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Originally Posted by Dean Romig
Do we all remember the gasoline and heating oil shortage of '73 - '74 (where the tankers were sitting just offshore) when the shortage was 'invented' simply to boost the prices (profits for the oil companies) before the "shortage ended?.... I do!
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That was when oil was used as an economic weapon for the US support of Israel following the Yom Kippur War. OPEC was unified. OPEC reduced production, increased the price off crude and cut shipments to the U.S.
Are you suggesting the ammo manufacturers are doing the same thing and there are boatloads of ammo and components being deliberately withheld from the market? I think there is something different going on.