Blog It Out Your Pie Hole

Thanks to the Internet Archive’s Way Back Machine, I found some postings from a previous iteration of my rants and ravings, and have imported them here. However, the links bounce through the Internet Archive, so my next task will be to go through all those old links and update them to the actual page.

On one hand, if they are going through the IA, they have the original page as it was two to four years ago, and not necessarily as they are today. Sounds like a bunch of work.

On the other hand, I have five fingers, but one thing that I found that frightens me the most is from July 2004:

 

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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — With oil prices setting records over $90 a barrel and $100 looking ever more likely, experts say there’s a good chance drivers will see $3 gasoline before the end of the year.

“Three dollar gasoline in this market is unavoidable,” said Stephen Schork, publisher of the industry newsletter the Schork Report. “At this rate, we’re going to see $4 a gallon.”

These remarkable works of wisdom come from CNN Money’s
Here comes $100 oil, and $3 gasoline. Where the hell has this pie hole been looking at gasoline prices, Trenton, NJ? Gas Buddy show this to be the least expensive gas in the nation right now. Back when I was trying out the hypermiling techniques, Charleston, SC was usually the cheapest, but it’s seemed to have slipped in the ratings a bit.

And why am I not hypermiling anymore? Well, if you remember from a while back, I had started the hypermiling techniques. Slower driving, drafting behind trucks, stopping the engine before hitting a stop sign or light, all the easiest hypermiling techniques. That all ended when I got the call from Gary. Read the rest of this entry »

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TreeHugger reports a real shocker: Ethanol production is increasing the demand for corn. The pop corn industry needs to pay its growers more to keep them growing pop corn instead of the federally mandated ethanol. Since corn also feeds cattle, you have no doubt seen the prices of dairy products and beef rise. Add to that the increase fuel prices, and you have a redistribution of wealth. We’re not getting paid more, so the gasoline industry is getting more and more money.

It’s obviously an evil Hippie conspiracy to get Americans off fuel and meat. The bulk of Americans won’t be able to afford to drive, so they’ll have to take public transportation. The bulk of Americans won’t be able to eat meat, so the dangerous cattle, who do nothing but stamp the soil, create erosion and destroy the natural landscape, will dwindle down to a more managable existance.

Won’t this have the opposite effect? After all, look at private jets, sprawling estates, and limosines. They’re not owned or used by the bulk of Americans. Who owns them? The liberal elite.

• Ted Kennedy
• Cheryl Crow
• Al Gore
• Hillary Clinton

There you have it, an evil Hippie Conspiracy to take away the most basic needs from most Americans: travel and food. In the mean time, BLOW IT OUT YOUR PIE HOLE!

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With the increase of gasoline prices, I saw a story on some portal somewhere a couple of weeks ago about hypermiling. Just by turning off my engine at a red light and making a conscious effort to keep my freeway speed below 70 (which isn’t too hard to do on the Nimitz Freeway during rush hour, I was able to drive a 1994 1.9l Ford Escort almost 460 miles with just over 12.5 gallons of gas, for a mpg of around 37. Usually I go about 375 miles, and get nervous at 400. I do find it odd that the fuel capacity specification is only for 11.9 gallons. Sometime when I’ feeling a bit braver, I’ll run the tank down to zero and push it to a station and fill the tank. Right now, the fuel gauge reads just under a half tank, and 300 miles driven.

In a semi-related story, I took my mother-in-law to the airport last night in her car. She has a fancy fuel-use display built in. I’d love to get my own ScanGaugeII to monitor fuel use, but it won’t work on my old car.

Anyway, I was using it to check various fuel-economy increasing events. You know, like drafting a big rig. I found that in the automatic, it was too difficult to get a good enough reading over a long enough period of time. Also, the meter topped out at 70mpg when coasting. One interesting thing that I found was that going around a curve behind a big rig had no benefit to driving not behind a big rig. One thing I wanted to test was whether there would be any benefit to being the second or third car behind a big rig vs being in the same spot without any other cars between.

Although I didn’t get enough testing time, I can say that driving home in her car after dropping off my mother-in-law was probably one of the happiest times I’ve had in her car.

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Remember when gas was only $2 a gallon? Remember saying to yourself or others “There’s no way I’m paying $3 a gallon for gas”? Remember when George Clooney said he was moving to Canada? Sorry, I digress. Anyway, what is the difference between the gas sold today and the gas sold 6 years ago? Gas sold 6 years ago had MTBE, not the more expensive ethanol. Oil and gasoline prices were a third of what they are now. The addition of Ethanol decreases fuel efficiency, and the massive increase in demand for ethanol. The roads are maintanined like they were 6 years ago, which means that there are more miles of broken roads in California. We pay more, and what do we get?

Cable TV prices have risen. Increased fees and taxes have contributed to the rise in Cable TV prices. With those increases, we have an increased value. Video On Demand, both free and paid have been developed. What was once “the sports channel ESPN” has evolved into a multi-channel plethora of every sport imaginable. Anyway, with the increased prices of Cable TV have come increased value. When the increased prices exceeds the increased value, people get upset. I noticed that without an increase in value, people will notice an increase in prices after about a 15% change. If I ever get money for a study, I’ll think about an actual study. Until then, it’s just my observation.

So we have a 300% increase in gasoline prices, and reduced value. Meanwhile, oil companies are bringing in the massive profits. Not just record breaking revenue, but record breaking PROFITS. That’s the money that’s left over after expenditures. The money that’s left over after deducting money for research and development and golden parachutes. It’s money left over after paying taxes. It’s not money that they’re using to increase fuel efficiency. It’s not money that they’re using to develop a gasoline replacement. It’s just stagnant money. It flows one way to the oil company, and doesn’t come back out.

Since this money doesn’t recirculate into the economy, is is stagnant money. It’s non-productive money. It is an actual waste of money. That’s the part that pisses me off. Not necessarily the fact that oil companies are charging what they can get for their product, but that the money is basically economically lost.

Here is my simple solution. Oil companies, listen up. This simple plan will make consumers love you again, unless they see it as a case of Too Little, Too Late, and it will need some modification in Oregon and New Jersey. Step one: Keep gasoline prices the same and owners get the same percentage of gasoline sales. Step two: The Oil Companies hire or subsidse the pay of one or two gas pumpers per station from the beginning of the evening commute until the end of the morning commute in the most major metropolitan areas. Maybe even the states can kick in a little bit of the increased tax revenues that they’ve received on sales taxes of gasoline to help subsidse the workers. In Oregon and New Jersey the gas pumpers can clean your windows or something. Give us some value for our increased prices.

Until then, BLOW IT OUT YOUR PIE HOLES!

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So we’re following the story of the Yokels who aren’t pumping gas. Another yokel, Harvey Pollack, also from the greater Milwaukee metropolitan area shut his gas station down, but only for one day. I’m not sure they breed them too well in Milwaukee.

Pollack shuts down his gas pump, decreasing supply in the area. Yokels like “Maria McClory, 38, drove 10 miles out of her way to buy a diet soda from Pollack’s station after seeing local television coverage of the protest.” Way to go, Maria. Increase your demand for gas while supporting a shortage. That amounts to the same idiocy as fishing as many trout as you can from a stocked lake, then demanding that the hatchery shuts down.

If I were a gas station owner in the general vicinity of any of these yokels, I would raise my prices by 5 cents or so. Supply is lower, so prices are naturally set to increase. When will they ever learn about Supply and Demand?

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I first heard this on Fox News on Tuesday when I was home with a sick kid, that some yokels were shutting down their gas stations. One of those guys is Jeff Curro, in the greater Milwaukee metropolitan area.

“The way I see it is, I’m doing all the work of providing the labor, the wages, the electricity, the lighting, the maintenance of the pumps, the repairs and the insurance, which is quite substantial,” Curro said. “I’m doing all the work, and somebody else is getting fat on me.”

Let’s see here. Our economy is based on supply and demand. The demand for gasoline will continue to increase. At some point when the demand for “alternative fuels” is outpacing the increase of demand of gasoline, the gasoline prices should see a natural decline as the demand drops and supply keeps steady. The refining capabilities in the United States have been stable since 1976. Of course, an Exxon Mobile exectutive said that said that company foresees no need to build new refineries at least through the year 2030.

So gasoline supply has been relatively stable coming from the refineries. Demand increases from automobile drivers, creating more gas stations. Demand increases as do prices. So now these guys add to the decrease in supply in the immediate area, increasing supply. Over the national average, it won’t have an impact, but prices still increase in the area.

If Jeff Curro, Casey O’Gorman, and others want to get out of the gasoline sales, go ahead and sell your station to someone who will continue to sell gas. Move your auto repair shop or convenience market somewhere else. In the meantime, BLOW IT OUT YOUR PIE HOLE!

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So why are gas prices so high now? Could it be a nasty conspiracy amongst the oil companies? Could it be the damn OPEC bastards taking all the U.S. dollars? Probably, because we recieve the bulk of our imported oil from OPEC nations, although the one country that we receive the plurality of our imported oil is Canada.

The primary reason, according to Inflation Data is the damn hippies. They have such a lock on the laws in California about building new facilities, that the market demand side increases, without the supply side increasing. Then, they go and whine about the oil company’s massive profits.

The oil companies are pulling in massive profits so they will have funding available to build a new infrastructure for hydrogen fuel or whatever new technology they will need when the hippies have thoroughly screwed up the oil industry. Of course, when that happens, the demand for oil will drop and gasoline prices will be dirt cheap.

So, it comes down to the fact that hippies need to BLOW IT OUT YOUR PIE HOLES!

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One day, as the U.S. was patrolling, she found a ruthless dictator. This dictator had created a regime of terror all across the land. Men were afraid that the dictator’s sons might come along and rape their wives. The men were afraid that if they said anything about the dictator, that they might disappear in the middle of the night to be dumped into a plastics shredder. The dictator made sure that his stockpile of chemical weapons were strong enough to kill people and tested it on his own subjects.

This regime must be destroyed,” the U.S. said. “Who will send troops to destroy this regime?” Read the rest of this entry »

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