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VE3WBZ > FUEL 05.02.11 08:37l 167 Lines 7190 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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TO: FUEL @WW
FR: VE3WBZ
DT: Saturday, February 5th.,2011 @ 0028hrs EST
<< Quoting KB2VXA to FUEL @WW >>
> From : KB2VXA To : FUEL @WW
> Type/Status : B$ Date/Time : 03-Feb 13:00
> Bid : 63414_VK6ZRT Message # : 82379
> Title : Re: VE3WBZ > buses
>
> Hi Pete and all,
>
> The way things are going "Weird" Al Yankovic had the right idea...
Hi Warren and ALL ....
> Another One Rides The Bus. Coming from an urban area I can say that buses
> in and around US cities are pretty much like Sao Paulo except they run
> every 30 minutes at most during the morning and evening rush, far less
> frequently during day and evening hours and not at all early mornings.
I find with every city and their municipal transportation system
they all have the most common problems but differences in ways
to solve them.
Never seen the bus after midnight...into early morning, but
I have heard the city of OSASCO come to life with vehicles staring
up on time, and it then becomes a dull roar of noise.
The fun part at the bus stop is the Bus traffic jam of so many
arriving , but going elsewhere, and disappearing up streets here
and there...but the wait time is nearly zero... and I love that
especially in a tropical storm.
> Trams and trains the same, they run as needed except here where they're
> needed and run maybe twice a day. We at the shore are the forgotten
> people unless one wants to go to Philadelphia or New York but locally...
> foegidabaodidt.
Reads like here... as he further east one goes in the town
well they are the forgottenones...
> I rather figured the buses ran on hydrogen but forgot about the sub,
> now I'm wondering about the source of it and how long it lasts.
> I was going to research it yesterday but got sidetracked and forgot,
> oh well.
The buses here on Hydrogen, were started last year, when I mentioned
it, as part of the same stuff flopping across the screen here
about FUEL @WW ...same old stuff, and same debate that will
go no where fast and only into bitterness. What also is
happening there is tests of other sources and domestic reserves
produced in the country...no imports.
The submarine is of the German Navy U-232 ...19 member crew.
A stealth machine in it's construction. A navy source told
me it was impressive as to what it is capable of doing, but
then it is a test sub...so no telling what is on the drawing
table of the German Navy.
> Thinking about ethanol fuel, aside from a bit showing up in
> gasoline I wonder where all those trains hauling hundreds of
> tanks are going. I wonder if the greenies realize how much corn
> is grown for alcohol already when they squawk about using food
> for fuel. I wonder if they have any idea what's in all those tanks,
> over a hundred on each train and there are lots of trains.
Interesting. I have questions for the Greenies too! But you
mention the corn for fuel. A farmer here local has a contract
to grow it. But this corn for fuel is engineered for fuel and
apparently not nice to eat... Like Cattle corn that is muclched
for cattle feed in the winter....not nice to eat...but you can.
Bring on the Greenies ... I have questions in others areas.
Maybe a GREENIE @WW or something... ????
> Oh I'm sure Bob and others remember the gas bags of the war years,
> those in the UK remember them vividly. Lucky North America, we
> supplied almost all of the fuel so we didn't have to resort to
> wood and coal gas produced on the fly but gasoline and Diesel
> were rationed so there was little private transportation and not
> many trucks running either. COAL was king and it kept the
> railroads running, they werte at the heart of the transportation
> infrastructure and thankfully well out of bombing range.
Petrol and food were the big items needed in UK. Food to feed
< SPAM > and petrol < aviation fuel for the RAF > and oil for
the Navy ....so gas bags dark black were common on cars if you
could not get petrol < gas > . Ration cards for everything.
Funny thing , as being part of the government, some members of
the family got gas for the car. But then they worked and faced
straffing on the roads. They also got eggs..but then they were
rural and many had their own chickens etc.
The greatest advantage was having CANADA and the USA well out
of reach of the Bombers. Not the subs. It was a real
battle in the North Atlantic for these routes, and needed
supplys.
> H. G. Welles wrote about the strategic importance of the
> British Isles but overlooked the fact that at the time the US
> was strategically isolated so thankfully we still speak English.
I am puzzled here? I'd have to see the writtings you mention
and the date. Even now, as in the past, these Isles are
important to Europe and today...even passed the French Revolution,
Napoleon and Hitler... they remain even passed the cold war.
As with all the advancements the USA is no longer isolated, as
as policy at the time..Many leaving Europe for a new life..did
not want anything to tie their new home with the old... Isolation
or just had enough of it all. BUT they were a target, and
that started in WW1 and 2 ... and even more so now, as is the
rest of the world... as technology today has made no place safe.
I think the " so thankfully we still speak English" was to
Hitler's thinking the USA would never side with the UK...
I mean he must have been thinking about the American Revolution
and all ... but yeah I have heard that theme.
Funny how he never reacted or changed that thought, when Americans
arrived in UK to fight, long before the US enterred WW2.
> So what will be the fuel of the future? Hard to say if Man
> will be around long enough to find out or what will replace him.
>
> 73 de Warren
>
> Station powered by JCP&L atomic energy, operator powered by natural gas.
>
> Message timed by NIST: 07:55 on 2011-Feb-03 GMT
I too have wondered about the fuel of the future. Water turned into
fuel for cars ..like a pill or that secret german formula? I do not
think I will worry. I don't expect to live long enough to see it.
As for the future of the Human on Earth. I used to say, Humans
will either go the way of the dinosaur...by polution or garbage
or war...ending up winning whatever with clubs, after starting out
with the latest kill toys. Those left...if any will die out due
to a planet changed. Here I let those in the know speculate.
Who will replace the Humans... I think insects and others who
can survive. Maybe here and there a human but well that is
a hopeful guess, and then I wonder if dumb enough to repeat
historical mistakes like todays civilized humans.
Maybe they ...the Humans will totally in their last greaat war
manage to blow up and destroy the world...leaving a nic hole
and space junk floating where once there was a planet.
> [End of Message #82379 from KB2VXA]
Oops this was FUEL .... gas dropped here to C$ 1.10:9 //litre
yet Diesel costs more...which is funny. oh well..time to
read all the old stuff again from last year on this.
73 and nightie-night Pete <yawn> VE3WBZ
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