When Weakness Prevails, Show Them The Meaning of Strength

[accountinquestion]

The mountain states have been in a draught for years. Of course it has been blamed on climate change. Now we get the Yellowstone River flood and IT'S being blamed on climate change. We actually welcome the rain. Just not the flood.

I get the Montana weather alerts on my phone. I think it was June 12th the storm hit. 4 to 8 inches of snow in the passes and 20 inches up in the mountains. Rain at lower elevations.

ON another note, while the US is eliminating carbon the Chinese aren't. They produce over 4 billion tons of coal a year and consumption is increasing 7% a year. They buy another 4 billion tons from the Ruskies. They plan to build 170 more coal fired plants in the next ten years. Last year they went through rolling blackouts because of a coal shortage.

Everything we do is being negated by the Chinese. They say they will start working on going carbon neutral in the year 2060. But you know how those Chi-Comms lie.

Well it isn't just the mountain states that have been in a drought for years. Maybe these aren't even droughts anymore?

I am no fan of the Chinese but they have more of a chance of making progress just because of their top-down dictatorship type government.

BTW, China has said they'll be carbon-neutral by 2060. That is not when they claim they'll start.

The best part is the conspiracy that deniers claim (liberal this-that yadda yadda) is a bit crazy. They're basically suggesting some Illuminati type shit that transcends both the Chinese and Western countries in this crazy global conspiracy. huh? whaaa?

The fact of the matter is that all that oil/gas took many many millions of years to be created and we're releasing it over the course of 1-200 years, but yea, clever bringing up forest fires which are going to get progressively worse until those eco-systems die off/trees are gone. It is more the cause and not a symptom, right?

BTW, if trees burned naturally it'd be carbon neutral affair as they would recapture the CO2 as the trees etc grew back. That won't happen when their environment is inhabitable to their species.

If all the tree’s disappear there will be no oxygen. Trees absorb carbon and emit oxygen as a waste product.

Do you know why the climate changers don’t advocate a worldwide effort to plant millions of trees that will soak up carbon?











































Because there is no money to be made doing it….

Such a simplistic view of the world.

BTW it isn't just trees that do photosynthesis. It is all plants.

There is money in growing trees if someone pays you to do it, but you also need somewhere to plant and water them. Similar to just about everything else.

And they do advocate planting trees. All the time but they're smart enough to realize buying land and planting trees is a silly solution. It has nothing to do with money numbers but with all the other numbers.

[accountinquestion]

The mountain states have been in a draught for years. Of course it has been blamed on climate change. Now we get the Yellowstone River flood and IT'S being blamed on climate change. We actually welcome the rain. Just not the flood.

I get the Montana weather alerts on my phone. I think it was June 12th the storm hit. 4 to 8 inches of snow in the passes and 20 inches up in the mountains. Rain at lower elevations.

ON another note, while the US is eliminating carbon the Chinese aren't. They produce over 4 billion tons of coal a year and consumption is increasing 7% a year. They buy another 4 billion tons from the Ruskies. They plan to build 170 more coal fired plants in the next ten years. Last year they went through rolling blackouts because of a coal shortage.

Everything we do is being negated by the Chinese. They say they will start working on going carbon neutral in the year 2060. But you know how those Chi-Comms lie.

Well it isn't just the mountain states that have been in a drought for years. Maybe these aren't even droughts anymore?

I am no fan of the Chinese but they have more of a chance of making progress just because of their top-down dictatorship type government.

BTW, China has said they'll be carbon-neutral by 2060. That is not when they claim they'll start.

The best part is the conspiracy that deniers claim (liberal this-that yadda yadda) is a bit crazy. They're basically suggesting some Illuminati type shit that transcends both the Chinese and Western countries in this crazy global conspiracy. huh? whaaa?

The fact of the matter is that all that oil/gas took many many millions of years to be created and we're releasing it over the course of 1-200 years, but yea, clever bringing up forest fires which are going to get progressively worse until those eco-systems die off/trees are gone. It is more the cause and not a symptom, right?

BTW, if trees burned naturally it'd be carbon neutral affair as they would recapture the CO2 as the trees etc grew back. That won't happen when their environment is inhabitable to their species.

From what I've read gas burning cars will no longer be produced in US after 2040. The technology is slowly getting us there. That's the future. But that's no reason why we should be paying $5 or more per gallon of gas now. The eventual reality of renewanble energy means there will be a huge amount of oil left in the ground. The oil companies won't be able to give it away.

I see the fast chargers at gas stops for electric cars. Not that many of them so far. The EV's are great for local driving but right now a lot of time is spent at those charging stations for people on long trips.

Here's a prediction by me. Hotels will eventually have charging stations at every parking spot in their parking lots.

We are getting there on carbon neutral but I don't go for "the sky is falling" bullshit about we have to spend ourselves broke to shift to renewables. It's a huge money grab by the doomsday climate change activists.

It is unfortunate but those cars aren't even really a solution. They're a very small step towards what needs to be done.

Money grab? With oil, you find existing oil and sell it. What is the edge of all these hippies and academics? They have their lithium mines and are just waiting? Tell me how this works, this "money grab". What are they selling?

Basically all those limits that the climate organizations said we needed to meet to be on a reasonable path were hit far ahead of time. I'm not really sure what "sky is falling" means, but it is clear we haven't done much of anything and things keep getting worse and rapidly.

A uniform 3 degree increase would be fine, but it is the outlier events that cause the issues that things don't recover from.

You've been told lots of talking points. The charging of the cars isn't really that long. I bought an EV - every 270 miles you need to sit around for 20 minutes or so. Far less tending to it than regular gas when you do. You can sit in your car and do whatever. You can get out to eat at some places. This idea that people sit around in their cars all the time for the battery to charge is just a talking point pushing by oil/gas/automative industry. Regardless, it isn't near the issue it is made to be.

Gas was historically low for ages so every doofus thought they needed a huge truck for their masculinity. Now they whine when they can't afford it. No one has said oil will always be very cheap.

I'm curious how this is Biden's fault as the price of oil at the barrel level is not high enough to justify the prices.. Anyway, this is all just another type of entitlement. I don't really know what the issues are but I do know when all that free money was being handed out that I didn't get much of - it wasn't Biden as President.

[redietz]

I'm not going to turn my adblocker off to read the article. But a greenhorn and cabin boy are not the same thing. The hobo jungle is a tough place. Gays were hated by the tramps I knew. Gayboys would get themselves killed on the rails. They would be found dead along the tracks.

Redietz would get his candy ass killed on the rails. If you ride freight trains and sleep in the hobo jungle you better be a tough motherfucker.

Red, whats up with your buttbuddy, maxie, writing about nine inch dick everyday. Are you saying he's a cabin boy?

I guess mickey prefers to not read about how gays were about as rare among hoboes as in Greenwich Village on a Friday night. The word "gay" as referring to homosexuals started with American hoboes because many of the young hoboes were called "gaycats." Older hoboes groomed them.

I should have realized that an all-male lifestyle has its motives. But I just had never seen hoboes-as-gay on any television or movie shows, and I hadn't really thought much about it.

Obviously many hoboes had some avant garde and possibly sexually traumatic events with their lifestyle, and I can see how someone would refuse to read about or acknowledge that an all-male lifestyle would inevitably lead to certain language and fears of being outed. It's like coming out of prison. Nobody talks about what went on in prison when lights go out.

It is telling, actually quite a giveaway, that mickey actively avoids all information that goes against whatever he's trying to sell in life.

You are one dumb son of a bitch that believes those fantasies you read. Why do you read so much gay literature? Oh, that's right. You're gay. Tell me. Between you and Keystoner, which one is the bitch?

There were no homos in any hobo jungle I ever been in. Just saying you're homo would get you killed. No witnesses on the rails dude. Gays would be left for dead.

You really don't know anything about the lifestyle. Women were in all the bars dumazz. I scored chicks a hell of a lot more when I was broke than when I had money. There was a reason for that though. You think twice about taking some chick up to your hotel room when you got a big wad of money in your pocket. You could wake up broke.

But I had a trick I sometimes used at casino bars. If it looked like I was going to score a chick I would excuse myself to use the restroom. Off to the cage I went and put my money in the box. Except for two 20 dollars bills. I'd put one bill on each side of my pants. If I woke up the next morning and she was gone I checked my pants to see if she took one bill or both.

Now, it's time for you to get back to blowing maxie.

Well, either mickey's telling it like it is, or people who are hobo historians are telling it like it is.

The thing about me, I haven't been a hobo, so I'm no expert. But I attended a hobo convention in Laughlin. I love trains (I have my 35,000 Amtrak miles ready to find the 1.5 million-winner Waldo). I grew up on Railroad Avenue, about 60 yards from a major freight line serving coal breakers. We walked the five or six miles from town to town, following the tracks. We took potatoes and set up campfires and cooked in various areas next to the tracks. There were some walks, like from Frackville to St. Clair, where after a hard rain, the ground would have fallen away from underneath portions of the tracks, making it dangerous to walk across certain short areas.

[redietz]

Well it isn't just the mountain states that have been in a drought for years. Maybe these aren't even droughts anymore?

I am no fan of the Chinese but they have more of a chance of making progress just because of their top-down dictatorship type government.

BTW, China has said they'll be carbon-neutral by 2060. That is not when they claim they'll start.

The best part is the conspiracy that deniers claim (liberal this-that yadda yadda) is a bit crazy. They're basically suggesting some Illuminati type shit that transcends both the Chinese and Western countries in this crazy global conspiracy. huh? whaaa?

The fact of the matter is that all that oil/gas took many many millions of years to be created and we're releasing it over the course of 1-200 years, but yea, clever bringing up forest fires which are going to get progressively worse until those eco-systems die off/trees are gone. It is more the cause and not a symptom, right?

BTW, if trees burned naturally it'd be carbon neutral affair as they would recapture the CO2 as the trees etc grew back. That won't happen when their environment is inhabitable to their species.

From what I've read gas burning cars will no longer be produced in US after 2040. The technology is slowly getting us there. That's the future. But that's no reason why we should be paying $5 or more per gallon of gas now. The eventual reality of renewanble energy means there will be a huge amount of oil left in the ground. The oil companies won't be able to give it away.

I see the fast chargers at gas stops for electric cars. Not that many of them so far. The EV's are great for local driving but right now a lot of time is spent at those charging stations for people on long trips.

Here's a prediction by me. Hotels will eventually have charging stations at every parking spot in their parking lots.

We are getting there on carbon neutral but I don't go for "the sky is falling" bullshit about we have to spend ourselves broke to shift to renewables. It's a huge money grab by the doomsday climate change activists.

It is unfortunate but those cars aren't even really a solution. They're a very small step towards what needs to be done.

Money grab? With oil, you find existing oil and sell it. What is the edge of all these hippies and academics? They have their lithium mines and are just waiting? Tell me how this works, this "money grab". What are they selling?

Basically all those limits that the climate organizations said we needed to meet to be on a reasonable path were hit far ahead of time. I'm not really sure what "sky is falling" means, but it is clear we haven't done much of anything and things keep getting worse and rapidly.

A uniform 3 degree increase would be fine, but it is the outlier events that cause the issues that things don't recover from.

You've been told lots of talking points. The charging of the cars isn't really that long. I bought an EV - every 270 miles you need to sit around for 20 minutes or so. Far less tending to it than regular gas when you do. You can sit in your car and do whatever. You can get out to eat at some places. This idea that people sit around in their cars all the time for the battery to charge is just a talking point pushing by oil/gas/automative industry. Regardless, it isn't near the issue it is made to be.

Gas was historically low for ages so every doofus thought they needed a huge truck for their masculinity. Now they whine when they can't afford it. No one has said oil will always be very cheap.

I'm curious how this is Biden's fault as the price of oil at the barrel level is not high enough to justify the prices.. Anyway, this is all just another type of entitlement. I don't really know what the issues are but I do know when all that free money was being handed out that I didn't get much of - it wasn't Biden as President.

When the pandemic hit and demand crashed, oil companies had two options -- keep their workforce and keep drilling, or lay off their workforce and stop drilling. Well guess what they did? After laying off 100,000 people, they then had the option of rehiring when demand went back up and resume drilling or just raise prices. Guess what they chose?

That's pretty much the nuts and bolts of current prices. The biggest single variable dictating gasoline prices is oil price per barrel. Taxes and government policies have effects, but those other variables, all combined, probably have less impact on gasoline prices than the price per barrel of oil.

[MisterV]

Somewhat self conscience aren’t you? The stoner is keystoner.

Really?

There's ANOTHER stoner on the board?

Hey Keystone, can I bogart that joint?

Pass it over to me...

[MisterV]

If all the tree’s disappear there will be no oxygen. Trees absorb carbon and emit oxygen as a waste product.

So do all green plants, which got me to thinking...does my lawn, shrubs and trees on my property do enough scrubbing of CO2 and generation of oxygen to scrub the air I breathe out and replace the oxygen I breathe?

Trees are integral to the process, but a thick, large grass lawn must assist quite a bit as well.

[MisterV]

A couple train tales.

When I was a kid we'd go down to the railroad tracks and use the awl feature on our Scouting knife to pick the railroad locks that guarded the track switches; we never changed the switch setting as we weren't intent on killing anyone, we just wanted to display the purloined locks in our school locker.

A few years after we divorced, my first wife took up with a hard-scrabble hobo from some Indian rez; they would disappear from town for extended periods of time, riding the rails.

Through them I learned of FTRA.

I recall one discussion where he admitted to killing another man, a hobo: I don't recall why or where he killed him but I got the impression that it wouldn't take much provocation to get killed.

[Ozzy]

He has been on GWAE and whatnot, most serious pro bettors would know who he is.

Shut The Fuck Up.
You are a dirty sleezeball nobody.
Nobody knows who you are either.
Mickeycrimm should be calling you the step and fetch it because that is what you are.
You're a scammer bro and you know it.
Get back to doing things like leaving a 4oak on a machine and claiming it over and over again while you claim to lose TITOs.
My favorite is how you changed your position on handguns.
You're a Fucking Liberal scared of Covid.
Get back to WoV telling everyone how great it is to have a car because you are afraid of the Covid Bus Stop.
You and DarkOz do the same exact shit.
How many Casinos have 86'd you because you are nothing but a Greedy Scambler??
Scamble on Fucker but stop acting like you are somebody.
Drink another Captain Morgan and tell us all how you scammed the Flush Attacks at Circus Circus again.
Using an 18 year old boy to accomplish your grift.
Sounds very kewlJ of you.
Give us more stories of your thick 7 and a half inch cock because that is what top level APs do apparently.

What do you have to say about all these allegations Alex ?

[accountinquestion]

When the pandemic hit and demand crashed, oil companies had two options -- keep their workforce and keep drilling, or lay off their workforce and stop drilling. Well guess what they did? After laying off 100,000 people, they then had the option of rehiring when demand went back up and resume drilling or just raise prices. Guess what they chose?

That's pretty much the nuts and bolts of current prices. The biggest single variable dictating gasoline prices is oil price per barrel. Taxes and government policies have effects, but those other variables, all combined, probably have less impact on gasoline prices than the price per barrel of oil.

I researched it and I am wrong. It appears gas prices are tracking crude oil + inflation costs in the conversion to gas processes.

Regardless, as my friend pointed out.. inflation wouldn't kick in for a couple of years. I panic bought stuff like other fools instead of just keeping my cash. He was right.

I don't think drilling had much to do with it but please send me something that is credible and says different.

[redietz]

When the pandemic hit and demand crashed, oil companies had two options -- keep their workforce and keep drilling, or lay off their workforce and stop drilling. Well guess what they did? After laying off 100,000 people, they then had the option of rehiring when demand went back up and resume drilling or just raise prices. Guess what they chose?

That's pretty much the nuts and bolts of current prices. The biggest single variable dictating gasoline prices is oil price per barrel. Taxes and government policies have effects, but those other variables, all combined, probably have less impact on gasoline prices than the price per barrel of oil.

I researched it and I am wrong. It appears gas prices are tracking crude oil + inflation costs in the conversion to gas processes.

Regardless, as my friend pointed out.. inflation wouldn't kick in for a couple of years. I panic bought stuff like other fools instead of just keeping my cash. He was right.

I don't think drilling had much to do with it but please send me something that is credible and says different.

I don't know much about any of this but a couple basics, but I did see an entertaining video a month or so ago that summarizes the current, as opposed to long-term, variables influencing prices. I'll see if I can track it down later today.

[redietz]

A couple train tales.

When I was a kid we'd go down to the railroad tracks and use the awl feature on our Scouting knife to pick the railroad locks that guarded the track switches; we never changed the switch setting as we weren't intent on killing anyone, we just wanted to display the purloined locks in our school locker.

A few years after we divorced, my first wife took up with a hard-scrabble hobo from some Indian rez; they would disappear from town for extended periods of time, riding the rails.

Through them I learned of FTRA.

I recall one discussion where he admitted to killing another man, a hobo: I don't recall why or where he killed him but I got the impression that it wouldn't take much provocation to get killed.

Half the folks at the hobo convention reminded me of the bikers who attend Biker Weeks. They really aren't 1970's type bikers. They're suburbanites with a lot of cash to burn, who enjoy adventuring illegally on rails two or three weeks out of the year and treat it like a vacation. They knew their stuff, however. What lines go where, the train times, the best places to grab a ride. It's an entire recreational subculture.

[Keystone]

I'm not going to turn my adblocker off to read the article. But a greenhorn and cabin boy are not the same thing. The hobo jungle is a tough place. Gays were hated by the tramps I knew. Gayboys would get themselves killed on the rails. They would be found dead along the tracks.

Redietz would get his candy ass killed on the rails. If you ride freight trains and sleep in the hobo jungle you better be a tough motherfucker.

Red, whats up with your buttbuddy, maxie, writing about nine inch dick everyday. Are you saying he's a cabin boy?

I guess mickey prefers to not read about how gays were about as rare among hoboes as in Greenwich Village on a Friday night. The word "gay" as referring to homosexuals started with American hoboes because many of the young hoboes were called "gaycats." Older hoboes groomed them.

I should have realized that an all-male lifestyle has its motives. But I just had never seen hoboes-as-gay on any television or movie shows, and I hadn't really thought much about it.

Obviously many hoboes had some avant garde and possibly sexually traumatic events with their lifestyle, and I can see how someone would refuse to read about or acknowledge that an all-male lifestyle would inevitably lead to certain language and fears of being outed. It's like coming out of prison. Nobody talks about what went on in prison when lights go out.

It is telling, actually quite a giveaway, that mickey actively avoids all information that goes against whatever he's trying to sell in life.

You are one dumb son of a bitch that believes those fantasies you read. Why do you read so much gay literature? Oh, that's right. You're gay. Tell me. Between you and Keystoner, which one is the bitch?

There were no homos in any hobo jungle I ever been in. Just saying you're homo would get you killed. No witnesses on the rails dude. Gays would be left for dead.

You really don't know anything about the lifestyle. Women were in all the bars dumazz. I scored chicks a hell of a lot more when I was broke than when I had money. There was a reason for that though. You think twice about taking some chick up to your hotel room when you got a big wad of money in your pocket. You could wake up broke.

But I had a trick I sometimes used at casino bars. If it looked like I was going to score a chick I would excuse myself to use the restroom. Off to the cage I went and put my money in the box. Except for two 20 dollars bills. I'd put one bill on each side of my pants. If I woke up the next morning and she was gone I checked my pants to see if she took one bill or both.

Now, it's time for you to get back to blowing maxie.

Mickey was well known on the tramp circuit for giving the best hobo hand jobs in the country. The old hobos still rave about them even today

[mickeycrimm]

Well it isn't just the mountain states that have been in a drought for years. Maybe these aren't even droughts anymore?

I am no fan of the Chinese but they have more of a chance of making progress just because of their top-down dictatorship type government.

BTW, China has said they'll be carbon-neutral by 2060. That is not when they claim they'll start.

The best part is the conspiracy that deniers claim (liberal this-that yadda yadda) is a bit crazy. They're basically suggesting some Illuminati type shit that transcends both the Chinese and Western countries in this crazy global conspiracy. huh? whaaa?

The fact of the matter is that all that oil/gas took many many millions of years to be created and we're releasing it over the course of 1-200 years, but yea, clever bringing up forest fires which are going to get progressively worse until those eco-systems die off/trees are gone. It is more the cause and not a symptom, right?

BTW, if trees burned naturally it'd be carbon neutral affair as they would recapture the CO2 as the trees etc grew back. That won't happen when their environment is inhabitable to their species.

From what I've read gas burning cars will no longer be produced in US after 2040. The technology is slowly getting us there. That's the future. But that's no reason why we should be paying $5 or more per gallon of gas now. The eventual reality of renewanble energy means there will be a huge amount of oil left in the ground. The oil companies won't be able to give it away.

I see the fast chargers at gas stops for electric cars. Not that many of them so far. The EV's are great for local driving but right now a lot of time is spent at those charging stations for people on long trips.

Here's a prediction by me. Hotels will eventually have charging stations at every parking spot in their parking lots.

We are getting there on carbon neutral but I don't go for "the sky is falling" bullshit about we have to spend ourselves broke to shift to renewables. It's a huge money grab by the doomsday climate change activists.

It is unfortunate but those cars aren't even really a solution. They're a very small step towards what needs to be done.

Money grab? With oil, you find existing oil and sell it. What is the edge of all these hippies and academics? They have their lithium mines and are just waiting? Tell me how this works, this "money grab". What are they selling?

Basically all those limits that the climate organizations said we needed to meet to be on a reasonable path were hit far ahead of time. I'm not really sure what "sky is falling" means, but it is clear we haven't done much of anything and things keep getting worse and rapidly.

A uniform 3 degree increase would be fine, but it is the outlier events that cause the issues that things don't recover from.

You've been told lots of talking points. The charging of the cars isn't really that long. I bought an EV - every 270 miles you need to sit around for 20 minutes or so. Far less tending to it than regular gas when you do. You can sit in your car and do whatever. You can get out to eat at some places. This idea that people sit around in their cars all the time for the battery to charge is just a talking point pushing by oil/gas/automative industry. Regardless, it isn't near the issue it is made to be.

Gas was historically low for ages so every doofus thought they needed a huge truck for their masculinity. Now they whine when they can't afford it. No one has said oil will always be very cheap.

I'm curious how this is Biden's fault as the price of oil at the barrel level is not high enough to justify the prices.. Anyway, this is all just another type of entitlement. I don't really know what the issues are but I do know when all that free money was being handed out that I didn't get much of - it wasn't Biden as President.

On his first day in office Biden cancelled Keystone, ANWR, and put a limit on Dakota Access. Then he cancelled federal drilling contracts both on and offshore. The oil companies lost 15 billion dollars on just Keystone. Wall Street investors are now telling the oil companies no more risky drilling investments. Investors aren't stupid.

Biden is begging the Saudi's and the Venezuelans to produce more oil. WTF? He cut American oil production but wants foreign countries to produce more so we can buy it at inflated prices. Do you know how stupid that is? It's beyond regular stupid. It's stupid to the 19th power.

They don't have near the environmental standards that the US has. Better for the environment that the oil is produced here. And better for our country.

Last year Chevron made 6 billion on 600 billion in revenue. That's a 1% profit margin. WTF does Biden expect? That the oil companies lose money?

Now Biden is threatening price controls. You think they are not drilling enough now? Watch what happens with price controls. There will be no drilling period.

But i will tell you when the Dems will change their tune on oil. The 2024 election. Watch them flip faster than greased lightening when they think they are going to lose the Presidency.

[redietz]

From what I've read gas burning cars will no longer be produced in US after 2040. The technology is slowly getting us there. That's the future. But that's no reason why we should be paying $5 or more per gallon of gas now. The eventual reality of renewanble energy means there will be a huge amount of oil left in the ground. The oil companies won't be able to give it away.

I see the fast chargers at gas stops for electric cars. Not that many of them so far. The EV's are great for local driving but right now a lot of time is spent at those charging stations for people on long trips.

Here's a prediction by me. Hotels will eventually have charging stations at every parking spot in their parking lots.

We are getting there on carbon neutral but I don't go for "the sky is falling" bullshit about we have to spend ourselves broke to shift to renewables. It's a huge money grab by the doomsday climate change activists.

It is unfortunate but those cars aren't even really a solution. They're a very small step towards what needs to be done.

Money grab? With oil, you find existing oil and sell it. What is the edge of all these hippies and academics? They have their lithium mines and are just waiting? Tell me how this works, this "money grab". What are they selling?

Basically all those limits that the climate organizations said we needed to meet to be on a reasonable path were hit far ahead of time. I'm not really sure what "sky is falling" means, but it is clear we haven't done much of anything and things keep getting worse and rapidly.

A uniform 3 degree increase would be fine, but it is the outlier events that cause the issues that things don't recover from.

You've been told lots of talking points. The charging of the cars isn't really that long. I bought an EV - every 270 miles you need to sit around for 20 minutes or so. Far less tending to it than regular gas when you do. You can sit in your car and do whatever. You can get out to eat at some places. This idea that people sit around in their cars all the time for the battery to charge is just a talking point pushing by oil/gas/automative industry. Regardless, it isn't near the issue it is made to be.

Gas was historically low for ages so every doofus thought they needed a huge truck for their masculinity. Now they whine when they can't afford it. No one has said oil will always be very cheap.

I'm curious how this is Biden's fault as the price of oil at the barrel level is not high enough to justify the prices.. Anyway, this is all just another type of entitlement. I don't really know what the issues are but I do know when all that free money was being handed out that I didn't get much of - it wasn't Biden as President.

On his first day in office Biden cancelled Keystone, ANWR, and put a limit on Dakota Access. Then he cancelled federal drilling contracts both on and offshore. The oil companies lost 15 billion dollars on just Keystone. Wall Street investors are now telling the oil companies no more risky drilling investments. Investors aren't stupid.

Biden is begging the Saudi's and the Venezuelans to produce more oil. WTF? He cut American oil production but wants foreign countries to produce more so we can buy it at inflated prices. Do you know how stupid that is? It's beyond regular stupid. It's stupid to the 19th power.

They don't have near the environmental standards that the US has. Better for the environment that the oil is produced here. And better for our country.

Last year Chevron made 6 billion on 600 billion in revenue. That's a 1% profit margin. WTF does Biden expect? That the oil companies lose money?

Now Biden is threatening price controls. You think they are not drilling enough now? Watch what happens with price controls. There will be no drilling period.

But i will tell you when the Dems will change their tune on oil. The 2024 election. Watch them flip faster than greased lightening when they think they are going to lose the Presidency.

It's crystal clear that the Democrats believe they will lose the 2024 presidency. I don't even think that's worth debate.

[mickeycrimm]

Well, either mickey's telling it like it is, or people who are hobo historians are telling it like it is.

The thing about me, I haven't been a hobo, so I'm no expert. But I attended a hobo convention in Laughlin. I love trains (I have my 35,000 Amtrak miles ready to find the 1.5 million-winner Waldo). I grew up on Railroad Avenue, about 60 yards from a major freight line serving coal breakers. We walked the five or six miles from town to town, following the tracks. We took potatoes and set up campfires and cooked in various areas next to the tracks. There were some walks, like from Frackville to St. Clair, where after a hard rain, the ground would have fallen away from underneath portions of the tracks, making it dangerous to walk across certain short areas.

I went to my iphone and read the article.Very lengthy and with great detail. Why, it must have been 3 paragraphs long. It's basically homosexual propaganda. Your "hobo historian" doesn't know what he's talking about.

I never heard the term "gaycat" until you used it right here. He says "a gaycat was a young inexperienced tramp who defied the unwritten code of hobodom by accepting work."

I told you that you don't know the lifestyle and neither does your "hobo historian." A Hobo is basically a migrant worker that rides freight trains to get around. I worked everywhere I went.

So your historian don't know what the fuck he's talking about:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...5JzXvHsWZqEzD7

BTW, I follow on youtube the most famous rail rider, Hobo Shoestring. He keeps an apartment in Johnson City, Tennessee. Ever heard of that town? He's been riding the rails for 30 years and is the most knowledgeable freight train rider I've every seen. He found a way to monetize his lifestyle. His youtube channel makes him about $2500 a month. He's been layed up recently with health issues.

It's easy to contact Shoestring. Why don't you contact him and ask him if he ever seen gays on the rails.

[mickeycrimm]

A couple train tales.

When I was a kid we'd go down to the railroad tracks and use the awl feature on our Scouting knife to pick the railroad locks that guarded the track switches; we never changed the switch setting as we weren't intent on killing anyone, we just wanted to display the purloined locks in our school locker.

A few years after we divorced, my first wife took up with a hard-scrabble hobo from some Indian rez; they would disappear from town for extended periods of time, riding the rails.

Through them I learned of FTRA.

I recall one discussion where he admitted to killing another man, a hobo: I don't recall why or where he killed him but I got the impression that it wouldn't take much provocation to get killed.

Half the folks at the hobo convention reminded me of the bikers who attend Biker Weeks. They really aren't 1970's type bikers. They're suburbanites with a lot of cash to burn, who enjoy adventuring illegally on rails two or three weeks out of the year and treat it like a vacation. They knew their stuff, however. What lines go where, the train times, the best places to grab a ride. It's an entire recreational subculture.

The real train riders think they are a joke.

[tableplay]

Have you ever read what Krakatoa did to the earth's atmosphere?

Great point. And more recently (1980) Mount St. Helen's.

[MisterV]

The real train riders think they are a joke.

Why is that? (just curious)

[MaxPen]

Well, either mickey's telling it like it is, or people who are hobo historians are telling it like it is.

The thing about me, I haven't been a hobo, so I'm no expert. But I attended a hobo convention in Laughlin. I love trains (I have my 35,000 Amtrak miles ready to find the 1.5 million-winner Waldo). I grew up on Railroad Avenue, about 60 yards from a major freight line serving coal breakers. We walked the five or six miles from town to town, following the tracks. We took potatoes and set up campfires and cooked in various areas next to the tracks. There were some walks, like from Frackville to St. Clair, where after a hard rain, the ground would have fallen away from underneath portions of the tracks, making it dangerous to walk across certain short areas.

I went to my iphone and read the article.Very lengthy and with great detail. Why, it must have been 3 paragraphs long. It's basically homosexual propaganda. Your "hobo historian" doesn't know what he's talking about.

I never heard the term "gaycat" until you used it right here. He says "a gaycat was a young inexperienced tramp who defied the unwritten code of hobodom by accepting work."

I told you that you don't know the lifestyle and neither does your "hobo historian." A Hobo is basically a migrant worker that rides freight trains to get around. I worked everywhere I went.

So your historian don't know what the fuck he's talking about:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...5JzXvHsWZqEzD7

BTW, I follow on youtube the most famous rail rider, Hobo Shoestring. He keeps an apartment in Johnson City, Tennessee. Ever heard of that town? He's been riding the rails for 30 years and is the most knowledgeable freight train rider I've every seen. He found a way to monetize his lifestyle. His youtube channel makes him about $2500 a month. He's been layed up recently with health issues.

It's easy to contact Shoestring. Why don't you contact him and ask him if he ever seen gays on the rails.

I talked with Shoelace from the Laughlin River Rat Crew. He said back in the day you had the nicest ass on the river.

[redietz]

I actually run into this guy or his twin pretty regularly, maybe every other month. I think I've talked to him briefly a couple of times, not about hobos, but about the gravy biscuit at Bojangles.

I will look him up. LOL. We appear to frequent the same breakfast establishments. I think I've seen him in Krystal a few times, plus Bojangles. Pretty sure I've seen him in the library every once in awhile.

I will definitely track him down. I had no idea he was a professional hobo. I wonder what he thinks I do, given that our breakfast preferences match up. Holy hell. Did he ever go to support group meetings in the area? I'm trying to remember if I gave him a ride to one.