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Oz wasnt a great candidate though. Hes not from PA or lives in PA and a Trump candidate I believe. That said...I really dont know what the appeal of Fetterman was. He has lived off his parents his whole life, never had a real job. Was mayor of a dump and still a dump, hes basically pro 2nd degree murder, hes huge on Teachers unions but sends his kids to the most $$$ private school in Pittsburgh. Throw in the stroke and its really mind boggling he won. When I saw that race still close I knew the red wave was just a myth.

Was that just for Denver? I know for fact you can get liquor in King Soopers in Arvada. Dont miss CO and it's politics.

I work in the pigging industry on the inspection side. I'll add my.02. Never thought of a pig as a delivery vehicle for a bomb but it could happen. However, I believe the line was idle and not making deliveries? The pig would have to travel with the pressure of the gas flow. So Germany would need to be taking deliveries. If the line was idle they couldnt push the pig since the displaced gas had no where to go. I found this site when I was trying to be an AF pilot. Now I am posting on my post military career. Baseops has now become full circle.

interesting. It looked like tanker cars which most likely would have fuel and had they known the train schedule and timed it that well....that is some good intel.

Also looks like they timed it where a train was on that portion of the bridge.

I mean Putin could have just blown up the Polish line that was just completed. By blowing his own he's severed his main artery of delivery to his #1 customer. Bold move.

I believe you should always question things. as you said gulf war 2 and wmd’s, gulf of Tonkin etc…I can’t understand how 1 party can question conflict then blindly follow domestic orders. (Covid) and vice versa. also….don’t forget a few years ago russia hacked the colonial pipeline and shut it down. That line is the main artery for fuel on the east coast. A lot more damage could have been done.

It was full of natural gas. You don’t leave pipelines empty. You’ll get moisture and corrosion.

https://news.sky.com/video/crisis-has-come-to-the-the-baltic-12706950 Interesting take on the situation. Basically says Putin blew it up to say nothing is safe in the baltic including hte new Polish line. Met with my contractor the other day who is Polish. Said the factories are shut 2-3 days a week due to lack of gas to keep them powered.

Just in time for the largest LNG terminal to go on line. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/cheniere-go-ahead-with-texas-corpus-stage-3-lng-export-plant-2022-06-22/ Interesting thing going on here. Russia Gas lines flow through the Baltic or Ukraine. They have limited capacity to ship gas on the sea. For as bad as Russia has handled this war and watching ppl flee maybe they did blow the line to drum up support somehow? If the US did this it basically secured energy independence for NATO members. They will be forced to get it from the North Sea and supplemented from the US. The line can be repaired eventually and maybe that is leverage NATO can hold over Russia to back down?

Yeah I remember going into costco in my Denver burb with my 2 yr old and getting yelled at by the greater that he wasn't masked up. Then there was a dude that got arrested for shooting hoops with his daughter at a park in the early days in the same hood. Funny when I traveled to red states they didn't have these issues.

When I lived in Denver I could tell Denver would be the new LA/SEA. Nobody wanted to admit what the issue was, just be nice and cave to their poor plight. My burb but in a light rail to Denver. A billion over budget but once it opened our nice little old town was filled with bums. Quickly became a place you didn't want to take the family. Although some loved hte diversity. But if you brought it up you were a bigot. Ironically I think it was the mayor from Aurora who was a self described liberal. He spent a week on the street with them. His thesis was they were down on their luck good Americans victims of the system....He reported it was mostly a lifestyle choice that were abusing drugs and alcohol. Where I live now there are signs in our urban center that specifically say no panhandling and if you want to help donate to this site.

Kids are going back to school, inflation, recession, midterms, low approval ratings, Ukraine, China…..I’m sure the cdc guidelines are completely unrelated.

So she was shot and sent him a text while hes right there? How many blead out while they stood around that could have had a chance?

That video is hard to watch. Now that I have a soon to be 6 yr old, I cant imagine having to live through something like this or the fear or it happening. We chose to homeschool our kids for many reasons. This being one of them. It can happen anywhere. We lived in CO and there was constant issues with guns in wealthy suburban areas. Lots of drug issues in schools with kids and parents. The police reaction is similar in Uvalde is similar to a shooting in Arvada a lil over a year ago. Arvada is a wealthy burb of Denver with a historicish downtown. Some wackjob parks his truck walks up to a cop and offs him right there. A hunting store across the street had 3 cops in it and 1 civi with a CCW. COps hid, Civi takes out the shooter. Then, more cops show up and take out the civi. I cant think of a better time to argue pro 2A then now. If my kid was in that school I know what me and my wife woudl have done.

It's a massive expense. Depends on the volume you want to process a day as well. If you are set up for sweet and want to undertake sour, its a decision that the C level with very high level long term plans consider. Its not just a flip of a switch. Sour you need a coker plant which is a mini refinery inside the refinery itself. A coker is what makes your diesel, gasoline, Jet. If you dont have a coker you can make those products from a reformer. If you have a coker you also are heavily dependent on hydrogen as well. Refining is similar to distallation. Making Vodka is 1 thing, being able to make whiskey from corn mash and tequilla from agave is something else altogether. For perspective on costs: P66 Bell Chase in New Orleans flooded last year in a hurricane. They shut it down for repairs. The startup est was over $1bl. Its now just a storage facility.

Its still traded as a global commodity since they are part of OPEC but since the whole dictatorship deal ppl try to shy away. They do have the most known reserves of anyone. Most refineries can and will process sour. The East and West coast shy away but keep in mind embridge is a Canadian company that has dozens of lines crossing the MN area to directly feed the mid west. Line 5 runs under Lake Michigan and a lot of ppl cry about it. The Crude from the Bakken in ND is mostly shipped by Rail to the coasts because thats safer for some reason.

Yeah not true. If a refinery has a coker plant they can process sour crude. Sour crude is a fraction of hte price as Sweet crude therefore yields a much higher crack spread. I know every refinery that purchases sour. The Keystone PL supplies Cushing OK (Worlds largest storage center) with millions of Sour from the tar sands in Canada. Keystone is not to be confused with the yet to be built Keystone XL. What is your experience in O&G btw?

Yeah I am a business traveler. Usually every other week going somewhere for a few days. Conferences are coming back but its still mostly full of vendors and not our customers. We are finding they are still pretty slim and major operators are not rushing back to these events. I think most are realizing a huge part of customer/vendor interaction can be done via phone/email. This was going to always be the case but covid accelerated it. I dont think business travel will ever be what it was pre covid. Now with pleasure travel....my flight to Houston was $300-$400 bucks inside 2 weeks. Its now over $800 with fewer options. I suspect families will rethink travel plans as well.

I read something a while back on NYC and Roe v Wade. The hypothesis was that RvW stemmed violence in NYC by having fewer unwanted kids growing unto early adulthood which also tied in with when Guiliani took over as Mayor. The argument was his policies didnt really turn NYC into a better place. It was fewer criminals being born. IDK what hte truth is. But the argument that abortion = less crime is a pretty sad statistic.

Yeah I believe some of these institutions have been found of Fraud? But agree, that is what I was referring to.

LOL I have a Poli Sci degree from a state school. From my perspective, I dont think a degree matters that much. I work in Oil and Gas and I see a pretty wide range of backgrounds that are pretty successful. I will say maybe from being an Officer and my degree gives me an advantage in critical thinking and writing skills. I work in sales and business development and I see a lot of people with maybe a MBA from a state school and its never been that impressive. I will also say getting an engineering degree might start you off at a decent level but it stagnates pretty fast. I think going into debt for an advanced degree really only pays off if it is from a high end business school that can get you connected. Getting a MBA from whatever State U IDK. In my role you can make pretty good $$$. We have a lot of former enlisted people in our company as either a service tech or sales. All make 6 figures. One of our sales guy pulls over $200k with a GED but he was in the Navy so we knew he was trainable. We have had guys with a STEM degree from Texas A&M and honestly i couldn't stand them. There is some truth to the millennial stereotype but I also think the media really pushes it as a talking point. But I also think there is some truth to the corporate bitching. Companies are making record profits but are they giving out many raises? You always read about a CEO making millions only to fail miserably only to get picked up at another company. Meanwhile the boots on the ground are making it all happen with what they have. So yeah I sympathize with that bitching a bit. I also have seen a # of CEO's lifestyle and Im not interested in that. Student Loans: What I think is really ed up is hte Univ of PHX and other for profit schools that really went after the lower income and undereducated. They promised a bright future with a BS degree. Univ of PHX business plan was to grow at a rate of an Ohio State Univ every year. This is where the Govt should step in and investigate. I am in favor of those schools being banished and loans forgiven. I think these for profit schools make up the majority of delinquent loans? There are plenty of options to be successful. I think today there are far more creative ways and there probably is more wealth to be generated that in the past. Look at United Airlines. They are starting their own from hte street to RJ school. Skip college, be an RJ at 18 or 19. By 40 you're making bank in the right seat. Just a quick example off the top of my head. What I disagree with the boomers is the idea of being a slave to a company. Again in my experience the only way i see people getting promted or raises is jumping to different companies. Or the idea of being a good soldier and not taking sick days and being hyper dedicated. When you watch your peers of a company be there for 20+ years and being kicked to the curb at the first hint of decline, all of a sudden you're only out for yourself. Pensions are no longer a thing, benefits aren't what the use to be. The table has flipped and the employee can make more demands. I think hte corporate structure is flipping as it should. Finally: tangent into global warming. I was curious why the left didn't push harder to keep remote workers as much as possible. Less cars not eh road, less congestion, etc....less need for office space=more green space. Should help global warming?????

Agree 100%. My Brother in law is early 30's super techy and educated. He would not make a great sales guy or maybe even manager but he works in cyber security and does pretty well. He has no interest in owning a large home with a fence, 2 kids and dog. Him and his wife have a small city home, small cars and work from home. They also want to be able to say it, pack up and move somewhere else and do hte same job. Hell I did that myself. IMHO the corporate office culture has died and those managers that can't adapt and overcome will fail. PPL realized there is value in getting an hour+ of your life back from your daily commute.

Did not know that.