The argument the left is using to attack it is that less gasoline consumption is due to better fuel efficient vehicles that are getting 35 to 50 MPG. At least that has been the argument given by some leftist I have been debating on the merits of the article. In my search for more support of my claim, I remembered the report that showed how the average age of US cars on the road today are actually a record 10.8 years old. So Americans are not driving autos that get better fuel efficiency, instead they are driving vehicles that get much less MPG.
That's right, instead of better fuel efficient cars, Americans are still driving vehicles that were purchased at a time when SUVs and light trucks were the hottest selling vehicles. So when you look at the chart of gasoline deliveries from refineries to gas stations, the fact that most Americans are driving 10 year old or older vehicles that get much lower MPG supports the hypothesis of the article even more.
If anything, we should be using more gasoline because of lower fuel efficient vehicles, but we are still not purchasing gas, and that makes the whole idea of a recovering economy even more laughable, because we are driving much, much less. Looking towards this summer, get ready for summer tourism sites to get hit hard with historically low numbers of visitors. I can see most Americans staying close to home and driving no farther than their local park for a picnic. However, I would not look forward to hearing this administration, nor its propaganda machine, the MSM, to report the truth.
“I can see most Americans staying close to home...”
I’ve stayed so close to home that upon venturing out tonight to visit a relative in the hospital downtown, I was thoroughly amazed at all the empty storefronts, for sale signs and out of business notices on the way. It was a fr*cking ghost town in many places. Very scary. True to life under Bath-House Barry.
I don’t buy the MSM bullcrap...those lucky enough to be driving to a job see these same things on the way to a job they could lose in nanoseconds. Barry’s on his way out in November.
and, by the way...
Who IS Bari M. Shabazz?
It should be clear to all that the world’s economy is on life support and the doctors are all ‘quacks’ and crooks! Face it to a certain degree we are all Greeks now!
What kind of a mess you ask, well I think that we are in for something like the collapse of Argentina ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yerKMQc7-w&feature=grec_index )but on a global scale.
But the market is up you say, yeah it’s up using billions in ‘printed’ money in the hands of corrupted bankers, investors and their cronies. The world is now flooded with fake and faux money. The game is so rigged and now even the ‘house’ is starting to lose.
When the whole thing tanks as it will what do you think the entiled class will do when they can’t get their cell phones, their food stamps and EBT cards, rent vouchers and so forth.
What we will see is a much more violent version of Argentina, (checkout what is going on in Greece).
American has an even a larger entitlement minded population and much more violent and armed onen than Argentina or Greece.
I see many many small business wiped out by flash mob looting, and see rape, robbery and murder for murder sake. Many of these ‘yutes’ will think no more about killing you than most people think about stepping on a roach. That will be the test of many. Most preppers I know are Christian people and they will hesitate to do what they might have to do to stop the ‘yutes’. On the other hand the ‘yutes’ won’t think twice nor lose a minute of sleep, in fact they will smile and laugh about it.
Think of this quote which is one of my favorites:
“Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Siege of AR-558 (#7.8)” (1998)
Quark: Let me tell you something about Hew-mons, Nephew. They’re a wonderful, friendly people, as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working. But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those same friendly, intelligent, wonderful people... will become as nasty and as violent as the most bloodthirsty Klingon. You don’t believe me? Look at those faces. Look in their eyes.
On top of all who knows how many saboteurs (Islamic, Chinese etc) and sleepers have crossed our borders and are now just waiting to cause havoc.
For those who are just starting or are old hands at prepping you may find my Preparedness Manual helpfull. You can download it at:
http://tomeaker.com/kart/Preparedness1j.pdf
NOTE! THIS IS A FREE DOWNLOAD. I DO NOT MAKE ONE CENT OFF MY PREPAREDNESS MANUAL!
For those of you who haven’t started already it’s time to prepare almost past time maybe. You needed to be stocking up on food guns, ammo, basic household supplies like soap, papergoods, cleaning supplies, good sturdy clothes including extra socks, underwear and extra shoes and boots, a extra couple changes of oil and filters for your car, tools, things you buy everyday start buying two and put one up.
As the LDS say “When the emergency is upon us the time for preparedness has past.”
Or as the bible says: A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
NIV Proverbs 22:3
Lastly this for the doubters and the scoffers.
“There is no greater disaster than to underestimate danger.
Underestimation can be fatal.”
White folks have had too many vacations. They don't need no mo' stinkin' vacations. Time for the Obamas to have some fun.
O’Bummer’s economic data have about as much credibility as Chamberlain’s letter of peace with the Germans...(and has similar consequences!)
The gas chart is quite telling. I live in a situation where I can only spend 15 bucks a week for gas. Luckily my job is only 5 miles away but my car is a beater and sucks it up fast. Also lucky for me is a wal mart in walking distance. So I literally drive to work and pretty much nowhere else as I can’t afford to do so.
$99.4 trillion in unfunded liabilities, including future commitments, according to Paul Ryan. Batter throw some water on those overheated government printing presses before they melt.
Barack laughs as he flings another ten billion dollars at a failing Mickey Mouse windmill maker and his America-hating wife boards her private 747 for a ski trip.
If we had only listened to Senator McCarthy.
Our shopping trips are way down, not because of the recession but because of the Internet. Shopping used to constitute 25% of all mileage.
Is Real Unemployment also known as U-6? Or is it U-3? I forgot.
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I think the biggest drop in gasoline use is because people have no JOBS to go to. Sure, they are not traveling, or buying things...but when there is no daily back and forth to work, a person doesn’t need to put much gas in his car. Compare the rush hour traffic in the big cities...many fewer on the roads during those times than before when all the millions of unemployed had a job. People are even doubling up to go grocery shopping in order to stretch their dollars to buy food and not spend so much money filling the gas tank.
I have the same questions re the American economy right now that I did on 10 September, 2001 regarding American security: When is it going to blow? What’s taking so long? Hang on tight, you guys. It won’t be much longer. It will probably hit the fan on 21/1/13, and they’re going all out to keep it from hitting before election night, and then before the Electoral College meets, and then ‘til after inauguration. If they can limp through ‘til election night of 2014, they will. Expect a tsunami of bulls@#$ around these periods.
I think that we need to be cautious about the data we use and how we interpret that data. The data presented is a report of the volumes of gasoline delivered to “retail” stations over a period of time and it shows that that volume is declining rapidly. But I’m not sure that it reflects the total volume of gasoline that is actually being consumed.
I’m not in the energy industry but I consulted my good friend (Google) and quickly came up with a couple of pdfs that explain the process of gasoline delivery to the end consumer (i.e., the gas station). The bottom line is that the “refiners to retail” includes only a subset of the gasoline that we fill our cars with. Other than when I’m “on the road” traveling I buy all my gas at Costco and their gasoline is not considered “retail”. My thought is that what is happening is a change in the way many gas station owners are obtaining their gasoline supplies. There are numerous other sources of data on this if you do some internet searches. I don’t have a lot of time to do additional searches (my wife is visiting relatives so I’m sitting here entering data for “Verify the Recall”) but strongly suspect that the charts presented are only part of the story. We may end up with egg on our faces if we incorrectly assume they show the “whole story”.
Following is an extract from one of the two pdfs I am linking to at the end of this post:
“A last important dimension of retail organization concerns the distribution of the gasoline from the wholesaler and the pricing of the wholesale gasoline. In this dimension, the most important distinction is whether the station is direct supplied from the refiner or whether it is self-supplied or jobber supplied. Gasoline supplied to a direct-supplied station is delivered by the refiner and the delivery charges are included in the wholesale price of the gasoline. By contrast, stations that are not direct supplied receive their gasoline at wholesale terminals, or racks, and either supply the distribution service (tanker truck) themselves or contract with an independent distributor (or jobber) to bring the gasoline to the station.”
www.brabhamoil.com/new_images/pdf/getsell.pdf
www.ucei.berkeley.edu/PDF/csemwp144.pdf
Yet if you look at how the GOP is acting, they think they are going to lose big. There is more going on
Just a total (avoidable) mindscrew that three weeks ago the Saudis can say, we'll pump you through any trouble this year, and then turn around this weekend and turn off the spigot, so they can lock in above $100 while Israel sabre-rattles.
If I was a GOP candidate, every other word out of my mouth would be "pipeline = lifeline".
Anyone who is out of work knows the unemployment rate is much higher. I recently interviewed for a job where 500 people applied. There are millions of people underemployed (people with college degrees working as cashiers at Walmart).