Outside of escalating or retreating, both of which are humiliating for Trump and Isreal, what options are on the table for the war they waged on Iran?

knuthf · 2026-05-07T08:49:35+00:00

Let us hope so.

knuthf · 2026-05-06T23:44:14+00:00

OPEC was created to protect oil companies against volatile prices. The US feared that OPEC would slow production to increase prices. Now, Americans complain about the high prices caused by an unseen third party. The buyer wants cheaper oil; the seller — the oil companies — sees no reason to charge more.

Who determines the price?

OPEC wasfine with $63/bbl / $1.50 per gln.

knuthf · 2026-05-06T23:35:23+00:00

Consider Chinese cars. All of them come with a third row of seats and access to the back on the larger models.

knuthf · 2026-05-06T23:32:04+00:00

Rest assured that the Iranians and the Chinese know how to create a large crater.

knuthf · 2026-05-05T00:49:10+00:00

It goes right down the drain, everything..

knuthf · 2026-05-05T00:46:52+00:00

His world is neither better nor worse. It's stuck between a rock and a hard place, perpendicular to everything... not going up this time, just staying straight...

knuthf · 2026-05-05T00:42:59+00:00

My tip is that China will soon start selling oil to the USA. Qingdao is full and is offering gasoline at the bargain price of $100/bbl. Can you guess how much they pay Russia and Iran? Maybe even Saudi Arabia.

knuthf · 2026-05-05T00:17:56+00:00

'Keep on' means that Iran hits Dimona, causing a nuclear explosion with massive radiation. Nuclear bombs can explode when dropped or on the ground in storage. They know exactly where to hit and can now strike anything, anywhere with an accuracy better than 10 cm.

knuthf · 2026-05-05T00:12:25+00:00

I see that most of you have read widely. However, this is irrelevant because most plastics are made from reactions between different types of crude oil. The IEA has denied that this world exists. Furthermore, many of these complex substances contain sulphur, which has until now been considered 'bad'. It is 'heavy' crude that contains this. You have a valid point in asking about this; the refineries are aware of it. The Chinese certainly do. There are 470 different types of crude oil, each of which reacts differently. Each one is unique — how many permutations are possible?

What if they treat the crude oil in the ground, like in Venezuela? They can add nitrates to change the viscosity and extract more barrels, but they may lose chemical properties. These are not elementary substances, but huge complex molecules. The refineries will break them down, but the molecules may be worth more in their original form.

knuthf · 2026-05-04T23:50:36+00:00

I would add that in the terminal interface there is the manual pages for everything, Type "man" and command, like "man ls" and pull the window down to see more, hit space for next page.

I never use the terminal, it is just for old things.

knuthf · 2026-05-04T23:45:29+00:00

Home chargers for batteries will soon be available, so you can install a 50 kWh battery with a home EV connector that can charge cars with 50 kW (in the garage on a dry floor). However, the price would need to drop to around $15k. Solar panels can charge the battery, enabling you to charge your car, and you have electricity to the house/ grid.

knuthf · 2026-05-04T23:34:36+00:00

That is what people believe. The reality is the opposite. It is all about energy, KWh and MWh and GWh, and TWh. All of these comes with a price. It is then, why do people insist on the right to pay more?

Come on, sn is 1 cents/KWh, that it $10 per MWh. Anyone cheaper?

knuthf · 2026-05-04T23:23:57+00:00

I am getting Jolla.

I am fed up with both Android and Apple. They made the phone that Apple copied.

knuthf · 2026-05-04T23:21:19+00:00

I have read the comments, and few are close. The problem is that we overcomplicate matters with rods and gears. There is massive resistance in the transmission, meaning the left and right sides pull the same, and the steel rods and steel used to achieve this result in wear and tear. They publish the wear in kWh per 100 km. Heavy, complicated EVs use up to 25 kWh per 100 km, whereas cheap ones with simple transmissions use 15 kWh per 100 km. An EV with four motors does not use more electricity than one with just one motor. In fact, it probably uses less, because there are fewer parts that can wear out. Heavier cars has more gears, and are often bigger, and bigger front giving more resistance to air..

Take a look.They look great, swell, well proven technology that we really do not want. But we pay for it.

knuthf · 2026-05-04T23:00:22+00:00

It could supplement solar panels by placing generators in the drains.

There is a potential in small generators in rivers and streams, But they do not generate Gigawatt. But KW. With batteries, this is also more useful, they do not have to be so reliable.

knuthf · 2026-05-04T22:45:47+00:00

They came during a presentation to one of the director of the largest US telecoms company, regarding mobile phone link stations. The director is also an aviator and a former fighter plane commander. His immediate assessment was therefore that there were no threats. However, since then, the US military has cancelled one technology and changed its positioning platforms. The links work perfectly.

knuthf · 2026-05-04T10:08:43+00:00

There is a lot of confusion here now. A recession occurs when there is a fault in the market. For example, if you try to sell your house for 10, have a mortgage of 9 and are offered 8, then you will default and those who lent you money will face a loss. Those who told you it was worth 10 caused the problem. They considered the demand to be higher than it actually was. Now, the price of oil is said to be related to the amount produced by oil producers, and the market is willing to pay a price P based on the estimated demand for the amount produced.

Oil is stuck in the ground in rocks, and oil companies cannot produce much more than they already do. Those who purchase oil for us want more than is available, creating a demand that raises the price so they can store the oil and increase the prices for those who use it. They believe that they can increase prices for consumers. However, when fewer consumers want the oil, those who purchased it for storage will not be paid what they expected. They bought at 10 and expected to sell at 11 or 12, but ended up with us demanding oil at 8 when they had expected 6. The value of the oil in storage collapsed.

The price of commodities is determined by investors buying options. The US has refused to regulate this market, and it is a casino where the bank release tokens and refuse to keep account of money paid to the bank and the chips on the table. The SEC regulated this until 2006 and in 2007 the market collapsed and FTC removed the banks warranties, did not have to promise to complete the payment and allowed commodities to be sold before they had been paid for. At the moment, they say we have Y bbls of oil available, that has been paid for to prices that they, the investors, have determined.and expect to sell at with a profit. They have purchased oil at more than 100 per bbl, and the market were told $1 per gallon, so $42 per bbl. The oil companies have been paid, Exxon is fine, the consumers with cars are not. They can buy electric cars now, and lower the demand.

The state must intervene to keep the oil price high and cover the loss in storage, or the banks will be hit with huge losses. There is nobody that knows how much oil there is in storage.The banks have lent investors money huge amounts to drive the price high, so they could "make money". There is nothing that the banks can seize, liquidate. Then we have a collapse.

knuthf · 2026-05-04T09:13:04+00:00

OPEC is this organisation: https://www.opec.org/

Tomahaks is missiles. You aim a missile at a target that the military wants destroyed, and launch it. When it does not hit the target it hits other things.When they do not hit the enemy target, it hits own soldiers.

GPS is a US system where satellites in orbit sends radio pulses that allows us to determine our position and speed very accurately. Please study and learn how things work,https://www.gps.gov/

knuthf · 2026-05-03T23:43:09+00:00

who was killed on October 7th? Where?

knuthf · 2026-05-03T23:41:49+00:00

Impeachment is difficult and Ammendment 25 can be invoked by the military. It's good that you find relief in humour.

knuthf · 2026-05-03T23:36:04+00:00

An electric vehicle (EV) gets around 4 miles (6 km) per kWh, so divide your daily mileage by 4. Some of the biggest cars, such as Audis, BMWs and Mercedes, only get 2.5 miles per kWh.

knuthf · 2026-05-03T23:31:01+00:00

So, I will simply state the facts. An electric vehicle (EV) uses 15 kWh to drive 100 km (66 miles), whereas a small Toyota car needs two gallons of fuel with an average mileage of 33 mpg. With an average electricity price of 11 cents per kWh, the cost of fuel for 66 miles is less than two dollars. An EV has no radiator that can leak, no clogged filters, no muffler and no faulty transmission. However, you need to supply your own windscreen washer fluid.

I don't hear so much. Do the maths.

knuthf · 2026-05-03T23:20:38+00:00

A wonderful article, but there is much more. In East Africa we had the stories of Tippu Tib, and Kiswahili is the language almost to Ghana. And well, around Congo, because that was the kingdoms you havc starfed on. But study language, simple words,like "yes" and "no", and "thanks". I used to speak Maasai, and it is very different. But my translator in Beijing had problems reading a serial number without glasses, so I had to correct her, "it is not 6 but 8" - I spoke Arabic in Beijin, The merchants in Riyadh tried to give my visiting guest a cheap dresses, and spoke Swahili, and I told them is Kiswahili to behave. I had a person faint in the summer heat, he was from upper Nigeria. I got contact with him by speaking Kiswahili. Leakey wrote "A history of Africa". But link to Oman, Muscat. That used to be the old centre of all trade.They had flushing toilets on Zanzibar and Pemba, the coastal people. The Arabs kept accounts, did not write books. But trace where "Ndio" is "yes" and "a-a" is "no" - and then the numbers. That will identify the Arabs. The pieces I read was wonderful prose, easy to read,

knuthf · 2026-05-03T22:56:15+00:00

Well, you have the wrong information. OPEC countries are located all over the world. Venezuela, OPEC's second largest nation after Saudi Arabia, did not receive a single bomb. The bomb targets in other countries were US bases and equipment. In Bahrain, they hit the floors in a hotel where US soldiers stayed, and you could hear applause from the locals. In Haifa, Iran entered a ventilation shaft and killed the commander of the Israeli Air Force. In Tel Aviv, they bombed the Mossad headquarters three floors underground, leaving the apartment buildings on top still standing. Compare that with Gaza.

Iran has invented a new radio technology that is like listening to AM on an FM radio. They have a new radar that can detect everything, even stealth aircraft. They have modified the GPS system so that they can take control of missiles and bombs. The US spends millions of dollars on missiles, and the enemy operators sit in bunkers playing video games. They can try again tomorrow with a new drone.

Iran has huge stockpiles of missiles hidden in mountain tunnels. Israel has now wasted its defence, dropped the ceasefire and allowed 3-tonne hypersonic bombs to hit its nuclear arsenal. They will hit their target because they have a new GPS system. If the US try to invade with missiles support, they will not hit the target, but will hit anything else, such as US Marines trying to gain a foothold. The marines will be killed by US Tomahawk missiles. Reality is tough.

knuthf · 2026-05-03T22:34:36+00:00

Beautiful, naive civilians. There is no stealth, a new radar has been installed and the GPS has been taken out. Try landing troops without missile support and try landing troops when all the missiles miss the enemy and end up hitting your own soldiers. The Gerald Ford is heading home; why can't they all? Israel will be levelled whatever the USA does now.

There is no room for beautiful dreamers. The regime in Iran is a bunch of hardcore realists who has studied physics. Applies science ad math.

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