Iran Catch-All | US Build-up in region

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Duke Mu said:
South Carolina has some of the greatest poverty I've ever seen. It's a wreck juxtaposed with HHI, Kiawah...
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NC has Charlotte and RDU, which have no corollary in SC. Other than that, the states are similar, just on a different scale.

GSP is a larger version of the Asheville-Hendersonville area.

GSO is comparable to the Columbia area.

Wilmington is a much smaller version of the Charleston area.

Outside of those "metro" areas, the states are very similar. But no doubt NC has the advantage with CLT and RDU.
 
nycfan said:
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He seems unable to distinguish between a slogan and an action plan. ALL CAPS slogan is not a plan or a direction that the Energy Department can implement NOW …
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True because he doesn't know how to formulate a plan, he thinks this is "The Apprentice", where he barks and fires people.
 
lawtig02 said:
NC has Charlotte and RDU, which have no corollary in SC. Other than that, the states are similar, just on a different scale.

GSP is a larger version of the Asheville-Hendersonville area.

GSO is comparable to the Columbia area.

Wilmington is a much smaller version of the Charleston area.

Outside of those "metro" areas, the states are very similar. But no doubt NC has the advantage with CLT and RDU.
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Nah... I live in Eastern NC and while desolate, it's nothing like traveling through rural SC.
 
dukeman92 said:
Nah... I live in Eastern NC and while desolate, it's nothing like traveling through rural SC.
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I would have to agree with this overall....but I think that's also what law is saying. Most of what makes rural NC better is the "spread" from RDU and CLT. The Raleigh influence is as far away as Rocky Mount at this point.
 
Rock said:
Is this like a calculated response to save face but with no chance of really escalating things because no casualties will happen?
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Yes.

Having seen Iran’s response, the price of crude oil is at the lows of the day, down about 4%
 
wmheel1287 said:
I would have to agree with this overall....but I think that's also what law is saying. Most of what makes rural NC better is the "spread" from RDU and CLT. The Raleigh influence is as far away as Rocky Mount at this point.
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Yes. And I’m also not sure many people have spent much time in Graham, Swain, Macon or Clay counties. Or for that matter in Hertford, Gates, Camden, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Chowan or Bertie. That’s POVERTY. And I fully recognize SC has a ton of those areas as well, but rural NC is not really different from what I can tell.
 
Calheel said:
We elected the crazy uncle in 2016, and re-elected the even crazier and even more senile uncle in 2024. We popularized modern democracies in 1789, yet we are very bad it. When Europe messes it up, like with Boris Johnson, their mess ups are never as bad and they fix them faster.
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Perhaps, though we shouldn't forget about a couple of guys named Viktor and Adolf.
 
I don't understand the whole "decoy" of sending B2 bombers to Guam.

It was obvious to me that was a decoy. Wouldn't it have been obvious to Iran? Flying through Guam is ridiculously long. It doubles the flight time at least. There's no strategic benefit to it. There's no reason we would fly through the South Pacific when we could fly through NATO airspace basically all the way there.
 
So...Iran gives a heads-up and shoots missiles mostly unsuccessfully at a miliitary base in Qatar that has been largely abandoned now.

It's almost as if Trump gave a tell about the Iranian nuclear facility strike, and waited for Putin's thumbs up. After pausing a few days, Putin is a Go! and our missiles and B2 bombers attack 3 nuke sites, but not before personnel and enriched fissile material escaped because they were tipped off. Iran diplomats meet with Putin and the Kremlin for marching orders. There's a deal to retain the Mullahs and the nookyular program in some form, and limit Straits of Hormuz impingement.

Thus, this is mostly Trump 2.0 TV show material. Few casualties, lots of nighttime fireworks.

Companies and CEOs with billion$ at stake have chilled the oil futures and stock market. They've been tipped off as well.

Just sayin' on this Conspiracy Theory. "It makes for good TV."

 
an0maly said:
Rocket up, then feather float down consumer pricing is profit making, price gouging tactic, is always done in any crisis-shaped-looking-like thing. As it was during Covid-19, too. It has little or sometimes nothing to do with actual production shortage, but CEO decisions on how much to do it, and any risk of being called on it.
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You are correct. Legalized price gouging. Sky high overnight and takes forever to come down. And there is always an excuse....
Callatoroy said:
$2.49 today at my local station.
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Went up $.25 overnight in WNC after the bombing. I saw everywhere from $2.79 to $3.09 in WNC over the weekend, and it hadn't been that high in months. See an0moly's post above.
Zoo_View said:
The “Bad Roads” State?

The Palmetto State?
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Agree - can always tell when we're on SC roads. Although to their credit, I think they've increased their gas tax a bit to try and help fix things up. Where the difference for me used to be .25 to .35 on the gallon, now it's .05 to .15. Maybe they can use that to start making I-95 three lanes all the way through SC.
 
superrific said:
I don't understand the whole "decoy" of sending B2 bombers to Guam.

It was obvious to me that was a decoy. Wouldn't it have been obvious to Iran? Flying through Guam is ridiculously long. It doubles the flight time at least. There's no strategic benefit to it. There's no reason we would fly through the South Pacific when we could fly through NATO airspace basically all the way there.
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I think we could have given Iran the time and location and they wouldn’t have been able to do anything about it.
 
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