Y’all, I had to go to two different gas stations on my way home to find a gas station with, you know, actual gas.
I have never, ever, ever in my entire life been to a gas station with no gas to sell me.
I found it very unsettling.
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I guess you didn’t drive in the early/mid 70s, with the every other day/license plate number thing. Now that seriously sucked. Especially if you had to drive more than 1 day. Although, it was kind of neat, and very eerie, with no one on the freeways….at all!
Same in Louisville. May be forced to buy Premium tomorrow, because of the gas stations that actually have electical power up here, most have been run on, and Premium is all that’s left.
Get used to it, folks. It’s going to get worse as the house of cards continues to collapse.
I remember the gas crisis in the 70s when my parents would sit in long lines trying to get their tanks filled.
I think this will settle down, but the whole thing is fishy. I worry the most for those workers who were cleaning up our county after the winds (we apparently got hit harder than most folks.)
I burned a half a tank of gas taking pictures.
Times are weird.
My CS your pessimism is winning.
Or, like me, maybe he is old enough to remember what rationing was like.
I’m working from home today to try to save gas and ultimately moolah. I feel very fortunate that I have this ability.
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If we don’t drill everywhere possible and go nuclear, this will continue. We can thank The democrats and Nancy pelosi for not allowing a vot on drilling.
If we don’t drill everywhere possible and go nuclear, this will continue. We can thank The democrats and Nancy pelosi for not allowing a vote on drilling.
Ooooh, glad you fixed that typo.
if we do drill everywhere possible and go nuclear, this will continue anyway.
new oil wells take years to find, develop, and get into production. even if it were possible to lower market prices through increasing production alone (which it isn’t, but that’s another story), it’d take years to do so.
of course, that can’t be done within U.S. territory alone, because there aren’t enough undeveloped oil fields within U.S. territory to glut the world market for oil enough to lower prices; we certainly can’t sate the Chinese and Indian appetites for oil with U.S. resources. what, did you think oil drilled and pumped in the U.S. would not get sold to the highest bidder on the open, global, market? how not, do you suggest we socialize the oil companies?
nuclear power is a great idea for baseline electrical power generation. new reactors will help us reduce our dependence on coal-burning power plants, just as soon as they can come online… which takes a decade. won’t do much of anything to gasoline prices, though. or did you think we burn any significant amounts of oil to generate electricity? ‘cos we don’t.
more cheap electricity can only lower gasoline prices if we also suddenly see a lot more plug-in hybrid cars on the roads. that’d be nice, but it can’t happen until we have that extra generating capacity, so that’s a decade plus however long it’ll take to bully the auto makers into building plug-in hybrids for us. best bet? let Detroit go bankrupt and rely on the Japanese to build said hybrids; they’ll get it done quicker, cheaper and better than Ford and GM ever will. still, a decade plus.
what do you suggest we do in that intervening decade, carl? other than suffer the prices, which we certainly will anyway? me, i’d suggest taking T. Boone Pickens’ advice, as well as a few other strategies i could mention. (like this and this, and…) but that’s just me.
(geezus haploid kee-rist nailed to a pogo stick and set a-bouncing with a swift boot to the arse, but conservatives can be so bloody goddamn stupid about their talking points… “drill drill drill” indeed…)
“I say east, west coast and ANWR—get it all! To get off of foreign oil, that is the enemy…You’re drilling and whatever you are able to find and put into the domestic system will help us.”
~ T. Boone Pickens, July of this year
Funny how all these liberals love to talk about Pickens, but fail to mention that part. Get your talking points in order, m’kay?
funny how conservatives think just because somebody is right (or wrong) about one thing, they must necessarily be right/wrong about every thing they’ve ever opened their yaps about. what causes that delusion, anyway?
Hey, you’re the one who said “I’d suggest taking T. Boone Pickens’ advice.”
Merely pointing out that part of his advice is “drill baby drill”
And I’m assuredly down with the wind farms, as long as they’re able to be proven economically feasable in the longrun without gov’t subsidies.
And I’m also down with building a few nuclear plants, now, so that by 2018, they can take a huge strain off of petroleum and coal.
WITH federal subsidies, of course. Right?
BTW, is it OK if we “dispose” of the waste in Louisville? Say….your backyard?
we’ll have to build nuke plants eventually, there’s no getting around it. but the whole Yucca Mountain plan is… distasteful; a clearly distant second-best to the much better final disposal plans Sweden and Finland are already implementing, just for two examples.
nor did i suggest taking just any of that old oilman’s advice; i linked explicitly to the specific bit of it i am willing to endorse. which brings us back, lee, to that conservative delusion you still neglect to explain the origins of…?
And I’m assuredly down with the wind farms, as long as they’re able to be proven economically feasable in the longrun
Funny how you’re not ok with wind farms unless they’re proven economically feasible in the long run, but you’re good with domestic drilling which has been proven to NOT be economically feasible in the long run.
Norman, drilling domestically while other technologies are ramped up is an essential part of T. Boone Pickens plan!! You arrogant dumbass! He’s pretty damn clear about that, and anybody who says, “You should take Pickens’ advice” without adding in any caveats should not act indignant when this elementary fact is pointed out.
Second, Mr. Mack, I don’t think that any urban center , Louisville included, should be near a nuclear waste site, but I would have no problem whatsoever with a nuclear plant a few miles down the road. Would probably be better for the air quality around here, that’s for sure.
I think we can learn from the Europeans on how best to utilize nuclear. The French get something like 80% of their grid power from this source, and I’m sure they know of efficient ways to dispose of waste.
And finally Dolphin, if after trying wind farms we find them efficient and economically feasable… then great, halleluia!! But if they happen to turn into a subsidy boondoggle, (hello, ethanol!) then yes, I am for trying other routes. But you’re assuming, (and yes, that does makes you an ass) that this means I’m for drilling only.
No, I’m for the whole damn kitchen sink. Try everything. Throw it all up on the wall, see what sticks. Find what works, find what doesn’t, and improve on it. But while we’re going through this process, utilize American oil instead of foreign (Saudi, Iranian, Russian) so the transition is relatively smooth so that in the… wait for it… long run, we have the best system.
yeah, i’m so damn arrogant that i actually hyperlink to those particular plans i’m willing to endorse. guess why i didn’t link to any place Pickens said to drill? because that’s the bit i’m not endorsing. geez, ever heard of “hypertext”? you want caveats, how much bigger of a caveat than that can you get?
wind needs no subsidies. plenty of countries have already proven that, by the fanciful new experimental method of — get this, now — building wind farms. this isn’t star trek transporters we’re talking about, or “clean coal” or unicorns on treadmills; wind power is proven technology. as for why they’re not being built in the U.S., look to what technologies are getting subsidized here, instead.
and we can’t easily “utilize American oil instead of foreign”. why not? because the WTO would slap us with punitive fines for trying to tariff exports of U.S. oil so as to keep it in the country, that’s why. free world market, remember? drilling here will not do jack shit to oil prices here.
But you’re assuming, (and yes, that does makes you an ass) that this means I’m for drilling only.
No, I’m assuming that you are for drilling (after all you did say so). My comment has nothing to do with whether you support drilling only or everything from drilling to hamsters running in wheels.