Stop in for a cup of coffee

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dukeboy_318 said:
Basically the east coast is out of diesel or nearly out.
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We would like to help, but the county stupidvisors decided they didn't want the crude from the offshore platforms "trucked" through the county. The pipeline that carried it to the LA refineries had a catastrophic failure not long ago and it is still under repair.:BangHead:
 
Sublime one said:
Searcy
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I was in Searcy two weekends ago. About a 2 hour drive.

dukeboy_318 said:
Basically the east coast is out of diesel or nearly out.
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really?? I hope the truckers are aware, I have a friend that had a load headed out on the east coast this week, I believe he is nearly there now somewhere.
 
memike said:
I was in Searcy two weekends ago. About a 2 hour drive.

really?? I hope the truckers are aware, I have a friend that had a load headed out on the east coast this week, I believe he is nearly there now somewhere.
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I got it from a trucker friend of mine in New Jersey
 
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Morning all, mid 60s here today. Need to get some things done around the house. after coffee of course.
 
Got out and did the weed n feed on front lawn while it was still wet so it sticks to the weeds. Perfect timing as they want it watered after 24 hours to get the crabgrass stuff into the soil. Rain on the way for tomorrow :thumbsup: I did screw up the spreader settings. Even has conversion right on the spreader, but I aligned the bottom of the slide instead of the pointer, so it was coming out too fast for the first few passes. :wtf: Realized it was going to be empty before I was done and backed it off. Then figured out what happened when I was done. Should be OK, don't think it was enough to burn it. Just sucks, cause the center of the yard didn't get as much as it should. Try again next year lol. I do have another bag without haltz for the back, so will use some of that in one area I missed. Gonna let this go a couple days so we can bring Holley out front when I do the back.

Good Morning
 
Gotta go back up to Lenscrafters again this morning. Getting both regular and safety glasses. (almost $1K after insurance :eek:) Picked up the safetys yesterday, and they ain't right... I had my prescription done at my old Doc. Hasn't changed in over 5 years. So new glasses should have been no 'adjustment' period. But Looking out of the right lens at my phone it looks twisted. :wtf: Hopefully the other pair are OK. They are the only place I can get the safety glasses for work. Place that usually does them for my eye doc won't take my insurance anymore, so got both at LC. Hopefully they get fixed without too many visits...:BangHead:
 
Tooljunkie said:
Passed the gas station.
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Uhhhh…uhuhuhuhuhuh…huhuhuhuhuh…you said, "passed gas". Huhuhuhuhuhuh.

[$1.809] per litre.
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$2.099 over here this morning. That's $6.203 in US Dollars per US gallon.

What in the actual **** is going on?
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1. Russia's shіtsmear dictator-for-life is bombing Ukraine into bloody dust.

2. Oil companies are profiteering (again/still).

Talk about taking advantage of a crisis.
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When the price of crude goes up, gas prices jump up immediately because "Well, the price of crude has gone up, so we have no choice"…but when the price of crude goes down, gas prices stay up and stay up and stay up and maybe eventually drop by a cent or two because "Well, yeah, the price of crude dropped, but we still have all that high-priced crude we bought before, so we have no choice".

Before metrication, Canada used the Imperial Gallon, 4.125 litres (the US Gallon is 3.785 litres). The one sturdy argument against Canada adopting the Metric System in the '70s was that it would make gas price gouging easier, and it has. That's because the litre is smaller than the gallon so any given price looks smaller on the sign; this gave oil companies a lot of room to increase prices without popular revolt, because people mostly react to the number on the sign (at least until it comes time to pay for the fill-up).

It also made every price increase look way smaller. Suppose a litre of gas is $1.915 on Monday, and it rises 3.5% on Tuesday: the sign reads $1.982. Pfft, that's less than 7¢, minor fluctuation, whatever, not worth bitching about. Yeah? Now let's put it in Imperial Gallons: $7.899 on Monday; $8.175 on Tuesday. That's almost 28¢, more than a quarter of a dollar overnight.
 
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zkx14 said:
Gotta go back up to Lenscrafters again this morning. Getting both regular and safety glasses. (almost $1K after insurance :eek:) Picked up the safetys yesterday, and they ain't right... I had my prescription done at my old Doc. Hasn't changed in over 5 years. So new glasses should have been no 'adjustment' period. But Looking out of the right lens at my phone it looks twisted. :wtf: Hopefully the other pair are OK. They are the only place I can get the safety glasses for work. Place that usually does them for my eye doc won't take my insurance anymore, so got both at LC. Hopefully they get fixed without too many visits...:BangHead:
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Ouch.
Hope they straighten that lens out.
Yes its hard to get safety presciption glasses. I also find it difficult to get a perspription that matches the task. I don't wan tto be ripping boards on a table say with glasses set for reading a book. The answer, at least for me, was not a progressive because the distortions make it hard to be sure everything is straight.
 
slantsixdan said:
Uhhhh…uhuhuhuhuhuh…huhuhuhuhuh…you said, "passed gas". Huhuhuhuhuhuh.



$2.099 over here this morning. That's $6.203 in US Dollars per US gallon.



1. Russia's shіtsmear dictator-for-life is bombing Ukraine into bloody dust.

2. Oil companies are profiteering (again/still).



When the price of crude goes up, gas prices jump up immediately because "Well, the price of crude has gone up, so we have no choice"…but when the price of crude goes down, gas prices stay up and stay up and stay up and maybe eventually drop by a cent or two because "Well, yeah, the price of crude dropped, but we still have all that high-priced crude we bought before, so we have no choice".

Before metrication, Canada used the Imperial Gallon, 4.125 litres (the US Gallon is 3.785 litres). The one sturdy argument against Canada adopting the Metric System in the '70s was that it would make gas price gouging easier, and it has. That's because the litre is smaller than the gallon so any given price looks smaller on the sign; this gave oil companies a lot of room to increase prices without popular revolt, because people mostly react to the number on the sign (at least until it comes time to pay for the fill-up).

It also made every price increase look way smaller. Suppose a litre of gas is $1.915 on Monday, and it rises 3.5% on Tuesday: the sign reads $1.982. Pfft, that's less than 7¢, minor fluctuation, whatever, not worth bitching about. Yeah? Now let's put it in Imperial Gallons: $7.899 on Monday; $8.175 on Tuesday. That's almost 28¢, more than a quarter of a dollar overnight.
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And the guy responsible for the metric system owned a chain of fuel suppliers on the east coast. Now his successor is in charge,following almost identical patterns. Plenty of oil in the west, but shut it down so it passes through his distribution network first.
 
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