It's as clear as that.

How does "Mission Accomplish" look like in Russian?

Norse Atlantic Airways cancels flights out of LAX citing high fuel costs.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/norse-atlantic-airways-cancels-flights-out-of-lax-citing-high-fuel-costs/ar-AA20Z7df

I have flown that Norse route from LAX to London and for a budget airline, their Premium cabin is really not bad at all. Have also flown them from London back to JFK.

Really worried about JetBlue at this point too - my favorite domestic carrier, especially now that Southwest has gone and wrecked itself by eliminating anything that set them apart.

This is seriously disappointing.

Expecting millions of visitors, maybe not?

Can't they buy American in the meantime? The US has over 9000 drilled but uncompleted wells in seven key oil and natural gas production regions in the United States. There are probably even more in the Gulf of Mexico. Can't we pick up production to keep them from running out for the next few months?

And different refineries can only handle certain grades of crude.

IOW, you're not pumping crude from out of the ground to fill a jet.

We are already the biggest crude producer in the world (thanks to fracking).

It will take time and be expensive but can save them in the meantime. The US has not increased storage or refining capacity since the 70s energy crisis due to the expectation that the demand would drop as cars became more efficient and the US added more rail and public transport.

We honestly don't need to import oil, we do it because the labor and other production costs of producing in other ME countries is cheaper and because we want everyone else to run out before we do.

It's definitely not that simple because (as a former chemist myself), you have to imagine an apparatus like this -



Scaled up to something like this -





(something that the chem engineers do )

Each tower (or sets of towers) is designed to collect different fractions of substances based on their boiling point. Like making yourself some hooch with a still!

But how else are they supposed to get their fuel? Crude has to be refined. And they have the means of adjusting the process.

The problem is as you stated it's complex but also very costly so is it worth it for them to make those changes if the Hormuz winds up being opened 3 months from now and then they may have to re-calibrate again? That's the reason for the whole uncertainty. If they completely lost a supply or a market, an oil company would have to consider this. But, if it's all an unnecessary disruption over an extortion grift that corrects months later.... And while they wait they burn through stored fuel supplies.

it keeps prices up, profits high, and the world remains addicted to oil. Most refineries in the US are designed for oil produced in Canada and South America, and we export our lighter grade oil to Asia which has the refineries to handle it.

Oil companies refuse to build new refineries in the US because no one wants one in their town and they don't want to spend hundreds of billions of dollars just to see the market change by the time the refineries come online. There is a vast amount of economic and supply chain inertia keeping things as they are.

The long term solution is green energy, but that is another battleground Big Oil is fighting tooth and claw.

have been trying to convert AWAY FROM "fossil fuels" so these companies have been looking into the future and whether the expenditures (including uncapping wells, building more oil platforms to drill, and creating more refineries) would have any good ROI when it comes time to bringing that all online, when millions of "cheap" Chinese EVs are starting to proliferate.

That is why the U.S. oil companies have been "meh" about all those leases that 45 snatched from various places and handed to them.

Meanwhile, nuclear has suddenly been resurrecting - NJ just declared the moratorium on new nuke plants there, dead - Gov. Sherrill signs bill to end de facto moratorium on new nuclear plants

Add all the wind and solar and the energy industry is going through disruptions in the flux (physics term - had to take 3 semesters of it )

You do have airlines that have their own refineries for jet fuel. For example, about 15 years ago, Delta Airlines bought a ConocoPhillips refinery just outside of Philly for jet fuel -



So perhaps other airlines may need to consider that since they are the biggest users of a critical fraction of crude being refined. And since there really aren't any commercial "EV" airplanes, that transportation sector is going to continue to need a crude refinery for fuel as long as their tech is predominately designed to use it.

for different types of oil. You have to build facilities for that type of oil. Billions of dollars and 3-5 years to build.

Thats why the US still imports oil while also exporting it. And why trump wanted VZ oil; most of our refineries are built to refine that heavy oil they pump. Much of ours isnt the same type.
Good luck getting new refineries built, although a new one did recently open.

yes it would cost a lot and take a lot longer than 6 weeks or maybe building completely new ones but what else are they going to do?

They could just not honor the blockade. Trump let Chinese tankers through. Only the EU and NATO are pursuing Russian shadow fleet tankers. Trump's not. Tell Trump and Netanyahu to go screw themselves. IS the USN really going to sink ships from our (former) allies and trade partners but let China through? US Banks and Financial firms might have a huge issue with both starving them of fuel and sinking their ships.

And, if his blockade screws with the EU or Canada or other nation's economies any more, they're really going to start boycotting US products and businesses even more. They can create a trade blockade. They're already practically half way there.

World economies are being affected big time by this war.

Soon, NOBODY will be traveling anywhere.

He has failed us on every level. He needs to be fired immediately.

Perhaps you didn't receive that Communique?

were the embargoes on Japans' access to oil.
Who did it? America did it!
Bomb them!

How long until WWIII for the same reason?