Recruiting forum off topic thread (no politics, covid, or hot button issues)

[KptVFL]

Willing to give him a chance, but I am with Bass on this one. I really would have thought we could have gotten someone a little more established. Not upset or concerned. Just seems a little weird.

Understand where you're coming from but is 1 REALLY productive year enough to erase multiple years of _______?

We might be getting a little ahead of ourselves.

I'll definitely be



Watching it all play out!

 

[Glitch]

"We" don't get our oil from anywhere specific. Private companies like Exxon Mobil extract and refine the oil, not the United States. All that oil goes out on the open market and is purchased by whomever wants to at whatever the market price is.

There is no such thing as "we can provide our nation with the oil it needs." We as in the United States don't provide any oil to anyone anywhere, period. You're confusing the United States with China and Russia.

Oil companies will happily sell oil produced in the US to anywhere in the world, it's not promised to the US first because it was extracted from here. More refinery capacity in the US would mean more supply on the open market, which would bring prices down for everyone, not just the US. Cutting off Russia decreases supply, bringing prices up for everyone.

We don't need to buy oil from foreign sources. We can resource all our oil needs from oil extracted from North America. Is that a more accurate statement?

 

[jave36]

We don't need to buy oil from foreign sources. We can resource all our oil needs from oil extracted from North America. Is that a more accurate statement?

That would be dependent on whether or not oil companies who extract from North America want to sell it all to companies within the United States. If Russia or Saudi Arabia is offering cheaper oil than Exxon is offering, companies in North America will buy it from Russia or Saudi Arabia instead.

In reality though, all the oil is put in a big vat (open market) and mostly costs the same price regardless where it's from now that OPEC doesn't control the majority of supply. So any increase in production domestically just increases the size of that vat from which everyone in the world buys. It wouldn't make the US less reliant on non US sourced oil much more than it would make every other country in the world less reliant on non US sourced oil. I don't know enough to say exactly how much that would be. You're right it would help some, but it would help everyone else just as much, and we wouldn't have a situation where we don't import. That excess would get spread out among every oil purchaser in the world.

 

[Rishvol]

Electric is being force-fed to the American public. We don't have the infrastructure to support it. I like electric but we're not ready for it.

Electric is the new plastic imo

 

[VOLSONLY]

anybody know what is doing this to the logs in my backyard? Woodpecker? Raccoon?

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Black bear eating grubs. You need a trail cam

 

[GiggerVol]

Electric is being force-fed to the American public. We don't have the infrastructure to support it. I like electric but we're not ready for it.

Give me a mean tweet every now and then and my $1.43 gal gas back and I'll be a happy man.

 

[Jackcrevol]

Zollicoffer remembered for duel, Civil War fate

@Glitch looks like your lineage is zollicoffered

 

[engineerVOL]

If you need gas, get it today. Have buddy in the trucking industry and he buys fuel wholesale, weekly. He has a huge tank at his facility. Said he called and today his diesel is $5.11 and they expected it to be higher today. Some say gas will go to $7.00 before all is said and done. Diesel will be $10.00.

Exhibit A why I’m not doing an RV trip this summer.

 

[Kristy*]

Exhibit A why I’m not doing an RV trip this summer.

New plan?

 

[Devo182]

Obviously you are a born strategic thinker.

Don't believe anyone is born understanding strategery. But studying game theory helps. Should be k-12 education. Along with logic and tied to math. Jmo

 

[Enki_Amenra]

New plan?

 

[Devo182]

Zollicoffer remembered for duel, Civil War fate

@Glitch looks like your lineage is zollicoffered

 

[Devo182]

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Reminds me of Japanese hotels where they stuff you into a drawer for the night. Max efficiency lol

 

[peaygolf]

Reminds me of Japanese hotels where they stuff you into a drawer for the night. Max efficiency lol

 

[VOLSONLY]

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Wasn’t he wanting @Ulysees E. McGill to drive?

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

If you need gas, get it today. Have buddy in the trucking industry and he buys fuel wholesale, weekly. He has a huge tank at his facility. Said he called and today his diesel is $5.11 and they expected it to be higher today. Some say gas will go to $7.00 before all is said and done. Diesel will be $10.00.

I won't be able to go to work. This is insane.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

@Jackcrevol smiles and applauds

While it kills poor working folks like me.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

If only we had a domestic source of oil and natural gas that could insulate us from the volatility of the global oil market in case a war breaks out concerning one of the other major oil producing countries that sends the oil market soaring and causing prices at the pump to follow! Ohhhh! If only something like that existed!!!!!

I ******* hate the stupid eco idiots that caused this...HATE them..

 

[InVOLuntary]

I won't be able to go to work. This is insane.

Sure you can. Just run down to your local Tesla dealer in Corbin and lay down about $70K. Go home and plug it in and you're good to go. Sleep well knowing you've done your part to save the planet.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

Devastating

It really will be.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

Ran an errand this morning, gas was $3.59.

Went to lunch gas at same station went to $3.99.

Same

 

[Big Sun]

NSIAP

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

Oil prices are based on the global markets. Having more production in the US wouldn't insulate the US (not anymore than the rest of the world, anyway), as that oil would be bought and sold on the global market. We aren't Russia or Venezuela or China, we haven't nationalized the domestic oil industry.

 

[omghulkhands]

If only we had a domestic source of oil and natural gas that could insulate us from the volatility of the global oil market in case a war breaks out concerning one of the other major oil producing countries that sends the oil market soaring and causing prices at the pump to follow! Ohhhh! If only something like that existed!!!!!

The US only imports 3% of its oil from Russia.

The US has not sanctioned Russian Oil (and they likely won’t)

 

[drvenner]

Sure you can. Just run down to your local Tesla dealer in Corbin and lay down about $70K. Go home and plug it in and you're good to go. Sleep well knowing you've done your part to save the planet.

My BIL has a Tesla. Dang fun to drive. Not buying one, though.