I've only recently found some old Navy buddies (Actually, they found me through a military web site.) who served on the USS Iredell County with me back in the late 60's. One of them was Harold, who started out as a deck ape but became a signalman. I always called him George. He got that name when he worked on the deck force and one of the petty officers said that he reminded him of an old shit eatin' dog named George.
In the military you often never knew the real names of people. They all had nicknames or you just called them by their last name. Two of the guys I hung around with were Pres Smith whom we called Frog and Steve Cohen, whom we called Jew. Two of the guys I've talked to recently were Arland (AJ) and Jim (JV).
Anyway Harold (George) sent me this recently.
There are a lot of folks who can't understand how we came to have an oil shortage here in America.Well, there's a very simple answer. Nobody bothered to check the oil. We
just didn't know we were getting low. The reason for that is purely
geographical.All our oil is in Alaska, Texas, California, and Oklahoma.
All our dipsticks are in Washington, DC.
And the environazi's won't let us drill for any more oil in Alaska. Fucktards!
I actually read an intelligent column in the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation today that gave another reason that gas prices are high. To state it very simply: the dollar is weak. International oil is priced in dollars. Due to the fact that the dollar is weak, for oil producers to make the same amount of money expressed in, say, Euro's, they have to raise the dollar price of oil.
A weak dollar is not necessarily a bad thing. A weak dollar makes our exports cheaper so American companies that export things to other countries love it. In fact, if it weren't for how much oil we have to import, the weak dollar is actually pretty neat. It does make it more expensive to visit other countries like France.
Ya know, Paris is really a very beautiful city. There's just one thing wrong with it. It is populated by French people.
Not to get off on a rant about the French, but in every country I have ever been to I have tried to learn a few words of the language. In every country except one, the people have been very helpful in my attempts to learn some of the language and have applauded my efforts to learn the language and the culture. Care to guess the country that was the exception? Care to guess the people who ridiculed me for trying to speak their language?
But back to gas prices. There is another reason that gas prices are rising and it is the environazi's. We have not built any new refineries in over 30 years. Our refineries are running at or near capacity. I wonder why? Also, due to the strict environmental regulations, we need to have special blends for various areas of the country. But even though the liberals are saying gas prices are at an all time high, adjusted for inflation, they are actually lower (much lower) than they were during the Carter Administration.
So, we have to have special blends for places like California and we have limited refinery capabilities and we wonder why gas prices are rising? Yep! We can blame the dipsticks in Washington and the environmental lobby. And here is a delicious irony. The environmental wacko's in California made the oil companies put an additive called MTBE in the gasoline sold in that state. Turns out that MTBE is contaminating the water supply. Oops!
Golly! I guess the oil prices are not just dure to those mean evil oil companies engaging in price gouging. Could be there are other factors at work. But don't worry, elect John Fonda Kerry and he can fix all this oil shortage crap.
Just like Jimmah Carter.