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In article . net,
Mike Rapoport wrote: Too bad the president doesn't just come out and act Presidential and ask everybody to try to cut their gasoline usage by 10% until the shortage is resolved....Kennedy would have done this, Nixon would have, Carter would have, Reagan would have... Bush is not the president. He just pretends to be. -- Eduardo K. | http://www.carfun.cl | "World domination, now" http://e.nn.cl | Linus Torvalds |
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Matt Barrow opined
"Mike Rapoport" wrote in message ink.net... Our crystal ball (aka TWC) only fortold that the Gulf Coast would be hit, not NO specifically. The point is that little or no pre-landfall preparation seems to have taken place. A few water trucks and a thousand dollars worth of paper cups at the superdome would have gone a long way as would a couple of large generators and a diesel truck to fuel them (all availible at the local equipment rental company). There are people who's job is to think of this stuff and they had decades to think it through. I find their performance unsatisfactory. The outcome of a levee breach at NO has been feature on almost every hurricane show I have ever watched on TV. This shouldn't have been a surprise. One of the two levees that broke had recently been upgraded. The old ones held fast. http://nytimes.com/2005/09/01/nation...l/01levee.html Sounds like they used the same contractors that Boaton used for the Big Dig. -ash Cthulhu in 2005! Why wait for nature? |
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On 31-Aug-05 10:11, Dan Luke wrote:
CNN video: NEW looks bad; partially under water. Heavy damage to most buildings, particularly the large Millionaire FBO west of 18/36. Wonder how long it will be before we make the $100 muffaletta trip to Lakefront again--if indeed we ever do? This is so sad, really. Especially the seemingly lack of efficiency in helping these people. It is even more sad to observe all this scavenging and the violence in the city of New Orleans. We did landed on NEW I believe 2001 on our way home from LAL Sun'n'fun to California. We landed on Monday late afternoon. lake Pontchartrain was soaked in purple and was looking so peaceful... Our FFO was Million Air. Because on Monday it is so quiet in New Orleans, we got from them a transport to French Quarter and a room in Royal Senesta at the Bourbon St for $110, if my memory serves me. The regular rack price posted on the door was some $390 or a similar insane value. The room was very plain, like a nice $80 hotel someplace else. We did walked the night along the Quarter, got the Jambalaya and the pieces of a Gator, and the next day we walked toward Jackson Square and took breakfast in one of the French style bakeries, was the name Madelaine? It was excellent, we did not wanted leave. But the schedule was to be observed! We left around noon and we took off, heading west. Next landing Junction, Texas. Than El Paso for the night. I really feel so awful for the people of New Orleans and of all the countless other places around the Golf. It is so attractive and serene, so Mediterranean, until, well until the nature shows its devastating side. This makes me think about "the next big one" here in California. We do not have such winds on the West Coast, but we know that it will shake violently again one day... It might than shake up our existence at a similar scale! Thomas, PAO Thomas |
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Our area farmers can't afford the fuel prices when they were "good" as
compared to now. Many here have simply started raising cattle. Rice, soybeans, sugercane and wheat can't produce a profit at the current market price they bring... Good! Maybe they will stop over-producing and allow the price to rise back to a profitable level? Oh, wait -- the Feds keep paying them tax money whether it's profitable to till the land, or not. Never mind.... :-( -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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In some cases they pay them not to till the land at all Bet that one
really gets ya ! Patrick student SPL aircraft structural mech "Jay Honeck" wrote in message news:hhPSe.310417$_o.21182@attbi_s71... Our area farmers can't afford the fuel prices when they were "good" as compared to now. Many here have simply started raising cattle. Rice, soybeans, sugercane and wheat can't produce a profit at the current market price they bring... Good! Maybe they will stop over-producing and allow the price to rise back to a profitable level? Oh, wait -- the Feds keep paying them tax money whether it's profitable to till the land, or not. Never mind.... :-( -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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Our area farmers can't afford the fuel prices when they were "good" as
compared to now. Many here have simply started raising cattle. Rice, soybeans, sugercane and wheat can't produce a profit at the current market price they bring... How many pounds of grain does it take to produce a gallon of ethanol? |
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john smith wrote:
How many pounds of grain does it take to produce a gallon of ethanol? If I remember the recipe correctly, it takes a little over a bushel per gallon. Corn weighs about 56 pounds per bushel. George Patterson Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks. |
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Jay Honeck wrote:
Our area farmers can't afford the fuel prices when they were "good" as compared to now. Many here have simply started raising cattle. Rice, soybeans, sugercane and wheat can't produce a profit at the current market price they bring... Good! Maybe they will stop over-producing and allow the price to rise back to a profitable level? Imports from other countries won't allow for that. Lots of countries won't take our exports... Oh, wait -- the Feds keep paying them tax money whether it's profitable to till the land, or not. The actually pay us to not plant in some cases... Never mind.... Is that something like *geaux fish*? |
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