The Screwed Up Energy Mess

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[Dublin ohio]

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A real pita when you have an older home like I do. You either rip a 2 x 6 down to dimension or rip a "shim" to add whatever you need. I do the latter. Not difficult with a table saw.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

The old house in front of where I built my house was torn down for the lumber. My grandfather said it was built about 1899 and the yellow pine came from Stilwell, OK about 30 miles away. Not a knot in it. Some rafters were 24' long. Dad burned a barn that had a log room, center and those logs today would bring a $1,000 each. They were about 10-12" diameter and 20' long on 4 sides. Probably about 60 total and had been enclosed inside a frame and wood barn.

 

[Vermonter]

A real pita when you have an older home like I do. You either rip a 2 x 6 down to dimension or rip a "shim" to add whatever you need. I do the latter. Not difficult with a table saw.

Same. Have a ~1880s city home that was part of the arch diocese. Street behind is "Convent Square". They really cheaped out on it. House is balloon framed with 2x3s on 20inch centers and all the interior walls as well. Biggest PITA to add a door, window, insulate. Nothing fits

Might finally throw it on the market this spring because it looks like buyers are still insane. Just got a purchase assignment for a ranch in the boonies on .75 acres with a $50k escalation on it.

 

[OSU Beavers]

 

[Elliott]

"The “Amazing Tale” of How Three Billionaires Plunged the World into Climate Catastrophism​

Roger Pielke Jr., a former director of the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado, has uncovered the origins of the bogus “studies” warning of catastrophic global warming. It turns out three billionaires underwrote a scare campaign that Peilke describes as “an extraordinary corruption of the scientific process.”

The three villains here are former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, hedge fund manager Tom Steyer, and former Goldman Sachs CEO Hank Paulson, who each gave $500,000 to fund a project “making the climate threat feel real, immediate and potentially devastating to the business world.” Yes, this is the same Hank Paulson who is now chumming up to Donald Trump in perhaps a bid to be the next Treasury Secretary.

The money went to publish and promulgate a report entitled “Risky Business” that suggested temperature rises of up to 39 degrees Fahrenheit in less than 80 years, unless there was “concerted action to reduce future warming.”

That “scientific study is off by an astonishing TWO ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE.

This preposterous study passed peer review with little or no criticism (showing just how political the science process has become), and to date has been cited more than 1,100 times. Billions were then spent pushing further papers based on the flawed “Risky Business.” "

The "Amazing Tale" of How Three Billionaires Plunged the World into Climate Catastrophism – The Daily Sceptic

Do you think that the constant catastrophising of weather and climate in science and the media has just appeared by accident? In fact, a few fanatical billionaires are bankrolling the propaganda, says Chris Morrison.

dailysceptic.org

 

[Fernando]

I filled my gas at Costco yesterday and it was $5.39/gallon. WTF.
This is first time Costco gas is not cheaper than other gas stations.
An Arco near my home was selling at $5.39/gallon using credit card (I always use credit card).

 

[Charles West]

This should get those gas prices up for the working man so let's hear three cheers from the alternative universe crowd, destroying the nation, one day at a time!

Biden Piles Sanctions on Alaska​

As the election nears, he’s blocking oil drilling and mining in the state.​

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The Editorial Board

April 19, 2024, 5:43 pm ET

A drilling site in Ambler Mining District, Alaska, Sept. 6, 2022. PHOTO: BONNIE JO MOUNT/THE WASHINGTON POST VIA GETTY IMAGES

Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan likes to quip that the Biden Administration has imposed more sanctions on Alaska than he has on Iran. He has a point. On Friday the Administration further restricted oil, gas and critical mineral development in the Last Frontier State.
The Interior Department blocked new oil and gas leasing on 13.3 million acres in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve. Congress expressly set aside the region in 1923 for oil and gas development, but the Administration ignores this and says drilling would disturb the Arctic’s “natural wonders.” Yet energy development and environmental protection aren’t mutually exclusive.

President Biden issued a statement saying he is honoring the “culture, history, and enduring wisdom of Alaska Natives.” That’s also false. His restrictions are opposed by local indigenous leaders.
Interior on Friday also denied a permit for a 211-mile road necessary to develop the Ambler Mining District, which is one of the world’s richest deposits of copper, cobalt, gallium, germanium and other critical minerals. The Trump Administration granted the permit, but Biden officials used a lawsuit by green groups to reconsider and veto the project.
The Administration’s policy contradictions are dizzying. Critical minerals are key to its climate agenda and national defense. The Inflation Reduction Act subsidizes critical mineral development to reduce U.S. reliance on the Chinese. Last year, amid escalating tensions, China cut off exports to the U.S. of gallium, which is critical to computer chip-making.
The Administration is heavily subsidizing chip-making factories, supposedly to bolster national security and U.S. manufacturing. Yet now Mr. Biden is effectively shutting down one of the country’s biggest critical mineral deposits that would do both.
As Democratic Rep. Mary Sattler Peltola notes, “Alaska has a wealth of natural resources that can be responsibly developed to help boost domestic manufacturing and innovation.” Yet, she says, the Administration is “steamrolling the voices of many Alaska Natives” and “failing to strike a balance between the need for gap oil and natural gas and legitimate environmental concerns.”
All of this punishment for Alaska comes as the Administration eases sanctions on Venezuelan oil production and fails to enforce oil sanctions on Iran. Meantime, the Russians and Chinese are increasing investment in Arctic oil, gas and mineral development. If Alaska were a dictatorship hostile to U.S. interests, it would get better treatment. Alas, it’s merely a U.S. state that doesn’t vote for Joe Biden.
Progressives, Columbia and the Anti-Israel Protesters

 

[OSU Beavers]

Revealed: Biden Has Taken 200 Actions to Increase Gas Prices - We Highlight Top 3

From the start, Joe Biden proudly warned that he intended to launch a war on the U.S. oil industry, and he has fulfilled that promise.

www.thegatewaypundit.com

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

Revealed: Biden Has Taken 200 Actions to Increase Gas Prices - We Highlight Top 3

From the start, Joe Biden proudly warned that he intended to launch a war on the U.S. oil industry, and he has fulfilled that promise.

www.thegatewaypundit.com

Ironic no? He jacked up prices but now demands OPEC and producers to slash prices, sells all our SPR, demands Israel and Ukraine not hit back at the oil refineries of Russia and Iran. What a jackass of a president.