Quote from: K-Dog on May 20, 2026, 08:21 PMA wife beater need not beat his wife every day to be a wife beater.

Especially if he never stopped beating his wife.

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Quote from: RE on May 20, 2026, 06:13 PM

Quote from: TDoS on May 20, 2026, 05:53 PMThere is no requirement that expert advice has to be expenive. I told all the peakoil.com folks everything that wasn't propritary for years for free. 

You just bragged about charging for it. 🙄

Quote from: TDoSYou guys spinning your tales for free scares the paying customers who then come looking for the real answer from the professionals and pay better for it on short time frames!

RE

A wife beater need not beat his wife every day to be a wife beater.

Avoiding such an outcome will require alternative trade routes, restraint on export restrictions, protection of humanitarian flows, and buffers to absorb higher transport costs, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has warned.

6 months puts us right around the Nov elections.  Skyrocketing food prices should Doom Trumpolini, even if we manage to avoid food riots here in thee FSoA.  The rest of the 3rd Worlld will probably have a Global "Arab Autumn".

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Quote from: TDoS on May 20, 2026, 05:53 PMThere is no requirement that expert advice has to be expenive. I told all the peakoil.com folks everything that wasn't propritary for years for free. 

You just bragged about charging for it. 🙄

Quote from: TDoSYou guys spinning your tales for free scares the paying customers who then come looking for the real answer from the professionals and pay better for it on short time frames!

RE

Quote from: RE on May 19, 2026, 06:12 PMNever said world population was decreasing.  Read for comprehension.

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And I noticed that pipsqueak country level decreases can't even bother the overall trend. Collapse as defined by the definition I previously supplied isn't some po-dunk local yokel stuff, that is what folks use when grasping for straws because they haven't gotten the real thing after 30 years of waiting for with...with various claims of it happening as well no doubt.

I also have ventured another collapse proof, which is it will happen to the 3 of us PERSONALLY before any such decrease in human population arrives to prove it at the species level. You really want to call collapse for the Falkland Islands last year.....when their population decreased by -0.12%? A SCREAMING total of FOUR people? RUN FOR THE HILLS! THE FALKLANDS ARE COLLAPSING!

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-country/ 

Quote from: K-Dog on May 20, 2026, 04:33 PMAnd now somebody can rant about not giving a fuck since they have an EV.

GOTCHA! WRONG!!!! As it happens, before my latest ICE powered roadtrip just a week ago I purchased not ONLY enough motor oil to cover an oil change on my CLASSIC ice cage when I get back, but ANOTHER 4 5 quart jugs to cover any of the other ICE machines for awhile.

All this required was following the Boy Scout motto.  Whoa to those who don't.

Quote from: RE on May 19, 2026, 06:21 PMSo your expensive advice is there's nothing to worry about with the Hormuz closure?
RE

Of course not. Last week I was at a organized meeting where exactly this question came up, as well as my opinion on the damage that well shut-ins could cause long term. The group who asked for my participation did provide lunch for the various participants.

There is no requirement that expert advice has to be expenive. I told all the peakoil.com folks everything that wasn't propritary for years for free. 

Quote from: TDoS on May 19, 2026, 04:00 PMYou guys spinning your tales for free scares the paying customers who then come looking for the real answer from the professionals and pay better for it on short time frames!

So your expensive advice is there's nothing to worry about with the Hormuz closure?

RE

Never said world population was decreasing.  Read for comprehension.

RE