This is your warning

We just got back from supper.
My buddy's wife was teasing me about my gray hair.
Yes i have hair, Brian, Eric! Gray hair....if i let it grow.
Usually it's buzz cut. But it's getting pretty long right now.

 

Yeah it works good for the government so long as they can continue to pay the peasants pennies on the dollar for labor. With a billion people they can easily replace a whole factory of workers with the blink of an eye.

 

I heardFrd is hurting now due to Magnesium shortage.

 

I don't know who fred is but I hope his hurting stops soon.....

 

Think he suffers from fat fingers... I believe he meant Ferd...lol

Interestingly, the Chinese control 85% of that market (Nothing new there)

Hope you like raw fish and chopsticks because it's coming and soon.

Sometimes I wonder who's side the Current regime is on. I'll let it go at that.

 

You are still "wondering"?!

 

yeah the auto correct does goofy things on my iPad. Prayers for Fred.

 

So we're helping by burning wood then. Gotta keep the world on track.

 

my Dad was just telling me they are having power problems and rolling blackouts due to a shortage of coal. they'd like you to think they are capping energy use but it's really them shutting down plants to keep the lights on else where. which would make sense seeing the CCP doesn't give two sh!ts about the environment.

 

Myself, I absolutely cannot use Tap-a-Talk on my cell phone to message. Key pads are too small and I have really fat (and arthritic) fingers. In fact, just answering it is often times a PITA. I really don't like them (cell phones) anyway and when we go hunting, it stays in my pocket, turned off. I much prefer my SAT phone. One, it's good anywhere (works of satellites not cell towers) so it's unlimited range and air time is insanely expensive so no junk messages or replies, just necessary stuff. The SAT phone itself is expensive too but like I said, they work anywhere. No dead spots and you only pay for actual air time so if I don't use it, there is no charges (other than the initial expense of the phone) Mine was almost a grand to buy, btw.

 

What exactly is the CCP?

Do know one thing for sure and that is your utility bills are gonna go way up. That includes electricity and NG service.

Utility companies aren't going to absorb the added costs of fuel, they will pass it on to you.

 

Up until the last few weeks the government regulated electricity prices and has not allowed price increases despite the price of coal from some sources increasing. So the generator operators have only been buying cheap coal and subsequently the huge piles of coal that sit in the coal generator yards have gotten smaller and smaller and smaller for the last two years. During the pandemic the piles got even smaller and then there was a demand for power as the pandemic ended and "back to living and producing at full speed ahead" put a strain on those tiny piles. Which has led to rolling blackouts and the disallowance and rationing of power to non-essential and heavy users producers. To "fix" this problem the government has finally allowed regulators to allow electricity price increases, which is not going to be popular with the hoi polloi, especially considering the possibility of "catch-up" price increases of possible considerable amounts. Large energy price increases are going to "trickle down" affecting cost of living everywhere as economies everywhere depend/thrive on cheap energy.

 

Well, of course. They have competitive similar designs they're hawking and experimenting with.

 

Unfortunately we (the public) have a long-standing relationship with nuclear accidents. A lot of people know about the 3 mile island accident in Pennsylvania, but there are plenty of other ones that got swept under the rug. About 10 years ago I read a book called Full Body Burden that told of what was going on in Rocky Flats Colorado from the 50s to the late 80s (I think the Department of Defense made nuclear warhead detonators there) and all the nuclear waste contaminated the surrounding area, making hundreds of people sick and killing dozens more.