Oil and natural gas!!! WTF? Yesterday the paper says exports of oil and refined fuel was the largest export of the year, exceeding wheat, or corn, or airplanes. So we maintain the worlds largest navy and air force to fight wars to import the shit out of arab oil, plus extreme dirty oil from canada and mexican too, AND..........we FUCKING export. It seems we can buy the shit cheaper than we can produce it, so we buy it, and with government subsidies and export credits we can export our own oil at a profit. Is it just me? Do you think the oil companies are fucking ole shep and selling the pups?
Drill baby drill? The rig count, you can find it on line, the GOP whines Obama is holding us back from drilling. The number of drilling rigs punching holes in America is the highest ever, never been so many drilling at once. Yet the results of more oil is the highest fuel prices ever. WTF?
Winter chill finally arrived to most of North America, which means your tires deflated. Better huff'm up, a few pounds below 32psi costs you around 5% more fuel. Car owning Americans spent $2,500 to $4,500 last year on fuel. Air your tires up often during cold weather and those few minutes with an air hose will return you about $150. Even if you have to put coins in the pump or pay someone to do it, your return on investment will rank with wall streets most jaded traders.
Darrel,
ReplyDeleteGood morning. Good post - nice venom.
I have Dad watching oil prices - he gets Illinois Basin crude (the local stuff) which is usually lower than west Texas or Oklahoma oil.
Gas is $3.49 here in INDY - If we kept the oil and gas here would we have lower prices? I don't think so - look who the whores in Congress take money from.
I would like to see more natural gas used in the trucking industry and great improvements in
electric car technology - make them go further without a recharge.
Tires? I am okay there - the KIA lets me know if I need to add air. Unbelievable for a Korean made vehicle...
Well, 83 was a few years ago.
Ron
I figured the Iranian threat to close down the strait of Hormuz would result in a price hike here at home, since every other potential hiccup in the food chain causes gas prices to skyrocket. Listen, you can't make the "drill baby drill" people see the light (or buy the lightbulbs) and arguing with them is a lot like talking to your turds before you flush them. Out best hope is have our ignorant relatives spayed or neutered whenever possible. Buy 'em gift certificates for vasectomies, etc. Can't hurt...
ReplyDeleteRon,
ReplyDeleteCheck yer fucking tires. That warning light on the Kia, and on every new car with that feature comes on at about 15 to 18psi. It is not a monitor for proper inflation, it is a safety monitor so you don't pass the last chance air hose on yer way to deadass Indiana winters blacktop flat fixin-ville. You ought to run 32 according to the car maker (for comfort) and 36ish according to the tire maker for tread life and mileage. Set it about 34.
Squatlo,
I don't like talking to turds, I don't like looking at em nor whifin the air off em neither, I was raised on a really old style farm that had an outhouse. Damn bad winter those early years, steam rising through the wooden cut out, bombs away, count how long it takes till it thuds on the piss ice, crack, maybe it broke through. One thing is for sure, as cold as it was, setting with the door open looking down over the farm with icy fresh air blowing in was wonderful, fresh air is a wonderful thing, even if yer bag is swinging in 10°f. Hate those glossy pages.