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SeaFox: Wargames, Meet Watersports

U.S. sends a submersible SeaFox drones to pacify subsurface Iranian mine threats.
Daniel Stuckey
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Gas prices may feel like they’re constantly on the rise, but it isn’t due to rigging (or most are assuredly saying so). No FTC investigation has ever revealed some Libor-level effect in the oil market, nor has Obama, despite what he’s suggested. And while the actual cost of gas should probably be three times higher (factoring out subsidization and oil company tax-breaks), America will relentlessly protect the shit out of her gas prices, no matter the president. It’s a nonpartisan issue, it’s just Americana: We love drivin’ our cars around to get bagels and going back because we want another or forgot cream cheese. So when a major oil producer starts with the old saber rattlin’, we tend to respond quickly.

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In the gaze of an eminently treacherous Iran, Obama is thumbs-upping necessary defense contracts aimed at protecting the flow of oil. In the Strait of Hormuz, the Persian country is poised to go apeshit with subsurface mines, unhappy about the breaches of privacy on its uranium enrichment facilities (c’mon, they’re just trying to enrich some uranium man, quit fucking with the mixing cylinders). Mining campaigns such as this could really hurt fuel prices — not for a long period of time — but it would be annoying enough that a declaration of war might become necessary. So let’s try to nip this thing in the bud, okay?

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