add more than $1 million to the transportation costs. Ultimately, the additional time and the additional expenses could raise the prices for fuel and availability of goods.
Top that off with the fact that global shipping rates have already increased due to the Houthi terrorists, and we are looking at the very real possibility that inflation numbers are going to start spiking again.
$80 billion. That’s the value of the cargo shippers have diverted from going through the Red Sea as of Tuesday, CNBC reported.
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One of the first issues we would like to address is gas prices. Present day they are still far higher than they were when Joe Biden started occupying the White House. That is a fact the media, Democrats and the White House seem to ignore when they are patting the Biden regime on the back for lowering gas prices. In reality if you remember, Biden simply manipulated the prices by using out Strategic Reserves, leaving them at the lowest levels since the 1980s.
In fact, if you look at the chart above, President Trump was already lowering prices from the rise due to the state lockdowns and subsequent shortages and prices hikes when Biden entered the WH, yet they immediately started rising again under the Biden regime.
If the attacks continue, she says, Americans are going to feel the price increases.
Sanders saw freight insurance rates go up in real-time over the weekend by 100%, 200%, even 250% in some cases. Longer journeys will increase costs as well, which will be passed down to consumers, she says.
“The average consumer thinks of finished products,” Sanders says.
But the disruption of the streamlined supply chain of oil and natural gas affects not only the prices of gas at the pump, but also production of goods that require gas.
Might be a good idea to fill up some cans or a caddy that holds up to 30 gallons, or enough to last until there are no more attacks by the Houthi's in the Red Sea.
As to the delays and shortages Ikea reported they were expecting, they do have what seems to be an never-ending list of furniture, with early delivery dates in January. Same goes for laptops, tablets, or any other type of electronics.
BOTTOM LINE
Biden is weak. His withdrawal from Afghanistan showed his incompetence, especially leaving tens of millions in weaponry and equipment.
Russia invaded Ukraine while Biden sits in the White. China is talking about taking Taiwan.
The Biden decides to pull the hold he has on $6 billion for Iran, right before the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.
Iran reportedly now has access to $6 billion that was stuck in South Korean banks as part of an Iran-U.S. prisoner swap in September. Meanwhile, separately, on Sunday, Iran claimed to have received $43 million from the U.S. This money, analysts say, was not quite new as it was part of a fund for a tribunal formed to resolve trade and economic differences after the freeing of American hostages in Tehran in 1981.
The $6 billion accessed as part of the prisoner exchange has sparked criticism of the Biden administration, including from former President Donald Trump, that the money could have been used to support Hamas.
Of course after the attack on Israel by Iran-back Hama, the media on behalf of the Biden regime insisted that Iran could only use that money for humanitarian purposes.
None of the aforementioned events would have happened under the previous administration, and it is actually terrifying that the Biden regime has yet another year in the White House to continue weakening America.
The bottom line is the same as the first sentence of this category: Biden is weak and the whole word sees it.
In the second video below, we hear that the U.S. "fears" unilaterally retaliating against Iran-backed Houthis because it could cause an open, military war with Iran.
The first video below is Steve Quayle and Mike Adams discussing the powder keg that is the Middle East right now, along with other issues such as Russia and Ukraine.
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