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It kind of stands to reason. The nearest base to the operating carrier squadrons in the Indian Ocean was in Bahrain. That base has now been abandoned due to Iranian missile and drone attacks. Most of the supplies for the carrier groups came from stockpiles at that base. The next accessible...

This is just too damned easy...

If you are driving in areas with active wildfires you are in a Difficult Situation whether you have a gas-powered or an electric vehicle. In 2014 during the Carlton Complex Fire I lost power for 12 days. As did all of the nearby towns. Gas stations cannot pump gas without power, and payment...

The irony is that that green infrastructure is getting built out whether the Gray Eminences in charge want it or not. Because it works and it makes economic sense. Wal-Mart is aggressively building out its own EV charging network at its stores and plans to eventually have them at all of their...

I had this portable shower thing that you'd pressurize with a floor pump. And I had five five-gallon water jugs. Let's just say that made me a very popular individual with the ladies...

I'd make a few observations here: Even if an ICE driver doesn't perceive a charger, they might well exist. Not all chargers are at gas stations, and often the very best charging locations are not at gas stations. Usually you use an app like plugshare or Google Maps to figure out where to...

Well c'mon, it isn't like they are up against the varsity here.

Also we need to clearly define what "self interest" is in this case. And I can make the argument that it is in all decent countries self interest to not touch this mess with a ten foot pole.

Nah, we'll just join Canada. Hopefully if they'll take us.

You'll need both balls and brains for that job.

As the saying goes, "when you kick over a hornet's nest, the hornets decide when it is over."

From NATO's standpoint, a United States trapped in a tarpit in the Middle East is a United States that can't invade Greenland or Canada. And by the way, a United States trapped in a tarpit in the Middle East is also a United States in a poor position to object meaningfully when parts of the...

Don Tzu has something to say about that, too:

I don't know how we are supposed to manage your solution to #2 when we've spent the last year and a half pissing off everyone who would normally help us. What would the gulf states do, exactly? At this point in time there is no solution to defending complex and fragile infrastructure against...

I guess I just have to laugh because apparently you are now advocating that people should drive electric vehicles and get off of fossil fuels. And if not what exactly are you advocating?

That may be true. It is also irrelevant if Iran doesn't care what it costs them. Because we know a lot of people in the Untied States care very much what it is costing them.

How would they accomplish this and not run the risk of knocking twenty percent of oil and natural gas production offline for an indefinite period into the future? There is no way we'd get all (or even most) of their drones even if we nuked the place. So it is reasonable to assume the Iranians...

If you spend $10,000 to go to Burning Man you are Doing It Wrong. When I first went in 1994 I remember one girl who I carpooled to Black Rock Desert with telling me, "No matter what it looks like, it isn't really an orgy." And back then they allowed people into the muddy hot springs. Nothing...

Iran has multiple advantages that we are in a poor position to overcome: They have more ballistic missiles left than we have interceptors left. Their location makes it inexpensive and low-effort for them to close the Strait of Hormuz. Geographically their whole country is a fortress where all...

I'll tell you why it is different. All you need is to look at a map. The US 5th fleet base is in Bahrain. That's where we stockpile supplies for forces on station nearby in the Indian Ocean. A quick look at the map shows that Bahrain is inside the Persian Gulf, on the wrong side of the...