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Mon 24 Mar, 2008 05:58 am
http://www.qctimes.com/articles/2008/03/19/news/iowa/doc47e03e9ea03bd427238845.txt?sPos=3
I've been hearing for the last couple of weeks about 18-wheelers being parked because owners can't afford fuel for them any more. Ultimately this arises from the demoKKKrat refusal to allow anybody to drill for oil anywhere in America or American territories or build refineries any more and, if something doesn't change, we're going to be walking into stores and seeing empty shelves just like in Russia under communism.
I could have sworn that Bush promised that he would keep oil prices low by going to his Saudi friends and just asking them.
I guess the democrats prevented him from doing that. It only shows how weak of a president Bush really is I guess.
It was Jebby Bush who disallowed any drilling off Florida. Why arent the oil companies interested in developing the more than 2.6 TRILLION barrels of diesel in the Green River Oil SHales??
Wheres the comprehensive energy policy that was promised us in 2000? Why was what we got written by oil company lobbyists?
Wheres the real money incentives for renewable energy that Reagan discontinued back in the early 1980's?
Is it a coincidence that oil company profits are at an all time high? both as real dollars and percentages of income
Why has the administration let the dollar become a banana republic scrip?
DO YOU THINK THAT THE PRESENT ADMINISTRATION IS MERELY INCOMPETENT?
Im gonna say yes
1 gallon diesel is about $7.90 here today - getting cheaper very day, but we are in this price region since one year or so. (Thanks to the dollar, petrol and diesel didn't get up as much as at some other places.)
No-one has to walk to stores here, and we don't have empty shelves there neither.
But I admit, we don't live in the world's No.1 country.
Well dispense with that schoolyard monicker after we dethrone jerk -boy and his volkswagen full of clowns
parados wrote:I could have sworn that Bush promised that he would keep oil prices low by going to his Saudi friends and just asking them.
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Short term solution but it apears to be happening:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1991000/posts
Long term solution is to break the power of the fricking demokkkrats and greens over our energy needs.
Needs... Food, water, shelter.... Oil?
gungasnake wrote:parados wrote:I could have sworn that Bush promised that he would keep oil prices low by going to his Saudi friends and just asking them.
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Short term solution but it apears to be happening:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1991000/posts
Long term solution is to break the power of the fricking demokkkrats and greens over our energy needs.
Dang.. who would have thought $100 a barrel is considered "low"?
I'm sure that was what Bush meant when he said it and oil was about $20 a barrel. Are you sure too gunga?
It's always so much fun when the freepers get their news WRONG..
This is the reality gunga....
Quote:CRAWFORD, Tex., April 25 - President Bush discussed the surge in oil prices with Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia on Monday, but focused on a plan by the Saudis to increase their oil-pumping capacity over the next decade rather than on any short-term efforts to bring prices down.
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A Saudi official said that Mr. Bush had not requested a short-term production increase and that such an increase would not have any effect on gasoline prices in the United States in any case.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/26/international/middleeast/26prexy.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
You might want to try checking actual news sources and the WH press releases rather than what the freepers decide to post.
Going on strike implies there is someone to strike against. Who's it going to be; Exxon, Saudi Arabia, or the government, or what?
Most companies in the transportation area already have a fuel surcharge tacked onto their invoices. It's just a part of the business world today. Also, common carriers have set rates plus a discount schedule. Everybody gets a discount. The rate stays the same for years at a time. The discount varies. Owner/operators might not be in a postion to take advantage of these pricing options, but mostly, they are going to keep on trucking. If they can't afford to operate, they don't have a market for the tractors, and trucks also have expenses when they are not running. It will hurt, but they are going to adapt to the market. If they don't, someone else will do it for them. As Walter points out, fuel is about double our current prices, and it works in Europe.
Anyway, have you ever stopped by a major truck stop at night? Those road tractors burn something like a gallon an hour at idle. When things really get tight, some drivers might actually shut them off.
I always wondered about that. I can see the "reefers" keeping their engines running so their fridge units run. Why dont the big truck terminals install some sort of 'electrical hookups" to allow truckers to plug in at night, like an RV camp.
farmerman wrote:I always wondered about that. I can see the "reefers" keeping their engines running so their fridge units run. Why dont the big truck terminals install some sort of 'electrical hookups" to allow truckers to plug in at night, like an RV camp.
Some of the more "enlightened" truck stops do. Drivers are not only supplies with "shore power" but they are also suppled with wifi and HVAC hookups to maintain the environment in the tractor cabs. Just like RV campgrounds dump stations are also available for sleeper cab tata's. I have seen several of these amenities available at several of the Flyin-J's where I've filled my pickemup in my neverending search for money.
Trailer reefers are not so forward. The refrigeration units on them are usually operated by their own power units--usually a stand alone diesel unit.
Speaking of AC, does anyone remember what powered the AC compressors on Railroad passenger cars? Many of them were powered my motive units attached to the car trucks. So if the car wasn't moving the AC didn't work--it encouraged passenger disembarkation.
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