So no, there isn’t some magic end-of-life for some aircraft due to this. Instead, refiners will start delivering the new fuel so that they don’t lose their market.
The structure of the US electoral system means that we’re not going to get some third party to the left of the Democrats winning the Presidency any time soon.
Early stages of dementia often manifest as falling for scams; a lot of them are designed to find people like that. So if your grandma is repeatedly being taken, you should be talking to her doctor and planning for care, not abandoning her.
The structure of how elections in almost all of the US are conducted, with a plurality determining the winner, means that there’s a huge advantage to choosing to vote for somebody who has a big coalition and whose views are less far from your own than the other big coalition.
Let’s look at three examples:
Example 1:
R: 1000 votes
D: 1001 votes
I/non-vote: 0
Democrat wins
Example 2:
R: 1000 votes
D: 1000 votes
I/non-vote: 1
Election is a tie, with the winner decided by flipping a coin or other game of chance
Example 3:
R: 1000 votes
D: 999 votes
I/non-vote: 2
Republican wins
So long as plurality-take-all is how US elections are run, it makes sense for anybody left-of-center to vote for Biden in the general election.
Getting better policies means not just doing that though, but taking active steps to volunteer for and donate to candidates during primaries, as well as seeking out close house and close senate races in the general election to support Democrats, thereby shifting the balance of power slightly to the left.
Only thing you can really do is to get involved in stopping them. If you’re in the US, that means looking up close house and senate races. Pick one or two close to you, and then support Democrats running in them with both volunteer time and money.
It was at a political fundraiser; people there are supposed to be US citizens are have a green card (or be working as staff). So it was probably mainly the US oil companies, but they actively cooperate with overseas ones to push up prices.
The problem isn’t “people think something else is important” — it’s mostly that nobody hears about the big issue in the first place because the press is covering other issues.