"Project Hail Mary" is a very, very good movie. Produced by (and starring) Ryan Gosling. Based on a sci-fi novel by Andy Weir (of "The Martian" fame).
The movie breaks all the rules of typical space-based sci-fi, and it does so masterfully. Even more profoundly, the film expresses, through the dignity and respect between a human and a rock-shaped friendly alien, what it means to be fully human.
I highly recommend you see this film, and I rarely say that about any film. Nothing "woke" in this movie. Nothing insulting to your intelligence. In an era of near-total Hollywood crap, this film stands out as a true gem that reminds us of the power of resonant narratives played out on the big screen.
Gosling and his crew have done a tremendous job with this one. This film will leave you inspired.
If you're following the crack spreads on petroleum, you already know that DIESEL and JET FUEL are going to become extremely scarce and expensive over the next several months, even in the USA.
Gasoline is different. There will be plenty of gas in the USA, but that won't help the diesel crisis. And it's diesel that delivers food to your local grocery store. It's diesel that brings new inventory of parts to your local Lowe's or Home Depot. It's diesel that powers the long-haul UPS trucks carrying packages for delivery.
Diesel is also what runs farming and agriculture, commercial construction projects, backup data center generators and modern trains.
Without diesel, the economy doesn't function. And unless the Strait of Hormuz opens soon, the diesel shortage is going go wreck the U.S. economy, cause food inflation, disrupt supply chains and result in a wave of business bankruptcies across America.
Anyone saying "we have plenty of oil" doesn't understand anything about the different types of oil and how distillates are created from different oil grades, or how oil refineries are set up to produce specific products from specific oil grades.
But people will learn many of these lessons the hard way, later this year, as they try to figure out why store shelves are increasingly empty, or why the products that do show up at retail are priced so much higher than before.
Echoes of 1999: Why the AI Investment Bubble Will End Like the Dot-Com Crash (new article)
https://naturalnews.com/2026-07-10-echoes-of-1999-ai-investment-bubble-will-end.html
