Yeah, I briefly scanned that article over the weekend. It would be catastrophic if that happened in the US...
Yeah, I briefly scanned that article over the weekend. It would be catastrophic if that happened in the US...
It would become catastrophic when the stores ran out of beer
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Hasn't been getting much coverage, but truckers in Brazil have been on strike for the last week over the price of diesel. It hasn't taken long for things to go off the rails:
8 airports closed (no fuel), 64 million chickens killed (no feed), empty store shelves, 12+ hours in line to buy gas
The government is trying to hold things together with the military and the police. A scary example of what can happen if we don't go to work every day.