The fuel problem is about to become a fuel crisis.
On Monday, the Houthis in Yemen threatened to block Saudi oil shipments through the Red Sea. That could further reduce the world’s oil supply by 4-5 million barrels per day, which is already strained by the war with Iran.
Saudi Arabia had been using its East-West Pipeline to bypass Hormuz, sending as much as 5 million barrels of crude per day to the Red Sea port of Yanbu for export. A successful Houthi blockade could now put much of that supply at risk. It may not stop the oil altogether, but it could force tankers to stop sailing, pay far higher insurance costs or attempt longer and more expensive routes.
And will that extra cost be passed down to consumers? I’m going to go with yes on that hypothetical.
This comes at a time when U.S. commercial and strategic crude inventories have fallen to roughly 43 days of refinery demand, their lowest level in 45 years. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve alone is down to 316.5 million barrels, its lowest level since 1983, after Washington released nearly 100 million barrels to help offset the shortage created by the Iran war.
America is not 43 days away from running out of oil: domestic wells are still producing and imports continue. But the emergency cushion that has helped contain fuel prices is rapidly thinning.
If both Hormuz and the Red Sea remain impaired, the next phase will be measured not simply in oil prices, but in gasoline, diesel, airfares, shipping costs and inflation.
With this economic fallout, you would think the U.S. would turn down the temperature of its war with Iran but President Trump does not seem poised to do that. He posted on Tuesday that Iran will pay “many times over” for every American soldier that is killed.
The Pentagon confirmed that at least two service members died in Jordan last week when Iran struck the Muwaffaq Salti Air Base. A third person may have also been killed but has yet to be identified.
The U.S. bombed Iran for a 10th consecutive night on Monday and Iran continued its retaliatory strikes.
So much for peace.
America’s Surveillance Network Is Hiding in Plain Sight
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There may be a Flock camera watching you drive through your own neighborhood and you may not even know what it looks like.
Flock Safety’s automated cameras photograph passing vehicles, record their license plates and locations, and place that information into a searchable network used by law-enforcement agencies. More than 100,000 cameras are now reportedly operating across over 6,000 American communities.
This is mass surveillance hiding in plain sight and a direct threat to the Fourth Amendment. Americans have a right to move through their communities without the government quietly creating a searchable record of where they go, when they arrive and whom they may be visiting.
The company says the technology helps police find stolen cars, locate missing people and catch violent criminals. Critics argue that it creates a nationwide system capable of tracking the movements of millions of people who are not suspected of committing any crime.
The debate is no longer simply about whether cameras can help solve crimes. It is about who may search the data, how that information can be used and whether Americans should have to surrender their privacy to move freely through their own communities.
Tune in to Redacted today at 4 p.m. Eastern, where we’ll discuss America’s rapidly expanding Flock camera network with Connor Boyack, bestselling author, researcher, activist and president of the Libertas Institute.
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Watch our latest featured interview here! Clayton is joined by Dr. Peter McCullough and author John Leake to discuss their new book, Vaccines: Mythology, Ideology, and Reality. The conversation examines the history of vaccines, the renewed push for COVID shots, questions surrounding safety and mandates, and why open scientific debate matters.
What’s Trending
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“Make Spain Great Again” is trending after Spanish soccer player Ferran Torres wore a hat with that saying on it to the World Cup celebration in Madrid on Monday.
Coffee is trending because a new scientific statement from the American Heart Association says that up to 400 milligrams of caffeine a day—roughly three to five 8-ounce cups of black coffee—is generally safe for most adults and may even be associated with a lower risk of heart disease and stroke.
Avengers: Doomsday is trending because Marvel released this new trailer for the film, which is due out in December.
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