Shutting down pipelines does not affect the current price of oil. We have a surplus of unrefined oil. They limit the refinement as an excuse to raise prices. It's a trick they've been pulling for decades. Also, we were getting oil piped in from Canada instead of using oil from the US. Oil prices are even higher in other countries right now.
I agree with creepy instead of sleepy. The sniffing thing is very creepy. We need wsome reform to our laws so that no elected official can even run for office unless they can pass the naturalization test immigrants have to take AND pass a security clearance background check. They need to show they have basic knowledge of how our country works. If immigrants have to know this info to become citizens, our elected officials should have to know it too. If they can't pass a background check, they should be disqualified from running for office. We also need to revisit Citizen's United & take out the bribery.
Blueskyhigh, to clarify: I called my doctor's office & the pharmacy to get the medicine switched. But it wasn't really necessary because we were all taking a generic of synthroid called Levothyroxine. The pharmacy for some unknown reason switched us without any notice or request to Euthyrox (which was more expensive than Levothyroxine). The pharmacy policy is that you can choose if you want the brand name or the generic and you can choose which generic. Every member of my household had a bad reaction to Euthyrox. It gave my mother stomach issues so she had them switch her back to Levothyroxine. My brother was on it for months and was having stomach issues and feeling sick. I took the euthyrox for a week and not only did I have stomach issues, I was absolutely exhausted to the point I could barely get out of bed, and I started having arrhythmia. All known symptoms of Euthyrox. So I called my doctor's office and told the clerk what was going on and asked for approval to get switched back to levothyroxine. I then called the pharmacist to report that I needed to switch as I was having bad side effects. When I spoke to the pharmacist in person I described the symptoms and had them put it in my file to never give me euthyrox again and that levothyroxine is what worked for me. I also asked for the doctor to switch my brother back to levothyroxine as well-- small town so they let family make requests like that, but they did call him back to confirm. His stomach issues haven't been as bad now.
Not doing much today. Finally got around to watching Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. I really wish the previous movie hadn't been so badly written. Only good thing to come out of that was they had some extra footage of Carrie Fisher that they were able to use in the last film.
