Fuel shortage overseas

Oil being sold via Biden is being sold at record highs. And getting to China was Phillips oil selling to a hedge which was selling it to China, something along those lines. Perfectly legal. And Biden could have stopped it, which would have been perfectly legal.
But, the oil by law, needs to be replaced. The strategic reserve is there for a reason, just like corn is a strategic crop. Yet we throw it away and put in our fuel, so we can get worse gas mileage, and pollute more due to manufacturing of ethanol.
And Putins war is being funded due to Bidens policys causing the worlds oil prices to skyrocket, so Russias oil is selling for more. Yet, we fund Ukraine.. You cant make this crap up.

 

Well — Isn’t it great to get together for a nice chat? It gives us all a chance to get to know one another better.

 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB121435999640402271

 

I'd prefer the that everyone came out of the closet. I might not agree with some folks leanings but it might be interesting to see how each "wing" tend to build and use their 4Runner.

 

If it was Tacoma world, thread would be nuked, bans would be flying. I just got the permanent ban there for making a wise crack about the FBI. Actually, it was the truth, but someone got upset and must have hit the report button.

I am glad this isn’t TW, folks need to talk about this shit. The media just pushes their agenda and we all believe it. We need to stop just letting the media do our talking, we need to discuss and research shit. This is our country, with a government for the people, or at least it’s supposed to be. I’m sick of the extreme polarization that the extreme from each side want.
Or, we bury our heads in the sand and hope the government finds some lube at least.

 

I just wish we could put our country first & help all of our own first. Seems like we send billions to others and then tell our people to piss off and take the hit. My tax dollars shouldn’t go to another country.

 

SPOT ON!

 

Not politics, but facts... Trump told Germany in one of their many global summits that they HAD to mvoe away from Russian supplies since they rely so heavily on natural gas. Guess what? They didn't. They will be the first "G-7" country to have serious winter time issue this year. And they have no infrastructure, no water terminals, no conversion processing plants to keep up even remotely with the shortages. Part of that is agreements that still extend from WWII into modern day as penalties for their actions back in the day. It was a way to "reparations" the countries who lost so much during the war. japan is in a similar tariff plan but rely so much less on extraneous fuel sources. Plus they have refineries and coastal regions to accept raw crude.

When the tide shifts come November, it will be interesting how or if a change can occur and how quickly to help the global market. Living int oil rich West Texas, Midland and the Permian Basin will once again become a bastion of production. But it takes time. Time to find employees and drivers for fuel, water, sand and labor. I truly believe this will be a problem we will all live with for at least 4-5 more years, assuming we have any kind of change in the our govt focus. Electricity is on its way, but since we can't sustain our own ability to produce enough for basic living, hwo are we going to add millions of cars to that charging grid?

 

https://www.4runners.com/forums/off-topic-discussion.4/

 

More mature group over here than TW. Most people over here can visit about things without being a jerk.

 

TW is just busy, it’s the busyness that’s makes it good and fun to hang around.

 

I wouldn't bet the farm on a tide shift- anything can happen. Your prediction about West Texas oil production is interesting, but 4-5 years is an eternity. Even if production magically increased to full extraction capacity and infrastructure tomorrow, finding that labor force among today's future workers is a stretch. Kids today just don't want to work hard. In the past three years I have had to put over $25K into our farm house (flat roofing, new foundation drainage, asbestos removal, lead paint abatement...) for things I can no longer do because of age and work time constraints. I will give you one guess and to who DOESN'T show up for these jobs. Yep, young white males. It is always POC, and they work their asses off and I give them big tips for a job well done. This is not a political statement, just an observation. Last week there was a metal roof and siding job being done near our vet's office, and to a man it was Mennonite workers. The jobs are there, the money is there, but the entitlement overshadows all of it. The same holds true for my wife's family farm in KY, which used to grow tobacco the profits from which kept the farm in the black every year. Due to the hostilities against the Lantin immigrants who planted and harvested the tobacco, they no longer come to work, and the local farm kids won't touch it. What does this all have to do with fuel shortages? Nothing directly, except blaming it on whichever wealthy old fart occupies the White House and is always out of touch with real American people makes little sense.

 

Workforce is huge factor. And, once leases are bought, the oil doesnt magically start flowing. It takes time

 

Just kinda basing it off of the big boom a few years ago when they found and got permission to drill all of that oil they found. One deposit has more oil than all of the middle east combined. It isn't just labor... there was no place to house these guys, no pipe, equipment, trucks to haul sand/water, limited engineers for directional drilling (smart process), an over burdened county unable to process everything legally as it was coming around, and then the labor. If a young guy was motivated, he could go work 60 hours a week for 2 years and make an easy $300k just by having a CDL. There a few companies who hired guys and brought in a CDL course instruction as a co-op for all the companies involved. When it went tits at Covid, without exaggeration, you could put nice, mostly underused furniture in 1,000's of homeless shelters. I had a friend who was hesitant to buy homes for AirBNB down there but he realized he could literally go to any apartment complex and furnish any home he wanted. Saved himself easily $30-40k in furnishings. Wish I had the cash to do it back then.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-global-oil-permian-basin/

 

I also agree with you. It’s fun over there. But very different “atmosphere”.