Summer of DOOM

drakedaggers · Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 3:13 am Post subject: Re: Summer of DOOM

wow very doomerish. Leave it to Tom Whipple to always have something concise and right on to add to the dialogue.

Living off our stockpiles cannot last. Prices are gonna be quickly going up big time and shortages are gonna start showing up. By 2010 our lives are going to be drastically changed especially with no more oil coming in from Mexico.

Let's hope for the best in people and in our adaptability to change.

The Word of the day is DOWNSIZE, I know I try to communicate it to everyone I interact with

seldom_seen · Fission Joined: Apr 12, 2005 Posts: 2037

ThunderChunky · Tar Sands Joined: Dec 09, 2005 Posts: 79

Every summer is the summer of doom. But hey, a broken watch is right twice a day.

grampybone · Tar Sands Joined: May 31, 2008 Posts: 82

Quite the doomerish article and right on target.

IslandCrow · Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 3:48 am Post subject: Re: Summer of DOOM

As some bard or other put it:

KevO · Expert Joined: May 24, 2005 Posts: 2389

so fall and winter will be better?
and spring?
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TheDude · Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 4:32 am Post subject: Re: Summer of DOOM

Phoeberose · Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 5:13 am Post subject: Re: Summer of DOOM

I'm new here, and relatively uninformed, compared to all of you. Thanks to you I am learning quickly. Could someone please explain/define stockpiles and reserves, national and global? And do the numbers include the govt's Strategic Reserves?

JJ · Heavy Crude Joined: Aug 07, 2007 Posts: 394

the local paper (Austin American) keeps printing letters to the editor about if we only could drill in ANWAR we wouldn't be dependant on foriegn oil anymore.

Cashmere · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Mar 27, 2008 Posts: 1971

Idiot Conservative - "If we could only drill in ANWAR we wouldn't be in this mess."

Idiot Liberal - "If we would just invest in alternatives, we wouldn't be in this mess."
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TheDude · Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 7:53 am Post subject: Re: Summer of DOOM

Do they always misspell ANWR? That extra A makes it look similar to Ghawar, always seemed like some subconscious mental slip to me.

Phoeberose - Wolf at the Door is an excellent PO primer. Stock(pile)s are simply how much oil/gasoline/etc. we have in the distribution/storage system. Note that this has to remain above a certain Minimum Operating Level, or MOL. In the US for crude oil this is ca. 270 million barrels.

The US Government's Energy Information Administration (EIA) website lists inventories of stocks of crude, with or without the SPR.

Hope that helps, and wilkommen!
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Roy · Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 8:10 am Post subject: Re: Summer of DOOM

joelcolorado · Intermediate Crude Joined: May 25, 2008 Posts: 683

My buddy says the crowds have not arrived in Branson Missouri yet. They are worried now. Usually wall to wall ppl.

Byron100 · Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 10:20 am Post subject: Re: Summer of DOOM

GASMON · Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 1:32 pm Post subject: Re: Summer of DOOM

Thats it !! - I've had enough. Summer is here, mid June in England & its COLD. Wife just put gas fire on as I write. Global warming my arse. Shell fuel tanker drivers on strike, the're on £32000 / year ($64000) & want £39000 ($78000) - Greedy bastards. (what do Yank truckers earn) - Alltogether bad news all around.

Time for action folk, this is what I'm doing

1. Cut down seriously on car use - sick of MY MONEY going to the Arabs, (via the banks!!!!) (just been on a bike ride with kids).

2. EVERYTHING I buy I will look where its made. West OK, CHINDIA gets put back on the sales shelf, unless its something I really need & there is no alternative. Easier said than done, but I intend trying. Quite simply they can GET STUFFED. They can have SOME of my trade, but they are NOT having it all.

3. I'm fed up of subsidising the third world. They allways want, want, want. Africans being the laziest bastards on this planet they deserve f*** all, and that is what they will get out of me.

BTW far east, china etc are NOT lazy - very industrious, but TPTB in China suck grandstyle. They can stick their Olympics also. They will go wrong big time, (as will London's in 2012).

4. STUFF the big name supermarkets. In Tesco (UK) profit of £2.9 BILLION announced, but food prices doubled, same with Asda (Wallmart) & snooty Sainsbury's, STUFF THEM, its Aldi & Lidl for the basics, and its good value.

5. STUFF the doomers, look at my signature below. (might be wrong on this !!!).

6. Politicians - Viva la revolution. (I'm afraid for me only at the ballot box).

7. Open to more suggestions, Any offers ??

Rant over, (as is often said on these posts).

Angry Gasmon
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