[quote]Headhunter wrote:
micromuscle wrote:
Headhunter wrote:
Marmadogg wrote:
Quit crying…it is supply and demand.
Get over it.
“And there are fewer options around the world. State oil monopolies now control three-quarters of the world’s proven oil reserves, so Venezuela may still prove enticing even under Chavez’s new, tougher terms.”
--- from Foxnews
There’s one thing I love about you HH, your avatar! Friggin’ classic! I wonder which one’s cock is bigger?
Well, since Al has one, I assume, and Annie is the perfection and ideal of feminity, therefore not having one, Al’s is bigger by default.
With regard to the control issue: if governments control the oil fields, what is more likely to happen to prices?[/quote]
If ya consider the strap-on, her’s would be WAAAAAYYYYYY bigger, at least her mouth is more capable of handling a bigger one. Well, shit, take that back, Al’s got a pretty big mouth… And have to agree with ya on the oil control by govt. ANYTIME govt. has control over our lives, we pay for it
How much vegetable oil does he need to do that? Just out of curiosity. And how much mileage does he get?
A friend of mine is thinking about going cross country in a vegetable-fueld diesel car after he graduates, and I’m curious to see if he has a feasible plan.
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My friend has not made a detailed study of the fuel efficiency of his vehicle, but he says that he is sure that some efficiency is lost due to the low quality of the oil. If pure rapeseed (canola) oil is used, then efficiency is somewhat more comparable to using diesel.
VW engines are highly efficient anyway: the Volkswagen Lupo 3L TDi is powered by a 1.2-litre 61bhp three-cylinder diesel engine with direct fuel injection. The car once covered 20,699 miles at an average speed of 53.1 mph on daily journeys of between 76 and 478 miles, using only 174.7 gallons of diesel–an average of 118 miles to the gallon.
Volkswagen engineers are working on a super-economical motor that could go 300 miles on only one gallon of fuel.
Either of these engines, even if they did suffer some loss of efficiency using recycled vegetable oil, would be many times more economical to run than a gasoline engine of equivalent power.
My Land Rover Discovery is a gas-guzzler, more’s the pity, grudgingly giving me about 20 mpg. I had been planning to convert it to run on LP gas, but have recently been thinking that this would be more complicated than it would be worth. My next vehicle, therefore, will be a diesel Land Rover Defender, which I will convert to run on SVO, or maybe try my hand at brewing biodiesel. Even though mileage and perhaps power will drop a bit, my fuel will be virtually free.
Here is a good web site for your friend:
It is the online journal of a 25,000-mile overland journey from Hong Kong to Capetown, South Africa, using Land Rovers and biofuels.
But, the BIG difference is that people have developed more efficient cars and alternative fuel. Heck, they make biodiesel around here from organic garbage. It takes some time to separate your household trash, but, at the end of the day, it sure feels like an accomplishment when you know your heater and car’s energy is coming from eggshells, banana skins, teabags and macaroni leftovers. [/quote]
Re-reading this post of yours, Lixy, I am inclined to suspect that when you said “biodiesel,” what you meant was “bio-methanol.”
“The total bio-methanol production potential in Sweden is about 4 million tons/year, which could replace almost 30% of transportation fuel consumed in the country.”
Bio-methanol, which replaces gasoline, is indeed made from fermenting and distilling organic garbage, but biodiesel, obviously for use only in diesel engines, is processed from vegetable oil, most commonly soybean and rapeseed.
[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:
LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
…, that mass production in general has been a detriment to global ecosysytems; and that cannot be argued. Its fact.
Yes. And it has been a boon for mankind.[/quote]
That argument has never been refuted by me. But on the otherhand there used to be something called craftsmanship. By and large, that doesn’t exist anymore.
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
Similarly, nobody needs 18-inch biceps or 28-inch thighs. Nobody needs to look like a fitness model. Nobody needs to squat 400 or deadlift 700, or to have a shot at maybe doing the horizontal samba with Jessica Alba. But we want these things. So off to the gym we go. [/quote]
I sniff some flaws in the argument. You don’t get an 18-inch biceps at the expense of others (ok, maybe you eat more than you need!). However, big corporations’ growth is - more often than not - directly linked to ruining the evironment, exploiting the plight of some 3rd world country and driving your weaker competitors out of business. Squatting 400 is not taking anything away from anybody.
One of the persisting myths of capitalism is that you don’t take away stuff from others while getting rich. That holds true in fewer cases than economists like Friedman are willing to admit.
Anyway, that was an enjoyable post to read nonetheless. I guess it needed the imagery of big chests, exuberant engines and Jessica Alba to make it what it is.
I have nothing against people having more or better stuff than others. But there are limits to that, and we clearly are past those.
“Capitalism is the devil’s wet dream”
– Ani DiFranco
Haha!! Well, Lixy, I hope that finding my arguments not to be infallible after all has not left you crestfallen.
But hey, do you have any idea what a challenge it is writing an entire article in ardent defense of the seven deadly sins? Talk about playing devil’s advocate! Ha!
What’s funny about that section on Greed is, I don’t want any Cartier or Gucci or Armani, and while a $30,000 eighteen-hundred cc motorcycle might be fun, I’m happier (and healthier) with my $300 eighteen-speed mountain bike.
Jessica, however, is another story, but she falls more into the category of Lust than Greed.
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
But hey, do you have any idea what a challenge it is writing an entire article in ardent defense of the seven deadly sins? Talk about playing devil’s advocate! Ha! [/quote]
Cool!
That article sounds like heaps of fun. Haven’t got around to read it yet but I’m definitely bookmarking it.
Gas needs to get up to around 6.50. That should begin to clear up some of the unnecessary traffic and leave more room for me. Actually, 7.50 or 8.00 would probably be a better goal.
Prices have to rise to clear the skys for Al Gore’s private jet. He’ll need that to fly between his feudal estates, since we’ll be returning to a pre-industrial type era. Cars and jet travel will only be for the Limosine Liberals.
[quote]Headhunter wrote:
Where would a naked, sweaty and very horny Jessica on that $30000 bike fit into the mix?[/quote]
The Rune is kind of a funny design for a cruiser, being a one-seater. So she would have to ride like Claudette Maille did in Like Water For Chocolate (she was naked, sweaty and very horny, too).
A silly question for everyone: how do gas prices compare to milk prices in your city? Here, as I’ve said, I pay roughly $4.75 a gallon for gasoline, and about $6 for a gallon of milk, orange juice, or grapefruit juice (I pay in yen, obviously, and I buy everything by the liter).
My car drinks more gas than I do milk or juice, of course, but not by a huge margin. I think some parity is needed here. Let’s say, $5 for a gallon of any of the above.
Bottled water goes for about $1.50 per quart at a service station.
A barrel of oil contains the energy of 25000 man hours of work. The nature of oil has always made it cheap and even if it was vastly more expensive it would still be cheap for what it is.
In the United States of America, the greatest country in the world, as many as three and a half million people experience homelessness in a given year and of that, about a million and a half (39%) are children under the age of 18.
The total number of billionaires in the world is 793 with 371 of them being in the United States of America, that’s about 322 more than there were 20 years ago.
America has developed an underclass of its own that rivals the untouchables of India; except you don’t see them. An elaborate matrix has been constructed to keep them hidden. There are homeless shelters. Some find temporary shelter in church basements or abandoned buildings.
They live in cars. They’re put in welfare motels. They double up with relatives. They are children. They are seniors. They are adults with full-time jobs.
One American, in eight, lives below the official poverty line.
The destruction of the middle class began during the Reagan Administration, in the 1980s, with the breaking of the labor movement and the widening gap between the haves and the have-nots. Those at the lowest end of the ladder fall even lower while there is an explosion of wealth at the top.
One American, in eight, lives below the official poverty line.
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On the other hand, as Phill Gramm once said, “America is the only nation in history where the poor people are fat.”
The poverty threshold income for a family of four in the US is $20,650. This is above the national per capita incomes of the great majority of the other countries in the world, even adjusted for purchasing power parity (PPP).
Sure, the disparity between the haves and the have-nots in the US is ridiculously wide, and widening… but American have-nots still have a lot more than the have-nots elsewhere.
[quote]Ren wrote:
BigRagoo wrote:
bigflamer wrote:
Could someone please logicaly explain why in the fuck gas is jumping up in price in 25-30 cent intervals? I mean, seriously? I just got back from the hardware store and gas is @ $3.25/gallon. Yesterday it was $2.98/gallon
What
The
Fuck.
Don’t know but I hope the fuckers making record profits each quarter choke. There is no reason except greed.
Current reasons are refining problems (it was the crude supply last time). Or as I like to call it, insurmountable greed.
Does anyone know the last time a major oil company posted a LOSS? [/quote]
Hey, dummy. If a major oil company posted a LOSS for an FFY that probably means that ALL major oil companies will have posted a loss or very slight gain. Does anyone - namely YOU, idiot - know what would happen to the U.S./World economy if oil companies posted conistent losses?
Do you know what kind of indicator THAT would be with regards to the overall financial health or the nation/world? We’d be in a deep fucking depression, moron.
[quote]LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
How about everyone just takes two weeks off from work this summer (all at the same time), not go anywhere, don’t buy, consume, or contribute in any way to the economy to send a message.
On the other hand, that’s probably what we should already be doing to conserve resources. Let them try to talk about supply when demand drops for two straight weeks over the summer.[/quote]
yeah. let’s shut down the economy to make a point.
One American, in eight, lives below the official poverty line.
On the other hand, as Phill Gramm once said, “America is the only nation in history where the poor people are fat.”
The poverty threshold income for a family of four in the US is $20,650. This is above the national per capita incomes of the great majority of the other countries in the world, even adjusted for purchasing power parity (PPP).
Sure, the disparity between the haves and the have-nots in the US is ridiculously wide, and widening… but American have-nots still have a lot more than the have-nots elsewhere.[/quote]
What is even more important is the definition of poverty.
The EU definition is that you are poor if you make less than 60% of the average income.
I think the UN approach uses 50% of the average income.
That way, we will never run out of “poor” people and welfare workers will allways have job.
That means that even as incomes spread and the “poor” earn more, poverty is rising!
[quote]DS 007 wrote:
Ren wrote:
BigRagoo wrote:
bigflamer wrote:
Could someone please logicaly explain why in the fuck gas is jumping up in price in 25-30 cent intervals? I mean, seriously? I just got back from the hardware store and gas is @ $3.25/gallon. Yesterday it was $2.98/gallon
What
The
Fuck.
Don’t know but I hope the fuckers making record profits each quarter choke. There is no reason except greed.
Current reasons are refining problems (it was the crude supply last time). Or as I like to call it, insurmountable greed.
Does anyone know the last time a major oil company posted a LOSS?
Hey, dummy. If a major oil company posted a LOSS for an FFY that probably means that ALL major oil companies will have posted a loss or very slight gain. Does anyone - namely YOU, idiot - know what would happen to the U.S./World economy if oil companies posted conistent losses?
Do you know what kind of indicator THAT would be with regards to the overall financial health or the nation/world? We’d be in a deep fucking depression, moron.[/quote]
Wow, no need to be a dick about it. I just had a sheer curious interest about it, since the heads of the oil companies say that their massive profits are insurance against any potential dry periods for them in the future.
