On the disparity in pricing of oil - this is because the oil market isn't about perfect substitution and supply worldwide. So if you have lots of oil in Texas, you can't (easily) get more o… (View Post)

The OG quote - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmHl7hKlVj4 (View Post)

It's also a matter of changed attitudes. Back in the 80s, the insurers priced in a few holes from anti ship missiles. Tankers are very hard to sink, as you say. Used to work, long ago, with a ta… (View Post)

Living in that world (my daughters when to private school - partially) the politics of the young is left wing. Uniform support for the Greens. My youngest is unusual, in that she actually discusses a… (View Post)

I'd forget that many people don't know about them. Actually what happened in Desert Storm was that they were used at first - a version with a cruise missile flying a pattern, unreeling grap… (View Post)