Quote from: TDoS on Mar 24, 2026, 05:01 PMI doubt they will feed him smaller portions of peas and carrots because fuel costs are going up.

WRONG!  Our portion sizes have shrunk by about 25% and we are getting lower quality meats and more meals with no meat at all.  Food inflation has been hitting tthe food budget heere quite hard.

RE

QuoteHigher costs aren't an ongoing energy crisis, certainly not for you, me or RE. For poor people, every change in prices is a crisis,

I am not exactly what your point is.  Fact is Americans do not have enough on average to provide long term security for themselves.  Living in a tent at 80 is not where I want to be.  How much does the average American need to make sure that does not happen.  Whatever the number is most Americans don't have it.  Working part time makes that less likely.  It significantly plugs up the drain and tops off the tank.

The average retirement balance for a 65-year-old is roughly $609,000 in America, but the median is only $200,000.  A small percentage of Americans have millions, but the majority of Americans are far from having it made in the shade.  And health care can break an average American at any time.

Quote from: author=RE on Mar 23, 2026, 06:31 PMNor are facts always factual.

ha-ha <yawn>

AI SAY:A fact is something that is known to be true—an event, condition, or piece of information that can be proven through evidence, observation, or reliable verification.

I'll stick with the FACTS of a "fact" in this matter.

Your word games aren't near as clever as they used to be. You doing all right? I would love to come visit, but the wife is getting a little antsy about me wandering too far, I got sick twice last year that stuck around and were new experiences. Another trip to Prudhoe with a stop off in Anchorage would be great but I don't think she'd let me.

Quote from: K-Dog on Mar 23, 2026, 06:01 PMTDoS - You have one warning.  I don't want to hear another peep out of you about peak oil for 1 week.

A challenge!!!

Quote from: K-DogThis thread is about an actual ongoing energy crisis, and is not about your whining never ending rant about peak oil definitions.  Which is really just a veiled way of pissing on the Diner.  You could at least find an appropriate topic to post in instead of venting your sociopathic affinity for the dark side here.

I accept the challenge!!

Higher costs aren't an ongoing energy crisis, certainly not for you, me or RE. For poor people, every change in prices is a crisis, inflation causing them to suffer "always" crisis. You and I, spending 20K on heat pumps, us having some nice 4 wheeled hardware (mine doesn't even run on liquid fuels) are doing fine. And our taxes pay for RE to do what he does, I doubt they will feed him smaller portions of peas and carrots because fuel costs are going up.

Approproate topic to post on...okay...how about the varied types of Apocalyptians, those who suffer from a near religious belief in it regardless of facts, logic, science etc etc, and the reasons why?

Quote from: RE on Mar 24, 2026, 01:16 PMIt's a little ironic that Greta Thunberg is trying to get oil into Cuba to burn. lol.

RE

She knows the Cubans don't use it to live high on the hog.  It will be used for keeping hospital generators running, preserving food supplies, and maintaining basic water sanitation.  Trump cut Cuba off two months ago.  In late January Trump signed an Executive Order declaring a national emergency regarding Cuba. This authorized stiff tariffs on any country that continues to supply the island with oil, effectively creating a "total oil embargo" to pressure the Cuban government into sucking American dick.

War crime by executive order (EO 14380).

An unsuccessful campaign by the Roman Empire under Caracalla against the Parthian Empire in 216–17 AD.

Caracalla had the distinction of summoning Osroenean king Abgar IX to a meeting and then imprisoning him.  Caracalla then annexed Osroene.  We can assume it was really all about the olive oil.

Caracalla was a bad guy.  Things went to his head after the kidnapping the king thing, and being that tyrants can't ever get enough, well Caracalla set his sights on Parthia.  Caracalla didn't need a foreign king's advice because he believed he was being guided by a ghost: Alexander the Great.  Bibi can't compete with that.  Great caesar ghost.  Capturing Osroenean king Abgar was such a slam dunk, how could conquering a whole country be any harder?  Boom like that and it is all done and over.  Easy if you don't think about it.  And this is where it gets interesting.

QuoteInvading Parthia Caracalla ravaged a large section of the country around Media by making a sudden incursion, sacked many fortresses, won over Arbela, dug open the royal tombs of the Parthians, and scattered the bones about. This was easy for Caracalla to accomplish as the Parthians did not even join battle with him. The barbarians took refuge in mountains beyond the Tigris to complete preparations, Caracalla suppressed this fact in a letter to the Senate and took to himself as much credit as if he had utterly vanquished the foe, whom as a matter of fact he had not even seen.

Caracalla was assassinated on 8 April 217 while urinating at a roadside.  His troops hated his brutality.  People who are stuck on themselves can really piss other people off.  Some things never change.  The Parthians regrouped fighting the Romans to a standstill at the Battle of Nisibis.  The new emperor Macrinus, brought the war to an end in 218 by paying the Parthians reparations of possibly as much as 50 million denarii.

In today's money that is $2.59 Billion USD.

If Trump could buy his way out with that right now, it would be money well spent.  As things are, Trump the 'deal maker,' can't make a deal.

Caracalla's "easy" war was one of the worst ROI (Return on Investment) events in imperial history.  Rome became unstable.

Rome often "won" the battles in Mesopotamia but lost the peace because the cost of occupying "Persia" was higher than the value of the land itself.  The U.S. has a $1.5 trillion military budget and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz is costing billions more.  The Roman lessons about this is that winning the war is often the easy part.  Surviving the carnage of the economic aftermath can destroy an empire.

As of March 2026, the U.S. National Debt has climbed past $38.8 trillion. The cost of the first 100 hours of the Iran conflict is estimated to be $3.7 billion.  None of which was in the budget.  Trump breaks the bank. Just like he was running a casino into the ground.

It's a little ironic that Greta Thunberg is trying to get oil into Cuba to burn. lol.

RE

Consciousness has a long way to go to get to where it was.  And Democrat muckety-mucks do not understand that Gaza made Kamala lose.

Quote(War) h'uh
Yeah!
(What is it good for?)
Absolutely (nothin) uh-huh, uh-huh
(War) h'uh
Yeah!
(What is it good for?)
Absolutely (nothin')
Say it again, y'all

(War) h'uh (h'uh) look out!
(What is it good for?)
Absolutely (nothin')

Listen to me

Ooh war, I despise
'Cause it means destruction of innocent lives
War means tears, to thousands of mother's eyes
When their sons go off to fight and lose their lives
I said, war (h'uh)
Good God, y'all!
(What is it good for?)

Absolutely (nothin') 'gin
Say it, again

(War) whoa (h'uh) whoa-whoa, Lord

(What is it good for?)
Absolutely (nothin')
Listen to me!

(War)
It ain't nothin' but a heartbreaker!
(War)
Friend only to the undertaker

Ooh, war
Is an enemy to all mankind
The thought of war blows my mind
War has caused unrest

Within the younger generation
Induction, then destruction
Who wants to die?
Ooh war, Good God (h'uh) y'all!

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Absolutely (nothin')

Say it, say it, say it
(War)
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(What is it good for?)

(Absolutely) nothin'
Listen to me

(War)
It ain't nothin' but a heartbreaker
(War)
It's got one friend and that's the undertaker

Ooh, war
Has shattered many a-young man's dreams
Made him disabled, bitter, and mean
And life is much too short and precious
To spend fighting wars each day
War can't give life
It can only take it away
Oh, war!
(H'uh) Good God, y'all
(What is it good for?)
Absolutely (nothin')

Say it, again
(War)
Whoa (h'uh) whoa-whoa, Lord
(What is it good for?)
A-absolutely (nothin')
Listen to me!
(War)
It ain't nothin' but a heartbreaker
(War)
Friend only to the undertaker
Woo!

Peace, love and understanding tell me
Is there no place for anything else?
They say we must fight
To keep our freedom
But Lord, knows there's got to be
A better way
Oooh

(War)
God, y'all! (uh)
(What is it good for?)
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Say it, say it, say it
(War)
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(What is it good for?)
Stand up and shout it
(Nothin'!)

With that attitude they will last a fuck of a lot longer than Taco Trump will.