With the Saudi pipeline being shut down, refineries in the Midwest dealing with outages, the war in Ukraine still hammering energy infrastructure, the Iran conflict disrupting Middle Eastern oil flows, and diesel prices surging here at home, I’ve been getting variations of the same question:How bad could this actually get? Are we looking at another recession, food shortages, food riots, or even a complete collapse of the system?The risk has gone up quite a bit in the last couple of weeks, but I’d separate “serious economic/food-price crisis” from “complete collapse.” The first is absolutely plausible. The second still requires several…

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The Brief: A property dispute in Lehigh Acres, Florida, escalated when Eddie Jordan II attacked a resident with a pickaxe. After being knocked to the ground, the resident shot Jordan in the leg in self-defense. Following a secondary dispute days later, law enforcement officers arrested Jordan near a local convenience store. Jordan was charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. Investigators ruled the resident’s use of force justified under Florida self-defense laws, as the resident faced an imminent, potentially fatal threat while pinned on the ground beneath an armed assailant. LEHIGH ACRES, FL — A confrontation over property boundaries…

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Editor’s Note: In today’s article, Yamil Sued reviews the XS Sights R3D 2.0 night sights for the Springfield Echelon. But, how do they perform? Read on to get Sued’s take on them. The sights were provided by the company to Sued for review. I’ve been a big fan of tritium night sights for a long time. Any time I test a new every day carry (EDC) pistol, the first questions I ask are: Does it come with tritium night sights, or can I easily find an aftermarket set for it? The author’s Echelon 4.5F wearing a fresh set of XS…

Last week, we warned that America’s fuel system was heading into refinery maintenance season with dangerously little room for another major disruption.Then another disruption showed up.Exxon Mobil’s Joliet refinery outside Chicago lost power Sunday and shut down. As of Friday morning, it still wasn’t running, and Exxon had not given a restart date. The company has since disclosed that floodwater overwhelmed a pump at the refinery, while the original blackout was blamed on storm damage to ComEd power lines.Joliet produces roughly 11 million gallons of gasoline and diesel every day. Five days offline means something on the order of 55…