They salivate whenever someone gives them an excuse to put their boot on the people's necks.
and Europe has history of ration of these things during war, they just need a good enough excuse.
Britain had rations even after World War II. Still, for something like this to be imposed ex abrupto would not be acceptable even to Europeans, who are the most docile lot in the world, let alone by Americans.
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve was created in response to the oil crisis. It was intended to give domestic producers enough time to ramp up production and prevent price spikes had the Saudis decide to embargo the US again.
Currently, Biden's draining it to zero, just to get a good headline CPI and to hurt Russian oil exports. Meanwhile, domestic producers are getting crushed by inflating costs and OPEC is pissed at the blatant price manipulation.
But they keep salivating over the idea of it, and Europe has history of ration of these things during war, they just need a good enough excuse.
They salivate whenever someone gives them an excuse to put their boot on the people's necks.
Britain had rations even after World War II. Still, for something like this to be imposed ex abrupto would not be acceptable even to Europeans, who are the most docile lot in the world, let alone by Americans.
True forcing it all at once will be hard pressed, but with a good enough excuse they could ease it onto the population similar to value-added tax.
The US has a history of rationing things during war.
And let's not forget the 70s oil crisis.
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve was created in response to the oil crisis. It was intended to give domestic producers enough time to ramp up production and prevent price spikes had the Saudis decide to embargo the US again.
Currently, Biden's draining it to zero, just to get a good headline CPI and to hurt Russian oil exports. Meanwhile, domestic producers are getting crushed by inflating costs and OPEC is pissed at the blatant price manipulation.
We've come full circle.