Gas Price Woes? Everything Rolls Up to Biden

 

If anyone is in doubt about who is causing the spike in gas prices. If anyone says "presidents don't set gas prices" - please share this.

Also - while presidents don't set the price at the pump directly, they do make massive impacts on the gas and oil prices. Biden DID cause it. Directly. With his attack on energy sector starting on day 1:

• Keystone pipeline cut (830,000 barrels per day cut)
• Oil and gas leases on public land shut down
• ANWR leases shut down
• Fracking canceled
• Offshore drilling canceled

How are gas prices set? Gas prices are set on the Futures Markets where the prices of commodities are bid on for investments. How did Biden affect that? The list above shows how. When he made those changes, he signaled the Futures Markets that the US was attacking it's own energy production and that industry segment would be impacted. That caused prices to start rising on Jan 22, 2022. They haven't stopped, because he keeps attacking the energy sector.

"Well, Oil companies are greedy and raising prices." Actually, they raise prices to be able to afford to put product out in the coming 6-months.

Think about it this way - a gas station owned by an American citizen buys gas to sell at the pumps. Let's (for the sake of discussion) say he pays $10,000 for the load. He charges enough to make a fair profit and sells the gas for a price. When he's done selling that load, he needs to be able to pay for the refill - and have a profit at the end to pay his employees and himself.

Now, let's say that the next load costs $20,000 and he didn't charge enough to set aside that much $$. So, he has to cut the delivery back to what he can afford or raise the prices to cover his loss for the next time - plus make up his short fall.

These deliveries are on a contract - usually a year long. So, they contract to get a set amount of fuel delivered each term (week, 2-weeks or whatever) they have to take that amount of fuel or they are in breach of contract.

So, when prices are spiking, he's trying to assume what he will need to be able to pay for that next delivery of gas. If he doesn't have enough to pay, he has to shut down.

The same thing happens to the oil companies. They have to be able to refine the fuel and get it delivered to the gas stations. The truckers are raising their prices b/c the costs for diesel is also rising. The refining costs are also rising b/c the cost for a barrel is rising ($30/barrel under Trump; $120/barrel today)

So, no - oil companies and gas station owners aren't gouging people - they are trying to keep themselves ahead of the costs coming the next delivery.

The issue is Biden's policies. It ALL rolls up to Biden.

Hey - Climate Cultists - Oil IS Green. . .

 

I'd love someone to state - with specifics - why we need to "get off of oil" and "switch to green energy".

First - oil is green, it's not a "fossil fuel" - that's an old propagandist lie - it's a hydrocarbon, created by the earth by processing decomposed bio-mass through the rotation and thermal heat of the planet's core. How can you get more 'green'than something that WAS green before dying and decomposing?

Second - it's plentiful - the US alone has over 1,000 years of oil sitting under our feet - with more created with each rotation of the planet. We have more than that of coal and natural gas. Plentiful.

Third - it's efficient. Hydrocarbon energy is more efficient than wind or solar. It makes better use of surface land area than either solar farms or wind farms.

So - please - without hyperbole about "dirty oil" - tell me WHY we "need to get off of oil"?

THIS SHOULD BE TERRIFYING TO ALL.....

 

• 1/3 of American High School graduates never read another book in their lives.

• 42% of college graduates never read another book after college.

• 80% of US families did not buy or read a book last year.

• 70% of US adults have not been in a book store in 5 or more years.

• 57% of new books are not read to completion.**

**Source Simon Schuster 2012

Can you imagine this?  This is terrifying.  Our brains, as humans, are wired to learn and gather knowledge our entire lives. If we aren't growing our minds, what are we filling them with?

Reality TV?

Social Media?

TikTok videos?

Make it a point in 2022 to READ A BOOK!  Or two!

  

SLAVERY, HISTORY, and TODAY

 Yeah - I'm wading into the thick of it again today. Call me crazy - maybe it's just that. I like to think it's because I am wired to find solutions - and solve problems.

Today, I am looking at solutions and positive actions. Today, let's focus on what the protestors this spring - are actually 'protesting'. These protests are supposed to bring attention to the "oppression" and "systemic racism" of blacks.

Throughout the history of this great nation, we have had some chapters that were less shining than others. Slavery is one of those chapters. When we speak about Slavery in the US, most often it refers to slavery of blacks from the Caribbean or Africa. There were also other slaves in the 'New World'. Indeed, the Irish were enslaved - in Europe and the Americas earlier and longer than African blacks - past the Civil War years, by way of conscription, kidnap and indentured servitude. It is historical fact, and can be researched as such. The Irish were treated viciously in our nation - no less than Africans. We will, however, keep that topic for another day.

Slavery started in the colonies in 1612 and was first legalized in the Massachusetts Bay colony in 1625. Slavery was ended as an institution in the US in 1865. In that 240 year span, many blacks of Caribbean and African descent were held as slaves. There is nothing to say on this topic other than slavery and enslaving of another human is abhorrent and evil.

When slavery ended, there was a time that blacks were considered to be less intelligent, less capable than whites - and that view is also abhorrent. We had Jim Crow, discrimination, segregation, desegregation, and civil rights movements and laws that helped usher in equality for all in the US. It seems crazy, to us, that our forefathers would hold these beliefs - but there it is. And, in fact, there are still sects of the KKK and White Supremacists in existence - though those beliefs will die out with those throwbacks to a darker time.

I think then, based on the previous information, we can all agree that no one alive today - in the US - has been held as a slave as part of that institution in the US. In fact, no one has been held a slave as part of that institution in the past 152 years.

Today, black Americans have nothing in law or legislation that prevents them from being anything they want to be - indeed - up to and including the President of the US. The only limit is your ambition and the only method of getting there is hard work.  Anything is achievable.

**One note - slavery still exists today in our world.  Today - as we speak - Africans and Christians are enslaved, bought, auctioned, sold and traded in the Middle East and Africa.  I would ask where the outrage is for these people from those who think looting and burning businesses is an effective means of "change".

TRANSGENDERISM - AND REALITY

 As we approach "The Olympics" - and as the topic of "transgenderism in sports" is in the forefront of news and talk, I wanted to share some thoughts.

Sorry for the bluntness if it offends any 'sensitivities' - but some common sense and logic is needed here - and less "feels" and emotion. People can live as they choose to live - provided it doesn't harm others. This is one of those places where harm is huge. No matter what hormone, drug, surgery people have - they will continue to have the physiology they were born with. 

Specifically - medical science cannot change the skeletal, muscular, endocrine, circulatory systems and DNA. The physical body of an XY person will always be XY. And the same for XX.  Yes, hormones will affect size of muscle - but not the attachment points and placements. No - bone will not change - an XY pelvis will not ever 'flex' for giving birth like an XX one. That's just facts and medical science. 

A man or woman can simply NEVER in full fact change to the opposite sex. 

If that's upsetting to some - that is just life and facts. Live as one chooses - but don't think to force the world to embrace all of that in the same way the person does - it's just not reality. 

That said - letting people who have a natural, biological, physiological advantage and difference in capabilities compete with those who don't will never be fair, equitable - or morally correct. 

Why then, is there not a separate category for trans sports? This is truly the only way to ensure that all the strides made in women's sports over the past 100 years is not lost and women themselves are not erased from competition?

This isn't about actual science of sex and gender. Those are binary - as we see in nature. There are male and female - period. In language - there is also neutral; that is a language construct - not science, but social science.

In nature - we don't see 58 genders - we see 2, binary. And, that's it.

What trans and others are actually talking about is something mutable - and sex/gender is not mutable. So, it's personality characteristics - not gender - that are mutable. We have girls who are rough and tumble - or tomboys and we have so many variations and flavors of that. And, we have guys who are more feminine and many variations there.

This is more "social science" than medical or physical science. 

If people wrapped their heads around that - it would make things a lot more sensical. As people mature - they go through different phases and changes of exploring their person, character, self - and that can and does shift through time and even days. But, having surgery or taking hormones to permanently affect ones person isn't the best approach. And, they will never be the "other" that they think in a moment is wanted.

I think this is a better - more realistic take on things. 

Oh, and......Men shouldn't compete with women. Period.