Questions for truckers

Oh no! Debbie thats terrible. Ee gads! By then, if we were paying 6-7 a gallon, tha...that means we'd ALMOST be paying what the REST of the world is paying right now!

Unfortunatley, I dont have time to reply with one of my patented long replies to your tinfoil conspiracy comment. I will later though.

 

Don't bother replying.....All I was trying to do, is make you aware.....You're apathy breaks my heart.....If you continue to do "nothing", then you deserve what ever you get.....I was hoping to find some "men" with backbone, who would be willing to challenge the government. To change, the course of destruction, we face as a nation. I thought maybe, some people who are already being raped, by the government, would want to help do something about it.....I guess I was wrong.....You like getting "poked" everytime you stop to fill-up your tank and you're "too busy" enjoying it, you don't have the "time" or the "interest" to do anyting about it.....Life will go on.....

We have the largest oil field, in the world, sitting in Prudo Bay, Alaska.....There's enough oil to last, over two-hundred years.....Our government is pumping the oil, back into the ground, to keep "you" from benefiting from it. They are counting on "you" to be too lazy, or uninformed, to do anything about it.....Well, you've been informed.....What you do with the information, is up to you.....Life will go on.....

Peace and Love,
Debbie

 

well poo...sorry about the font size everyone.

I will bother replying because...one needs to fight against this constant pile that people keep adding to without any actual knowledge outside of a book that a conspiracy theorist wrote.

Do what. The price of fuel is right up with our income. Its lower in other countries because their cost of living is less and so on. Here, its right up with what we make. The problem is that a single person driving a 2ton SUV or a v12 power stroke Diesel pickup truck that has never carried a load are the ones complaining when they could instead by a small fuel efficient car or a hybrid that gets multiple times better gas mileage. If your car gets 30 miles to the gallon and you drive 300 miles...thats going to cost you 30 bucks at $3 a gallon. Not bad at all.
Alternatives..by a bike, a scooter, a bus pass...all ways to lower YOUR cost..car pool...etc.

We don't have enough production to meet our current demands for fuel.
lol I suppose you want W to release the reserves to help offset the cost...the reserves if I am correct hold hardly any oil compared to our rapid consumption.

What about Canada, since we get more fuel from them than the Saudis...dang specifics!

All China is doing is being a country. They are allowing companies to come there just as any country would. Our companies are leaving the US because we demand lower prices. More specifically, of all the umpteen hundreds of thousands of products that are made in China and sent over here, a very incredibly small number is defective. Plus, on top of that, the companies that have the products made in China arent doing a good job at quality control and inspections...but hey, lets disregard that and just blame China, lol.

Whats it feel like to want? You are the consumer, and you want low prices...companies know this because of yoru demand. SO they move out of the US to lower their prices. Sure, the worker who wants high pay for a low skill job gets the shaft. But why should a company pay full coverage for someones insurance and benefits? Why cant the worker pay for their own cost of living? How would you operate a company if your employees banded together to demand more money out of you that you dont have without raisign the cost of your product.

The housing crisis is and WAS caused by the mortgages that people were in that they shouldnt have been in! If you make 30 grand a year, you shouldn't live in a 400k house! Yet, people would get into an ARM mortgage (for some reason, hoping that the adjustable rate wouldnt adjust) for a house they couldnt afford and shouldnt be in...and when the rates adjusted, they got hurt. Dont by a house you cant afford. Dont buy a house with no money down. Dont buy a house with a high or adjustable rate of interest.

There are nice cars out there...the car companies in the US just arent making what people want. As far as the roads...well get your state to stop taking money away from its road maintenance and spending it on other things. This was detailed in a series of reports on OOIDAs Landline program. Money that was directed towards road work was spent on other non road items...and its a loophole that is found in many states across the country.

There are great schools across the country. Did yuo know that most of the funding comes from local taxes? So if you want a nice school, pay your taxes, vote yes on bills that give them more funding. Voice your opinion of NCLB and how its hurting our schools by teaching to the test amongst other things. There are schools in upperstate NY that are multi million dollar schools, Technology abound, money up the wazoo. Then there are schools that operate in buildings in other parts of the country that have been condemned. All depends on the local govment and the taxes they get for schools. The thing is that up until recently, the schools were state run, not federally. Now its federal thanks to NCLB.

The legislation that was produced a while back for the refuge up there was written in a way that many people didnt see a problem with it. If I remember correctly, it was for x sqare miles to be drilled. The only problem was...that many people didnt notice...is that it didn't cordon off a certain area for drilling...but only counted what touched the ground as part of that x sqare miles. A building can be very large, but take up very little space compared to x sqare miles that it sits on.

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]**Proponents of drilling in the Arctic Refuge point to the Prudhoe Bay oil fields as an example that development would not harm the environment. Consider these facts: [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Since the Prudhoe Bay oil discovery in 1968, the oil industry has dramatically transformed a vast arctic wilderness. Prudhoe Bay and 18 other producing oil fields sprawl over more than 1,000 square miles of America's Arctic-- an area the size of Rhode Island. Today the North Slope oil fields include 3,893 exploratory and producing wells, 170 production and exploratory drill pads, 500 miles of roads, 1,100 miles of trunk and feeder pipelines, 2 refineries, many airports, many camps with living quarters for hundreds of workers, 5 docks and gravel causeways, and a total of 25 production plants, gas processing facilities, seawater treatment plants, and power plants. Many impacts exceed the Interior Department's predictions in a 1972 Trans-Alaska Pipeline EIS. Gravel mines extracted 400% more gravel. Oil companies drilled five times more wells. Road mileage was double. Gravel pads for drilling and oil facilities were predicted to cover 2,155 acres, but such infrastructure fills three times the area. Drilling proponents say that impacts will be small due to technological improvements. Despite advancements, there are unavoidable impacts from the latest North Slope oil development. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The industrial network continues to expand across the landscape each year with new drilling pads, roads, pipelines, processing plants, and other facilities and operations that add to the cumulative impact. Technological advances have reduced the size of individual drilling pads and some roads, but oil development unavoidably involves construction of many permanent industrial facilities and noisy operations spread across vast expanses of the landscape. No matter how well done, oil development would industrialize a unique, wild area that is the biological heart of the Arctic Refuge. Industry focuses attention on the direct "footprint" where facilities will be built but ignores the secondary and cumulative impacts of the industrial network on wildlife habitats. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]For example: Roughly 22,000 acres of tundra wetlands, floodplains, and other habitats have been directly lost due to the oil fields and Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. But the impacts to wildlife and their tundra habitats extend well beyond the sites of constructed facilities. A study of major landscape impacts due to the Prudhoe Bay oil fields in Science found that secondary effects such as hydrological changes to wetlands lagged behind construction and the total area eventually disturbed greatly exceeded direct impacts. "The extent of disturbance greatly exceeds the physical "footprint" of an oil-field complex," according to caribou biologists Nellemann and Cameron (1998). Many studies recorded decreased caribou densities within 4-km of pipelines and roads and regional changes in calving distribution for the Central Arctic Herd at Prudhoe Bay. Prudhoe Bay air emissions have been detected nearly 200 miles away in Barrow, Alaska. **[/FONT]

 

Debbie all of this has been told on TV Radio etc.But you can tell by the answer you got which was I think copied out of a Greenpeace book.Sure some people in other countrys pay high prices for fuel but they drive crappy high milage cars Like Jack if he sold very few hamburers guess the few would be high.But as you can tell if you say something on this web site you will get some responces that agree or disagree and you will get some telling you that you dont know squat are talk about your spelling grammer etc.Some just write page after page of nothing just to say your wrong.Anyone worried about running out of fuel should not be driving a truck that gets maybe 6 mpg.If we run out we run out its a little late now to worry.Kind of like feeding a horse after he staeves to death.

 

Hey Chief I like your truck pic.Reminds me of some I used to drive.Only heat came through floorboaed.Had a 2/60 A/C if it would run that fast.

 

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We need to impeach Bush And Cheny before they take us in to Iran ,If they go in we (WILL) have two more Years of the same BUSH and CHENY S---.

 

alright, i drive a 7400lb ford pickup (crew cab long box) F350 4x4, and it has a power stroke.....but mine is only a v8 diesel....did i get screwed by not getting the v12???

 

Thank you for listening.....

Peace and Love,
Debbie