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Doc

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Exxonmobil just reported profits of $40.6 BILLION , all time record. You get rid of all the ILLEGAL immigrants then we sure as heck would be using a lot less fuel .
 

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In some ways the oil business is almost obscene in the money that is being made. In my area, many of the oil wells being drilled ,have produced enough oil to pay for the drilling costs by the time the pipe is pulled and the drilling rig is moved off the site. For those fortunate to have oil rights, it has made many people multi millionaires in a very short time. I have a good friend who farms close to me, who makes 1 million a week from oil. There are many in the purebred cattle industry in Canada who have built their herds with oil money.

Many so called experts are predicting oil to high $150 a barrel in the next few years, which is over 50% more than it is right now. If that is the case, we will really see a change in the way we do things. One of my neighbours told me recently that his fuel bill during harvest last fall was $1400 a day. That may be OK with today's grain prices but grain is bound to drop again probably as soon as some country has a bumper crop again. Add these fuel prices to $400,000 combines, $325,000 Tractors and $185,000 air seeders etc etc etc, and farming appears to be a bigger game of chance than those offered in Vegas.

A tool push on a drilling rig recently told me that he had increased the wages $10 per hour right across the board, in hopes of getting enough workers. I asked if he would put that in terms that I could understand and he said that this means a kid out of high school washing equipment with a water hose would clear about $4000 a month. Someone who had worked on the rig for 5 years would average about $10,000 a month. Besides this, they have health benefits and there  is also an unwritten rule on the rigs that workers can fill their trucks with diesel fuel, from the drilling rig tanks. That is why you never see a gas truck at a rig site. I asked this guy why he was having so much trouble getting enough workers at those wages and he said " the reason is that every time we do a random drug test we lose about 1/2 of our workers". I guess that is a sign of the times. Personally, I think that if I had a chance to make $10,000 a month after working for 5 years, that I would be satisfied with having a beer on my day off, and be able to resist using drugs.

The problem that most of us in agriculture in the US and Canada have, is that we are very dependent on oil and its byproducts. Most everything we do, involves driving several miles. The next few years are going to get " very interesting".
 

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Justintime:
Last year a rig drilled a well near my step-mother's place that I work...she owned 1/4 of the well.  It had a great showing but they could not make a well out of it.  The rig was moved 2 miles north and they had a GREAT showing but it didn't make a well.  The owners of the rig had an unannounced drug test.  The driller got back his results......  he was pregnant, the rest of his crew failed the test.  All were fired, and I guess the driller got a double whammy, as his girlfriend was pregnant and he had no job.  They moved the rig over 20 yards and hit a tremendous well but have not come back to near our place.
 

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I dont know if it has been stated or not but, another big reason the gas prices are so high is our wonderful government and enviromentalists! They have it so NO ONE can build a refinery in the US. It is regulated so hard that it is not worth it for any company to build or they the govt just will not allow it. So in a way we are shooting ourselves in the foot in the US. We want our land to be perfect and we are not willing to give any to get any in return. By "we" I mean enviromentalists and all the tree huggers!
 

shorthorns r us

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that neighbor that hadn't started his tractor all winter sounds like a genious when you look at it that way.

justintime said:
In some ways the oil business is almost obscene in the money that is being made. In my area, many of the oil wells being drilled ,have produced enough oil to pay for the drilling costs by the time the pipe is pulled and the drilling rig is moved off the site. For those fortunate to have oil rights, it has made many people multi millionaires in a very short time. I have a good friend who farms close to me, who makes 1 million a week from oil. There are many in the purebred cattle industry in Canada who have built their herds with oil money.

Many so called experts are predicting oil to high $150 a barrel in the next few years, which is over 50% more than it is right now. If that is the case, we will really see a change in the way we do things. One of my neighbours told me recently that his fuel bill during harvest last fall was $1400 a day. That may be OK with today's grain prices but grain is bound to drop again probably as soon as some country has a bumper crop again. Add these fuel prices to $400,000 combines, $325,000 Tractors and $185,000 air seeders etc etc etc, and farming appears to be a bigger game of chance than those offered in Vegas.

A tool push on a drilling rig recently told me that he had increased the wages $10 per hour right across the board, in hopes of getting enough workers. I asked if he would put that in terms that I could understand and he said that this means a kid out of high school washing equipment with a water hose would clear about $4000 a month. Someone who had worked on the rig for 5 years would average about $10,000 a month. Besides this, they have health benefits and there  is also an unwritten rule on the rigs that workers can fill their trucks with diesel fuel, from the drilling rig tanks. That is why you never see a gas truck at a rig site. I asked this guy why he was having so much trouble getting enough workers at those wages and he said " the reason is that every time we do a random drug test we lose about 1/2 of our workers". I guess that is a sign of the times. Personally, I think that if I had a chance to make $10,000 a month after working for 5 years, that I would be satisfied with having a beer on my day off, and be able to resist using drugs.

The problem that most of us in agriculture in the US and Canada have, is that we are very dependent on oil and its byproducts. Most everything we do, involves driving several miles. The next few years are going to get " very interesting".
 

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"Static Population"

Don't they practice that in China?

Can you fully explain your theories? My 'Hillbilly' mind can't fathom controlling the population, without equating this idea to EXTREME Government intervention into our personal lives.

GB
 

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Has anyone seen the new movie "There will be blood"?  FYI, its loosely based on Upton Sinclair's Oil! The quote near the end:  I drink your milshake! I drink it up! --Much like shell oil only with our dollars as a milkshake.
 

knabe

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garybob said:
"Static Population"

Don't they practice that in China?

Can you fully explain your theories? My 'Hillbilly' mind can't fathom controlling the population, without equating this idea to EXTREME Government intervention into our personal lives.

GB

japan does a pretty good job controlling population, so does europe.  it doesn't have to come from the government as in china, and they are in a population panic.

basically you can "control" population by not subsidizing it and increasing incentives for responsibility.
one could do this by eliminating the child tax credit after 2 kids.
enforcing zoning laws
illegals (of any race) entering a market, by it's very nature, requires more kids and more of them living in the currently zoned restrictions.

take away the incentives and people will have less kids, in general.  we did in america, and now the tables are being turned for both votes and cheaper labor.  nurses and teachers from the philippines at cut rate salaries to teach americans and provide health care is going to be another thing california gives you.  they can't, by percentages communicate with the people being served because of their cultural differences.

we just refuse to "subsidize" legal behavior.  its' really as simple as that.  bush chose to subsidize illegal behavior, all the while proclaiming to be a law abiding citizen.  he had an illegal alien housekeeper for years.  senators lost their jobs over this, but bush was able to keep it quiet.


ponzi schemes are the most underreported and least identified tax draining, vote diliuting practice in the world today.
 

garybob

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Filipina Nurses are already in NW AR. Especially in Harrison and Mountain Home, at those two hospitals.
 

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I drive a 100 miles each way to my office.  So I feel the pain of gas prices.  But our oil was way too cheap for way too long.  It's a little on the high side now, but don't forget that all this money get pumped right back into the economy.  Texas as a whole does very well when oil prices are good.  It helps our schools, our cities, and businesses a lot.

Your nuclear power is on the way. There are going to be a bunch of them built in the next couple of decades.  You don't hear anything about it, but the environmental groups support them because the alternative is more coal plants.  Permit applications are being finalized for over two dozen new reactors now.

Bush isn't that bad and neither was Clinton.  Bush has served his purpose and I will be glad to get someone new.  If nothing else, we've put the world on notice not to push us too far.  A whole lot of congressman from both parties were just fine with letting Bush play bad cop.  I just don't particularly like any of the front runners from either party.
 

kimbaljd

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I am completely with you Chambero. Our gas has been very cheap compared to Europe and other countries. I also drive about 70 miles a day and am feeling the pain but has been a long time coming. I am from Houston so I see all the benefits of the high oil prices as well.

I think there are a lot more politicians that agree with Bush than are letting on, but its politics and they are just going to say whatever the people want to hear. Which is actually disgusting. Say what you mean and mean what you say.
 
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