President Joe Biden - Kamala Harris Administration

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NurseGoodVol said:
4.59 in Norfolk. 🤮
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I was in a hurry Friday & stopped at a place where gas was @$4.27. Gave the lady $20.00 bucks to top off my tank & as soon as I put the pump handle back up on the hook .... I looked up & across the street there was another gas station that was selling it @ $4.17. Pissed me off to say the least.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
Well you just said the key point. With this group, you know that there will be huge govt intervention.

But to be fair, it likely would be the same with Trump in.
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Just don't think they can as it would fuel the inflation, which is what the recession is to eliminate.
 
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The idiocy of the radical left-wing's terrible idea of closing down America's coal plants now, before some kind of replacement power is even built .... is really a bad idea of thinking that it's a way to help on climate change is a total joke & will cause terrible effects on humans.

The Day the Electricity Died
 
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W.TN.Orange Blood said:
The idiocy of the radical left-wing's terrible idea of closing down America's coal plants now, before some kind of replacement power is even built .... is really a bad idea of thinking that it's a way to help on climate change is a total joke & will cause terrible effects on humans.

The Day the Electricity Died
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They've got a real life, real time example to look at with potential energy crises looming for Germany and other European nations.
 
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W.TN.Orange Blood said:
The idiocy of the radical left-wing's terrible idea of closing down America's coal plants now, before some kind of replacement power is even built .... is really a bad idea of thinking that it's a way to help on climate change is a total joke & will cause terrible effects on humans.

The Day the Electricity Died
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This administration probably has some group working on how to make the sun shine night and day ... and clouds go away.
 
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They've got a real life, real time example to look at with potential energy crises looming for Germany and other European nations.
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Since renewables aren't dependable and a nuclear resurgence is unlikely with the current investment climate, we need coal to power stuff that doesn't move and liquid petroleum to power stuff that does move. Maybe that will change some day; but until a lucid and workable Plan B comes along, we need to stick with Plan A.

We also need a move back to local manufacturing and cut the long supply chains. The world just shifted again, and just in time logistics and long distance transportation of goods doesn't cut it.
 
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Franklin Pierce said:
Higher taxes. Higher gasoline prices. Higher utility bills. Amnesty for millions of Illegal Aliens.
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Households face being hit with Shocking Electric Bills this Summer

Electric bills will be larger than ever for many households this summer, analysts are warning, adding to the pain of high inflation and record-high fuel costs.

The most recent estimates from the Energy Information Administration are that electricity prices will rise by a national average of 3.9% this summer compared to last summer. Accounting for reduced use, expenditures will be up 0.9%.

Some regions will be hit especially hard, most notably New England, which relies on natural gas and oil for more than half of its total power supply. Forecasters are also predicting a dry and scorching summer, when, the EIA report says, residents can expect their power bills to rise by nearly 10%.

Households face being hit with shocking electric bills this summer
 
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AM64 said:
Since renewables aren't dependable and a nuclear resurgence is unlikely with the current investment climate, we need coal to power stuff that doesn't move and liquid petroleum to power stuff that does move. Maybe that will change some day; but until a lucid and workable Plan B comes along, we need to stick with Plan A.

We also need a move back to local manufacturing and cut the long supply chains. The world just shifted again, and just in time logistics and long distance transportation of goods doesn't cut it.
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I was just talking about supply chains with my wife and mom today, since that's my field and area of study. I have been praying for a long time that we fix our consumption practices and get back to more localized production.
 
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I was just talking about supply chains with my wife and mom today, since that's my field and area of study. I have been praying for a long time that we fix our consumption practices and get back to more localized production.
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It's an interesting conundrum. I can see how companies wanted to shed the costs of warehousing a lot of raw materials and subassemblies; it makes sense to have only what the immediate demand calls for especially in an age of quick obsolescence. However, that one critical component can screw up the works - not just stop production of one product - that can snowball into creating havoc when the makeup work draws resources from other products. It looks like a nightmare for anyone trying to keep things running.

I saw an article last night that said logistics are never returning to "normal". The basis is that the US is done playing world cop and the world is less stable with countries like China daring to change things up. The instability in the political sense would keep stability in other things in a state of flux, too. It's an interesting concept anyway - not sure I'd buy it hook, line, and sinker though. Still, we do need to make sure that we produce at least nationally the things we need to survive; we're a country blessed with a lot of natural resources (and have Canada next door for many others), we can do better than rampant globalism.
 
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The MORON in charge (potus) or POS for short, claims we need move towards greener trucking.
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The party of science needs some lessons in it's not what you want to do - it's what you can do. Gas mileage for example. When you have a computer metering fuel and air and you are using 0 and 5W oil, there's not much left you can do with internal combustion engines except cheat with the numbers or lose performance. You can go to EVs and cheat by just not admitting they burn a lot of fuel to charge batteries - and lose even more in the multiple transmission and conversion processes. DC motors seem to be 75-85% efficient (I can't find anything more definitive). There are battery losses in powering the motor and in charging the batteries. There are significant losses in transmission of electric power from the generating source to the end user, and thermal efficiency for generating electric power with NG is around 45%. That's a lot of NG (for example) to run one EV. With gas or diesel engines there's also a lot of energy use to consider, but we're probably never going to see a real honest comparison about any of it.
 
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