Scottica retweeted
Here’s what nobody wants to say out loud:
In Q4 2026, the question won’t be “what’s the oil price?”
It will be “do you have fuel or not?”
Price becomes irrelevant when the barrel simply doesn’t exist.
Scottica retweeted
The only thing that stops cascade failure:
Government intervention.
— Mandatory fuel rationing
— Export bans
— Emergency price controls
— COVID-style mobility restrictions
Not to save the economy.
To save the infrastructure itself.
Scottica retweeted
Every crisis in history had a buffer:
1973 → Saudi Arabia had spare capacity
1990 → Saudi ramped up production
2022 → Russia rerouted to Asia
2026 → No spare capacity. No rerouting. No buffer.
OPEC+ spare capacity today: 0.3M b/d
Supply gap: 13.7M b/d
The math doesn’t work.
Scottica retweeted
A cascade failure doesn’t look like running out of petrol.
It looks like this:
Day 1: Refinery shuts — no feedstock.
Day 3: Product shortages at terminals.
Day 7: Fuel rationing at petrol stations.
Day 14: Supply chains collapse.
Day 30: Food distribution breaks down.
It starts with oil.
It ends with everything.
Scottica retweeted
JPMorgan says global inventories hit Operational Floor by September.
“Operational Floor” = the minimum needed to keep the system alive.
Below it — pipelines lose pressure. Terminals shut. Refineries go offline.
Not a shortage.
A cascade failure.
Scottica retweeted
"Ramble On" is 56 years old and Robert Plant just walked onto The Late Show and made it sound like he wrote it this morning.
Scottica retweeted
You won't hear a better 55-second description of MAGA and Trump than this: in terms of the perspective of any minimally honest MAGA supporter:
Scottica retweeted
On Easter morning, this is what President Trump posted.
Everyone in his administration that claims to be a Christian needs to fall on their knees and beg forgiveness from God and stop worshipping the President and intervene in Trump’s madness.
I know all of you and him and he has gone insane, and all of you are complicit.
I’m not defending Iran but let’s be honest about all of this.
The Strait is closed because the US and Israel started the unprovoked war against Iran based on the same nuclear lies they’ve been telling for decades, that any moment Iran would develop a nuclear weapon.
You know who has nuclear weapons?
Israel.
They are more than capable of defending themselves without the US having to fight their wars, kill innocent people and children, and pay for it.
Trump threatening to bomb power plants and bridges hurts the Iranian people, the very people Trump claimed he was freeing.
On Easter, of all days, we as Christians should be reminded that the son of God died and rose from the grave so that we can be forgiven once and for all of our sins. Jesus commanded us to love one another and forgive one another. Even our enemies.
Our President is not a Christian and his words and actions should not be supported by Christians.
Christians in the administration should be pursuing peace. Urging the President to make peace.
Not escalating war that is hurting people.
This NOT what we promised the American people when they overwhelmingly voted in 2024, I know, I was there more than most.
This is not making America great again, this is evil.
Scottica retweeted
NEW: Kentucky family rejects $26 million offer to convert part of their farm into a data center despite the offer being about 10 times the going rate for farmland in the area.
"If it's my way, I'll stay and hold and feed a nation. 26 million doesn't mean anything."
"As long as I'm on this land, as long as it's feeding me, as long as it's taking care of me, there's nothing that can destroy me if I've got this land."
Video: Local 12 WKRC
Scottica retweeted
Let me explain what just happened 👇
5 minutes before the President announced a halt to attacks on Iran… someone placed a $1.5 BILLION bet on stocks going up and dumped $192 million in oil.
5 minutes…
These trades were 4 to 6 times larger than anything else in the entire market. Whoever did this wasn’t guessing. You don’t risk $1.5 billion on a hunch.
There was zero public indication this announcement was coming. No leaks. No press. Nothing. The only people who knew were in the room when the decision was made.
Someone in that room picked up a phone.
And within minutes they made more money than most Americans will earn in a thousand lifetimes. In a single trade. On a war that cost you $4+ a gallon gas and $16 billion in tax dollars.
American citizens funded this war. Politicians are profiting from it.
This is not the first time. Every major announcement from this administration has had massive suspicious trades right before it dropped. Tariff reversals. Policy shifts. War decisions.
This is the most blatant insider trading operation in the history of American politics. It’s not even close. And it’s happening over and over in broad daylight.
You would go to federal prison for trading on a tip from your cousin. These people are front running war decisions with billion dollar bets and nobody will ever ask a single question.
Nobody will be investigated. Nobody will be charged. By tomorrow this will be buried under the next satisfying headline. Just like last time. And the time before that.
The game is rigged. And they’re not even trying to hide it anymore…
BREAKING: Just five minutes before Trump's announcement to halt the attacks on Iran, massive trades reportedly hit the market.
In one move, $1.5 billion in S&P 500 (ES) futures was bought while $192 million in oil (CL) futures was sold.
These orders were 4–6x larger than anything else at the time.
The trader seemingly made huge gains.
Unusual.