Darwin candidates
https://www.thedrive.com/news/40596/...l-in-the-trunk

You know what I hate is I always use four 15 gallon gas cans to put gas on my boat sitting on the lift.

Now people are going to think I am hoarding. Not that we have any issues with most of our gas coming in by ship.

I think you're ok as long as you're not dispensing it into a plastic bag :stupid:

I saw a guy blow up a vacuum at a car wash. He had spilled gas in his trunk and was vacuuming it out!

Oh god don’t tell me that! I’ve got enough to deal with dealing with drunks and drug addicts.

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My brother lived in Cienfuegos, Cuba. The town doesn't have very many gas stations. The images I'm seeing remind me of what I saw in Cuba. The town frequently had a gas shortage. You'd (even tourists with rental cars) have to buy from the black market. Biden in under four months turned the US into Cuba. First time in my life, I don't want to live in the states!

Pipe line is going.
Gas prices will be coming back down.:(

Did you know Cubans have been coming over the Mexico border ?

Just saw this, not sure how good the source is:

Darkside ransomware gang says it lost control of its servers & money a day after Biden threat

https://therecord.media/darkside-ransomware-gang-says-it-lost-control-of-its-servers-money-a-day-after-biden-threat/

Take some painters tape and a black Sharpie and write "Boat" on the jerry cans - no one (especially with a boat) would even give you a second glance with only 60 gallons...

then again, there are those putting gas in plastic bags, having a cigarette in a hummer full of fuel cans and vacuuming up fuel from a trunk that are populating the planet

... they vote too.

My (9) gas cans have Blue painter tape that say, "Skater", "Razor" "388" or "Viper" ! LOL ,sounds like a heavy metal band from the 80's!

Actually this one is the "Smart" one ! Saw another one filling up her ventilated launder basket.

Not until they get the 5million back that it cost them for the ransom. You know they are going to milk it before it comes down any.

wishful thinking, they will keep it up all summer

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Yep, my brothers Cuban friend came across from Mexico. But he did it a few weeks before Obama ended wet foot, dry foot. So he crossed legally into the US. His problem now is the US embassies are closed due to covid and he can't get his wife and family over. His daughter just turned 21 during covid. So now she has to get a visa on her own, instead of coming with her mother who's been approved, but needs an interview.

Mine say lawn mower, weed wacker/blower, snow blower. I need a new life.

I bought an electric mower , liked it so much I got the Milwaukee Electric trimmer this year
. That thing rocks.
Only thing that uses gas is the zero turn , when that dies hopefully there`s an electric model. I`m over the gas/oil/upkeep .

lol - For when you get tired of gas/oil/upkeep on the whipples, there are options as Cig/Benz has you covered - just pack a long extension cable for recharging


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That’s hella cool! Prolly hella pricey too

that is one clean bilge.

After my Tesla, I now have an electric week whacker, leaf blower, heat pump water heater, and pressure washer. Once the gas things die, they get replaced with no gas and no oil! Love my 40v weed whacker. I can use the leaf blower indoors on cars to dry them, etc.

Can't wait for my CyberTruck!

I went electric mower and weed wacker, blower when we got rid of most of our grass.

as for the cybertruck, just wondering what the 3 motor range is pulling 10-11k. I mean if I bought that we would have our Halloween Mad Max costumes ready!

Isn’t something like 80% of the resources needed for batteries (rare earth minerals) controlled by China? If true, wouldn’t we be giving up energy self sufficiency for dependency on China?

Yes, more than 85% comes from China. Porsche has been leading the charge in Synthetic fuels and saying whole EV movement is blown out of proportion. Like many other people, they are putting the breaks on saying hold on! With battery production, battery DISPOSAL, and the strain on the electric grid, the electric vehicle footprint isnt that much better than fossil fuel vehicles, if at all. The automakers want everything electric by 2035 and I think its aggressive. Over the next couple years synthetic fuels are going to be huge. In 2022, IMSA and WEC both have hydrogen-powered race cars coming too.

I dont think the battery revolution is dead, but the internal combustion engine isnt dead yet either...
Google - The Hydrogen Revolution Has Begun - The End of Battery Technology

..and who makes the microchips that everyone uses throughout the day from the computer your using, cell phone or even the vehicle you drive (unless it's pre computer). I doubt there is any modern country that can make the claim self sufficiency. If there was a push to true self sufficiency, no one could afford the end product.... or would want the product due to it's short coming's in technology during the catch-up phase.

That is absolutely true right there. Im having heck getting parts for my business because everything is electronic now and guess what. All the computer chips are from china. Credit card readers, coin acceptors (the sensors are from china). The list goes on. Parts that I could order and have in 3 days are months on back order. Its freaking ridiculous that country can release a biological weapon on the world and hold everyone hostage to their goods that we are dependent on. Yet our new government wants to pay people to not work or be self sufficient. :poopoo:

This is why we sell jets (minus the higher tech) and other military items to other countries.

not because they can't make it themselves granted it would be an inferior product, but because we supply the parts.

Act in our best interests or No parts, No fly, No put up fight, No win war.

i learned that when i was 7 years old, make parents mad ='s; no allowance - no candy - no boat - no rowboat - no bicycle - no campfire - no swimming - no fun - confined to the patio for the weekend, maybe if your on best behavior all week the embargo will be lifted.


anybody confused why so much stuff is made in china, just cut the supply off, no phone texties to bff's and your kids would be down getting vaccinated and providing an itemized list of weapons, ammo, cash, etc etc.

Yes we sold US rare earth companies to China long ago, in the name of profit we have sold everything off. Not all chips are made in China they are also made in Japan, Taiwan and I am sure more. I use to go to China a lot for my job as a supplier to GM, they had a huge engineering center in Shanghai as well as production plants.

After going into their government planning center I could see back than that they were smoking us. Short to long term (100 year) plans, used our and the rest of the worlds money to educate their people and now our companies shift development and engineering to them because it is cheaper.
Used to say then there can never be another world war, the entire planet is depended on stuff from all over. I think a lot of people would be surprised how much stuff comes out of Vietnam. Meanwhile our government focuses on the next election in 2 years and how to make the other side look bad, whoever the other side is.

It is sickening.

The electric car is not an efficient use of energy because only 45% of the energy from the fuel source actually makes it to the car or boat or whatever. It's a lot more efficient to use energy at the fuel source via an internal combustion engine. That's why their putting CNG into big rigs instead of batteries.

ROFL, just read this thread, thanks for the laughs. I deal a lot with IT and it's amazing the simple things you can do that nobody does. My wife and I work from home so I have an Enterprise class network in my home. I built a custom fire wall that automatically blocks all IP traffic from pretty much everything out side the US and NATO countries. Trump was the first President to do something about Cyber Security with NDAA and TAA requirements for the Fed. China has been dumping cheap IOT products that hackers use to attack networks for years. People keep buying this crap especially businesses. I have shown customers how the products they are using can be hacked in minutes and used to attack their network. They still don't do anything. I have talked to Security directors at major hospital groups and they are oblivious to the CYBER threat. No excuse for this crap, the problem is that insurance pays the ransom. Insurance companies need to start auditing their customers. No excuse for this crap, heads need to roll. What we need to do is test products for Cyber threats like we do for lead paint and other toxins and dangers. They put stickers on hair dryers telling people not to use them in the shower! We need a UL certification for CYBER!

No Politics
 

Thuis is for boats, not political rants

Years ago I read an article about BMW's fleet of hydrogen powered 7-series sedans. I knew then that was the future. I don't think our future is purely battery driven. Syn-fuels are coming.

Keith, I believe from a past thread you are an F1 fan - believe they are also targeting synthetic fuels in the not too distant future....

I remember the day when we had a real president, Donald Trump and the gas at my local gas station was $1.25/gallon and diesel was $1.77. I love how gas hikes are hitting us, gas shortages are here and it reminds me of when lovely Obama was president and gas was over $4/gallon. Hmmm dem for president and gas sky rockets, rep president and gas drops. Biden and the VP (who is in charge of the border but hasn’t done Dick about anything and continues to hide) are complete jokes.

What are you talking about? He's got it all under control!! :party-smiley-004:

https://www.*****ute.com/video/7wiisOGQ7hhz/

Link doesn't paste properly. Site is called *****ute. It's like the wild west. Zero political censorship..

Wow, it's worse than I thought. Bravo, India, Tango, Charlie, Hotel, Uniform, Tango, Echo.

Well said :)
 

Ha couldn’t have said it better!

Its Bit Chute.com and I cant watch that chit cause its pisses me off. I just cant do it.

gas avg is up 1.88 from this point last year.

Not sure how true but China owns 7-11 which just purchased huge gas station chain if true $5 per gallon soon to come?:daz: