2lumpy
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You think they’ll let you and I decide which ones…….. I just might go to electric if you can arrange that.hundreds of millions of people would die within a few months without fossil fuels.
You think they’ll let you and I decide which ones…….. I just might go to electric if you can arrange that.hundreds of millions of people would die within a few months without fossil fuels.
I sold my electric bike awhile ago, so I'm going backwards.You think they’ll let you and I decide which ones…….. I just might go to electric if you can arrange that.
Nope…….. you’re not. It was a two wheeler, smart of you to sell it, you can up grade to the luxury models, an e-trike.I sold my electric bike awhile ago, so I'm going backwards.
Actually you're right. A 2 wheel 750W E-bike to a 73 year old is like a '67 fuel injected 427 Corvette to a 16 year old. A disaster waiting to happen.Nope…….. you’re not. It was a two wheeler, smart of you to sell it, you can up grade to the luxury models, an e-trike.
Whole lot better than that golf cart you’ve been asking for permission to buy.
Ha…… well framed eel.Actually you're right. A 2 wheel 750W E-bike to a 73 year old is like a '67 fuel injected 427 Corvette to a 16 year old. A disaster waiting to happen.
Yep, I sold my jacked up E-Golfcart a while back.I sold my electric bike awhile ago, so I'm going backwards.
Yup!We're getting screwed. And By Who?
Not sure stupid is completely right. Should of said greedy hypocritical stupid politicians. ??Who’s doing the screwing when evil corporations take advantage of stupid politicians?
We will find out eventually it was a US funded lab with US ties.Why haven’t we or even the World punished China yet? After all they killed over a million U.S. civilians and millions of people around the World with their release of Covid! Like always follow the money…
someone has to make the meth.......We will find out eventually it was a US funded lab with US ties.
We are going to end up being the baddies and will let China take Taiwan as hush money.
I would trust this guy over what the WH puts out from Bloomberg.We're getting screwed.View attachment 71396
He has memory issues so he was thinking back a few years ago… when we were… sometimes his thinker don’t think right. Good thing he can cut a length of chain and take it to Corn Pop… I mean Putin Pop"We are a net exporter of oil"
Just heard Brandon's speech.
Put the lines anywhere on the graph you'd like. Adjust for inflation or don't. Use WTI or Brent. The point is clearly that oil has dropped 30% and gas prices are virtually unchanged over the last few weeks. You could also normalize to 2008 dollars and realize we're still paying $1.00/gallon less than when Bush was in office.I would trust this guy over what the WH puts out from Bloomberg.
I heard they moved in some new printing presses and have put the San Francisco Mint back on line. $600……. No problem Eelgrasski, pick up your cash and head on over to the bread line. Tomorrow it’ll be will be $1,200.I'm not worried about gas prices now. I love California.
All California taxpayers would receive $400 rebates to defray gas prices under new proposal
On Wednesday, a bipartisan group of Democratic state legislators proposed sending a $400 rebate to every California taxpayer to help mitigate the impact of thecaliforniaexaminer.net
I am part of an American oil company, sport. Have been for over 2 decades. Our costs have gone up almost exactly to match the cost of the commodity prices. Service companies are putting prices back to or above where they were 3-4 years ago, and our labor costs have gone through the roof.Put the lines anywhere on the graph you'd like. Adjust for inflation or don't. Use WTI or Brent. The point is clearly that oil has dropped 30% and gas prices are virtually unchanged over the last few weeks. You could also normalize to 2008 dollars and realize we're still paying $1.00/gallon less than when Bush was in office.
If you think the oil companies aren't getting rich off the backs of Americans right now, you can explain to Berkshire Hathaway as to why they shouldn't have bought 10% of an oil company two weeks ago.
so....you are insinuating that Grizzly is full of himself and it??I am part of an American oil company, sport. Have been for over 2 decades. Our costs have gone up almost exactly to match the cost of the commodity prices. Service companies are putting prices back to or above where they were 3-4 years ago, and our labor costs have gone through the roof.
And Buffet buying Oxy is a whole other issue.
Grizz's goal is to deflect all things bad from the Biden Administration.so....you are insinuating that Grizzly is full of himself and it??
"Sport?" Grow up.I am part of an American oil company, sport. Have been for over 2 decades. Our costs have gone up almost exactly to match the cost of the commodity prices. Service companies are putting prices back to or above where they were 3-4 years ago, and our labor costs have gone through the roof.
And Buffet buying Oxy is a whole other issue.
You can blame Bush, you can blame Trump and you can blame Putin but it doesn’t change the fact that biden is in charge RIGHT NOW and he’s responsible for the current mess we are in.Put the lines anywhere on the graph you'd like. Adjust for inflation or don't. Use WTI or Brent. The point is clearly that oil has dropped 30% and gas prices are virtually unchanged over the last few weeks. You could also normalize to 2008 dollars and realize we're still paying $1.00/gallon less than when Bush was in office.
If you think the oil companies aren't getting rich off the backs of Americans right now, you can explain to Berkshire Hathaway as to why they shouldn't have bought 10% of an oil company two weeks ago.
I always get a chuckle out of his internet chest beating on every sub forum here. He tries to portray himself as the smartest person in the room every time. We all know what they say about that mentality. Wrong room.so....you are insinuating that Grizzly is full of himself and it??
Oil is a leading indicator - it takes time to process, refine & get it to a gas station, it takes time for the price of fuel to catch up.
"Sport?" Grow up.
You being O&G doesn't mean they aren't screwing us. Just like somebody being a nurse for 20 years doesn't mean pharmaceutical companies aren't screwing diabetics with the price of insulin. They have an inelastic good and are focusing on corporate profits. Somehow you think that's incorrect?
PS. Buffet bought another $1B of Occidental so he now owns 13% of the company. I can't even imagine somebody trying to make the argument that BRK buying oil companies doesn't have anything to do with Buffet knowing they're increasing profits.
PPS. Berkshire also added to his Chevron holdings and bought Royalty Pharma in the last quarter. Hmm, my arguments are coalescing.
PPPS. BRK.A shares hit $500k per share today. It's a new record.
None of this is a coincidence.
I never attacked anybody in any way, I merely have a different opinion of the realities today and ? made my points with evidence and historical perspective.I always get a chuckle out of his internet chest beating on every sub forum here. He tries to portray himself as the smartest person in the room every time. We all know what they say about that mentality. Wrong room.
You know I'm not a conspiratorialist, but that one is actually plausible as the oil companies could try and save their skin in the long run and everybody knows people vote with their pocketbook.But they can bury Brandon and the Green New Deal in real short order if prices stay up. Day after midterms have D tossed out, gas will taper off.
My objection to your post was the implied support of the administration’s ridiculous assertion that these prices are the result of profiteering and not policy.I never attacked anybody in any way, I merely have a different opinion of the realities today and ? made my points with evidence and historical perspective.
I can't help it if somebody having a different opinion bothers you, though it's not my intent, as discussions of differing opinions really are the point of a forum. Nor can I help your passive-aggressive attempts at the forum-version of talking behind somebody's back or your attempt at belittling name calling like, "sport." It's not a good look.
It's clear you don't feel you can justify your positions on their merit as you have resorted to personal attacks. Good luck with that.
In the meantime, I'll leave you to ponder the vagueries of entire commodity markets and why they haven't figured out energy costs as are simple as a D or an R.
What have the intelligence agencies done the last 20+ years to earn your trust?It cracks me up the bedfellows created lately. Now a certain segment of the population no longer trusts our own intelligence agencies, supports Putin, and justifies high gas prices coming out of their own pockets... all because they think they score political points.
I agree with that and said it above.And I’m surprised that you don’t admit that supply and demand is the REAL driver of fuel prices.
During the two years of the pandemic our worldwide consumption fell and now we don't have enough oil being pumped to keep up... just like with everything else.
First of all, I did not take it personally, but will always defend my industry.I never attacked anybody in any way, I merely have a different opinion of the realities today and ? made my points with evidence and historical perspective.
I can't help it if somebody having a different opinion bothers you, though it's not my intent, as discussions of differing opinions really are the point of a forum. Nor can I help your passive-aggressive attempts at the forum-version of talking behind somebody's back or your attempt at belittling name calling like, "sport." It's not a good look.
It's clear you don't feel you can justify your positions on their merit as you have resorted to personal attacks. Good luck with that.
In the meantime, I'll leave you to ponder the vagueries of entire commodity markets and why they haven't figured out energy costs as are simple as a D or an R.
Our worldwide demand of goods exploded as people quit Rona and everybody got back to real life. This isn't a USA problem, it's a worldwide problem which can be manifested by the drop in oil prices due to China's shutdowns in recent days.
Grizz thinks that by reading a couple articles from CNN and WP that he is now a semi expert on the subject. Blows my mind. I mean it would be like me reading an article from FOX about lawyers and how 100% of them are scumbags. I know this isn't true because only 99.9% of them are.First of all, I did not take it personally, but will always defend my industry.
Second, I am happy to have you come to Midland and sign an NDA and look up my skirt and see that we lost our ass in 2020 and most of 2021. None of our executives, myself included, took a salary or any sort of bonus for 18 months so we could keep all of our employees afloat. We are one of the most efficient operators as far as cost per barrel and we barely made it.
Now that prices of our products are back up, all of our costs are up exponentially. Our casing costs are up 40-60%. The same rig we had last year went from $20500 per day to over $26k per day now. Fuel for my field ops is $4.14 OPIS last week plus $0.12/ gal surcharge for delivery. I can go on and on. We make less profit now than we did in 2018-2019. We have permits that have to be drilled this year that we are struggling to find materials for by the 4th qtr.
It’s insulting that you insinuate what we do is greed, but nobody bats an eye when the price went to -$40 in 2020.
I am not sure what you do for a living, but I am guessing it is in the legal field due to your voluminous replies and attempts to justify your argument. Did you lower your per hour charge during Covid? Have you raised it back up and by what percentage?
Most of those people have a deep hatred for themselves and are jealous of the success they see others enjoying. They wake up in the morning mad just looking for something to offend them today. It’s a lifestyle.the greenies what social change.......energy is just their vehicle...
yep....and they won't be happy till we're not happy...Most of those people have a deep hatred for themselves and are jealous of the success they see others enjoying. They wake up in the morning mad just looking for something to offend them today. It’s a lifestyle.
……and when we’re not happy….. they’ll still be happy.yep....and they won't be happy till we're not happy...
They will never be happy. They're marxist/communists & destruction is the name of their game. Destroy our education system, destroy our energy independence, destroy free markets, destroy free speech ...the list goes on. They want everyone as miserable as them. When they fail or succeed at one thing they move on to destroy the next. Power and complete control is their end game.... happiness for them plays no roleyep....and they won't be happy till we're not happy...
democrats see it, they just don’t care. They are so happy that they don’t have to read anymore mean tweets from Trump. Trump was a meany…Its funny how the liberal Democrats are making excuses for their Crappy policy by insinuating, "Its global, there is nothing we could have done"
Ugh, sure there was. We didn't have any of this crud during the Trump admin....he thought strategically..and in advance. He proposed buying oil to fill the SOR in March of 2020 at $30-40 barely...and the Democrats shut it down. Trump knew that Putin was hogtied when the price of oil is low- they were just scraping by.
Biden gets elected....and through his animosity to "Big oil" the price goes to $80-90/barrel. Putin knows that if he invades he immediately gets a boost in price on his oil- all pure profit of another $30-$40. So not only does Biden policy incentivize Putin to invade....but then Putin can put pressure on the stranglehold of settling oil trades in USD and it being world currency. A Win Win for Putin. If we lose world currency status, this will be another big hit to our lifestyle cutting our buying power.
Many Democrats just can't see that the subtleties of Bidens bad policies have created a big % of the mess we are in with the snowballing inflation.
I think some of the smart Dems are seeing that they were sold a load of hooey- and that gives me hope.democrats see it, they just don’t care. They are so happy that they don’t have to read anymore mean tweets from Trump. Trump was a meany…
I don’t think so………. I don’t think it’s that easy to abandon old, trusted beliefs. Just because their smart doesn’t mean they can or will just walk away from a life time of confirmation bias.I think some of the smart Dems are seeing that they were sold a load of hooey- and that gives me hope.
Not a political post...He should be locked up for what he has done to America, how can you f#$k the middle class so badly when we have all the oil under our feet. The whole world is laughing at the big Idiot.
See?Not a political post...
Deal with it..( learn a skill and get a better paying job!)
In a few years you will be glad to have him as your president...
Jester
Not a political post...
Deal with it..( learn a skill and get a better paying job!)
In a few years you will be glad to have him as your president...
Jester