Comments on: The Coming Oil Backdraft http://whiskeyandgunpowder.com/the-coming-oil-backdraft/ Whiskey and Gunpowder features articles on gold, oil, currencies, emerging markets, energy, and more. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:43:32 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: The Coming Oil Backdraft - Contrarian Stock Market Investing News - Featuring Bargain Stocks http://whiskeyandgunpowder.com/the-coming-oil-backdraft/comment-page-1/#comment-780 The Coming Oil Backdraft - Contrarian Stock Market Investing News - Featuring Bargain Stocks Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:32:38 +0000 http://www.whiskeyandgunpowder.com/?p=3426#comment-780 [...] [...] [...] [...]

]]> By: geoff http://whiskeyandgunpowder.com/the-coming-oil-backdraft/comment-page-1/#comment-757 geoff Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:19:07 +0000 http://www.whiskeyandgunpowder.com/?p=3426#comment-757 This is the sharpest deceleration Australia’s economy has ever seen..? hope so.. This is the sharpest deceleration Australia’s economy has ever seen..? hope so..

]]> By: Tahoe Valley Lines http://whiskeyandgunpowder.com/the-coming-oil-backdraft/comment-page-1/#comment-731 Tahoe Valley Lines Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:45:07 +0000 http://www.whiskeyandgunpowder.com/?p=3426#comment-731 "Railroads" & banking, sez he... Henry Ford made Model "T", but made sure he owned a railroad: the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton, to assure he got his supplies on schedule. Another Whiskey writer mentions crucial times for America; Civil War and WWII, for example. 1863 marked the beginning of the US Trans Continental RR project; WWII included last big show for the rails, rail doing heavy lifting for unpecedented freight traffic, much on rehabbed, recently abandoned corridor, moved by steam power. Trucking has benefited from cheap petroleum, and must make rapid shift to other fuels to keep traffic share. While trucking strives to reorient fuel diet, USA must rehab remaining dormant rail branchlines to maintain mobility of critical freight & victuals. State National Guard organizations should recommission the Railroad Operating & Maintenance Battalions, assuring pool of rail savvy personnel for the civillian sector. Noticed by some, but not the responsibles with titles and big paychecks, miles of unused rail branchlines in and around the hurricane disasters in Louisiana & Mississippi. Certainly the rails could have helped with handling megatonnage of debris. An important military moniker: "Second Dimension Surface Transport Logistics Platform", descriptor for railways. Quick read on strategic rail subject is in James A. Van Fleet's little book, "Rail Transport and The Winning Of Wars" (Association of American Railroads, 202-639-2100). Investment advisors like Puplava, Whiskey Inc., and Catherine Austin Fitts have low-key references to railroads as a component in the Peaking Oil Solution Set, but stop short of outright support of an aggressive rebuild/rehab of the US rail matrix. This is an oversight, an omission with grave consequences. Railroads reaching local warehousing with foodstuff and perishables, goods & necessities of life, are more important than gold. Particularly when the Feds will eventually have to call in gold coins & Bullion in order to cover foreign exchange (read oil imports). Along with the State Guard office adjutants, investment advisors should obtain Railway Map Atlas volumes for their respective states. One source is (spv.co.uk), also museums, historical societies, and old (circa 1940-1960)Thomas Bros. maps are good for downtown rail footprint and track geometry servicing produce markets and goods warehousing. Bankers. Snap out of your reverie, pay attention to what's up! We shall need your help to create a new generation of Equipment Trust Certificates, Railroad Construction Bonds, and local capital channels to rehab branch rail lines. A new US Savings Bond Series: "Energy Independence Bonds" are called for- this is an All-Hands-On -Deck situation. Fed Executive Orders to re-direct ferrous scrap to domestic mills producing railroad rail, track hardware is of importance now. Bank officials, contact General Motors, other automakers having idle plant and labor needing employment: transition to railway oriented production. GM is a recent Locomotive Builder, Diesels from La Grange, Illinois. GM is natrural partner to refocus America to the rail mode, just as they were instrumental in getting America onto rubber tires circa 1950. A helpful book on renewables applied to localized economies and transport, see "ELECTRIC WATER" by Christopher C. Swan (New Society Press, 2007) See Association For The Study Of Peak Oil & Gas, (peakoil.net) articles 374 & 1037 for other on the rail rehab. “Railroads” & banking, sez he…

Henry Ford made Model “T”, but made sure he owned a railroad: the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton, to assure he got his supplies on schedule. Another Whiskey writer mentions crucial times for America; Civil War and WWII, for example. 1863 marked the beginning of the US Trans Continental RR project; WWII included last big show for the rails, rail doing heavy lifting for unpecedented freight traffic, much on rehabbed, recently abandoned corridor, moved by steam power. Trucking has benefited from cheap petroleum, and must make rapid shift to other fuels to keep traffic share.

While trucking strives to reorient fuel diet, USA must rehab remaining dormant rail branchlines to maintain mobility of critical freight & victuals. State National Guard organizations should recommission the Railroad Operating & Maintenance Battalions, assuring pool of rail savvy personnel for the civillian sector. Noticed by some, but not the responsibles with titles and big paychecks, miles of unused rail branchlines in and around the hurricane disasters in Louisiana & Mississippi. Certainly the rails could have helped with handling megatonnage of debris.

An important military moniker: “Second Dimension Surface Transport Logistics Platform”, descriptor for railways. Quick read on strategic rail subject is in James A. Van Fleet’s little book, “Rail Transport and The Winning Of Wars” (Association of American Railroads, 202-639-2100).

Investment advisors like Puplava, Whiskey Inc., and Catherine Austin Fitts have low-key references to railroads as a component in the Peaking Oil Solution Set, but stop short of outright support of an aggressive rebuild/rehab of the US rail matrix. This is an oversight, an omission with grave consequences. Railroads reaching local warehousing with foodstuff and perishables, goods & necessities of life, are more important than gold. Particularly when the Feds will eventually have to call in gold coins & Bullion in order to cover foreign exchange (read oil imports).

Along with the State Guard office adjutants, investment advisors should obtain Railway Map Atlas volumes for their respective states. One source is (spv.co.uk), also museums, historical societies, and old (circa 1940-1960)Thomas Bros. maps are good for downtown rail footprint and track geometry servicing produce markets and goods warehousing.

Bankers. Snap out of your reverie, pay attention to what’s up! We shall need your help to create a new generation of Equipment Trust Certificates, Railroad Construction Bonds, and local capital channels to rehab branch rail lines. A new US Savings Bond Series: “Energy Independence Bonds” are called for- this is an All-Hands-On -Deck situation. Fed Executive Orders to re-direct ferrous scrap to domestic mills producing railroad rail, track hardware is of importance now. Bank officials, contact General Motors, other automakers having idle plant and labor needing employment: transition to railway oriented production. GM is a recent Locomotive Builder, Diesels from La Grange, Illinois. GM is natrural partner to refocus America to the rail mode, just as they were instrumental in getting America onto rubber tires circa 1950.

A helpful book on renewables applied to localized economies and transport, see “ELECTRIC WATER” by Christopher C. Swan (New Society Press, 2007) See Association For The Study Of Peak Oil & Gas, (peakoil.net) articles 374 & 1037 for other on the rail rehab.

]]> By: MzScarlett http://whiskeyandgunpowder.com/the-coming-oil-backdraft/comment-page-1/#comment-720 MzScarlett Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:39:31 +0000 http://www.whiskeyandgunpowder.com/?p=3426#comment-720 The very FIRST car built in the USA by Henry Ford was built to last 100 years; contained no "formaldehyde" one of the most toxic chemicals on the planet; it got 26 MPG & ran on GRAIN ALCOHOL which is quite simply NOW known as ETHENOL; according to Washington Journal on C span Laurence Burns top researcher for GMC I believe the car company was: it was Weds of last week; ETHANOL is the "newest" thing: ANYONE can grow it as long as it is a non food source: like prairie grass/weed. SO: go to visit the teapot dome scandal; Prohibition was NOT about "temperance" at all: it was cuz ANYONE could make & grow ethanol: & the mentality that THE PEOPLE MUST PAY which is cuz the SAME FOLKS running the huge plantations went to our political leaders & said hey hey hey let's do it THIS way instead; THIS "oil" was SHOVED down people's throats for the very simple reason of making some folks rich. The USA has always worked THIS way: claiming to be a "democracy" they are not & have not been for a very long time; they write laws that are on the books only for looks with no intention of enforcing them; just to "please" or fool the public. They have cleverly changed the laws & rules with each administration: HOWEVER: in TRUTH this actually TAKES PLACE PRIOR to any "election"; cuz it is a one party system cleverly using the "divide & conquor"; it is all theatricals & charades; knowing the "power of image" they USE the TV & newspapers which are not free press at all; & most NEWSPAPERS are owned by folks who are in on this like Murdoch. The "country" of which THEY speak is NOT the true COUNTRY which of course consists of the majority of the population, the land, air & water. THIS is the "country" which of course only makes sense; however, they speak with forked tongues as my fathers ancestors learned: & have NEVER kept 1 single promise made to anyone of the Indian tribes; nor to the military: they are trying hard to create a "new world order" & it's money: by bribing thru tillions of $ the heads of OTHER countries including Australia's to hey hey hey do it our way, we have gotten away with it for years; they KEEP all the $ "at the top"; they RULE not Govern; NOTHING is done for social need; & they "courts" CALL to determine how to "rule" as seen in US FED court of appeals Mahr vs Ashcroft; Judge Sonya Sotomeyer on C span; they are a clever dictatorship who while listening to the people or appearing to do so, have NEVER listened to nor done what the PEOPLE wanted; oh, it may be on the books but no environmental laws at all have been followed nor many more. USURY laws predate the Constitution & THIS "housing" crisis & mess was deliberately created for such a time as now; cleverly they have done this for years with premediatated cold blooded malice in their minds & hearts toward not only the people of the USA but now globally. THIS is the REALITY of what is going on from country to country. They are told: keep all the $; have millions of dollars; do whatever you want, whenever you want, however you want & never be punished or brought to court for it. It is all "theatricals & charades"; in seeing them in their committess voting etc; Our leaders have cleverly gotten so incredibly much money from off the people thru robbing them repeatedly & the only "freedom" in the USA is the freedom for any & all to do whatever they want as long as it is against the people; the "PUC, & gov agencies are quite simply "shells" to FOOL the people into THINKING that they are there for them. The very FIRST car built in the USA by Henry Ford was built to last 100 years; contained no “formaldehyde” one of the most toxic chemicals on the planet; it got 26 MPG & ran on GRAIN ALCOHOL which is quite simply NOW known as ETHENOL; according to Washington Journal on C span Laurence Burns top researcher for GMC I believe the car company was: it was Weds of last week; ETHANOL is the “newest” thing: ANYONE can grow it as long as it is a non food source: like prairie grass/weed. SO: go to visit the teapot dome scandal; Prohibition was NOT about “temperance” at all: it was cuz ANYONE could make & grow ethanol: & the mentality that THE PEOPLE MUST PAY which is cuz the SAME FOLKS running the huge plantations went to our political leaders & said hey hey hey let’s do it THIS way instead; THIS “oil” was SHOVED down people’s throats for the very simple reason of making some folks rich. The USA has always worked THIS way: claiming to be a “democracy” they are not & have not been for a very long time; they write laws that are on the books only for looks with no intention of enforcing them; just to “please” or fool the public. They have cleverly changed the laws & rules with each administration: HOWEVER: in TRUTH this actually TAKES PLACE PRIOR to any “election”; cuz it is a one party system cleverly using the “divide & conquor”; it is all theatricals & charades; knowing the “power of image” they USE the TV & newspapers which are not free press at all; & most NEWSPAPERS are owned by folks who are in on this like Murdoch.
The “country” of which THEY speak is NOT the true COUNTRY which of course consists of the majority of the population, the land, air & water. THIS is the “country” which of course only makes sense; however, they speak with forked tongues as my fathers ancestors learned: & have NEVER kept 1 single promise made to anyone of the Indian tribes; nor to the military: they are trying hard to create a “new world order” & it’s money: by bribing thru tillions of $ the heads of OTHER countries including Australia’s to hey hey hey do it our way, we have gotten away with it for years; they KEEP all the $ “at the top”; they RULE not Govern; NOTHING is done for social need; & they “courts” CALL to determine how to “rule” as seen in US FED court of appeals Mahr vs Ashcroft; Judge Sonya Sotomeyer on C span; they are a clever dictatorship who while listening to the people or appearing to do so, have NEVER listened to nor done what the PEOPLE wanted; oh, it may be on the books but no environmental laws at all have been followed nor many more. USURY laws predate the Constitution & THIS “housing” crisis & mess was deliberately created for such a time as now; cleverly they have done this for years with premediatated cold blooded malice in their minds & hearts toward not only the people of the USA but now globally.
THIS is the REALITY of what is going on from country to country. They are told: keep all the $; have millions of dollars; do whatever you want, whenever you want, however you want & never be punished or brought to court for it. It is all “theatricals & charades”; in seeing them in their committess voting etc; Our leaders have cleverly gotten so incredibly much money from off the people thru robbing them repeatedly & the only “freedom” in the USA is the freedom for any & all to do whatever they want as long as it is against the people; the “PUC, & gov agencies are quite simply “shells” to FOOL the people into THINKING that they are there for them.

]]> By: BC http://whiskeyandgunpowder.com/the-coming-oil-backdraft/comment-page-1/#comment-718 BC Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:02:33 +0000 http://www.whiskeyandgunpowder.com/?p=3426#comment-718 Comments to this reader “I read your article with interest. As an African, I most certainly don’t have your experience and/or knowledge, but I do believe that your article is true to historical facts as we know it. Would you not agree that the election of Obama as your president is a momentous historical event worth celebrating?” I disagree and I am dismayed that folks would want to celebrate this man becoming President just because of his color. I will be one of the first to celebrate if/and when he accomplishes anything credible besides winning an election. An expert at winning elections does not a good leader, and President make. I was disappointed that Obama did not set aside his pride, and tone down the inauguration to save tax dollars. I would have gained tremendous respect if he had done so. I hope that as an American, Obama will stay true to his platform of change and begin dismantling those institutions of government that the politicos were never given permission to form in the first place. True public service in the form of reducing the size of government vs. our GDP would put our country and it's citizens on the road to real change, and would be worth celebrating. Comments to this reader

“I read your article with interest. As an African, I most certainly don’t have your experience and/or knowledge, but I do believe that your article is true to historical facts as we know it. Would you not agree that the election of Obama as your president is a momentous historical event worth celebrating?”

I disagree and I am dismayed that folks would want to celebrate this man becoming President just because of his color. I will be one of the first to celebrate if/and when he accomplishes anything credible besides winning an election. An expert at winning elections does not a good leader, and President make.

I was disappointed that Obama did not set aside his pride, and tone down the inauguration to save tax dollars. I would have gained tremendous respect if he had done so. I hope that as an American, Obama will stay true to his platform of change and begin dismantling those institutions of government that the politicos were never given permission to form in the first place.

True public service in the form of reducing the size of government vs. our GDP would put our country and it’s citizens on the road to real change, and would be worth celebrating.

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