Random Politics & Religion #00

I do in my company rig, but they pay the gas bill as well, so I don't really care.

25 gallon tank btw

The middle & poor class with their Hummers. A real plague in America.

The middle & poor class with their Hummers. A real plague in America.

That's nowhere near having to fill up 40 gallons a week.

That doesn't fit the agenda they are being lead to believe in.
Notice the complete lack of thought and vague assumptions they cling to. These are the same people that "supposedly" want to help the poor and middle class but lack foresight and simply do w/e their chosen ones tell them is best.

I'm not just not a dumbass.

Someone missed their nap.

The real point is that fossil fuels are finite. As much as I believe Obama to be a lackluster president, this is one issue he's had right from day one. time to start working on a fuel source that doesn't empower people with backwards beliefs half a world away.

time to start working on a fuel source

An actual typo (because I got interrupted when typing), the irony of you going after anyone for the structure of their sentence is just too damn high.

Perhaps we should talk about not subsidizing the oil industry instead of even more taxes that won't get used the way they are meant.

CONCORD, N.H. – Ohio Gov. John Kasich, confident of a strong finish in Tuesday’s Republican presidential primary in New Hampshire, allowed himself Tuesday to look a little further down the calendar.

“We take our snow boots off and put our flip-flops on,” Mr. Kasich told reporters outside a polling site here. “We’re going to go to South Carolina. We’ll go tonight.”

The Ohio governor joked about how his campaign bus was “spotted” in Washington, D.C., en route to the Palmetto State, site of the next Republican nominating contest once all the ballots are counted in New Hampshire.

Many public-opinion surveys show Mr. Kasich in second in the Granite State, behind New York businessman Donald Trump, and even rival campaigns concede he will likely win the heated battle for silver in the first-in-the-nation primary.

On Tuesday, Mr. Kasich said he was “looking forward” to competing in contests later in the calendar, including Nevada on Feb. 23, Alabama and Georgia on March 1 and Mississippi on March 8. He also announced he is campaigning Monday and Tuesday in Michigan, which also votes on March 8.

The big question facing Mr. Kasich and other under-funded candidates is whether they will have the money and organization to compete in some of those states. Mr. Kasich, after all, has invested nearly all of his money and most of his time, to winning New Hampshire. He will not have the luxury of time to build a comparable network in the states that vote later.

“We’re going to be just fine,” he said Tuesday. “We’ll have the money and the organization, just like we always do. Sometimes we put it together with bailing wire and duct tape. But we always seem to get it done.”

Mr. Kasich attributed his success – assuming it materializes – to his relentlessly positive message.

“There is so much money in this thing, and it’s all negative,” he said, suggesting that almost $10 million has been spent against him in New Hampshire. “We’ve run a positive campaign, and we’ll see if we come out of here strong because, if we do, it’s a new chapter, maybe in American political life.”

Despite signs of a late surge, Mr. Kasich wasn’t looking to predict victory here in New Hampshire. “Let’s not get carried away,” he told a reporter who asked about the prospects of a win. But he clearly relished signs of a strong close to his New Hampshire campaign.

“Do I seem uptight? Do I seem nervous? I’m doing just great,” he said to big cheers from the dozen or so supporters who surrounded him.

“I’ve felt free enough to talk to people about my wins and my losses, my joys and my hurts,” he said. “I think maybe people just connect with that because everybody has it in their own life.”

The Ohio governor said he bumped into Mr. Trump earlier in the day as both candidates did pre-primary interviews, and teased the celebrity real-estate mogul, saying he beat him in the little town of Dixville Notch, which casts the first ballots of the primary.

“I said, ‘Donald, I crushed you.’” Mr. Kasich joked. “He said, ‘Yeah, you killed me.’”

The real point is that fossil fuels are finite.

Nuclear is dead in the water considering Americans are terrified of it and other sources are dependant on location.

Mother Gaia, aid us, please!

Actually they aren't. You can create hydrocarbon fuels using various methods depending on your feedstock. Cheap way is coal liquification where you use the carbon bonds in coal and a catalyst to create a liquid hydrocarbon fuel. The most expensive is raw synthesis where you take carbon and hydrogen molecules and expose them to a ***ton of heat and pressure, the results are the same but require quite a bit more input energy. The US Navy already designed and built a system that does precisely this. It sucks bicarbonate out of the Ocean water, breaks it down into Carbon and Hydrogen and then uses power off the ships nuclear reactor to synthesize both jet and diesel fuel. This way the aircraft carrier can provide infinite fuel for it's fighters while also refueling non-nuclear ships in the fleet. The Navy's goal is to get away from having to escort large fuel tankers to a fleets location for periodic refueling. The amortized cost of this process puts the fuel at about $7.50 to $8 USD per gallon, which while being more expensive then bulk purchases, is cheaper overall as it doesn't require the logistics of escorting a huge fuel tanker around. Seeing as many countries already have fuel that's artificially priced in that range, we already know it's economically viable.

In essence we can never run out of hydrocarbon fuel.

I think you mean "Praise Jesus!"

Who the *** fills up a 20 gallon tank twice a week every week?