Quote from: K-Dog on Aug 12, 2026, 09:46 PMDid they run out of Friday night Prime Rib?  Will this story reach Fox News?

Sure to be denied as Fake Newz.

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Still nothing from MSM sources, but obviously not Fake Newz.

With 7 Grunts Dead, this will be a major story.  Doubtful it can be contained long.

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Well, it's made it to the MSM branded as a "mental health crisis".  Nothing about Mutiny, Riot or Dead Grunts so far.

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Caligula / Mar-a-Lago
 

Rhyming Times these are.  Not talking about making war on the sea, which taking possession of the straight of Hormuz is.  The mad king parallel rhymes like a wine glass shattered by a singers voice.

The actual beach where Caligula commanded his legions to attack the surf was the coast of northern France facing Britain.  When reality resists a mad emperor's grand plans, even the sea will become the stage for rage.  He howls at the tide, but his screams are drowned by the noise of thundering surf.

QuoteThe Senate whispered in hushed tones, while the people spoke openly of their emperor's divine victory.

 

Diesel is definitely the more important distillate as far as oveerall inflation is concerned.  Gas just affects Happy Motoring, Jet Fuel Fearless Flying, but Diesel hits the prices of everything we eat, every toy we buy, every McMansion being built and every mine digging rare earth minerals out of the ground.  How much it costs your city to do snow removal this winter and how much to pump the fresh water and the sewage.  Up go the taxes to pay for it.

The Inflation is bad enough, but if/when real shortages develop, the very life blood of industrial society drains away.  It's like Bleeding Out for the whole civilization.  Drones & Missiles hit a few more refineries and we'll get there sooner rather than later.

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How high does the price have to go in the FSoA before we get the riots too?  I would think $10/gal should do it.  Of course Amerikans are so fat & lazy they can't get up off the couch to riot.

Amerikan Exceptionalism.  It's all good as long as it's somebody else's problem. 🙄

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Quote from: RE on Sep 16, 2026, 03:21 PMHow high does the price have to go in the FSoA before we get the riots too?  I would think $10/gal should do it.  Of course Amerikans are so fat & lazy they can't get up off the couch to riot.

$10/gal could do it. I would simply ease more into using the EV, as the Boy Scouts say, "Be Prepared!".

The solar panels and whole house backup battery permits have made it through the process, installation coming soon. I don't get it, to some extent. The advent of the Chevy Volt should have been a clue, oil folks certainly didn't sit idly by waiting in line for some pollution spewing monster truck or another. After all..peak oil was coming! The Volt was released 16 years ago, like, 2 or 3 peak oils ago!

A volt can get you to the store.  Hard to say what you'll find there, since electrifiication of trucks hasn't gone too well.

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It's Harvest time too!  Between the Diesel foor the Tractors and the Diesel for the Trucks, Food Inflation has a ways to go.  Of course, Food & Fuel aren't counted in the "Core" inflation figures. 🙄  Counts in your wallet though.  At least they can still buy it here though.  For now.

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Quote from: RE on Sep 16, 2026, 03:21 PM

How high does the price have to go in the FSoA before we get the riots too?  I would think $10/gal should do it.  Of course Amerikans are so fat & lazy they can't get up off the couch to riot.

Amerikan Exceptionalism.  It's all good as long as it's somebody else's problem. 🙄

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The out of date tune that refuses to get irrelevant.

Just as well since all rioting will do is get you hurt.  Would $10/gal gas do it ?  I think that might get a few pussy hats out of the closet.  Then the hatters can drive down to a designated area to protest, and then drive home.  Stopping for a snack along the way. 

The number of people who understand 1. and 2. give a shit about the issues is what ?

1 in 10,000 or less, that is what I am guessing.  Add the giving a shit part into the count, the ratio drops to maybe 1 in 50,000 as the better answer.

Leading to the conclusion that we can all bend over and kiss it goodbye !




I don't know Spanish and have no idea what she is saying. 

Quote from: RE on Sep 16, 2026, 05:29 PMA volt can get you to the store.  Hard to say what you'll find there, since electrifiication of trucks hasn't gone too well.

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Oh, Elon branching out with his big rigs from California like years ago seems to be proceeding exactly as expected. Start small, learn, do better,faaster, cheaper and presto....electrification of trucks looks like it is following the same path as EVs in general. Like he did with ebay, and as of late, knocking off various space delivery folks....otherwise known as "countries".

 

Quote from: K-Dog on Sep 17, 2026, 01:10 PMHow high does the price have to go in the FSoA before we get the riots too?  I would think $10/gal should do it.  Of course Amerikans are so fat & lazy they can't get up off the couch to riot.

$10! Maybe back in the OLD days when peak oil when ambulance chaser turned peak oil expert turned astrologist turned substitute teacher Matt Savinar (I just emailed him the other night to see if wouldn't mind discussing his journey with someone who knew he was full of crap 20 years agp, no word back yet)!

$7! $7 was...THE END. How about that 50% yearly inflation, THAT would be a better scare factor to use nowadays. Peak oil just leaves a foul taste in most doomers mouths nowadays. 

I would feel bad for those most highly respected geoloigsts, physicists, petroleum engineers and bankers, but I can't..stepping stones into the stratosphere of the scientific world should always receive their due. 

Quote from: TDoS on Sep 17, 2026, 03:22 PMOh, Elon branching out with his big rigs from California like years ago seems to be proceeding exactly as expected. Start small, learn, do better,faaster, cheaper and presto....electrification of trucks looks like it is following the same path as EVs in general. Like he did with ebay, and as of late, knocking off various space delivery folks....otherwise known as "countries".

Typical Musk promotion: large numbers, ambitious timelines, and eye-watering projected economics presented ahead verifiable executable possibilities. Not vaporware, but the article offers no evidence that the deployment can achieve the projected $800 million in annual revenue and become a actual commercial success.  Glowing claims without evidence convince when the glow is bright enough.

Currently, the FSoA truck fleet is less  than 0.5% electric.  They're not gonna get EV Big Rigs replacing the fleet in the next 2 months.

If Elon's EV trucks are as successful as his Robotaxi Rollout, it's gonna be a long time before we see Teslas delivering groceries to Kroger.

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