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Sunday, December 03, 2006
Street Scene
16 comments:
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Anonymous said...
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Yeah, "Solid Fuels Administration for War". They still around, and where's their tip jar?
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12/3/06, 7:50 PM
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Anonymous said...
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I read an article about 40 years ago that indicated the USA had enough coal in the ground to last for 600 years at the THEN rate of consumption.That consumption rate has probably gone down,or increased not at all.Remembering the The Third Reich burned a lot of ersatz gasoline in their panzers,causes one to ask the question"why are we not converting coal to meet our gasoline needs?"....No doubt it would be costly compared to petroleum,but would create hundreds or thousands of jobs and eliminate the need to buy oil from the Petro/Islamo/S.A./Extortionists,wouldn't it be a worthwhile endeavor?Surely the costs of production would be offset by keeping the money here at home and increasing our own economic growth and health....I have been baffled by this for three quaters of my life.....ANYTHING we can buy thats produced at home has got to beat buying from,in many cases, our enemies,where we have to eat crow and take an ass kicking for the priviledge.
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12/3/06, 8:38 PM
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Rodger the Real King of France said...
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Why? We have about 600 years of known oil reserves in the ground today.
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12/3/06, 8:48 PM
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Anonymous said...
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Because we don't own all the oil,however the USA has many times more coal than the entire world put together.If we converted our coal and used it along with the oil that we DO own,we would not have to buy a single barrel of oil from the Iranians,Arabs or Chavez.
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12/3/06, 9:05 PM
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Anonymous said...
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Sorry there JMcD, but anything that includes this:
"create hundreds or thousands of jobs"
rings so socialist to me, I'm sure that the rest isn't gonna be worth reading. -
12/3/06, 9:20 PM
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Anonymous said...
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But these wouldn't be made up jobs but REAL jobs producing peoducts that we are producing now.difference is the entire process would stay in the USA instead of originating with a raw material that we purchase from our enemies....The industrialzed European and American countries put the OPEC countries on the map and created Muslim power as it exists in the world today.I am merely trying to see a way to take away this power.Whose philosophy is going to rule? Tyannical Islam or freedom.As long as they control the energy,they win.It's a charming and fanciful idea that we can just take it away from them,but thats never going to happen.When someone has something that you need so badly that you will pay ANY price to get,THEY have you by the balls.When they get through chipping away at the "West" they wont be shipping oil to "US",they'll be shipping it to themselves.
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12/3/06, 9:44 PM
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Anonymous said...
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How about this for reality ...
"June 6, 1998
They discovered coal in McDowell County around the turn of the century. At its peak in the 1950's, over 100,000 people worked here, extracting billions of dollars of the world's finest coal. Coal of such high quality that McDowell coal has been used to produce the finest steel in the country. Today, all those jobs are gone. But the coal hasn't stopped flowing. In fact, coal production is at an all-time high, while employment is at an all time low. High-tech production has left this community with unemployment rates in excess of 90%. McDowell County has the fifth highest poverty rate in the country and 60% of its children live in poverty. As the jobs disappeared, so have the people. Today, less than 30,000 people live here. Seven out of ten people have been forced to leave.
http://www.kwru.org/ehrc/sites/day6.html
Maybe, just maybe, Jmcd's motive is more economic than social. We transplanted West (By God) Virginians will be the first to tell you that "West Virginia is a good place to be from". -
12/3/06, 9:45 PM
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Anonymous said...
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Why pay high price for an item when it is available in great quantity somewhere else.
Exhaust the cheap plentiful supply first and keep it from being used by the enemy then turn to domestic reserves as a last resort 400 years from now. -
12/3/06, 9:58 PM
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Anonymous said...
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Yes...Sorry if I left the impression that I thought all those jobs would be digging out the coal,although many would.The jobs I meant, would be associated with producing the byproducts.It would seem to me that keeping billions of dollars in our own country,would cause demand for products we already manufacturer.I didn't mean to infer that coal mining all by itself would cause an economic Valhalla.I have thought what a wonderful thing it would be for the USA if we could keep the money at home thay gets spent on OIL and DRUGS.How many jobs would be created ...all on their own..without any help from "socialism"
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12/3/06, 10:02 PM
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Anonymous said...
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I don't know the answer to this question,but how much of a subsidy,tax breaks etc, does the oil and atomic power industry get at present.Would coal get the same deal.Since it's safe(coal)and here.would it be reasonable that it get a leg up?Worth debating I think.....I remember the oil embargo of the 70's.That's when I first started hating oil exporting countries.
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12/3/06, 10:09 PM
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Anonymous said...
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Found these interesting facts....In the year 2000 Americans spent $36 billion on Cocaine...$10 billion on Heroin...$5.4 billion on Methamphetimines...$11 billion on Marijuana...$2.4 billion on Misc.other.Total $63.8 Billion........This year we will spend approx $221 Billion on imported oil with our dear friends in OPEC.......Wonder how many jobs could be created with $268.4 Billion dollars a year in the economy buying houses,cars,clothes food and the like,without the help of Socialism?...Ought to be a job for everyone who wanted one.
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12/4/06, 1:04 AM
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Anonymous said...
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JMcD
Your point is well taken I understood that the jobs would be created by processing the coal into fuel and other additives.But Rogers words are correct as well.I have a lady friend of many years that is a geologist at Exoon Mobile. She and her fellow workers are just stunned because there is not more of an uproar by Americans demanding that the oil that will dwarf the Saudi reserves and Russia combined are just now getting there first bits sunk in the ground. They are also just as weirded out that we are not drilling for the fablous reserves just off the gulf coast Yet China is. She maintains that gas would be a buck 20 a gallon.The answer is clear.
Green peace,Global Witness,The Center for Enviormental Law,Friends of Earth,These are just a few and they weild tremendous power in Washington. Most are just money machines from dumb assed Americans some even get a cut of your tax dollars. As long ass these groups can yell "There posioning the air and water. Were all gonna die it will be this way.When the day comes and it will that average cannot afford to put gas in there cars to go to the store or the doctors office they will hang these bastards as they should. -
12/4/06, 4:46 AM
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Anonymous said...
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JMcD
Your point is well taken I understood that the jobs would be created by processing the coal into fuel and other additives.But Rogers words are correct as well.I have a lady friend of many years that is a geologist at Exoon Mobile. She and her fellow workers are just stunned because there is not more of an uproar by Americans demanding that the oil that will dwarf the Saudi reserves and Russia combined are just now getting there first bits sunk in the ground. They are also just as weirded out that we are not drilling for the fablous reserves just off the gulf coast Yet China is. She maintains that gas would be a buck 20 a gallon.The answer is clear.
Green peace,Global Witness,The Center for Enviormental Law,Friends of Earth,These are just a few and they weild tremendous power in Washington. Most are just money machines from dumb assed Americans some even get a cut of your tax dollars. As long ass these groups can yell "There posioning the air and water. Were all gonna die it will be this way.When the day comes and it will that average cannot afford to put gas in there cars to go to the store or the doctors office they will hang these bastards as they should. -
12/4/06, 4:47 AM
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Dr.Hardcrab said...
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Most of my Dad's side of the family worked in those McDowell mines (insert West Virgina joke of your choice here). When all the coal stopped coming out of the ground in the early 60s, they all packed up and moved to this small town on the Ohio river (Ravenswood) to work at the new Keiser Aluminum plant. My uncles worked there, then my cousins. Then some foreign company bought them out and laid most of the people off. Now Ravenswood looks like a ghost town.
All of the tree-huggers yell and scream that coal mining scars the earth and burning coal pollutes the air. I can still remember going to grandma's house and seeing those big-ass shovels and trucks they used when they were strip-mining. You look at some of those "strips" now and it's got some of the prettiest vegetation in the state.
I still ask all of my relatives why the fuck they keep re-electing Byrd. (Half of them have moved out of the state, though).
Alright, I have to throw in one WV joke: What's does a West Virgina girl says after having sex the first time?
"Daddy! Get off of me! You're crushing my cigarettes!!!!"
*rim shot*
*crickets*
Thank you! I'll be here all week.....
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12/4/06, 5:55 AM
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Anonymous said...
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Yes Jack.The idea that China is drilling in the Gulf and we're not is..is..I'm at a loss for words.It makes me so angry that I have to open a window..stick my head out.This is one of the all time heights of stupidity.More proof than the Leftists in this country are bound and compelled to send us on down the road to ruin and slavery.
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12/4/06, 7:07 AM
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Anonymous said...
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I was just thinking. I remember the woman sitting in the street,changing a tire,from somewhere.In the other photo she was seen in a close up....Might have been on "Expelled"
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12/5/06, 3:39 AM
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