It's as if they suddenly realized that we're onto them...

 kurtster wrote:
Sorry Tucker, but that is patently, scientifically wrong.  Stop using words you apparently refuse to understand.

 Steely_D wrote: 
Really ?  You get all of that from this particular meme ?  

I was more like the CDC has been so wrong on so much of the Covid stuff that the masks could still have a real use, metaphorically speaking of course. 

The usefulness of masks other than the 95's has been so thoroughly destroyed by science (and established by OSHA decades ago, yet ignored) that the use of masks themselves are now an indicator of a paranoid person more than anything else, to me.  Wear the other masks and believe you are protected.  Fine with me.

I was told early on that if you want to test how effective a mask is, wear it going into a fish market.  If you can smell fish, fail.

Joe Biden’s Electric Car Plans Support The World’s Worst Humanitarian Abuses

BY TYLER DURDEN FRIDAY, MAR 11, 2022 - 11:00 PM

Authored by Tom Harris via RealClear Energy (emphasis ours),

In his State of the Union Address, President Joe Biden promoted electric vehicles (EVs), trumpeting his plans to establish “a national network of 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations.” In so doing, Biden is unwittingly supporting the worst humanitarian abuses in the world. This is because of the way in which the materials used in manufacturing the batteries that power today’s EVs are obtained.

A 1,000-pound Li-ion EV battery typically also contains about 30 pounds of cobalt. Cobalt ore grades average about 0.1%, so we need to process almost 30,000 pounds of ore to get 30 pounds of cobalt. With 50% of the world’s cobalt reserves, the Democratic Republic of Congo contributes almost two-thirds of global cobalt production. This is causing immense humanitarian abuses. Congo has at least 40,000 children—some as young as 4-years old—working with their parents for less than $2 a day. They are exposed to multiple psychological violations and abuse as well as significant physical risks. Engineer and energy consultant Ronald Stein and Todd Royal, an independent public policy consultant focusing on the geopolitical implications of energy, go into more details in their book Clean Energy Exploitations – Helping citizens understand the environmental and humanity abuses that support ‘clean’ energy”:

“Cave-in’s, constant exposure to toxic, radioactive water, dust, and dangerous air loaded with cobalt, lead, and uranium with other heavy metals breathed into lungs day-after-day so western citizens can feel good about their Tesla or wind turbine. Cobalt ore is sent to China since one of the larger mines in the Congo is Chinese-owned Congo Dongfang International Mining Company.”

A 1,000-pound EV battery also has 110 pounds of graphite. At 10% concentration, 1,100 pounds of ore must be processed for each battery. China is now producing about 70% of the global supply of natural graphite. Villagers living near graphite companies in provinces in Northeast China complain of “sparkling night air,” crop damage, homes and belongings covered in soot and polluted drinking water.

In his State of the Union address, Biden spoke of promoting “environmental justice” and “expanding fairness.” The president said, “I will be honest with you, as I’ve always promised.”

Biden must now be honest about electric vehicles. They grossly violate basic environmental justice principles and are anything but fair to the poor of the world who suffer and die so that wealthy western elites can virtue signal with their electric vehicles.

 Animal-Farm wrote:

Psaki handles this nicely, no matter how many times the fox reporter attempted to inaccurately reframe the issue:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_8ma2S7nejg&feature=emb_logo

From WSJ: 

American shale drillers say there are limits to how much and how quickly they can boost shaky oil supplies following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, cautioning that supply-chain issues, investors wary of overspending, thinning inventories and other problems constrict growth.

Leaders of the fracking companies that helped make the U.S. the world’s top oil producer say they are responding to calls by the Biden administration and others to increase production after oil prices this week topped $130 a barrel and gasoline prices surged, threatening to dent the broader economy.

But the executives say that some investors, who felt burned after shale drillers gave priority to expansion over profits last decade and lost billions, are still concerned that the companies might spend too much if they return to rapid growth.

They also say that a flight of capital from the fossil-fuel industry in recent years has left U.S. oil patches without enough fracking equipment to bring a ton of new wells online, and that a resurgence of go-go drilling would deplete companies’ most valuable drilling locations.

Executives, officials and analysts say the extent to which shale companies will turn on the taps remains an evolving issue affected by the world’s escalating response to Russia’s attack. But they generally agree that the primary constraint is nuts-and-bolts limitations in America’s pandemic-battered oil patches, rather than regulatory constraints imposed by the Biden administration.

 Steely_D wrote:

What I am reading is I post one thing and spend 10 posts responding to your harassment, cyberstalking and bullying from you.

I will ignore you from now on.

 Steely_D wrote:

You are cyber stalking and harassing and bullying.  Why?

 Steely_D wrote:

Have you reviewed many many of the forums here?  Many of them are fun and playful.

Lighen up my dude.

 Steely_D wrote:

To each his own.

 Steely_D wrote:

Again, what do you have to offer?

Any insights into oil and fuel

You must have loved the Monty Python skit "I want to have an argument"

No you don't...

Oil prices fall most in 2 years as UAE supports output hike

Where Republicans Are Starting to Worry About Big Oil

 kurtster wrote:


Good info.

 rgio wrote: 
I'll add some thoughts about the shortage of qualified drivers being the resident blue collar former truck driver who still has a valid Class A CDL and have continuously since the law was created.  Actually since I turned 21 having had a chauffeur's license before that.  That and I have also run a truck stop for a number of years out on the Ohio Turnpike.

You must basically be a saint in order to be a specialty driver.  I used to have a tanker endorsement as well as a haz mat endorsement.  While the written testing is easy enough to get by, you must now pass an FBI background check to keep either of those endorsements.  I let those endorsements lapse for that reason.  Passing them would not be a problem on my end as I went through that to get my optical license, but that cuts quite a few candidates before they even get started.  Add to that the federally required random drug testing, which is what ultimately made me seek a career change, even though I was quite happy driving.  With the potential of testing positive for having smoked some weed 4 weeks earlier, the risk was too great.  Test positive once and you are forever stigmatized and your career as a truck driver is done, as in forever.  Not to mention insurance rates and having things like that pop up whenever any checks are run on you by either a police encounter or pre employment screening.  It was also the basis for staying out of a any employment situation where random testing was involved.  I can stop long enough to pass a scheduled test, not a problem, but I refused to live in fear for my very livelihood because of random testing.  Again, 1 strike and you are out.  That and you are also held to a much lower BAC of 0.04 which is basically what you get from sipping one beer, even when driving your own vehicle.  I don't drink so that is not a personal problem for me, but I do indulge in cannibus.

So who would want to live in a world of forced sobriety with peanuts for pay ?  Some, but that greatly reduces the size of the pool of potential drivers. The 20% vacancy rate is actually across the board for any position requiring either a Class A or B CDL.  Not worth it for 50k per year.  Increase the pay to 100k per year and then more people may give up their personal freedoms in order to be employed as a commercial truck driver.

Remember the above the next time you see an OTR driver.  They are some of the soberest people you will find anywhere, not to mention the sacrifices they make regarding having a family life. Be grateful that someone is still willing to do this job under the hardships required, not to mention the dangers involved just actually driving.

And just to be clear, being high behind the wheel of a real truck is a non starter for me, as I would venture to say for most any other professional driver.  There is just too much going on in the cab and on the road in front of you to have a momentary lapse of your reasoning abilities.  But to get busted and lose your job for something you did a week earlier is just plain insane.  But that is the law.  Testing has yet been developed to determine the difference from being under the influence or just having it in your system such as with alcohol.  That and it is still federally illegal and interstate commerce may be involved.

And just how many of today's entitled youth and young adults are going to want to do a job like this to begin with ?  Manual labor ?  Me ?  For how much money ? You've got to be kidding ?

my 2¢