Hi. I didn't want to see Emily's goofy face anymore . So I've started a new post. Emily are you offended?
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Someone correct me if I'm wrong. Gasoline requires additives to boost octane. For years, the additive was MTBE (or something like that acronym) a hyper-refined petroleum product touted by big oil. An alternative is ethanol. I see where Bush is getting pressured to "do something" about gas prices. My prediction is that Bush will go to Big Oil, and will come back to the public with an explanation that MTBE is ready to go as a mandated additive but that ethanol still needs infrastructure. So the only way to reduce gas prices is to mandate MTBE, cut ethanol out as an option. As a bonus, the US govt can then cut back on alternative energy spending.
I think you are exactly right...the spin from Bush and clan has not included anything about ethnol! All about hydrogen. Also, Dad is over at Mason City today for an MRI and checking on his anyurism(sp?) so, say a prayer! Maybe Mom has heard from him.
You are right about gasoline requiring additives to increase octane. A long time ago (not that long really) that additive was lead. We found out that lead in our gas is not good for the environment so we got rid of the lead, but still needed a way to increase the octane. You can use a number of different additives and refining processes to increase to octane.
One of the cheapest ways of increasing octane is to add MTBE to the gas. However (and I don't really understand this part) MTBE escapes from tanks very easily and there has been many many cases of MTBE getting into local ground water supplies. Many states are now outlawing the use of MTBE in their gas. In fact the NYMEX contract for Unleaded Gasoline at the NY Harbor containing MTBE has recently been delisted as nobody is going to be using this additive in the future. You don't know this, but Ethanol is the hottest thing in oil trading right now - everybody needs it and there isn't enough of it. We (the US) are currently importing huge amounts of ethanol from Brazil (sugar based).
Of course I am offended. How could anyone ever tire of looking at my mug? Your's is fifty times goofier.
RE: this gas and Bush business - Bush is a moron, a total embarassment to our country. I can't even stand to see HIS mug on the telly. He's an absolute BOOB!!!! And it makes me sick beyond belief that he is our nation's president. Really, I don't know what else to say. It has been one disappointment after another with him and I can't believe he was elected twice! (If you call it a legitimate election.) The more I think about it, the more disgusted I get.
The Strategic Petoleum Reserve is a reserve of crude oil the US government keeps in case of emergency. It holds about 550+ million barrels of oil in salt domes along the Gulf Coast. This is about a 2 month supply for the US.
By not buying oil to replenish the supplies (which were reduced due to hurricane Katrina) in the reserve Bush is not adding to the problem of high oil prices.
Anyway - an FYI on the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
Someone has a lot of time on their hands to fart into jars. Too bad cars aren't fart-powered. Imagine what funny noises they'd make when you started them up. Thblblblblt...thblt.
BUT...listen to the spin, NEVER any mention of ethanol, always about hydrogen..maybe the investors are one up on Bush and his clan...those guys are OUTTA HERE, but we have to wait three f#%@#$$ years!
Nance, I just watched HOUSE for the 1st time, does he win every show? Tonight, he beat out God, I think? We know a guy just like hime, Bruce Mason, he'll be at Caitlin's grad party...everyone's invited!
You've got a problem with moles? I have a problem with roosters. Our neighbors have one that wakes me up every morning and every time I try to nap all spring and summer. (I don't know what happens to it in winter) I hate it. At first I thought it was kind of charming, now I want to wring its neck.
Not only will be we be passing on to future generations enormous debt, thanks in part to the war, but also an even more polluted environment thanks in part to Bush's "relaxing" of environmental stnadards. What a great solution to high gas prices. Americans will jsut have to get used to high gas prices like the rest of the world and, umm, maybe think about driving smaller cars.
We could all fit in smaller cars if we were smaller ourselves. We gotta outlaw McDonalds and weightlifting. Expand foot binding and in a generation or two everyone could be 4 feet tall.Some good old fashion selective breeding could make the trend permanent. Houses could be smaller, we'd eat less,
Those of you in the midwest,(NE and SD I think) have you tried the veg. oil to fuel your car. Is W. Nelson raking it in or what? Go Willie!!! Willie for President.
there is a pizza place in town that has all of it's delivery cars fitted out for bio-fuel. they drain their own grease traps, fryers and whatnot to fuel them.
The "free market" is mythical. Any entity will apply whatever pressure it can to any process available to increase wealth. The political process is affected by campaign cash, lobbyists, etc. The most invisible result is regulation writing, unlegislated rules promulgated by govt beaurocrats to implement bills that have been passed. The devil's in the details. Big oil can buy up alternatives. Look for close relations with Conagra or ADM or some such, the goal being to control ethanol production. Vertical integration of the agriculture industry (Been evolving for years) makes this possible. Big oil can buy up patents for water engines. How, logically, can the problem be not enough refinery capacity and at the same time not enough crude? If we didn't have enough crude the refineries would not be so over-capacity. Why do we need to open up Alaska, for instance? The oil companies will suck the planet dry, make money in the meantime, and attempt to maximize earnings all the way along. Modern day buffalo hunters. Morally, I don't see how some oil buried thousands of feet in the earth can belong to a select few. Finally (whew!) it is repulsive to me that BP's theme colors (on signs, bills, etc) are green. How cynical can you get?
As far a system that is better than the free market, ask a Macedonian. Most of them long for the days of Tito. I take it with a grain of salt because to me, a lot of what Macedonians say and do is ridiculous. But they all say times were better 15 years ago.
How about the free market under an overriding ethos? Untrammeled capitalism without humanistic and moral regulation gives you what Russia is now. Are we headed that way?
By the way, schools all over the country are replacing their perfectly serviceable and biodegradable milk cartons with plastic bottles because the kids like the bottles better. Don't let your schools do it!
On the topic of buying up competing technologies - BP is the worlds second largest renewable energy generator so you might have a point there. A little known fact, however, is that BP invests more in the Ad campaigns to make the public aware of the investments in "green" technology than they invest in the green technology itself.
On the topic of supplies. There is just enough refining capacity in the US and there is a small cushion of crude being produced world wide. The reason that prices are going haywire is that the world is unsettled in the areas that produce the oil (Iraq, Iran, Nigeria). This makes the people who know they need oil want to buy now so that they don't get caught in a lurch (if Iran gets hit by a nuke for instance).
What do you think this means--- Ever since I read the Da Vinci Code, (well only the first half), I keep having these horribly discriptive dreams that an albino wants to kill my dog. He unleashes mountain lions into my parent's house to eat Buddy, but I have to break their necks than stomp on their heads!!! Then I had to kill a german shepard with sissors! I have never had nightmares or violent dreams, I don't get it!
And I get $20/month in gas cards for a year for releasing my apartment, so haha.
Ellen, I started the Da V code too. Every time I come across a french word, I tried to say it in french. Its taking me a while to finish.
One Minute Women on politics: its a sleeper of me. but, its easy to blame Mr. Bush for the high gas prices. While the oil companies that are profiting. Last year, ExxMo execs, Lee Raymond(retired in Jan.) earned 69.7 million for '05, thats $190,000 A Day. The production in the US iss down because of the damaged refineries from the hurricane. And the ethanol supply also increases high prices(not sure), Its a corn based, maybe its not US grown corn.
Why not blame Mr. Gore? Seven years ago, if he had carried his home state(TN), now he would be in his 2nd term, with Mrs. Clinton as VP. While having closed door meetings in the oval office, the public wants to know: What do you thing Mr. Gore met when he deseperately tried to speak, I love that Bush.
Yeah, that was funny. ANd do you recall when Bush and Cheney said our military would be greetd as liberators in Iraq, showered with roses? Hee hee. That was funny too. Good times.
Speaking of good times, Jude has started throwing temper tantrums. I thought he was bit young for this, No? He still won't walk by himself or hold a cup by himself, but he's very good at the tamtrum.
Anonymous Erin: Can someone please explain what stanine is? Gillian took the ITBS(along with numerous other test) and I don't understand what it means. Its listed as national stanine. and I have already read the definition. It makes no sense.
National Stanine (NS) The NS is a scale that divides the scores of the norming sample into nine groups, ranging from a high of 9 to a low of 1. Stanines have a constant relationship to percentiles. That is, a given percentile always falls within the same stanine. Because they categorize test performance into only nine broad units, stanines provide less detail about student performance than other derived scores.
It's not the Muslim world that need enlightening....it's some demonic people who happen to be muslim...sort of like saying that all Germans were (are) nazis...Now, many Muslims don't trust us because of our LACK of dilomacy ie: bombing townspeople in the name of 9-11.
Pat, 7=ti 8=do... doe a dear a female deer ray, a drop of golden sun me, a name I call myself fa, a long, long way to run sew, a needle pulling thread la,la, la la
Joe, I want you to apply for American Inventor. I know you have some idea tucked away somewhere that is ridulous, and for which you could produce the appropriate tv reality hyperemotion. And then you'd get 50K to develop. Do it. Believe.
The best invention I've ever heard of was cereal flavored milk, like the stuff at the end of the bowl...but I was sworn to secrecy with that one, so you didn't hear it from me.
tyrone shoelaces, funny Joe! ANDY GARCIA IS ON THE LATE SHOW WITH, OOOPS caps, I got excited, with Craig Ferguson. He was born in Cuba and left when he was 5 (with his family) 'cause of Castro...so, he's good looking AND has a good story. he has a movie coming out.
Yesss, Clinton DID know how to run the Whitehouse! The only grills Pat's homeys have are in their mouths! Patricia's home today Posse's in the hood say Mergers with oil? Must be Monica and Bill's toil!
back in the 80's i designed a car that would run on jar farts, 100 miles per jar, but the oil companies stole the blueprints and sent a crack team of albino hit men to wipe me out. i've been on the run ever since.
I found a tick on my butt today. Gross. Over the noon hour I went to the vet and K-Mart and bought prescription stuff for the dog, tick/flea shampoo, spray, collar. I sprayed the dog down, applied the prescription stuff, affixed the flea collar, set off some bombs and left the house. The dog looked pretty forlorn when I left for the office.
That ticklimerick was my best one, I think I'm done! Where are you Grace, you have only a few days left 'till the judging. (altho you've already posted many great ones)
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Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
Gasoline requires additives to boost octane. For years, the additive was MTBE (or something like that acronym) a hyper-refined petroleum product touted by big oil. An alternative is ethanol. I see where Bush is getting pressured to "do something" about gas prices. My prediction is that Bush will go to Big Oil, and will come back to the public with an explanation that MTBE is ready to go as a mandated additive but that ethanol still needs infrastructure. So the only way to reduce gas prices is to mandate MTBE, cut ethanol out as an option. As a bonus, the US govt can then cut back on alternative energy spending.
I fill my tank...maybe, once a month. I do this when a little picture, of a fuel pump, illuminates in red. Works great. :-)
I fill my tank...maybe, once a month. I do this when a little picture, of a fuel pump, illuminates in red. Works great. :-)
I think you are exactly right...the spin from Bush and clan has not included anything about ethnol! All about hydrogen.
Also, Dad is over at Mason City today for an MRI and checking on his anyurism(sp?) so, say a prayer! Maybe Mom has heard from him.
You are right about gasoline requiring additives to increase octane. A long time ago (not that long really) that additive was lead. We found out that lead in our gas is not good for the environment so we got rid of the lead, but still needed a way to increase the octane. You can use a number of different additives and refining processes to increase to octane.
One of the cheapest ways of increasing octane is to add MTBE to the gas. However (and I don't really understand this part) MTBE escapes from tanks very easily and there has been many many cases of MTBE getting into local ground water supplies. Many states are now outlawing the use of MTBE in their gas. In fact the NYMEX contract for Unleaded Gasoline at the NY Harbor containing MTBE has recently been delisted as nobody is going to be using this additive in the future. You don't know this, but Ethanol is the hottest thing in oil trading right now - everybody needs it and there isn't enough of it. We (the US) are currently importing huge amounts of ethanol from Brazil (sugar based).
Anyway - an FYI on MTBE.
there's this engine the runs on water, see, but the big oil companies are hiding it from us!
There is a headline on my Netscape opening page right now:
Bush halts deposits to petroleum reserves.
Pat,
Of course I am offended. How could anyone ever tire of looking at my mug? Your's is fifty times goofier.
RE: this gas and Bush business - Bush is a moron, a total embarassment to our country. I can't even stand to see HIS mug on the telly. He's an absolute BOOB!!!! And it makes me sick beyond belief that he is our nation's president. Really, I don't know what else to say. It has been one disappointment after another with him and I can't believe he was elected twice! (If you call it a legitimate election.) The more I think about it, the more disgusted I get.
Em
quit beating around the Bush (ha! get it?) and tell us how you really feel.
The Strategic Petoleum Reserve is a reserve of crude oil the US government keeps in case of emergency. It holds about 550+ million barrels of oil in salt domes along the Gulf Coast. This is about a 2 month supply for the US.
By not buying oil to replenish the supplies (which were reduced due to hurricane Katrina) in the reserve Bush is not adding to the problem of high oil prices.
Anyway - an FYI on the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
i have a Strategic Fart Reserve stored in jars in my front entry closet.
Ed, I watched your video, it was awesome!
Someone has a lot of time on their hands to fart into jars. Too bad cars aren't fart-powered. Imagine what funny noises they'd make when you started them up. Thblblblblt...thblt.
BUT...listen to the spin, NEVER any mention of ethanol, always about hydrogen..maybe the investors are one up on Bush and his clan...those guys are OUTTA HERE, but we have to wait three f#%@#$$ years!
A tribute to Ed, oil expert,
Strategic Petroleum Preserve
Ed helped us to see
Replenish the fee,
Crude oil in salt domes for Humvees!
Nance, I just watched HOUSE for the 1st time, does he win every show? Tonight, he beat out God, I think? We know a guy just like hime, Bruce Mason, he'll be at Caitlin's grad party...everyone's invited!
hime, hmmm
I have a question...Are we supposed to post all limericks on that BLOG?
You've got a problem with moles? I have a problem with roosters. Our neighbors have one that wakes me up every morning and every time I try to nap all spring and summer. (I don't know what happens to it in winter) I hate it. At first I thought it was kind of charming, now I want to wring its neck.
m.e. - in order for your limerick to be considered for the The Great Straub Blog Limerick Contest it must be posted in the limerick posting.
Not only will be we be passing on to future generations enormous debt, thanks in part to the war, but also an even more polluted environment thanks in part to Bush's "relaxing" of environmental stnadards. What a great solution to high gas prices. Americans will jsut have to get used to high gas prices like the rest of the world and, umm, maybe think about driving smaller cars.
We could all fit in smaller cars if we were smaller ourselves. We gotta outlaw McDonalds and weightlifting. Expand foot binding and in a generation or two everyone could be 4 feet tall.Some good old fashion selective breeding could make the trend permanent. Houses could be smaller, we'd eat less,
Good idea Joe3.
Those of you in the midwest,(NE and SD I think) have you tried the veg. oil to fuel your car. Is W. Nelson raking it in or what? Go Willie!!! Willie for President.
there is a pizza place in town that has all of it's delivery cars fitted out for bio-fuel. they drain their own grease traps, fryers and whatnot to fuel them.
Ryan knows someone who converted his truck to run on veg oil. They go get all the leftover oil from restaraunts to fuel it - for free!!
there are a lot of people in Madison who do that.
None of this is going to work. Just buy your gas and be happy that you can get it!
You can boycott EXXON amd MOBIL and then cause a price war, and hopefully reductions.
Exxon and Mobil are the same company now.
i'm just gonna bike to work.
The "free market" is mythical. Any entity will apply whatever pressure it can to any process available to increase wealth. The political process is affected by campaign cash, lobbyists, etc. The most invisible result is regulation writing, unlegislated rules promulgated by govt beaurocrats to implement bills that have been passed. The devil's in the details.
Big oil can buy up alternatives. Look for close relations with Conagra or ADM or some such, the goal being to control ethanol production. Vertical integration of the agriculture industry (Been evolving for years) makes this possible. Big oil can buy up patents for water engines.
How, logically, can the problem be not enough refinery capacity and at the same time not enough crude? If we didn't have enough crude the refineries would not be so over-capacity. Why do we need to open up Alaska, for instance?
The oil companies will suck the planet dry, make money in the meantime, and attempt to maximize earnings all the way along. Modern day buffalo hunters.
Morally, I don't see how some oil buried thousands of feet in the earth can belong to a select few.
Finally (whew!) it is repulsive to me that BP's theme colors (on signs, bills, etc) are green. How cynical can you get?
As far a system that is better than the free market, ask a Macedonian. Most of them long for the days of Tito. I take it with a grain of salt because to me, a lot of what Macedonians say and do is ridiculous. But they all say times were better 15 years ago.
How about the free market under an overriding ethos? Untrammeled capitalism without humanistic and moral regulation gives you what Russia is now. Are we headed that way?
I like the green. It's a symbol of what could be.
By the way, schools all over the country are replacing their perfectly serviceable and biodegradable milk cartons with plastic bottles because the kids like the bottles better. Don't let your schools do it!
On the topic of buying up competing technologies - BP is the worlds second largest renewable energy generator so you might have a point there. A little known fact, however, is that BP invests more in the Ad campaigns to make the public aware of the investments in "green" technology than they invest in the green technology itself.
On the topic of supplies. There is just enough refining capacity in the US and there is a small cushion of crude being produced world wide. The reason that prices are going haywire is that the world is unsettled in the areas that produce the oil (Iraq, Iran, Nigeria). This makes the people who know they need oil want to buy now so that they don't get caught in a lurch (if Iran gets hit by a nuke for instance).
What do you think this means---
Ever since I read the Da Vinci Code, (well only the first half), I keep having these horribly discriptive dreams that an albino wants to kill my dog. He unleashes mountain lions into my parent's house to eat Buddy, but I have to break their necks than stomp on their heads!!! Then I had to kill a german shepard with sissors! I have never had nightmares or violent dreams, I don't get it!
And I get $20/month in gas cards for a year for releasing my apartment, so haha.
The last part is true, gas cards are not in my dreams. I just wanted to rub it in everyone's faces.
I think the BP logo is very cheerful.
Ellen,
I started the Da V code too. Every time I come across a french word, I tried to say it in french. Its taking me a while to finish.
One Minute Women on politics: its a sleeper of me.
but, its easy to blame Mr. Bush for the high gas prices. While the oil companies that are profiting. Last year, ExxMo execs, Lee Raymond(retired in Jan.) earned 69.7 million for '05, thats $190,000 A Day.
The production in the US iss down because of the damaged refineries from the hurricane. And the ethanol supply also increases high prices(not sure), Its a corn based, maybe its not US grown corn.
Why not blame Mr. Gore? Seven years ago, if he had carried his home state(TN), now he would be in his 2nd term, with Mrs. Clinton as VP. While having closed door meetings in the oval office, the public wants to know: What do you thing Mr. Gore met when he deseperately tried to speak, I love that Bush.
Yeah, that was funny. ANd do you recall when Bush and Cheney said our military would be greetd as liberators in Iraq, showered with roses? Hee hee. That was funny too. Good times.
How ignorant and how arrogant!
I'm willing to admit that oil profits are showing up in Lee Raymond's account.
Speaking of good times, Jude has started throwing temper tantrums. I thought he was bit young for this, No? He still won't walk by himself or hold a cup by himself, but he's very good at the tamtrum.
gosh... now where would jude get tantrums from?
Anonymous Erin:
Can someone please explain what stanine is? Gillian took the ITBS(along with numerous other test) and I don't understand what it means. Its listed as national stanine. and I have already read the definition. It makes no sense.
We have already told her "the brightest star"
Erin
National Stanine (NS)
The NS is a scale that divides the scores of the norming sample into nine groups, ranging from a high of 9 to a low of 1. Stanines have a constant relationship to percentiles. That is, a given percentile always falls within the same stanine. Because they categorize test performance into only nine broad units, stanines provide less detail about student performance than other derived scores.
How'd she do? Is she the brightest star in the south?
In reading, 8, language 8, math 7 Survey total 8.
Erin
i don't know what 7 and 8 mean.
It's not the Muslim world that need enlightening....it's some demonic people who happen to be muslim...sort of like saying that all Germans were (are) nazis...Now, many Muslims don't trust us because of our LACK of dilomacy ie: bombing townspeople in the name of 9-11.
Pat,
7=ti
8=do... doe a dear a female deer
ray, a drop of golden sun
me, a name I call myself
fa, a long, long way to run
sew, a needle pulling thread
la,la, la la
Pat,
She a 10. What else do you want?
clarity
read ananymous at 11am
There was a gang shooting one block from my house last night. The guy died. Kind of scary. My neighbor saw it all happen.
Pat-do you live in the hood? Long hot summer coming. Better hire some Hmong bodyguards
Willingham?
Beasley?
Shoelaces?
Would that be your neighbor Tomkin?
Joe, I want you to apply for American Inventor. I know you have some idea tucked away somewhere that is ridulous, and for which you could produce the appropriate tv reality hyperemotion. And then you'd get 50K to develop.
Do it.
Believe.
Yes, I do indeed inhabit the "hood." I assumed my diction and syntax indicated such.
The best invention I've ever heard of was cereal flavored milk, like the stuff at the end of the bowl...but I was sworn to secrecy with that one, so you didn't hear it from me.
tyrone shoelaces, funny Joe!
ANDY GARCIA IS ON THE LATE SHOW WITH, OOOPS caps, I got excited, with Craig Ferguson. He was born in Cuba and left when he was 5 (with his family) 'cause of Castro...so, he's good looking AND has a good story. he has a movie coming out.
Stanine means stay nine untill you're 7 or 8! It's a steight of mind. Right Steven?
Stay kind until nine with maturity but don't flaunt it.
Yesss, Clinton DID know how to run the Whitehouse!
The only grills Pat's homeys have are in their mouths!
Patricia's home today
Posse's in the hood say
Mergers with oil? Must be Monica and Bill's toil!
back in the 80's i designed a car that would run on jar farts, 100 miles per jar, but the oil companies stole the blueprints and sent a crack team of albino hit men to wipe me out. i've been on the run ever since.
There's a picture of Mom at this site (I don't know how to download)
http://shaughnessy.us/SMC%20Reunion.htm
Joe, to have your limerick considered for competition it haws to be under the limerick contest posting. And congratulations!
I found a tick on my butt today. Gross. Over the noon hour I went to the vet and K-Mart and bought prescription stuff for the dog, tick/flea shampoo, spray, collar. I sprayed the dog down, applied the prescription stuff, affixed the flea collar, set off some bombs and left the house. The dog looked pretty forlorn when I left for the office.
Seems to be a good year for ticks.
yeah. ticks.
yeah. ticks.
Is it feasible or even possible to have someone (Like in a truck) spray the farm yard a few days before we all go there?
YOu mean like get a crop duster to cover the yard with some DDT - like insecticide?
I like that idea.
That ticklimerick was my best one, I think I'm done! Where are you Grace, you have only a few days left 'till the judging. (altho you've already posted many great ones)
Mary, put that ticklimerick on the limerick contest site or they will disqualify it. Ed said so.
Yes, Mary. That Tick Limerieck is a contender.
thanks!
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