Jane Hathaway's character is too honest and sensible for a match with California politicians. I would recommend Nancy Pelosi as Granny due to Granny's fondness for 'rheumatiz' medicine. Cousin Bessie is a match with Swalwell.
Alice, I will gladly share encouraging news as it comes to me. I made a dear friend there while on a church mission trip to Matanzas in November. Ever since I daily feed her encouraging news via WhatsApp. Thing are getting progressively darker there, but she is delighted to know things kept from them.
Pray for them to be strengthen and for patient endurance.
That is probably a major factor in how Marco Rubio has turned himself into such a powerful statesman - having the intense drive to see the dream of a free Cuba come into actuality.
One of the biggest problems right now is the smoke people are living with (not a lot of glass in upper windows) due to the trash in streets being burnt. Makes sleeping difficult and it’s going to cause long term respiratory issues.
Across South America, the difference between growth and decline often comes down to a single decision: develop the resources a nation possesses, or suppress them in service of ideology. Oil left in the ground is not a moral achievement — it is surrendered prosperity. Untapped production means jobs never created, revenue never collected, and stability never secured. When governments trade development for symbolism, citizens inherit inflation, shortages, and social strain.
That same lesson now appears inside the developed world. In the United States, some resource-rich regions deliberately restrict their own energy supply. California sits atop roughly 11 billion barrels of oil — comparable to the reserves of Argentina — yet has steadily regulated its own production toward extinction while importing energy from elsewhere. The consequences are visible: higher living costs, outward migration, and a shrinking middle class. Scarcity in a land of abundance is not inevitability; it is policy.
The governing philosophy was captured in former President Barack Hussein Obama’s remark, “we can’t drill our way out.” Contrast that with the blunt 2008 refrain popularized by Sarah Palin, vice-presidential candidate and former governor (R-Alaska): “Drill, baby, drill.” At the time it was dismissed as simplistic, yet recent policy directions — in parts of South America and in U.S. leadership favoring expanded domestic production — have leaned toward the latter view: producing what you have reduces dependency and strengthens economies.
After decades of debate, the argument is no longer abstract. Nations that develop their resources tend to stabilize costs and expand opportunity; those that restrict them import both energy and hardship. Ignore economic reality long enough, and quality of life follows it downward.
— WM. Giles
P.S. I voted for simplistic vs. idealistic.
Maybe the best acid test for political policy is “Keep It Simplistic, Stupid.”
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Cuba has significant mineral, energy, and biological resources, many of which are only partially developed or still largely underexplored.
Key mineral resources
Nickel and cobalt – Cuba has some of the world’s largest nickel and cobalt reserves and is already a major producer, but expansion is constrained by lack of capital, aging plants, and sanctions, so potential remains underdeveloped relative to the size of the resource. These metals are strategically important for stainless steel and batteries.
Iron ore, chromium, manganese, copper, zinc, gold, silver, tungsten – Identified resources exist, but most of these metals are mined on a small scale or not at all compared with their geological potential, mainly due to investment, technology, and infrastructure constraints.
Oil and natural gas
Onshore and near‑shore oil is produced and meets only about half of Cuba’s domestic needs, but geologic studies point to much larger undiscovered conventional oil and gas resources, especially offshore north of Cuba.
The USGS estimates a mean of about 4 billion barrels of undiscovered oil and over 13 trillion cubic feet of gas in the North Cuba area, with entire assessment units (such as the platform margin carbonates) essentially unexplored to date. This makes offshore hydrocarbons one of Cuba’s most important undeveloped resource fronts.
Land, forests, and biodiversity
Arable land – Cuba has extensive fertile land; some areas are underused or undercapitalized after decades of focus on sugar and chronic input shortages, so higher‑value diversified agriculture (fruits, vegetables, organics, bio‑products) is considered an underdeveloped resource.
Forests and timber – The island once was heavily forested and still has commercially valuable species such as mahogany and cedar, but modern, sustainable timber and non‑timber forest industries are limited by investment and conservation policies, leaving part of this potential untapped.
Biodiversity and ecosystems – Cuba’s coral reefs, mangroves, wetlands, and endemic species are globally significant assets with growth potential in eco‑tourism, blue economy products, and bioprospecting, yet many sites remain only lightly developed for these uses.
Renewable energy resources
Solar, wind, and biomass – Analyses of Cuba’s energy system emphasize that while fossil resources are modest, the country has substantial solar radiation, some good wind corridors, and large biomass residues (especially from sugarcane), but these are still used far below their technical potential due to financing and grid challenges.
Hydropower – Cuba lacks large river headwaters suitable for big dams, so hydro potential is relatively limited and already partially utilized; the main “undeveloped” opportunity in renewables lies more in solar, wind, and biomass than in new hydro.
Tourism‑linked natural assets
Beaches, landscapes, and marine areas – White‑sand coasts, karst landscapes, caves, and offshore reefs are valuable natural assets; many have tourism infrastructure, but others remain lightly developed or entirely undeveloped due to access, environmental rules, or lack of capital.
Protected‑area adjacent zones – Conservation groups have identified reef and coastal areas near vulnerable communities that are not yet protected or sustainably developed, representing potential for carefully managed “natural capital” projects in the future.
In short, Cuba’s most important relatively undeveloped natural resources are offshore oil and gas, several non‑nickel minerals, higher‑value agriculture and forestry, rich biodiversity, and solar/wind/biomass energy, all limited less by geology than by capital, technology, and policy conditions.
Will the stain of BHO ever leave us? Will his policies that ruined our economy ever be wiped away and for good? Trump is killing a lot of them & bravo 👏🏻 for that. But look at California, such potential and they elect people like Bass & Newsom. It could be a wonderland. And yet the Palisades sits bare, not rebuilt.
That truly is one of the starkest examples of how Democrat/Leftist/socialist policies only crush people and produce nothing of value.
Just look at FL for the most glaring of differences: after it suffers multiple hurricanes wreaking vast damage, to homes, towns, and infrastructure, and within months - not years - months, they are rebuilt and restored!
In the Pacific MacArthur told his engineers "I want that bridge built and I want the plans in three days". Engineers came back after two days, "Sir the bridge is built but the plans are going to take a little longer".
Well, we’re still dealing with the idiocy of Jimmah Carter all these years later. Every Muslim terrorist attack of the last 45 plus years lies at his feet. If only he had supported the Shah….
It is just so paradoxical. I worked with somebody back in 2008 who was going to vote for Obama because he thought it was time to make racism a thing of the past, and that by electing Obama we'd finally move beyond it! What a freaking hoot! Obama and Holder set race relations in this country back at least 50 years. He is a spawn of Satan, pure evil through and through. Once again, we're lucky that he was a mumbling, bumbling, moron.
Someday historians will use California politics as the example of how you take a rich state and turn it into a socialist hellhole. They are already trying to screw those people who lost homes in the fire out of their property rights so they can build low cost apartment housing. The historians will use a picture of DeNiro as the face of California evil.
They never intended to rebuild the Palisades. The truth is beginning to come out, as the land is being sold to favored persons and groups for "approved" uses by the right people. I'm beginning to suspect the entire fire was deliberate, to get rid of the "riff-raff" and put the land in the hands of the proper butt-kissers. Communism is wonderful, isn't it?
Supposedly yes to Hawaii Gal. And a lot of my Nashville friends think their winter storm was tampered with so that they (along with Oxford, MS) got devastating freezing rain & ice and everyone else in the path got snow & sleet. No power, huge trees down everywhere, half of Nashville in hotels for 10 days.
Methinks the carnival barkers of the clown-show democrat party were so whipsawed Tuesday night by the Golden Golem that they have no idea how to come out of the hole they’ve dug themselves. Which is exactly when they get very dangerous. They know the climate hustle is over, along with the NGO hustle, and the draining-the- treasury siphon has been shut. Without resources, as Millei knows, you can’t move a country either forward or backward. PDJT knows resources; how to raise them and how to shut them down. Oil is our gold. Cut off the dems funding and you’ve neutered them. Head on a swivel as they get desperate, all!
This is how I summarize the history of Energy/Slavery:
Slavery is not evil because it is racist, slavery is evil because it is slavery. Slavery is also ancient. It provided the renewable sustainable biodegradable energy for the elites for millennia.
Interracial slavery did not become commonplace until a leap in transportation technology in the 16th Century allowed slaves sold by Africans to be transported to the Americas to provide sustainable renewable energy for the elites. Technological improvements in energy production later made it possible to eliminate slavery in the West. Within approximately 100 years of the Watt-Wilkinson collaboration that produced an efficient fossil fueled steam engine, slavery was abolished in the West.
Slavery reappeared in Germany during the fossil fuel shortage of the first half of the 1940s. (Audrey Hepburn’s half-brother along with many other Belgians, Dutch, French and other Europeans were enslaved to ameliorate the fossil fuel shortage
Slavery did not become obsolete because mankind became better. It became obsolete because fossil fueled power is more efficient
James Watt (Scotland, coal) and Nicolaus Otto (Germany, oil) invented the means to turn coal and oil into useable mechanical energy to drive the industrial revolution. Many millions have prospered due to use of incredible natural resources.
The demoncrats got a taste of reality in senate hearings on health care and insurance when asshat Bernie S. interrupted M.W. Mullins//truly a dessert well served !
I was thinking the same thing. I don’t begrudge them their prosperity, in fact I am rooting for it, but how long do think it will take all these ‘asylum seekers just yearning to breathe free’ to go back?
These anti-drill folks have zero awareness of fossil base petroleum in their lives beyond fuel to jet around bitching about fossil fuels. They love posting on petroleum based phones and laptops etc while wearing and carrying the same based products with no clue in the game of a life of reality.
"Fossil" fuel is a misnomer. The idea that oil came from dead dinosaurs was created by the oil barons in their heyday, to create the impression that it was scarce, and support higher prices. In fact, geologists are aware that petroleum formation is a natural process deep in the earth, where heat and pressure work to create it from its component elements. A constant, continuous, self-renewing process.
I am glad to see this come to light again. More than 20 years ago I read that the Russians made the same claim because they were hitting oil reserves underground that were "refilling" without explanation at 70,000 feet deep.
They clearly stated oil could not come from plant/animal decomposition and that it had to be a chemical process the occurred under great pressure underground.
What did our media and government and big oil say about that fact? They called it a conspiracy theory.
Well, you know what has happened to all those conspiracy theories.
And it tastes good too! Kennedy is showing more & more of what the ‘Experts’ knew…. ‘US Fruit Loops will be in technicolor museums…like Woody Allen’s Sleepers…
Asked about NY State….”New York State has no official estimates of recoverable oil using hydraulic fracturing, as high-volume hydraulic fracturing (fracking) is permanently banned. “
Permanently banned….who’s the Dictator ruling NY since 2015 when they declared the World flat?
“…the Marcellus Shale extends into southern New York and is estimated to hold vast natural gas resources—up to 500 trillion cubic feet regionally—the state has not pursued development.”
“The focus has shifted to renewable energy, and the state now imports over 99% of the natural gas it consumes. “
Chopping up the birds, driving the whales crazy, putting windmills up & down the coastline of Long Island, paying $0.25/kw for electricity when the wind blows…banning natgas in homes & apartments……on the road to be a sh!thole city….again!
sure sounds like Nazis or Commies are in control…..
……and is there anyone able to fix this? Anyone? Any NYers? Even from Queens?….turn on the Bat(sh!t)-Signal…
Democrat NYers are damn proud of their stupidity. Pennsylvanians are reaping the rewards of mineral rights a few miles from the state line. But as Ron White once said "You can't fix stupid".
NY is crazy town on steroids. Cuomo shuts down Indian Point & bans fracking. Then Hochul comes along & wants to build a nuclear reactor to replace the one that Cuomo shut down. And now the DEM voters in NY are blaming Trump for high energy costs.
They'd rather tax their millionaires & billionaires into poverty than profit from their natural resources - what a bunch of idiots! You couldn't pay me to live there
Let’s not forget that Hochul and her merry band of Commie legislators banned natural gas hookups for new construction. Fortunately due to legal challenges she has paused it. Plus the electric power grid can’t support it and electric costs would skyrocket. Commies, everything is rainbows and fairy dust. Until it isn’t.
Carbon worrywarts worry straight to the bank with their $$ government contracts (Solyndra, etc.) claiming they will slow or stop this made up threat to life on Earth.
Stealing tax payer dollars to fund their pipe dream projects and policies and provide nothing of value only more debt not only with zero to show for it, but only increased misery and devastation- whether it’s energy, education, infrastructure, you name it - even foreign policy! That’s the definition of the Democrat party to a tee.
Wouldn’t coast to coast billboards of the imaginary high speed train in CA with newsome’s face superimposed and the quote “$18 billion. You get what you pay for, Vote Blue” be swell?
Yes, and weak minded leftists are too stupid to see their leftist government is causing it. Poverty may also be our enemy's key objective.
World distribution of poverty is the strategy of WEF and the global obstructionists because wealth in independent countries - especially those who espouse populist thinking - threatens their ability to control the world. Their next likely move after wealth increases for a free country is to start color revolutions and sneak in foreigners to disrupt society and overthrow an election. Assassination is the next option.
I hear our deep state CIA is really well trained in starting color revolutions in such places.
I found it strange that most of the NFL owners are conservatives - yet they love Goodell & pay him 100M/year. I guess money trumps morals as Goodell is a good deal maker & makes the owners lots of $$$.
Drill for oil. A proven, simple answer for poverty. Just ask Jed and Granny.
But then he made the mistake of moving to Mexifornia and they taxed him back into poverty.
But Ellie did get her cement pond.
And now Jethro Newsome is the Governor.
And Alex Soros Drysdale is his banker.
But who is Jane Hathaway in this scenario?
Jane Hathaway's character is too honest and sensible for a match with California politicians. I would recommend Nancy Pelosi as Granny due to Granny's fondness for 'rheumatiz' medicine. Cousin Bessie is a match with Swalwell.
Nancy Culp, who played Jane Hathaway, was actually a raving. Leftist, she used to get into big arguments with buddy epson.
Who was a conservative
Karen Bass
Progressives drill for back door tax payer money. Keeps them in office and out of poverty too.
When communism is swept aside in Cuba,it will be remarkable to witness the emergence of wealth from the resources that have been there the whole time.
I cannot wait for this!!!!
Alice, I will gladly share encouraging news as it comes to me. I made a dear friend there while on a church mission trip to Matanzas in November. Ever since I daily feed her encouraging news via WhatsApp. Thing are getting progressively darker there, but she is delighted to know things kept from them.
Pray for them to be strengthen and for patient endurance.
That is probably a major factor in how Marco Rubio has turned himself into such a powerful statesman - having the intense drive to see the dream of a free Cuba come into actuality.
Great point
One of the biggest problems right now is the smoke people are living with (not a lot of glass in upper windows) due to the trash in streets being burnt. Makes sleeping difficult and it’s going to cause long term respiratory issues.
That will probably be happening in NYC pretty soon!
I can see Mamdani being recalled. Because of ranked voting he won but it wasn't nearly 50% of the registered voters.
Good point but it is NYC. Cali had the chance to dump Newsome and we all know how that worked out.
Trump could make the island a tourist paradise in 6 months flat
Trump Havana sounds nice.
Don you inspired these thoughts. Thank you!
DRILL, BABY, DRILL vs. WE CAN’T DRILL OUR WAY OUT
Simplistic vs. Idealistic
Across South America, the difference between growth and decline often comes down to a single decision: develop the resources a nation possesses, or suppress them in service of ideology. Oil left in the ground is not a moral achievement — it is surrendered prosperity. Untapped production means jobs never created, revenue never collected, and stability never secured. When governments trade development for symbolism, citizens inherit inflation, shortages, and social strain.
That same lesson now appears inside the developed world. In the United States, some resource-rich regions deliberately restrict their own energy supply. California sits atop roughly 11 billion barrels of oil — comparable to the reserves of Argentina — yet has steadily regulated its own production toward extinction while importing energy from elsewhere. The consequences are visible: higher living costs, outward migration, and a shrinking middle class. Scarcity in a land of abundance is not inevitability; it is policy.
The governing philosophy was captured in former President Barack Hussein Obama’s remark, “we can’t drill our way out.” Contrast that with the blunt 2008 refrain popularized by Sarah Palin, vice-presidential candidate and former governor (R-Alaska): “Drill, baby, drill.” At the time it was dismissed as simplistic, yet recent policy directions — in parts of South America and in U.S. leadership favoring expanded domestic production — have leaned toward the latter view: producing what you have reduces dependency and strengthens economies.
After decades of debate, the argument is no longer abstract. Nations that develop their resources tend to stabilize costs and expand opportunity; those that restrict them import both energy and hardship. Ignore economic reality long enough, and quality of life follows it downward.
— WM. Giles
P.S. I voted for simplistic vs. idealistic.
Maybe the best acid test for political policy is “Keep It Simplistic, Stupid.”
The oil will be removed by man or make its presence known naturally so let us use this gift from our CREATOR !
Not just the resources, but a return to being one of the best beach resorts in the Gulf of America. It will take time, but it will happen.
Verdadero. We & our hosts spent an afternoon there. Beautiful place, but at the moment- dead.
Dad was in Cuba while in the navy around 1949. He said it was an amazing and beautiful.
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Cuba has significant mineral, energy, and biological resources, many of which are only partially developed or still largely underexplored.
Key mineral resources
Nickel and cobalt – Cuba has some of the world’s largest nickel and cobalt reserves and is already a major producer, but expansion is constrained by lack of capital, aging plants, and sanctions, so potential remains underdeveloped relative to the size of the resource. These metals are strategically important for stainless steel and batteries.
Iron ore, chromium, manganese, copper, zinc, gold, silver, tungsten – Identified resources exist, but most of these metals are mined on a small scale or not at all compared with their geological potential, mainly due to investment, technology, and infrastructure constraints.
Oil and natural gas
Onshore and near‑shore oil is produced and meets only about half of Cuba’s domestic needs, but geologic studies point to much larger undiscovered conventional oil and gas resources, especially offshore north of Cuba.
The USGS estimates a mean of about 4 billion barrels of undiscovered oil and over 13 trillion cubic feet of gas in the North Cuba area, with entire assessment units (such as the platform margin carbonates) essentially unexplored to date. This makes offshore hydrocarbons one of Cuba’s most important undeveloped resource fronts.
Land, forests, and biodiversity
Arable land – Cuba has extensive fertile land; some areas are underused or undercapitalized after decades of focus on sugar and chronic input shortages, so higher‑value diversified agriculture (fruits, vegetables, organics, bio‑products) is considered an underdeveloped resource.
Forests and timber – The island once was heavily forested and still has commercially valuable species such as mahogany and cedar, but modern, sustainable timber and non‑timber forest industries are limited by investment and conservation policies, leaving part of this potential untapped.
Biodiversity and ecosystems – Cuba’s coral reefs, mangroves, wetlands, and endemic species are globally significant assets with growth potential in eco‑tourism, blue economy products, and bioprospecting, yet many sites remain only lightly developed for these uses.
Renewable energy resources
Solar, wind, and biomass – Analyses of Cuba’s energy system emphasize that while fossil resources are modest, the country has substantial solar radiation, some good wind corridors, and large biomass residues (especially from sugarcane), but these are still used far below their technical potential due to financing and grid challenges.
Hydropower – Cuba lacks large river headwaters suitable for big dams, so hydro potential is relatively limited and already partially utilized; the main “undeveloped” opportunity in renewables lies more in solar, wind, and biomass than in new hydro.
Tourism‑linked natural assets
Beaches, landscapes, and marine areas – White‑sand coasts, karst landscapes, caves, and offshore reefs are valuable natural assets; many have tourism infrastructure, but others remain lightly developed or entirely undeveloped due to access, environmental rules, or lack of capital.
Protected‑area adjacent zones – Conservation groups have identified reef and coastal areas near vulnerable communities that are not yet protected or sustainably developed, representing potential for carefully managed “natural capital” projects in the future.
In short, Cuba’s most important relatively undeveloped natural resources are offshore oil and gas, several non‑nickel minerals, higher‑value agriculture and forestry, rich biodiversity, and solar/wind/biomass energy, all limited less by geology than by capital, technology, and policy conditions.
Will the stain of BHO ever leave us? Will his policies that ruined our economy ever be wiped away and for good? Trump is killing a lot of them & bravo 👏🏻 for that. But look at California, such potential and they elect people like Bass & Newsom. It could be a wonderland. And yet the Palisades sits bare, not rebuilt.
That truly is one of the starkest examples of how Democrat/Leftist/socialist policies only crush people and produce nothing of value.
Just look at FL for the most glaring of differences: after it suffers multiple hurricanes wreaking vast damage, to homes, towns, and infrastructure, and within months - not years - months, they are rebuilt and restored!
Rebuilt a bridge in 3 days. "Merica, f*** yeah!" To quote a movie.
In the Pacific MacArthur told his engineers "I want that bridge built and I want the plans in three days". Engineers came back after two days, "Sir the bridge is built but the plans are going to take a little longer".
American Exceptionalism.
Well, we’re still dealing with the idiocy of Jimmah Carter all these years later. Every Muslim terrorist attack of the last 45 plus years lies at his feet. If only he had supported the Shah….
He couldn't build enough Habitat homes in 3 lifetimes to make up for that.
It is just so paradoxical. I worked with somebody back in 2008 who was going to vote for Obama because he thought it was time to make racism a thing of the past, and that by electing Obama we'd finally move beyond it! What a freaking hoot! Obama and Holder set race relations in this country back at least 50 years. He is a spawn of Satan, pure evil through and through. Once again, we're lucky that he was a mumbling, bumbling, moron.
When Obumbler showed up on the scene, I thought he looked interesting. It only took 2 speeches to realize what a worthless bowel movement he was.
I have a buddy who did the same thing and he's rock ribbed conservative. Go figure.
Someday historians will use California politics as the example of how you take a rich state and turn it into a socialist hellhole. They are already trying to screw those people who lost homes in the fire out of their property rights so they can build low cost apartment housing. The historians will use a picture of DeNiro as the face of California evil.
They never intended to rebuild the Palisades. The truth is beginning to come out, as the land is being sold to favored persons and groups for "approved" uses by the right people. I'm beginning to suspect the entire fire was deliberate, to get rid of the "riff-raff" and put the land in the hands of the proper butt-kissers. Communism is wonderful, isn't it?
Was that what happened in the Hawaii fires?
That one seems even more obvious than Palisades.
Supposedly yes to Hawaii Gal. And a lot of my Nashville friends think their winter storm was tampered with so that they (along with Oxford, MS) got devastating freezing rain & ice and everyone else in the path got snow & sleet. No power, huge trees down everywhere, half of Nashville in hotels for 10 days.
Methinks the carnival barkers of the clown-show democrat party were so whipsawed Tuesday night by the Golden Golem that they have no idea how to come out of the hole they’ve dug themselves. Which is exactly when they get very dangerous. They know the climate hustle is over, along with the NGO hustle, and the draining-the- treasury siphon has been shut. Without resources, as Millei knows, you can’t move a country either forward or backward. PDJT knows resources; how to raise them and how to shut them down. Oil is our gold. Cut off the dems funding and you’ve neutered them. Head on a swivel as they get desperate, all!
Amen to that Dtt. There's nothing more dangerous than a wild animal backed into a corner.
Or, as Rush used to say, “If you think the liberals are dangerous now, just wait until they are out of power.”
Rush also said, “ Follow the money”. I miss Rush and Walter Williams his part time host years ago.
Me too on both.
Right on.
The great one is sorely missed but I read his quotes in On The Radio by Snerdley and smile.
The internal combustion engine has lifted more people out of poverty that any invention in the history of mankind
Put it in a tractor and you feed thousands. Put it in a truck and you deliver that food along with the materials to build greatness.
Put it in an oil can and carry it to a BLM rally light it on fire and you he a peaceful protest! huh???
No, you put it in glass bottles with cotton stoppers.
My vote for that honor would go to coal and steam. It was coal that made it possible to end slavery in the West.
This is how I summarize the history of Energy/Slavery:
Slavery is not evil because it is racist, slavery is evil because it is slavery. Slavery is also ancient. It provided the renewable sustainable biodegradable energy for the elites for millennia.
Interracial slavery did not become commonplace until a leap in transportation technology in the 16th Century allowed slaves sold by Africans to be transported to the Americas to provide sustainable renewable energy for the elites. Technological improvements in energy production later made it possible to eliminate slavery in the West. Within approximately 100 years of the Watt-Wilkinson collaboration that produced an efficient fossil fueled steam engine, slavery was abolished in the West.
Slavery reappeared in Germany during the fossil fuel shortage of the first half of the 1940s. (Audrey Hepburn’s half-brother along with many other Belgians, Dutch, French and other Europeans were enslaved to ameliorate the fossil fuel shortage
Slavery did not become obsolete because mankind became better. It became obsolete because fossil fueled power is more efficient
Given the need, mankind would still gladly enslave his brothers.
James Watt (Scotland, coal) and Nicolaus Otto (Germany, oil) invented the means to turn coal and oil into useable mechanical energy to drive the industrial revolution. Many millions have prospered due to use of incredible natural resources.
Energy, always and everywhere, is the driver of prosperity.
Electricity?
And the democrats are determined to pull us back into poverty, or what they like to call "collectivism's warm embrace."
The demoncrats got a taste of reality in senate hearings on health care and insurance when asshat Bernie S. interrupted M.W. Mullins//truly a dessert well served !
Sanders- Mr. Sanctimonious stuck in a time warp.
He'll be fossilized & put in a museum - a relic to warped & failed DEM-Socialist policies.
Soon, I hope. (Did I type that out loud?)
Shoulda used upper case....
I think it is wonderful that our neighbors in this hemisphere are beginning to prosper - way to go!
"MAG" 'Make Americas Great.'
As in .357?
Good one.
I was thinking the same thing. I don’t begrudge them their prosperity, in fact I am rooting for it, but how long do think it will take all these ‘asylum seekers just yearning to breathe free’ to go back?
Breathing free is what they say but eating free is what they do. They'll follow the money just like a herd of cows following a feed truck.
Exactly! Do you think we could incentivize them to take a liberal with them?
These anti-drill folks have zero awareness of fossil base petroleum in their lives beyond fuel to jet around bitching about fossil fuels. They love posting on petroleum based phones and laptops etc while wearing and carrying the same based products with no clue in the game of a life of reality.
"Fossil" fuel is a misnomer. The idea that oil came from dead dinosaurs was created by the oil barons in their heyday, to create the impression that it was scarce, and support higher prices. In fact, geologists are aware that petroleum formation is a natural process deep in the earth, where heat and pressure work to create it from its component elements. A constant, continuous, self-renewing process.
I am glad to see this come to light again. More than 20 years ago I read that the Russians made the same claim because they were hitting oil reserves underground that were "refilling" without explanation at 70,000 feet deep.
They clearly stated oil could not come from plant/animal decomposition and that it had to be a chemical process the occurred under great pressure underground.
What did our media and government and big oil say about that fact? They called it a conspiracy theory.
Well, you know what has happened to all those conspiracy theories.
We are no longer fooled.
And it tastes good too! Kennedy is showing more & more of what the ‘Experts’ knew…. ‘US Fruit Loops will be in technicolor museums…like Woody Allen’s Sleepers…
I did not expect this mornings article to discuss oil production in Guyana and Argentina. But it shows the Surb has his eyes wide open.
Live today and look forward to tomorrows article.
Asked about NY State….”New York State has no official estimates of recoverable oil using hydraulic fracturing, as high-volume hydraulic fracturing (fracking) is permanently banned. “
Permanently banned….who’s the Dictator ruling NY since 2015 when they declared the World flat?
“…the Marcellus Shale extends into southern New York and is estimated to hold vast natural gas resources—up to 500 trillion cubic feet regionally—the state has not pursued development.”
“The focus has shifted to renewable energy, and the state now imports over 99% of the natural gas it consumes. “
Chopping up the birds, driving the whales crazy, putting windmills up & down the coastline of Long Island, paying $0.25/kw for electricity when the wind blows…banning natgas in homes & apartments……on the road to be a sh!thole city….again!
sure sounds like Nazis or Commies are in control…..
……and is there anyone able to fix this? Anyone? Any NYers? Even from Queens?….turn on the Bat(sh!t)-Signal…
State of Texas gets $6 billion a year in excise taxes, local cities & school districts $29 billion in 2024.
2.00 billion barrels of oil extracted say at $70/bbl = $140 billion in wealth to mineral rights owners.
12.62 trillion cubic feet of natural gas at $4/mcf = $50 billion….
About $200 billion in wealth ‘farmed’ in the oil patch…….IN ONE YEAR
NYState farm income $0……wealth in NY minerals…$0 by Commie Decree….
Democrat NYers are damn proud of their stupidity. Pennsylvanians are reaping the rewards of mineral rights a few miles from the state line. But as Ron White once said "You can't fix stupid".
NY is crazy town on steroids. Cuomo shuts down Indian Point & bans fracking. Then Hochul comes along & wants to build a nuclear reactor to replace the one that Cuomo shut down. And now the DEM voters in NY are blaming Trump for high energy costs.
They'd rather tax their millionaires & billionaires into poverty than profit from their natural resources - what a bunch of idiots! You couldn't pay me to live there
Only certain millionaires and billionaires. If you have the correct letter after your name, you're off the hook. Right, Mamdanis?
Let’s not forget that Hochul and her merry band of Commie legislators banned natural gas hookups for new construction. Fortunately due to legal challenges she has paused it. Plus the electric power grid can’t support it and electric costs would skyrocket. Commies, everything is rainbows and fairy dust. Until it isn’t.
Carbon worrywarts worry straight to the bank with their $$ government contracts (Solyndra, etc.) claiming they will slow or stop this made up threat to life on Earth.
Stealing tax payer dollars to fund their pipe dream projects and policies and provide nothing of value only more debt not only with zero to show for it, but only increased misery and devastation- whether it’s energy, education, infrastructure, you name it - even foreign policy! That’s the definition of the Democrat party to a tee.
Wouldn’t coast to coast billboards of the imaginary high speed train in CA with newsome’s face superimposed and the quote “$18 billion. You get what you pay for, Vote Blue” be swell?
It's as if a Higher Power is telling mankind, skip the renewable crap it doesn't work!
But the leftists believe they are the Higher Power
Poverty is a choice. So is happiness. Which explains why the victimhood mentality of the left has produced so much misery and so many AWFLs.
YES!!!!
"Poverty is a choice, my brothers and sisters."
Yes, and weak minded leftists are too stupid to see their leftist government is causing it. Poverty may also be our enemy's key objective.
World distribution of poverty is the strategy of WEF and the global obstructionists because wealth in independent countries - especially those who espouse populist thinking - threatens their ability to control the world. Their next likely move after wealth increases for a free country is to start color revolutions and sneak in foreigners to disrupt society and overthrow an election. Assassination is the next option.
I hear our deep state CIA is really well trained in starting color revolutions in such places.
Addendum: WEF is being hurt by Epstein: https://www.semafor.com/article/02/26/2026/world-economic-forum-head-brge-brende-resigns-over-epstein-ties
If Glo Bull warming were real, Al Gore would be skinny from walking everywhere.
But we all know it's just a scam to control and eliminate people.
Obama, the first gay affirmative action President, was the biggest mistake since Roger Goodell was made head of the NFL.
I found it strange that most of the NFL owners are conservatives - yet they love Goodell & pay him 100M/year. I guess money trumps morals as Goodell is a good deal maker & makes the owners lots of $$$.
And Gary Bettman was made commissioner of the NHL.