Week, quote, china and india could be protected from some of the burden of higher oil prices because russia is offering them discounted oil. russia has become the second biggest oil supplier to india. so how is this a good thing for the united states now? it s the opposite. it is a disaster and this is the first crisis you would expect these secretary ofti transportation to be on top ofon it. we can t affordp gasoline, but russia has so much oil it s selling it at a discount to our main global adversary, china. that seems bad, but it s only one crisis that the transportation secretary has on his platecr. the second is domestic air travel. it has become totally unreliable, tried to fly anywhere recently. it s like traveling in india in nineteen eighty five . you have no idea if the plane is going to arrive or leave. no85 one will give you a straigt answer on that and there is nothing you can do. it is falling apart and anyone has tried to go anywhere,pa particularly this weekend. i can