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Last time I was in Nebraska, I stopped at a huge wind farm just to "take in the sights." Even though less than half of them were operational, the noise was kinda like I was about to get run over by a whole convoy of 18-wheelers. I don't want that shit anywhere near me.
Luckily, I won't live that long. And as for available fuel, assuming we don't export it all, ANWR is supposed to have a 500-year supply and the Bakkan another 500 years, and Wyoming's shale oil I don't have a number on, but it is supposed to be huge.
How do you like the phony oil shortages? Just like the big one in the 1970s. Only these days, they use pipeline failures, hurricanes interrupting offshore oil rigs, leaking tankers, and so forth, for excuses to raise gas prices.
The ones up here are almost always going
We do not have consistent enough winds here in KY for much wind generation.
Of course with election coming up plenty windy around here
But that is pretty much a 2-4 year cycle thing.
Of course with election coming up plenty windy around here
But that is pretty much a 2-4 year cycle thing.
Have a biscuit.We do not have consistent enough winds here in KY for much wind generation.
Of course with election coming up plenty windy around here
But that is pretty much a 2-4 year cycle thing.
Oil shortages thus far are just like food shortages.
Plenty of food/oil just a matter of transporting it and paying for it.
Just distribution and cost issues.
All this shortage shit it to keep the prices up
Back in 1971, I saw several gasoline trucks in So.Cal. "dumping" their cargo in the Mojave just to make sure they could get away with that shortage bullshit by showing rows and rows of empty tankers. And back then, it was an argument about 55 or 60 cents per gallon. Now I pay $3 for 10% ethanol, which is also government supported, even though it ruins your engine.
If cost and distribution were issues, gas prices around Midland and Odessa wouldn't be higher than they are everywhere else. They have all the oil rigs and refineries right there. Yet, gas prices are always at least 30% higher than the national average.
There are 2 gas stations in the village of Newell and they both charge exactly the same. There are about 10-12 gas stations in Sturgis, most of which have different prices. Newell and Sturgis are 25 miles apart. The gas price in Newell is usually 10 cents a gallon higher than any of the stations in Sturgis. They tried to tell me that it cost that much more for delivery. I told them they were full of shit because what they were doing is called price fixing and they do it because they can get away with it.
Let's see, they buy 10,000 gallons and if that 10 cents was extra delivery fees, that would be $1,000 to drive 25 miles. Kiss my ass.
Let's see, they buy 10,000 gallons and if that 10 cents was extra delivery fees, that would be $1,000 to drive 25 miles. Kiss my ass.
Sounds like the shit they pull around here. In Winters, it's $2.69 a gallon. In Ballinger, (16 miles away) it's $2.81 a gallon. I make sure I got enough gas before I drive to Ballinger, because I sure ain't buying it there.
Well, folks, I hate to bail out on ya so early, but I am falling over on the keyboard. Talk at you folks tomorrow.
They are trying to up that to 15% ethanol
G'night Rich, get some much needed rest my friend
My BIL lives 6 miles from a refinery in Mississippi and his gas costs he 20 cents a gallon more than here 1000 miles away from the refinery.
Yep an effort at buying corn belt votes.
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Well.... given that there is no one here tonight, looks like I get to go to bed early.
According to Magnum PI my better is doing a reverse mortgage on my home....
Just thought I'd post a pic of my fucking snails in our aquarium.
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Wow! So that's what snails look like when they're fucking, huh?
Just got two cases of the most delicious apples... luckily, Mon-insanito had nothing to do with it -- they came off a neighboring rancher's apple trees, which get absolutely no chemicals of any kind.
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Nice....love good apples too...!
Not much different here. The trip to the neighbor was actually to buy 600 pounds of wheat; the free apples were a bonus. But I now appear to be back in the "normal" swing for chores, even if a bit slower than usual, but holding up my end nonetheless. Now if I can just get it in gear for the other 10,000 things I need to do around here that don't count as "routine chores."
Good to hear your feeling better.Not much different here. The trip to the neighbor was actually to buy 600 pounds of wheat; the free apples were a bonus. But I now appear to be back in the "normal" swing for chores, even if a bit slower than usual, but holding up my end nonetheless. Now if I can just get it in gear for the other 10,000 things I need to do around here that don't count as "routine chores."
Looked like the weather was in your favor today, but windy?...or just a lil windy, nothing above 40 mph?
I think we actually hit 71 today (a bit higher than normal for this time of year) and a "breeze" of about 20-25 mph.
Driving over to the neighbor's place was a royal PITA because about a zillion belly dumpers are going up and down that gravel road. They believe they are improving it for the pipeline crews that will be working here next summer. What they are, in fact, doing is ruining a perfectly good gravel road with so much washboard that I couldn't go over 25 mph without feeling like I was going to bounce into the ditch (it is normally posted at 55 mph). This whole area is going to be chaos for the next couple years.
Driving over to the neighbor's place was a royal PITA because about a zillion belly dumpers are going up and down that gravel road. They believe they are improving it for the pipeline crews that will be working here next summer. What they are, in fact, doing is ruining a perfectly good gravel road with so much washboard that I couldn't go over 25 mph without feeling like I was going to bounce into the ditch (it is normally posted at 55 mph). This whole area is going to be chaos for the next couple years.
Yeah too many other things besides the daily routines...Not much different here. The trip to the neighbor was actually to buy 600 pounds of wheat; the free apples were a bonus. But I now appear to be back in the "normal" swing for chores, even if a bit slower than usual, but holding up my end nonetheless. Now if I can just get it in gear for the other 10,000 things I need to do around here that don't count as "routine chores."
Glad you are better.
How about your butt hurt wife?
HiYa Jimi....good video this afternoon you sent....thanks my friend....!
We get those washboard roads here too....feels like it's going to shake every damn part off the vehicle. I found going about 70 mph.... you kinda float over that shit.
Evening Robert hows your day been
HiYa Dale, I liked it too, good info glad I could share it with you
Thanks. I think Lannie is improving... someone suggested there is a special cream for butthurt people, but I think that is not what she needed. She just stepped back up to the plate and nailed a couple home runs and she's fine now.
I am pretty sure that would have put me in the ditch. At least levitated my cargo to some other county.
Have to make sure the road is straight before doing that shit, cuz you can't steer.
Yeah that theory of driving too fast for the wheels to drop down in the holes only kinda works on light not loaded trucks.
The old Chevys with the coil springs were the best for it.
I found the best thing for going Warp 9 on washboarded gravel and dirt was my stripped motorcycle with knobbies... stand up with your ass as far to the rear as possible so you are only a few millimeters short of being in a constant wheelie and you don't even notice the bumps.
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Hahahaha....so true
Roads? Who needs roads?
A long time ago in a galaxy far far away.... I used to race those things.... Husqvarna 250WR. But for just cruising fire roads and enjoying the scenery, it was a Honda 500 Thumper. Ah, the good old days (40-45 years back).Wish I was 20-40 years younger, dirt bikes were the only way to travel....
Yep me too past my bedtime...
I used to run enduro and hare scramble races, it was a blastWish I was 20-40 years younger, dirt bikes were the only way to travel....
G'night Dale you have a good Friday too my friend
I had a husky wr 250 too and before that had a husky sportsman 8 speed then my last husky was a 390 had lots of suzuki's yamaha's can am's and one lonely honda, I love dirt bikes