Gas prices

4.25 for diesel Steve....still gettin 50 mpg lol, i just did my annual 20,000 mile oil, change

Yes it is high, but if you had to push your truck 20 miles, would you pay someone $4.08 to move it for you?

That would seem like a bargain!

I found the solution to high gas prices. Just take your car back in time and fill up!

This one had been closed since the 70's. I pulled up just to take a photo and an old guy (older than me) came out of the door while I was taking it. You can see him in the doorway. He wondered what I was doing and we talked. He invited me inside and we sat around his coal stove and drank a pop while he told me of the old days in his town, which was now all but gone. There is still a Larwill Indiana, but it moved to a different location. His last name was Platt and he was a WWII vet. His wife had dementia and he still went to the station every day and just hung out, visited by his old friends now and then. The station still has the old inventory from when he closed it in the 70's and a repair and machine shop in the rear. You can see the cases of pop stacked behind him. He told me about the old hospital, built in the 19th century, that was still standing, and I found a church that had long been abandoned. I took a photo of that too. I often travel the back roads when the spirit moves me and talk to people along the way. There is something about history that moves me. I guess that's why I like the old boats too. I am not sure why I am sharing this, just over caffinated I suspect.

Hansel wrote: Hi Kirk, Per Wikipedia "Funding of science", in major industrialized such as the US around 70% of what might be called "research" or "R&D" takes place in industry, with the remaining 30% split close to evenly by universities and government. Our country spends around $300 billion/yr on "research." For example, at UW-Madison where I am research expenditures are in the $1+ billion/yr range. I would hazard a guess that much if not most of that money comes from the Federal Government. Annual spending by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) runs around $30 billion/yr and the National Science Foundation is funded to the tune of $7+ billion/yr. Other major Federal funding sources include the Dept. of Energy, USDA, USGS, EPA, FDA, and a host of other sources. Private industry is also collaborating increasingly often with universities; in fact the UW-Madison's Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID) was recently named "Laboratory of the Year by R&D Magazine. It is a crass notion to think that academics "use" those on the lower rungs, at least relative to any other human endeavor. I am sure that it happens in some cases and at some level, as department heads and project advisors have a vested interest in getting results as we all do. My experience is that department heads and others are facilitators of research. I (a student) get to publish my own results. I know that things can be different in other places/departments/etc. but I don't think it is valid assumption to say that that is the paradigm. That is "reserach" in general. If you want to know about climate research, I will have to do a bit more digging and get back to you. Where in Michigan are you from? I grew up on the west side of the lower peninsula!

Even though this thread is rather dead, I came across this report today and thought I would share it with anybody who is interested in research and development at US universities.

NSF Research Summary

GlassSeeker wrote: Another article showing oil rig count is at a 25 year high currently---so how has Obama cut off all drilling????????????????????? Well, he hasn't and that folks is the truth of the matter. Drill baby drill is exactly what is happening

You think it's 87 or 93?

eric lavine wrote: just a taste of rightyganda

Is that shot pointed at me?

He's tauting oil rigs and he posted an article about natural gas?!!?

Is this all a bunch of leftaganda to make us believe Obama likes fossil fuels. OF COURSE HE DOESN'T! Keep going guys, I think you almost have yourselves convinced.

Pete.....I deal in more specialty type resins (conductive, lubricated, FR, etc), and we haven't had an announced price increase since last August. That said, unfilled polypropylene did go up around $.16/lb. in February. All in all, its been pretty quiet on most other base resins especially considering what has been going on with the price of oil.

Sorry I guess for some I'd have to say "you have to read the article to possibly understand it"...I thought that was a given. If I have to say that then your chances of undestanding the article is nil anyway.

And nowhere does it say "on private land"

ahhhhh, your only chances of a righty for 4 years quit yesterday...

eric lavine wrote: ahhhhh, your only chances of a righty for 4 years quit yesterday...

A self proclaimed liberal, a self proclaimed moderate, and a self proclaimed conservative walk into a bar, the bar tender looks up a says............Hi Mitt.

davidg wrote: Is this all a bunch of leftaganda to make us believe Obama likes fossil fuels. OF COURSE HE DOESN'T! Keep going guys, I think you almost have yourselves convinced.

His grandfather worked for the evil oil companies, so did his father, and his mother worked for the evil banks and didn't like to pay taxes (she had tax leins as high as $13K).

So do as Obama says, not as his family did.

He said and has said 2% of the worlds proven reserves.. which was and is still correct.. how is that misinformation. Unlike what you are doing here which is spreading misinformation by saying that he said 2% of the worlds oil which he didnt.

Gas prices are on the way back down.. btw.. but that is no more obamas doing than when they were going up.   

JoeinNY wrote: He said and has said 2% of the worlds proven reserves.. which was and is still correct.. how is that misinformation. Unlike what you are doing here which is spreading misinformation by saying that he said 2% of the worlds oil which he didnt. Gas prices are on the way back down.. btw.. but that is no more obamas doing than when they were going up.

Using proven reserves is like using existing technology for alternative energy. Our president on one had gambles with tax payer money on the "future" of green technology, and compares it to "present" of oil industry who is willing to invest private funds on their own future. We are being mislead by Obama only siting proven reserves. Technically recoverable oil is a far more accurate look at the industries and our countries future.