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Oil
Oil
is a subject I will meet in the middle with the Global Warming
alarmists on. Not for the same reasons though. America really needs to
wean itself off of oil. I'm saying this as an American citizen. We
need to stop relying on others for energy. We need to stop wasting our
resources like we will never run out. Cars are burning cleaner than
ever before but there is newer and better technology out there. The
internal combustion engine has been great and I don't ever want to get
rid of it. To listen to a '68 Camaro with a 350 that has Rhodes lifters
and a Competition 1/4 turn cam in it is music to my ears. But we don't
need to drive them every day to and from work. Having a huge SUV or 4x4
truck is great. But we have generations behind us that may want to
enjoy these things as well.
We
can change our mindsets and stop driving 1/2-ton trucks and SUVs 20
miles to work because we our parents did it. I did change my mindset. I parked my
1/2-ton 4x4 Ford F-150 with a 4-inch lift and mud tires that got 14
mpg. I used the money I saved to buy a 2002 Infiniti G20 for $12,000 in
Atlanta, Georgia. I don't know how many people I have talked to said
they couldn't afford to do that. I actually make money doing this. Here
is how I did it. It was costing me $800.00 a month to drive my truck.
So I put pen to paper and came up with this. First I saved 4
thousand dollars and then borrowed $7000.00 from my 401k. I borrowed an
extra $1000.00 because of taxes and registration and all of that. I have
to pay 9% interest on my 401k loan but I pay it back
into the 401k so I pay it to myself. My payments are only $146.00 a month.
Insurance is $32.00 a month and my gas bill is $200.00 a month
now in a car that averages 31-32 mpg on the highway and 24-27 in the city.
Most of my driving is on the highway. That is a total of
$378.00 a month to drive a much smaller car I can actually get into parking
lots everywhere, and since it's an Infiniti I'm doing it in style. So
compared to what I was spending I'm saving roughly $400.00 a month and
have two vehicles. I still have my truck for hunting or going places
that require a nice big truck. If my wife had this issue and did the
same thing we would be saving $800.00 a month. I don't understand why
more people don't do this. I see them going to work, alone, in these
big-ass gas sucking trucks and SUVs blowing money out their tailpipes.
It would be funny if it wasn't so wasteful. I am not saying get rid of
your big vehicles. Just stop wasting gas like we will never run
out. Save some for your kids already!! If everybody did this
in America we could stock up barrels of oil so fast they would have to
drop the price. You save money, you are not polluting as much, and you
are saving for future generations and best of all you are saving yourself money!!
Water
What
is really going to kill you
I
love water. It's just about the only thing I drink. I'm like a fish in
the fact that I love to soak and shower and be in and
around water. I
love to fish, swim, water ski, jet ski, it's terrific stuff!! But I am
very afraid that one day, fresh water will be traded on the stock
market
just like oil is now. Fresh water is an underestimated and often
overlooked
resource. I use the word resource very strongly. Fresh water IS a very
important
natural resource. The human race takes it for granted and abuses it
like we will
never run out. We need to work on ways to purify it and build some
desalinization plants on OUR coasts to pump inland instead of taking it
from wells and lakes and streams. We need fresh water conservation. But
then again, maybe not.
Sadly,
water is the thing that is going to kill us. It's not CO2 or
other greenhouse gases. They have it all wrong. It is water vapor in
the atmosphere that has all the heat trapping ability. It is the oceans
warming that is causing more and more water to evaporate. Soon when
things reach a threshold, there will be so much water vapor in the air
and CO2 being released from those warming oceans that it will cool
things and then that water will freeze and start snowing. Other warmer
places will get rain unlike they have ever seen. It's already happening.
How many rainfall records have been broken lately? Look it up, it's
been raining like mad. And raining deep as well, I'm talking rainfalls we will
be measuring in feet soon. In some countries, they already are.
Water
is the most overlooked and least understood force on this planet.
Respect it because that is what is going to kill you. The fact
that
10
inches of rain equals 100 inches of snow should alarm you.
Upstate New York is looking at 14ft. of snowfall so far for Feb 2007.
They call it lake effect snow. That should tell you what I am saying is
correct. More moisture is in the atmosphere. Some parts of the world
have had 26 inches
of rain . That is 21 feet of snow. Mumbai had 37 inches of rain in 24 hours in July of 2005!! That would equate to 30 ft of snow!! That is enough to bury you alive and
collapse your roof so either you will freeze to death, be crushed, or
starve. You cannot grow crops under snow. I don't care how genetically
tough they are. Lately within the last few years there have been record
floods that have killed many. There is much more water in the air. With each and every passing monsoon season, Indonesia
seems to get more and more inundated. This has nothing to do with CO2
or man made global warming. The oceans have warmed due to recent record
solar flares
since 2001, and there is more moisture in the air due to evaporation of
these solar warmed oceans. There was a huge class x17 flare 1
month before Katrina. You can look at the dates of these super
solar flares and compare them to hurricane landings. There were no
super flares recorded in 2006 after May, and only 1 that was a 9x.
There was only Hurricane Ernesto that was news worthy in my book for
2006. Coincidence? Everyone will agree that 2003, 2004, and 2005 were
really bad hurricane years. Look at the record solar flares for those
time periods. Look again at 2006 and how the temps started to cool,
compare the lack of solar flares, now think about how 2007 is starting
out with everybody freezing our butt's off. I'm ready for a solar flare
right now, I am sick of winter already. If you can honestly read the
data and say the sun is not the cause of "global warming", but
your car is, then you are to far gone and you may as well vote for
Hillary in 2008. Think about solar flares before listening to Al
Gore and his prophets of blame. Look at the data and do comparisons.
Solar flares mean more heat, drought, and big bad hurricanes. Since May
of 2006 things have been calming down. Summer was warm and long but we
actually had a Fall season and a real winter for 2006-2007. The Pacific
hurricane season was busy for 2006, but in the year of an El' Nino it
was expected and could also explain the lower number of hurricanes for
the gulf states as well.
I feel it's the extra water vapor in the atmosphere that is helping
the size and intensity of the hurricanes. The solar flares get more going, but Hurricane forecasters are
missing an important
ingredient in forecasting hurricanes in strength, size, and where they
can go. Sure the temperature of the water is a big part and how deep
that warm water is, the trade winds, and other factors they currently
use but they are missing one thing. I believe it's fresh water. I
thought about that when we had a hurricane in December of '05
heading towards the Netherlands. Spain got hit as well. So late in the
year, and so far north during a time of year when the water temps were
too cool to
support such a hurricane, yet there it was. Wilma was also so
impressive I knew some
other force had to be at work. I hope somebody of great importance
reads this and figures out a way to work the amount of fresh water
vapor in the atmosphere into the hurricane forecasting models. It may
make a
difference. A hurricane is basically water right? Just a spinning mass
of water saturated clouds. More water vapor in the air, bigger and
badder hurricanes. Makes more sense to me than saying George Bush
created Katrina.
I
bring up the subject of hurricanes for another reason. That reason
is what happened in 2006. Not 2005 which saw a record
breaking number of storms but the year 2006. The year
2006 will go down in history as a "egg on your face" bad job on
predicting what would happen. It would appear that not just one person
got it wrong, but a multitude of climatetologists botched this one.
They were so far off on the hurricane forecast for 2006, I will boldly
state they do not know what they are doing. They clearly have
no
idea. O.k. so dust from Africa spoiled their predictions....or did it?
Do we really know? Do they? They
are using models that take what past hurricanes did and trying to
determine which way the new one is going to go. This just may work one
day when they get about 2
million hurricanes logged into these super computers under every type
of weather
condition, water temp, and day of the week. Until then, they can
estimate, guess, hypothesize and probably come up with a pretty good
idea of where the current hurricane is heading based on the current
weather conditions
around it. But that is just for hurricanes that form not for ones that
may form a year from now. They have no clue how many will form on any
given year and to predict that given the limited knowledge and data we
have is insane. Even with the failed predictions of 2006 they announce
we have 10 years until we lose our grip on this planet's climate. Don't
try to tell me what 2007 or 2008 or 50 years from
now is going to be like. You don't know. 2006 proved it. And just
like they flopped on that prediction, they will flop on the global
warming prediction as well.
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