Saturday, September 20, 2025

How Much Crude Oil is in the USA Strategic Petroleum Reserve? How Long To Replenish?

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 The USA Strategic Oil reserve is an imporatant safeguard to buffer the effects of any event that could cause problems to the general supply...
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

My Brush with the Vice-President

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It was midnight .   I think it was in June - perhaps July - maybe August- perhaps later.  I'm not really sure since it was maybe almost...
Saturday, August 30, 2025

California Faces High Pump Prices as Phillips 66 Shuts LA Refinery

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 ....getting back to why I started this blog.  I recall quite a while ago they gave a Chevron refinery such a hard time, Chevron threatened ...
Friday, August 29, 2025

is the US Dollar...CRASHING??

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 The short answer is:  NO.   The real answer is: It's slowly losing value.  Rather than bore you with a lot of mumbo jumbo we'll loo...
Monday, August 25, 2025

Madam Butterfly - my first brush with AI

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 Back in 1975 (or so), I took an alternate English class. It was a creative writing class. I decided to do this since the 1st semester Engli...
Saturday, August 23, 2025

The "Winner's Curse" and What Comes Next. Be prepared For 2026-27

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The CATO Institute has put together a pretty good description of how long they see things going and how it has panned out over the decades:...
Friday, August 22, 2025

Update on Pew's Analysis of Each State's Rainy Day Fund

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This is a subject near and dear to my heart.  WHAT IF....all revenue stopped coming into the state treasuries of every state.... how much wo...