Recent content by Jcp123

I’m living this nightmare. As of around 1400, my wife was given a 10% chance of surviving the night. Being in your mid 30s and thinking about being a single dad isn’t pretty.

Eh...just drill here and be insensitive to what everybody else does with oil. $4 gasoline hurts even though I average around 45mpg. We have lots of dead dinosaurs down there, take advantage of that...please.

Oh no! The sky is falling! Bubba and Billy are gonna carry their guns next to their 30 pack of Bud light in their El Camino.

Nah. Then your frustrated neighborhood thieves just drill your tank instead.

All things considered, we ain’t that far behind you. And I’m gonna be driving a Uhaul towing my Civic in this mess. Oh boy, oh joy.

Doubtful. 155mpg?! Maybe on UK gallons...I could see 110 or 120 MAX, and that’s merely plausible not probable. I’m damn sure not buying new though...I’d be buying the cheapest one I could get. Sub-$1000 for a rideable one isn’t out of the question...or at least, it wasn’t before dead Dino juice...

FWIW, I was too young to know what was going on during Gulf 1, but we were requested to intervene, so while I don’t support foreign interventionism a la John Quicy Adams’ warning not to seek foreign monsters to slay, it was at least not a clusterf**k of questionable decisions. Gulf II was not a...

I agree but that ship has sailed. Even if the Feds released every shackle they have on oil production, it would probably not yield palpable results until around the end of this year. In the meanwhile, yeah, I’m willing to absorb the costs if it means we aren’t lining Russia’s (Putin’s) pockets...

When I was I NY in mid-Feb, fuel was around $3.50/g. I took a few days to drive back to TX, and when I got here it was hovering around $3.10ish at my local cheap station, which as of last night was $3.199. It’s going up everywhere...and won’t stop for a while. Somewhere in the $4 range it will...

Diversity is a big thing for me; I don’t feel as comfortable in homogeneous settings as I do in well-mixed ones, just because of where I grew up; except for precious few areas, you weren’t likely to be anything more than a plurality of any demographic grouping. But it was organic diversity and...

Well, I was being a bit facetious and satirical, but on the other hand a lot of what I want to say wouldn’t apply if she weren’t a...she.

Hell no we shouldn’t just blindly support cops. A lot of the ones where I’ve lived both in CA and TX have been mainly focused on traffic enforcement. Anything between that and murder and they look like Keystone Kops. Many have been straight up dicks, like the Milpitas, CA cop who pulled my...

I struggle to come up with anything which isn’t a bit sexist other than that I rarely hear anything from her pontifications which makes any sense to me. I’d rather her be a guy so I don’t have to be afraid of being cancelled!

I mean, of course the State of the Union speech was full of bluster and baseless optimism. That’s just how it goes. His speaking gaffes were numerous. I even saw Pelosi’s eyes flutter a bit in...disgust? Annoyance?...at one of his gaffes. I’m not one of those people who even remotely thinks I...

Well that’s why I say the Russians will win the battles - and take Ukraine - but ultimately it will be a costly boondoggle as it’s clear the Ukrainians want no part of it. Already it appears that the Ukrainians are a dangerous combination of brave and scrappy. My hunch is that even if/when...