{"id":11211,"date":"2021-11-24T10:18:55","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T18:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=11211"},"modified":"2022-10-17T10:24:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T17:24:08","slug":"happy-thanksgiving-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2021\/11\/24\/happy-thanksgiving-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Thanksgiving Eve."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The President is out of the office&#8230; again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gas prices are soaring. While The President tried to blame it on gouging on the part of the stations, that&#8217;s not really playing well because the price of crude is up by quite a bit. This is what happens when you have supply chain disruptions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s face it, even if you take the politics out of the situation. It is, at its core a supply chain disruption. When the government decides that pipelines can&#8217;t be completed and targets other pipelines for closure higher prices are the result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Add to that problems induced at the ports, where foreign oil comes into our supply chain and well, the prices have no choice but to go up. It&#8217;s a basic supply \/ demand situation. Then if you add the apparent lack of truck drivers into the mix creating more of a supply constraint it&#8217;s pretty damn obvious that prices at the pump are going to go up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In California we see this every single year. As California switches from the &#8220;Summer Blend&#8221; to the &#8220;Winter Blend&#8221; at California refineries there&#8217;s always a supply burp. Prices go up and rarely come down. Since California regulations prevent importing non-California gasoline, the good people of California are always under the heavy thumb of Sacramento.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The image below from <em>Despicable Me<\/em> says it eloquently. If you have any question, we&#8217;re the person being crushed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"398\" src=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/DespicableMe-Bank-Scene-1024x398.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/DespicableMe-Bank-Scene-1024x398.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/DespicableMe-Bank-Scene-300x116.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/DespicableMe-Bank-Scene.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Welcome to my world,&#8221; to the rest of the country. Get used to it for at least the next 6-8 years. I specify that time frame because with a screw up of this epic proportion even if Biden is voted out, it will take 2 to 4 years to undo the damage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biden says he&#8217;s running again in 2024. I&#8217;m wondering if his next presidential run will be from a hospital bed instead of his basement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Enough of that, here we are at the beginning of the Holiday Season. It&#8217;s supposed to be a time of family, friends, and football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But then in my warped little brain, I see the following conversation happening in the near future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>No dear I&#8217;m not watching football. It isn&#8217;t any fun anymore because it&#8217;s not just about the football. Now it&#8217;s all about &#8220;Educating&#8221; us on the error of our ways. So this year I just want to enjoy family, friends and a nice meal.<\/p><p>Oh right. Family and friends must now be looked at with suspicion. <\/p><p>Has Grannie had her COVID booster? She hasn&#8217;t? Oh well, send her back to the old folks home. Your friend Sharon hasn&#8217;t had the vaccine? Well she&#8217;s not welcome here! It doesn&#8217;t matter if she&#8217;s already had COVID, she&#8217;s unclean! <\/p><p>So what, if she&#8217;s the godmother of our children and you&#8217;ve been friends since kindergarten. She&#8217;s officially unclean we can&#8217;t take the risk to our children! Tell her she can&#8217;t come. What? No-one in the family has gotten their booster shots? Well then, I guess we&#8217;ll just eat alone.<\/p><p>What do you mean we&#8217;re not having a turkey this year? It&#8217;s not in the budget? How can it not be in the budget? We&#8217;re having tofu? What about the pies, what about the green beans? We&#8217;re not having those either, why not? There weren&#8217;t any at the store?<\/p><p>What is happening? <\/p><p>Oh right. We all have to keep tightening our belts until the New Administration is able to &#8220;Fix&#8221; all the messes the horrible Orange Man&#8217;s old administration left behind.<\/p><p> Say, it&#8217;s cold in the house let&#8217;s turn up the heat, it&#8217;s 55\u00b0F in here.  I&#8217;m worried that the kids are too cold. What do you mean that we can&#8217;t turn up the heat? We can&#8217;t afford that either? Can we afford to turn on the oven? What? You&#8217;re going to cook Thanksgiving dinner over an open fire, that makes no sense.<\/p><p>We can&#8217;t afford to turn on the oven either? Uh yes dear, I&#8217;ll go dig a fire pit in the front yard. Yep, I&#8217;ll cut down the tree in the back yard. Good thing I&#8217;ve got a chain saw. Oh I need to go get some gas for it&#8230; <\/p><p>What? We can&#8217;t afford gas for the chain saw? Oh, You got me an ax for Christmas? Okay I&#8217;ll get to work. Can&#8217;t we just break up the furniture? Oh, that&#8217;s for later when we&#8217;ve used up the trees in the yard. <\/p><p>Why are you assigning me the gender specific role of chopping down trees and digging fire pits? Doesn&#8217;t that send a bad message to the children? <\/p><p>Yes dear&#8230; No I wasn&#8217;t implying that you should do all the work. I was just asking&#8230; fine! I&#8217;m going out to the garage, my phone should be finished charging in the Tesla by now. <\/p><p>What do you mean the Tesla is dead? Oh right, I forgot about the wind related blackouts this month. <\/p><p>Hey honey? What&#8217;s this Carvana paperwork about you buying a 1965 Volkswagen and there&#8217;s something else about immigrating to Mexico?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy Thanksgiving Eve!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President is out of the office&#8230; again. Gas prices are soaring. While The President tried to blame it on gouging on the part of the stations, that&#8217;s not really playing well because the price of crude is up by quite a bit. This is what happens when you have supply chain disruptions. 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