Ukraine / Russia

[VikingsGuy]

As much as I don't trust any of those folks in control down there around Lake Maracaibo, I distrust Putin completely. I'd rather prop up those folks down south, with hopefully some sort of influence and understanding of what is mutually beneficial and put more pressure on Russian O&G. Not sure how easy it is to turn on the tap down there.

There is something to be said about fixing Venezuala, more rare earth metal mining in Chile, move manufacturing back to US & Mexico and stick to the Western Hemisphere - the old world just can't keep its chit together. While I doubt we ever truly turn our back on our European ancestors, at least we would have minimal supply chain entanglements.

 

[Big Fin]

Q: Tell me any other hunting forum that has a resident oil & gas market expert like @wllm1313?

A: Ain't none.

With serious gratitude, thanks for being here and sharing your inside knowledge on a topic that influences so many things. You keep the misinformed comments on O&G hidden in the broom closet.

 

[Irrelevant]

Q: Tell me any other hunting forum that has a resident oil & gas market expert like @wllm1313?

A: Ain't none.

With serious gratitude, thanks for being here and sharing your inside knowledge on a topic that influences so many things. You keep the misinformed comments on O&G hidden in the broom closet.

pretty high praise... for a millennial! Weren't they all supposed to be lazy, basement dwelling, leaches on the system?

 

[Big Fin]

pretty high praise... for a millennial! Weren't they all supposed to be lazy, basement dwelling, leaches on the system?

I've got ten of those supposed lazy, basement dwelling, millennial leeches working for me in this media operation. So far, so good, even if their idea of deadlines and punctuality are quite different than the boss, a Boomer (by six weeks a Boomer) who spent his adult life selling time and meeting tax deadlines.

 

[schmalts]

There is something to be said about fixing Venezuala, more rare earth metal mining in Chile, move manufacturing back to US & Mexico and stick to the Western Hemisphere - the old world just can't keep its chit together. While I doubt we ever truly turn our back on our European ancestors, at least we would have minimal supply chain entanglements.

I still think that Keystone pipeline shutdown was nothing but idiotic. I'd rather we but as much oil from our friends next door than anywhere else.

 

[longbow51]

And just like that, covid no longer is a big deal with the media..

Putin Receives Nobel Prize In Medicine For Ending COVID Pandemic

SWITZERLAND—After serious deliberations deep inside the super-secret Nobel Prize Compound in Switzerland or wherever, the Nobel committee of medicine deciders have awarded the coveted Nobel Prize in Medicine to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin for singlehandedly ending the COVID pandemic...

babylonbee.com

 

[TN2shot07]

pretty high praise... for a millennial! Weren't they all supposed to be lazy, basement dwelling, leaches on the system?

I also fall in that millennial category so I don’t feel bad saying this. There isn’t much middle ground in where we fall. It goes from awesome, passionate about their field , and out work most people to the basement dwellers…. I’m sure wllm can paint a better picture with a graph tho lol

 

[TOGIE]

I still think that Keystone pipeline shutdown was nothing but idiotic. I'd rather we but as much oil from our friends next door than anywhere else.

maybe there are silver linings, just maybe. it's like how electric cars are opening up hardcore environmentalists eye's to nuclear.

russia seems to be opening up 90% of the worlds eye to a lot of things here.

i think putins biggest miscalculation was the information age we live in and how much of the word would actually, literally, see what was happening.

edit: i hate to even use that term "silver linings." i keep thinking about those mothers and children likely saying goodbye to their husbands and fathers for the last time. no goddamn silver in that no matter what happens.

 

[Irrelevant]

I’m sure wllm can paint a better picture with a graph

...he always does.

 

[Irrelevant]

I still think that Keystone pipeline shutdown was nothing but idiotic. I'd rather we but as much oil from our friends next door than anywhere else.

Yes and no. I 100% agree with that idea, but I also really value the wildness/wilderness/general environment of CA so that when we are completely done destroying what we have, there's still someplace I can go for therapy sessions. Nothing I read about tar sands were ever good. It was all leaking and leeching, whistle blowing this, killing fish that.

 

[Ben Lamb]

I still think that Keystone pipeline shutdown was nothing but idiotic. I'd rather we but as much oil from our friends next door than anywhere else.

Keystone is open. It was the Keystone XL that was shuttered, and IIRC, none of that crude was destined for US markets. It was Canadian oil being transported across private lands taken through eminent domain, to be sold overseas. So the US got most of the risk, but not much of the reward.

 

[Deleted member 16014]

maybe there are silver linings, just maybe. it's like how electric cars are opening up hardcore environmentalists eye's to nuclear.

russia seems to be opening up 90% of the worlds eye to a lot of things here.

i think putins biggest miscalculation was the information age we live in and how much of the word would actually, literally, see what was happening.

edit: i hate to even use that term "silver linings." i keep thinking about those mothers and children likely saying goodbye to their husbands and fathers for the last time. no goddamn silver in that no matter what happens.

I'm with you. Some of those BBC News videos are just brutal. They blur out the faces of the dead but man it makes it feel pretty real.

 

[QuazyQuinton]

I'm with you. Some of those BBC News videos are just brutal. They blur out the faces of the dead but man it makes it feel pretty real.

I was watching a bit last night about the shelling of civilian areas, and they showed a couple running into the ER with their 18-month-old child. Minor detail to most, but the thing I saw instantly was the nurse doing compressions was standing at the foot of the bed with hands around the kids chest and compressing with her thumbs. As a nurse, I can do compressions on "old" people any time, any place, but that stirs a whole different set of emotions. The kid did not make it.

QQ

 

[VikingsGuy]

We have seen a fair bit of press about Russian anti-war protests, but this is the first article I have seen about Russian (and outside Russia) support from average folks.

world-europe-60644832

 

[noharleyyet]

Sidebar...

Six Countries That Aren’t Part of the International Criminal Court

There are plenty of countries that have refused to join the International Criminal Court. You may be surprised which countries are not ICC members.

nomadcapitalist.com

 

[Deleted member 28227]

I also fall in that millennial category so I don’t feel bad saying this. There isn’t much middle ground in where we fall. It goes from awesome, passionate about their field , and out work most people to the basement dwellers…. I’m sure wllm can paint a better picture with a graph tho lol

I work in my basement and am passionate about gifs and corgis... former/latter or middle ground?

 

[noharleyyet]

I work in my basement and am passionate about gifs and corgis... former/latter or middle ground?

 

[TN2shot07]

I work in my basement and am passionate about gifs and corgis... former/latter or middle ground?

Key being your basement, not mom’s…

 

[Ben Lamb]

I work in my basement and am passionate about gifs and corgis... former/latter or middle ground?

 

[schmalts]

Keystone is open. It was the Keystone XL that was shuttered, and IIRC, none of that crude was destined for US markets. It was Canadian oil being transported across private lands taken through eminent domain, to be sold overseas. So the US got most of the risk, but not much of the reward.

It would not go over seas if prices made it more attractive to keep it here. It was to be exported because at the time we did not need it, now we do. It is a commodity, thing change with demands. Again, it is terrible we don't use it instead of asking Arabs and a dictator in Venezuela for oil.