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US Congress acts to avert helium shortage
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| 09-26-2013
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Posted on 09/27/2013 10:14:51 AM PDT by Red Badger
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We're saved!!!.............
To: Red Badger
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posted on
09/27/2013 10:17:55 AM PDT
by
Graewoulf
(Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
To: Red Badger
Its an extremely important industrial gas.
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posted on
09/27/2013 10:18:07 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: Red Badger
The Helium Reserve was created to ensure enough gas was available for US Navy blimps. Out of service for 8 decades now.
And you say, “what horse’s...”
To: Red Badger
Well that is certainly good news. But what have we done to close the
the mine shaft gap! That is the question. Demand answers people!
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posted on
09/27/2013 10:21:57 AM PDT
by
mc5cents
(Pray for America)
To: Red Badger
don’t need helium with all the hot ari coming out of the white house nowadays
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posted on
09/27/2013 10:23:47 AM PDT
by
camle
(keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
To: Red Badger
How appropriate it is that they can all come together to make sure that hot air balloons can stay afloat.
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posted on
09/27/2013 10:26:15 AM PDT
by
grania
To: Red Badger
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posted on
09/27/2013 10:30:24 AM PDT
by
Rio
(Proud resident of the State of Jefferson)
To: cripplecreek
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posted on
09/27/2013 10:31:53 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong. .....Voltaire)
To: Red Badger
If only we could harness the gasbags in Congress...
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posted on
09/27/2013 10:33:13 AM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
To: Red Badger
By October 7, the government would have been required to end helium sales to the private sector, which has yet to develop sufficient infrastructure production and could have faced a surge in prices. As long as the federal government is supplying helium at less than market rates, there will never be sufficient private sector infrastructure.
Make it part of the bill that what the helium reserve will pay for helium will drop by 20% per year, and the helium produces will create their own infrastructure.
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posted on
09/27/2013 10:35:07 AM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
To: Fresh Wind
We can ‘harass’ them’..............
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posted on
09/27/2013 10:35:15 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong. .....Voltaire)
To: PapaBear3625
Better yet, give them a target date for total cut off. They’ll get ‘er done!................
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posted on
09/27/2013 10:36:22 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong. .....Voltaire)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
09/27/2013 10:37:35 AM PDT
by
GeronL
To: Red Badger
I don’t think a lot of people understand how important this is, a finite amount is either mined or separated from natural gas production and stored, keeping the prices moderately stable for manufacturing and medical use is a good thing imho.
The only gas that if released will escape the atmosphere, so once it’s gone, it’s gone for good. Always bothered me to see people just waste thousands of cubic feet of the stuff at a time just to see if yes, you can make a lead balloon float or something else as wasteful.
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posted on
09/27/2013 10:39:19 AM PDT
by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: Red Badger
Up, up and away
In my beautiful baloon.
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posted on
09/27/2013 10:41:50 AM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: Red Badger
Duct tape congress! That would help.
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posted on
09/27/2013 10:43:44 AM PDT
by
RedMDer
(http://www.dontfundobamacare.com/)
To: Red Badger
Isaac Asimov was writing about this 30 years ago.
-PJ
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posted on
09/27/2013 10:43:58 AM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
To: Abathar
provides for continuation of helium sales by auction until the reserve is gradually depleted. ... and then what? This is not a renewable resource?
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posted on
09/27/2013 10:44:05 AM PDT
by
Rio
(Proud resident of the State of Jefferson)
To: grania
Most hot air balloons are fueled with propane.
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posted on
09/27/2013 10:44:19 AM PDT
by
abner
(I have no tagline, therefore no identity.)
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