how in the heck are we supposed to live these days

[banter]

I got over $32.00 off at Walgreens between their coupons and national coupons. I spent $100.00 and got a third off. I did not buy any junk.

 

[Southern Gardener]

Eat chicken on Sunday's and have feathers the rest of the week...

 

[Redfeathers]

 

[tnt101003]

Yes I feel it coming....farm equipment is all diesel and filling the tractor is outrageous with diesel here in maryland at almost $5/gal now. BRING BACK REAGAN, he would impose santions against the oil barrons to bring the prices down. The people now are all about pleasing anyone who cries too much about their rights being violated. Hey, open my mail, listen to my phone conversations, read my emails. I don't care as long as I can afford to feed the chickens (and husband, kids, dogs, cats, cows, geckos, and anything else those kids bring home)....

 

[BuckeyeDave]

Gllloooooom, Dooooooooom, there isn’t enough oil… we’re allll gonnna diiiiiiieeeeeee.

I don’t see how people get all bent about the economy and the price of energy, sure it sucks, sure it takes money, but you know what, it’s the way it is, trudging along, keeping our head up, figuring out alternatives and being OK about it is what being American is all about, the sad thing is that many have forgotten that.

The oil companies have done a great job at marketing themselves, they truly have made the consumer fully dependent on their product, they act like they are interested in alternatives but honestly their company and shareholders are benefiting from their actions, why change, they have us right where they want us, paying $4 per gallon and begging for more. They are just doing their job, marketing and selling their product. Energy, it is supply and demand, we need more of it but we as a nation hasn’t explored oil alternatives. We are in an oil based economy, that is what needs to change, oil is a temporary fix, there is a finite supply in the ground and when it’s all gone we’re out of luck.

When I was young and in the Navy in the late 80’s I was on a submarine, the ship was designed in the late 50’s and was built in the early 60’s. The nuclear reactor powered an electric turbine with then powered the main engines with AC voltage. That old boat produced enough electricity to power New York City, I can hear all of the tree huggers out there complaining about the waste, accidents and everything in-between, I understand, but there has to be a trade off. Everyone is concerned about the nuclear waste and how much is produced; it is less than one yard by one yard a year per reactor. The navy has had more than a thousand reactors fueling their ships for years, where are all of the accidents? Under controlled conditions it is very safe and produces abundant amounts of renewable energy.

Onboard the Submarine we also produced our own oxygen, we took a pure H2O (water) molecule and split it and stuffed the hydrogen out the bottom of the ship, keeping the oxygen to breathe. Hydrogen is combustible, it’s 7 times more explosive than gasoline, oxygen is a part of the fire triangle, so you have 2 of the parts needed for fire, add heat and it’s done. Hydrogen power is coming of age, if you take voltage on water with some electrolyte it produces hydrogen and oxygen, it’s called “Brown’s Gas” or “HHO” do a quick youtube search on it, I think you’ll be impressed with what people are doing, including powering cars.

Another alternative that really has amazed me over the last year is “Magnetic Zero Point”. Basically a motor drives a AC generator looking thing, once it gets going it is self sustaining, the “generator” produces enough electricity to power the motor and 1000 watts of electric, it is scalable to whatever size is needed, if you want more voltage/wattage just scale it up. The inventor says he can mass produce them for around $ 3000.00 per device, each device produces enough to power a home, all without any power or fuel input.
A guy put it in a car and powers the car perpetually, forever, people are already doing it.

People think there aren’t alternatives but they are wrong. With the power of the internet/chatrooms/email/groups what you discover today can immediately be sent around the world in an instant. Information will allow the inventers and tinkerers to make this all work, with the power of the internet, instantly.

In the next 5 years we are going to see a huge change in the way we make energy, the change won’t take place in a corporate boardroom but in the garage and back yard shop of the small time tinkerer.
Peace,
Dave

 

[eggzettera]

Quote:
The man that took down Jimmy Carters solar panels off the White House?

Serious?

 

[silkiechicken]

Quote:
Thank you.

 

[Barnyard Dawg]

My wife and I get along just find, I am fortunate to be able to pay for all our needs, groceries, utilities, insurance, etc. with my pay check we just bank my wife's, which we use for home improvements, travel and helping family (education), we actually feel very lucky. We very seldom go to resturants, my wife will makes my breakfast, lunch & dinner, so I have no need to go out at work, which I find saves quite a bit, don't drink coffee, I get a laugh out of the people who have to drive their cars to get their Starbuck's $$ coffee from the drive-thru window. We shop at a Asian market for our groceries they are very affordable, they don't have the overhead the American Super Markets have, I quess. We garden and raise our chickens, the chickens pay for their feed from the sale of their eggs. We live a pretty simple life style and don't need alot. We would be doing that much better if the price of gas would go down but who knows what will happen there.

 

[Oblio13]

The real victims in this ARM debacle are the folks who lived within their means and plugged along paying their mortgages every month.

They weren't stupid, dishonest, greedy or ignorant, but they're gonna be taxed to bail out those who were.


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[Oblio13]

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It's gonna take more than a Youtube video to convince me that the laws of physics have been repealed with a perpetual motion machine.