Please Sir, may I have some more?

[Hawkmoon]

There is also a HUGE difference between electrifying a sedan and a big tractor or other piece of equipment. A D6 dozer burns almost a hundred gallons of diesel a shift, a 36 ton excavator burns 150 gallons of fuel a day. A John Deere combine looks to burn a little over 300 gallons a day. Those all have Diesel engines that convert that fuel burn as efficiently as possible and to change that kind of energy requirement to a battery powered system would be very prohibitive. But you can’t get the green freaks to understand that they think you can feed the world an acre at a time like the sharecroppers did.

Someone should ask AOC how many people she was able to feed from her awesome little urban garden plot.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2019/05/02/aoc-and-her-garden-n2545697

In a recent video checking out her small plot in a community garden in Washington, D.C., Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) seemed to marvel at the fact that vegetables grow out of the ground.

[zxcvbob]

Someday they'll have nucular freight trains, D6s, excavators, and combines. (probably nothing smaller than that, though)  But I don't think it'll be in my lifetime.

[Jim147]

Someday they'll have nucular freight trains, D6s, excavators, and combines. (probably nothing smaller than that, though)  But I don't think it'll be in my lifetime.

Won't have to worry about getting cold in the winter.

[French G.]

Someday they'll have nucular freight trains, D6s, excavators, and combines. (probably nothing smaller than that, though)  But I don't think it'll be in my lifetime.

Nuke train is my pet idea damnit! Create lots of jobs, if you're worried put 50 security crew riding every one. Park the extras on a siding and plug them into the grid.

[Bogie]

The anti-energy (that's what they are...) folks WANT the peasants to have to be subsistence farmers. Gonna suck to live in cities. They'll get the gruel, etc...

[WLJ]

Nuke train is my pet idea damnit! Create lots of jobs, if you're worried put 50 security crew riding every one. Park the extras on a siding and plug them into the grid.

How about a nuclear bus?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Bus

[Perd Hapley]

What is a tame black person?

Someone who understands his role is to vote for Joe Biden, and make blue check whities feel good about how woke they are?

[Hawkmoon]

Someone who understands his role is to vote for Joe Biden, and make blue check whities feel good about how woke they are by making them feel bad about how white and privileged they are?

FIFY

[Perd Hapley]

...make blue check whities feel good about how woke they are...

...making them feel bad about how white and privileged they are...

Isn't that the same thing?

[WLJ]

Being woke means making yourself and everyone around you as miserable as possible.

[Hawkmoon]

Being woke means making yourself and everyone around you as miserable as possible.

Being woke is the ultimate schizophrenia -- you tell yourself that you're good for telling yourself how bad you are.

[Ben]

Begging for more oil from OPEC while looking to shut down more US oil production:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-admin-considering-shutting-down-michigan-pipeline

Key quote for me from the article:

Explaining he has trouble understanding why some Western leaders seem unable to grasp the importance of reliable, affordable energy and electricity for everyday citizens, Haynes said, "It seems like the only nations that understand that we require reliable, affordable dispatchable energy is China and Russia. And they're the only ones that are producing energy and they're more than happy to hold that energy hostage for the rest of the world."

[K Frame]

Are we surprised?

In the least little bit?

[Jim147]

Lets go Brandon.

[MechAg94]

Thinking about electric stuff.  I went to Home Depot with my Dad last weekend.  He was looking at chain saws, I was looking at lawn trimmers.  I was surprised that Home Depot had more electric mowers on display than gas.  Same with trimmers/edgers.  More battery driven tools than gas.  I haven't shopped for lawn equipment in a 3 or 4 years.  I was a bit surprised at the change.  This Home Depot was in Brenham, TX which is a medium sized town with a lot of rural area around it. 

I ended up getting a DeWalt trimmer (battery powered).  If that works out, I need a drill/screw driver in future.  Odd thing is you can buy the trimmer without the battery and charger for $30 to $50 less, but the batteries were $150 sold separately. 

[Ben]

Just saw an interview with Granholm where she claims that oil companies have over 7000 unused leases in the US and there is nothing stopping them from drilling in them. I would assume nothing other than regulations and expenses that make them prohibitive to start. I'm betting a large percentage of them are "holdback" leases the companies bought in case of regulation changes, new technologies, etc.

So she's basically saying, "Hey we shut down active leases that were producing oil - big deal. They can start from scratch on new leases and hope they pan out." Though if any oil companies attempted to drill in those leases, I suspect any of them with federal involvement would be tied up in environmental impact reports at least through the rest of the 46 administration.

[Boomhauer]

Thinking about electric stuff.  I went to Home Depot with my Dad last weekend.  He was looking at chain saws, I was looking at lawn trimmers.  I was surprised that Home Depot had more electric mowers on display than gas.  Same with trimmers/edgers.  More battery driven tools than gas.  I haven't shopped for lawn equipment in a 3 or 4 years.  I was a bit surprised at the change.  This Home Depot was in Brenham, TX which is a medium sized town with a lot of rural area around it. 

I ended up getting a DeWalt trimmer (battery powered).  If that works out, I need a drill/screw driver in future.  Odd thing is you can buy the trimmer without the battery and charger for $30 to $50 less, but the batteries were $150 sold separately. 

The battery stuff has grown a lot in popularity due to getting much better in both the tool and battery departments. For the small lot owner it’s perfect without the headache of small engines.

I have a 40V brushless Ryobi big weedeater that is every bit the equal power wise to any commercial weed eater I have used.

[MillCreek]

I read this article on gas prices.  I don't know enough about the subject to have an opinion on the accuracy of it:  https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/09/investing/premarket-stocks-trading/index.html

[MechAg94]

The battery stuff has grown a lot in popularity due to getting much better in both the tool and battery departments. For the small lot owner it’s perfect without the headache of small engines.

I have a 40V brushless Ryobi big weedeater that is every bit the equal power wise to any commercial weed eater I have used.

That is pretty much why I got one.  I would have opted for a 120 VAC corded model if there was a good one available.  My edger and blower are corded and work fine for what I need.  I still have a gas mower, but that is about as low maintenance as it gets.  Gas weed eaters are a pain in the A if you only need to run them 15 minutes once a month. 

[K Frame]

With such a small property I have virtually no need for gasoline powered equipment and I can really get by with corded equipment. My small chainsaw and my string trimmer are both corded.

The only power tool I have that is battery powered is a drill. I also have a couple of corded drills, but I can't even remember the last time I used one of those.

[WLJ]

    Biden nominee Saule Omarova on the oil, gas, and coal industries:

    "We want them to go bankrupt if we want to tackle climate change”

    pic.twitter.com/7QPbO86FJf

    — Jewish Deplorable (@TrumpJew2) November 9, 2021

https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2021/11/09/biden-treasury-nominee-says-we-want-the-oil-gas-and-coal-industries-to-go-bankrupt/

[MechAg94]

With such a small property I have virtually no need for gasoline powered equipment and I can really get by with corded equipment. My small chainsaw and my string trimmer are both corded.

The only power tool I have that is battery powered is a drill. I also have a couple of corded drills, but I can't even remember the last time I used one of those.

Now that I have a Dewalt trimmer, I am afraid Dewalt battery powered tools that use that same battery might multiply.    

[dogmush]

https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2021/11/09/biden-treasury-nominee-says-we-want-the-oil-gas-and-coal-industries-to-go-bankrupt/

Well, causing the price of their products to skyrocket is an interesting strategy for that.  Let's see how it works out, Cotton.

[WLJ]

Some in the comments on twitter were stating she's a full on communist who publicly wants nothing more than to see the western capitalist world go down in flames.

From wiki

Saule Omarova (Kazakh: Сәуле Тарихқызы Омарова; born 1966) is a Kazakh-American attorney, academic, and public policy advisor who was nominated to serve as comptroller of the currency by President Joe Biden.[1]

Omarova was born in West Kazakhstan Region of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic,[7] stating in a 2020 interview with Chris Hayes that "I went to high school in a small, tiny Kazakh provincial town on the outskirts of the Soviet Empire."[8] Omarova graduated from Moscow State University in 1989 on the Lenin Personal Academic Scholarship.[9] Her thesis from MSU is titled Karl Marx's Economic Analysis and the Theory of Revolution in The Capital.[10] Omarova moved to the United States in 1991,[8] where she received a Ph.D in political science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW), and a Juris Doctor from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law.[2] At UW, Omarova defended her thesis, The Political Economy of Oil in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan.[11]

Yeah...

[Ben]

Man, that treasury nominee is a full blown actual commie. Not an AOC style commie, but the real, card carrying deal. I'm surprised that even this senile administration nominated someone with all that documented baggage.

Edit:WLJ beat me to it by 10 seconds.