In the News II

Quote: DoubleGold

Are any of the Tesla Cyber Trucks gasoline powered or are they going to make all of them clean coal and natural gas powered?

in order to be sure that there is plenty of natural gas to use instead of coal, the Biden administration is making great efforts to shut down natural gas production. Oops!

So does providing a $7.5K EV tax credit for a new car and $4K for a used car create more pollution than 100% gasoline cars and no tax credit?

Is the Admin paying our money plus interest for additional pollution?

Quote: odiousgambit

in order to be sure that there is plenty of natural gas to use instead of coal, the Biden administration is making great efforts to shut down natural gas production. Oops!

I don't think there is anything wrong with trying to innovate.

But when a mistake is made (such as estimating green energy capacity), admit the mistake and try to back out of the damage.

Don't make the issue worse.

' Cost of ‘fueling’ an electric vehicle is equivalent to $17.33 per gallon'

'A total of 3,882 franchised car dealers from 50 states sent a letter to Biden Tuesday urging the administration to slow down its EV mandates.'

"With each passing day, it becomes more apparent that this attempted electric vehicle mandate is unrealistic based on current and forecasted customer demand. Already, electric vehicles are stacking up on our lots which is our best indicator of customer demand in the marketplace."

EV's depreciate faster than gasoline powered vehicles. Which is another reason few dealers accept EV trade ins.

EV owners can expect a 60% drop in their car's value after three years.

Quote: GenoDRPh

Me thinks newer electric appliances an heating solutions work better than 100 year old technology, and are less dangerous to public health to boot.

Gas is hardly dangerous. It is in millions of homes and is more reliable than electric. Ever notice you often see old gas stoves but never old electric ones? Gas stoves are simply better in every way except that sheep now think there is something wrong with gas because their Emperor Biden said gas is dangerous.

And electric is hardly "new." It is also 100 year old tech.

I was working on a natural gas rig in the Anadarko Basin in the 1980s.

We were about 18,000 to 22,000 feet deep with the drill.

The gas pocket we were in was under high pressure, so we had to use heavy mud to keep it down.

We were tripping the pipe one day, and the mud would spray with high velocity when we broke a pipe joint.


Red Adair was the one to call if a rig had blown out and caught on fire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Adair

Quote: DoubleGold

I was working on a natural gas rig in the Anadarko Basin in the 1980s.

We were about 18,000 to 22,000 feet deep with the drill.

The gas pocket we were in was under heavy pressure, so we had to use heavy mud to keep it down.

We were tripping the pipe one day, and the mud would spray with high velocity when we broke a pipe joint.


Red Adair was the one to call if a rig had blown out and caught on fire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Adair

Yeah they made a movie about him. Sort of.

Quote: AZDuffman

Yeah they made a movie about him. Sort of.

In our circle, he was famous.


I recall another time working for Penrod outside of Austin, in a small town of Bastrop.

It began to snow in April.

But in the Anadarko, it would get as low as -40 F windchill during the winter.

Quote: DoubleGold

In our circle, he was famous.


I recall another time working for Penrod outside of Austin, in a small town of Bastrop.

It began to snow in April.

But in the Anadarko, it would get as low as -40 F windchill during the winter.

When I get as in oil and gas I always wanted to get to a drill site just a sort of tour but our functions were so apart it would not happen. Best I got was driving by the rig for the land work I did goi g home. Could still smile knowing I was part of it all at least even if a small part

They're pretty easy to get to at night, because there're lights on the top.

Just keep driving and turning toward the light.

Good way to find a job because they run around the clock.