Actually, if we quit using just oil for transportation, we will be self sufficient quickly. The reason is that we will become net exporters, not importers. That makes us self sufficient.
By moving our new commercial vehicles and large passenger vehicles to Nat Gas, we can drop the oil imports within 5 years. That was the intention of the Nat Gas Act. sadly, it was killed by idiots that only back oil. With gas/diesel, you have no economical alternative. Even at $150/bl, the ONLY bio-fuel that can compete would be Joules Energy. Yet, we have loads of idiots calling for us to stay with Oil.
But small electric cars combined with Nat Gas larger vehicles that are then switched to serial hybrids using Nat Gas, will bring us Independence quickly. After all, it is the gal of oil that you do not need that is the easiest to solve.
Seriously, This harms ALL sports caster to have the university dictate how things will happen.
if ALL of the news sources would simply skip a couple of games, then the sports director would quickly change their mind.
No, what is going on is that Texas was gerry meandered. As such, right now, the neo-cons rule the state. This will be the last decade that they do. By 2020, when the census is in, it will be seen that Texas is a latino majority. And that is when the neo-cons will be booted for good.
Seriously, let the states go that want to go.
HOWEVER, they need to return to the union all of our goods.
In addition, they must take their portion of the debt based on per capitia, UNLESS a president came from their state. Then they should get whatever % of the debt that president contributed. So, Texas would get just under 2/3 of the debt.
Now, that is fair.
Roughly 200 million units this year will be sold. You can guess that next year, it will be around 250-300 million. And around 300-350 for 2014 (last year of the contract).
Sadly, it is not the risk that is socialized. Only the losses. Any gains, no matter how short, stay with the foolish western company and the investors.
Chinese gov. is counting on businesses being lead by short-thinking greedy fools. Look at Trans-Mag, Germany's cool and innovative mag-lev. China agreed to buy it and gave assurances that their tech would not be stolen. To assure that, Germany had posted guards at various locations to stop China from entering. Then China simply sent in the red army, forced the doors open and allowed a number of engineers/academia's to look over the tech. As such, China is now developing a number of new low-cost mag-levs based on Germany's approach.
Boeing and Airbus have been FOOLISH in allowing China to do various parts of planes. Sadly, Boeing gives one part of a plane to China and buys Boeing. But then China approached Airbus and says that if you will give us a different part from an airbus plane, then we will put that plane on the approved list. IOW, Chinese gov. is making sure that they get access to ALL of the tech because so many western companies think short-term.
Oh, I would LOVE to see us have 3 corridors that run east to west and 4 that run north to south. Then have freight trains on them that stops once every 500-1000 miles. If the distance is less than 1000 miles between stops, then the absolute longest that a truck has to haul a load is around 700 miles. And if every 500 miles, then we are only looking at around 350 miles max. Note that with 350 miles one-way, that a trucker could take the load and be back in a day trip.
With such an approach, it would be able to work with freight companies, rather than trying to get it all. But what is needed to pull this off is a SIMPLE FAST way to load the cars and to make sure that those frieght trains have priority over others.
LOL. Pretty much. But, bartertown was a monopoly, which is what Mad max destroyed. OTOH, by moving to NG with large numbers of drilling, no refinery, and the ability to convert coal via different methods, destroys the oil oligopoly.
I will never understand fools.
Ok, so you are opposed to fracking, yet are fine with importing loads of oil from all over the globe. Even stuff that is sending money to terrorists as well as funding nations to build nukes to have future control over other nations. You are OK with this? Yes? Well, how about all of the pollution that is being caused all over the world with many nation's quest to find oil? You MUST be OK with that. After all, you are doing NOTHING to stop it, except whine.
The fact is, that the west and China are making massive use of oil from all over the world. We are not going to stop it unless we make changes.
Now, I am guessing that you believe that by going with solar, or wind that we can power all of our electric cars and trucks that run all over the nation. Oh, yeah. We don't even have 1% of cars as electric, let along commercial vehicles. More importantly, the major car companies are building total BS cars that WILL fail. The ONLY car company that stands a chance is tesla. And it will be at least 5 years before they have at least 1% of the CAR market.
Now, you and others carp about the fracking, while ignoring the fact that our imported oil leaves the west at risk and continues to send money out of the nation at a frightful rate. In addition, the west is being burned by the high prices of fuel that we pay.
BUT, if we move towards NG for commercial vehicles AND push for Serial hybrids in these as well, that will make it possible to dump the NG generator in the future.
In addition, if you had actually read or even understood my postings or even what google can show you, you would realize that Coal=>methane via GPE as well as several other in-situ approaches, is not just as clean as NG, but, in many ways better. It brings to us a number of elements that we need. What goes up in smoke, literally, would be captured, seperated, and sold for chemicals. In addition, the extra CO2 stream could be piped back into the earth, OR it could be used for fracking, OR, it could be used for greenhouses such as what Joules Energy wants to do. And the methane is just pure methane. Higher BTU's than NG.
But hey, I am sure that you conspiracy type ppl will wish us loads of electric cars and trucks and can solve all of this overnight. After all, you ppl have ALL of the answers.
And yet, new commercial vehicles are bought all the time. By moving THESE to NG, the conversion happens relatively quickly. In fact, according to one study, if NAT GAS had been passed in 2012 (God dammned neo-cons who will never put the nation first), then by 2020, we would not have any imported oil. That is not to say that we will not use oil, just that we will not need imported oil.
Actually, we are LOADED with Nat gas. Running out is not an issue. Why? Because we have multiple means of converting coal to natural gas (actually methane). Estimates are that with the nat gas of 75 years combined with the coal converted will give us around 300 years (though doing that would be insane; but this is a GOOD temporary step).
Now, you will bring up economics. The CURRENT price of Nat Gas is $3.50/MMBTU. Normally, the Nat Gas price in America is around $5.00/MMBTU. The market is currently saturated with supplies and wells are capped.
In addition, in EU, it is $8.00/MMBTU. And in China, it is $20.00/MMBTU.
So, the question becomes, how cheap is gas/diesel for a similar MMBTU? At 90/Bl, it is around $28/MMBTU.
Of course, that begs the question of how much does coal->methane costs? Well, with prices for coal from 2006 (expensive) combined with Great Point Energy Conversion, the price is $4.50.
Please, continue pushing your newsletter. You and your fellow conspiracy fans can continue to push a line of BS without any knowledge of what really is going on.
Simply get off running on imported oil. The fastest way for USA is to move to Natural Gas for our commercial vehicles and large passenger vehicles. We have abundant supplies. In addition, we can do electric for regular cars. As it is, they are slowly coming up. I think that Tesla will change the industry with their gen 3 model.
Most importantly, once we are off oil, then North America can export to the rest of the west for security reasons.
Simply have the gov. start buying American made goods. China is smart enough to do that, even though it is illegal per WTO/IMF. But that has not stopped them and more importantly, the rest of the nations have done NOTHING about it.
And when it comes to taxes, there is a simple way to solve this. Get rid of all tax breaks and lower the rates a bit. Simple as that. In particular, no more tax breaks for paying taxes elsewhere.
The judges should require that since Apple will not do the right thing, that they must put the apology on their front page, OR, they will recquire that Apple take out full page ads in ALL of the major papers in the USA and UK.
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1) I wonder if perhaps that explains life being hit here over and over.
2) Perhaps that might explain the asteroid belt
Not likely for either, but perhaps another civilization(s) have visited and made mistakes.
Actually, if we quit using just oil for transportation, we will be self sufficient quickly. The reason is that we will become net exporters, not importers. That makes us self sufficient.
Facts differ with you.
By moving our new commercial vehicles and large passenger vehicles to Nat Gas, we can drop the oil imports within 5 years. That was the intention of the Nat Gas Act. sadly, it was killed by idiots that only back oil. With gas/diesel, you have no economical alternative. Even at $150/bl, the ONLY bio-fuel that can compete would be Joules Energy. Yet, we have loads of idiots calling for us to stay with Oil.
But small electric cars combined with Nat Gas larger vehicles that are then switched to serial hybrids using Nat Gas, will bring us Independence quickly. After all, it is the gal of oil that you do not need that is the easiest to solve.
Seriously, This harms ALL sports caster to have the university dictate how things will happen.
if ALL of the news sources would simply skip a couple of games, then the sports director would quickly change their mind.
We also need to give the red states all of the bushs, and romneys.
And the red states can start to pay their own damn way. I am tired of subsidizing those whiney bunch of fucking chicken hawks.
Yeah, you can see our schools are failing in the red states.
No, what is going on is that Texas was gerry meandered. As such, right now, the neo-cons rule the state. This will be the last decade that they do. By 2020, when the census is in, it will be seen that Texas is a latino majority. And that is when the neo-cons will be booted for good.
Well, you DO have congressmen that will help out your local economy. I suspect that more than a few of them are still hitting the prostitutes.
Seriously, let the states go that want to go.
HOWEVER, they need to return to the union all of our goods.
In addition, they must take their portion of the debt based on per capitia, UNLESS a president came from their state. Then they should get whatever % of the debt that president contributed. So, Texas would get just under 2/3 of the debt.
Now, that is fair.
Roughly 200 million units this year will be sold. You can guess that next year, it will be around 250-300 million. And around 300-350 for 2014 (last year of the contract).
So, it is around 15 Billion, give or take.
So far, Tim Cook is making QUITE the splash.
Sadly, it is not the risk that is socialized. Only the losses. Any gains, no matter how short, stay with the foolish western company and the investors.
Chinese gov. is counting on businesses being lead by short-thinking greedy fools. Look at Trans-Mag, Germany's cool and innovative mag-lev. China agreed to buy it and gave assurances that their tech would not be stolen. To assure that, Germany had posted guards at various locations to stop China from entering. Then China simply sent in the red army, forced the doors open and allowed a number of engineers/academia's to look over the tech. As such, China is now developing a number of new low-cost mag-levs based on Germany's approach.
Boeing and Airbus have been FOOLISH in allowing China to do various parts of planes. Sadly, Boeing gives one part of a plane to China and buys Boeing. But then China approached Airbus and says that if you will give us a different part from an airbus plane, then we will put that plane on the approved list. IOW, Chinese gov. is making sure that they get access to ALL of the tech because so many western companies think short-term.
Oh, I would LOVE to see us have 3 corridors that run east to west and 4 that run north to south. Then have freight trains on them that stops once every 500-1000 miles. If the distance is less than 1000 miles between stops, then the absolute longest that a truck has to haul a load is around 700 miles. And if every 500 miles, then we are only looking at around 350 miles max. Note that with 350 miles one-way, that a trucker could take the load and be back in a day trip.
With such an approach, it would be able to work with freight companies, rather than trying to get it all. But what is needed to pull this off is a SIMPLE FAST way to load the cars and to make sure that those frieght trains have priority over others.
LOL. Pretty much. But, bartertown was a monopoly, which is what Mad max destroyed. OTOH, by moving to NG with large numbers of drilling, no refinery, and the ability to convert coal via different methods, destroys the oil oligopoly.
Sigh.
I will never understand fools.
Ok, so you are opposed to fracking, yet are fine with importing loads of oil from all over the globe. Even stuff that is sending money to terrorists as well as funding nations to build nukes to have future control over other nations. You are OK with this? Yes? Well, how about all of the pollution that is being caused all over the world with many nation's quest to find oil? You MUST be OK with that. After all, you are doing NOTHING to stop it, except whine.
The fact is, that the west and China are making massive use of oil from all over the world. We are not going to stop it unless we make changes.
Now, I am guessing that you believe that by going with solar, or wind that we can power all of our electric cars and trucks that run all over the nation. Oh, yeah. We don't even have 1% of cars as electric, let along commercial vehicles. More importantly, the major car companies are building total BS cars that WILL fail. The ONLY car company that stands a chance is tesla. And it will be at least 5 years before they have at least 1% of the CAR market.
Now, you and others carp about the fracking, while ignoring the fact that our imported oil leaves the west at risk and continues to send money out of the nation at a frightful rate. In addition, the west is being burned by the high prices of fuel that we pay.
BUT, if we move towards NG for commercial vehicles AND push for Serial hybrids in these as well, that will make it possible to dump the NG generator in the future.
In addition, if you had actually read or even understood my postings or even what google can show you, you would realize that Coal=>methane via GPE as well as several other in-situ approaches, is not just as clean as NG, but, in many ways better. It brings to us a number of elements that we need. What goes up in smoke, literally, would be captured, seperated, and sold for chemicals. In addition, the extra CO2 stream could be piped back into the earth, OR it could be used for fracking, OR, it could be used for greenhouses such as what Joules Energy wants to do. And the methane is just pure methane. Higher BTU's than NG.
But hey, I am sure that you conspiracy type ppl will wish us loads of electric cars and trucks and can solve all of this overnight. After all, you ppl have ALL of the answers.
America does not have that many freight trains (most are on short haul east coast). But the majority of freight trains are diesel electrics.
And yet, new commercial vehicles are bought all the time. By moving THESE to NG, the conversion happens relatively quickly. In fact, according to one study, if NAT GAS had been passed in 2012 (God dammned neo-cons who will never put the nation first), then by 2020, we would not have any imported oil. That is not to say that we will not use oil, just that we will not need imported oil.
Actually, we are LOADED with Nat gas. Running out is not an issue. Why? Because we have multiple means of converting coal to natural gas (actually methane). Estimates are that with the nat gas of 75 years combined with the coal converted will give us around 300 years (though doing that would be insane; but this is a GOOD temporary step).
Now, you will bring up economics. The CURRENT price of Nat Gas is $3.50/MMBTU. Normally, the Nat Gas price in America is around $5.00/MMBTU. The market is currently saturated with supplies and wells are capped.
In addition, in EU, it is $8.00/MMBTU. And in China, it is $20.00/MMBTU.
So, the question becomes, how cheap is gas/diesel for a similar MMBTU? At 90/Bl, it is around $28/MMBTU.
Of course, that begs the question of how much does coal->methane costs? Well, with prices for coal from 2006 (expensive) combined with Great Point Energy Conversion, the price is $4.50.
Please, continue pushing your newsletter. You and your fellow conspiracy fans can continue to push a line of BS without any knowledge of what really is going on.
Simply get off running on imported oil. The fastest way for USA is to move to Natural Gas for our commercial vehicles and large passenger vehicles. We have abundant supplies. In addition, we can do electric for regular cars. As it is, they are slowly coming up. I think that Tesla will change the industry with their gen 3 model.
Most importantly, once we are off oil, then North America can export to the rest of the west for security reasons.
If you sold out for that little, you would be fucked.
And note, that it is you getting fucked, not that you get to fuck Zuckerburg.
OTOH, if he stays with it, he will likely walk away with billions down the road.
Do you want to be a bitch to facebook, or do you want to own facebook.
In addition, I would drop the payphone and instead create a payable WIFI set-up on a land-line, that allows you to download a voip app.
Simply have the gov. start buying American made goods. China is smart enough to do that, even though it is illegal per WTO/IMF. But that has not stopped them and more importantly, the rest of the nations have done NOTHING about it.
And when it comes to taxes, there is a simple way to solve this. Get rid of all tax breaks and lower the rates a bit. Simple as that. In particular, no more tax breaks for paying taxes elsewhere.
The judges should require that since Apple will not do the right thing, that they must put the apology on their front page, OR, they will recquire that Apple take out full page ads in ALL of the major papers in the USA and UK.