Hoarding is exactly what the government is doing right now by filling the SPR, and frankly it's the best thing that could happen. It drives prices up. High prices encourage demand destruction. They also finance new well development. The hoarded oil gives us a buffer to fall back on once shortages become more prevalent. High prices are what we need in order to adapt to what's coming, and the sooner they happen, the better.
I just thought I'd add that I contacted the mainstream website that published the news article with this link and explained why this was a hoax and they very quickly pulled the article. :D
Shame we can't get rid of the fraudsters themselves so easily. _________________ Burning the midnight oil, whilst I still can.
That's completely real. I've seen it in physics class, and at least 4x at engineering classes. The wind resonated with the bridge and screwed it up that bad. I've seen projects clearly made before I was born play that.
Also, apparently when the military marches over bridges, they make sure to have people not march all to the same beat, in case it causes resonance.
Ditto. Once in Physics class and once in Basics of Engineering. Except in our film clip, the camera kept rolling until the concrete and asphalt crumbled out and the girders fell into the water. We laughed and then we cried as we put together the equations that solved the energy and vibration dynamics. Then we laughed again as we were sipping at our brewskis that night. I'm glad I wasn't driving across it at the time. _________________ --------------------------------
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Reminds me of a scam that was popular in the UK during the 39-45 war, when fuel was strictly rationed (the ration for private car users varied from 0 for most of the war to 1 gallon/week). A guy drives up to a filling station and asks for a fill-up of water. The Pump Attendant queries it and tells the guy that he needs petrol. He says, no, fill it up with water, please. Eventually, he gets his tankful of water and the puzzled PA watches him as he puts one pill in for each gallon of water. He explains that the pill reacts with the water and turns it into petrol. The PA puts his nose to the filler pipe and, sure enough, he smells petrol (there is a film of a mm or two floating on the top). Of course, the PA falls for it and asks about the pills (really aspirins). He is told they are freely available and each one costs only half the price of a gallon of petrol, so he buys 500 and thinks he is going to make a killing.
This is not a joke but the truth and thousands were taken in by it. _________________ Devil
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Devil wrote:
Reminds me of a scam that was popular in the UK during the 39-45 war, when fuel was strictly rationed (the ration for private car users varied from 0 for most of the war to 1 gallon/week). A guy drives up to a filling station and asks for a fill-up of water. The Pump Attendant queries it and tells the guy that he needs petrol. He says, no, fill it up with water, please. Eventually, he gets his tankful of water and the puzzled PA watches him as he puts one pill in for each gallon of water. He explains that the pill reacts with the water and turns it into petrol. The PA puts his nose to the filler pipe and, sure enough, he smells petrol (there is a film of a mm or two floating on the top). Of course, the PA falls for it and asks about the pills (really aspirins). He is told they are freely available and each one costs only half the price of a gallon of petrol, so he buys 500 and thinks he is going to make a killing.
This is not a joke but the truth and thousands were taken in by it.
How does the scam guy from this story drive away? _________________ "Our forces are now closer to the center of Baghdad than most American commuters are to their downtown office."
--Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, April 2003
Really! It doesn't take much intelligence to realise that he has fitted a small tank with petrol in it for just that and disconnected the real tank :D _________________ Devil
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