Editor’s Note: For anyone still alive, and driving, who experienced the OPEC Oil Shock of 1973, take this news on. If we were still dependent on Saudi oil, you can only imagine the impact on next week’s commute would be. Or the lines for gas, or the odd-even license plate day nonsense. Taking half of it out of production.
Point Loma takes it on this morning. Like me, he wishes there was something Ma Midway could do about it. This is a Big Deal, in capitals.
– Vic

Abqaiq

I’ve always been afraid of this place, ever since I learned about it. It is the jugular for Saudi Arabia, and for most of the world’s nations who rely on exports of Saudi oil. It sits at the apex of the largest oil field in the world, and now it has been attacked. We in the US are going to be okay since we are now energy independent, and we are going to be further educated on the virtues of that as time goes by. Europe, Japan, and now China are fucked. They can’t compensate.

Nevertheless, get ready to start paying $5/gallon because that is what the market will demand. Me, personally, will welcome the lessening of traffic in the NCR – it makes the daily commute on the Beltway a little less frantic. I don’t know what the impact will be on Uber drivers.

This is bad shit, and it will result in war. Yeah, I’m calling it; just as I did before DESERT STORM when no one believed me that we would go in big time. It took six carriers, two expeditionary AF air wings, the Army’s Seventh Corps, most of the Marines, and a hell of a lot of logistics – which a lot of “war fighters” take for granted. No doubt, the Iranians are behind this, and we will have to respond. This is a hell of a conundrum for the policy makers. What do we do? Back in 1990 for us action guys, here was our response:

Midway and Iowa transiting the Strait of Hormuz prior to DESERT STORM
We’ve got to get to the source where it hurts the best, and that is the Iranian oil installations – tit for tat. And who knows, UAVs could have been launched from Iran as a naked show of aggression, which more than justifies a schwacking; this expands our target set.

I’d love to be staying up all night on Ma Midway planning those strikes. Fuck, if I was a strike planner we could reign Joint Deep Shit (JDS)[1]down on those motherfuckers – TLAMs, JDAMs, LRASMs, etc., I’m salivating at the prospect of knowing what destruction we could inflict. I am diabolical at how to go about taking an enemy totally apart – just ask the drug dealers I helped put in prison.

But like Midway these days, I’m also a museum piece – sitting here at home and writing this in my underwear. Instead, it’s now a game for younger people to play – here’s wishing them well.

[1]Joint Deep Shit (JDS) is now a Point Loma copyrighted term and acronym. I hope to see it go viral…

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