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Quote from: seshadri_srinathSay this or somehting similar happened in the middle of a flat and featureless plain, I'll bet the devastation will be far less and help will be quicker to get in.

Flat, featureless plans like to flood a lot.

Oh great ... Yea I guess. Over all just sorta need to keep the doomsday scenario and the return period of said scenario in mind. New Orleans had been dodging it for a while, had a good few close calls and that was after 1969's camille ... I'd say 35 years for the biggie and 5 years for the medium ones, not acceptable odds. Flooding is common along river banks in the plains. Stay away from those, in any case we would be damming/diverting them if needed, so not an unsurmountable obstacle when millions of people's lives are at stake. How are we to control or divert a Hurricane or an earth quake or volcano. A 100 year flood is very different from a 10 year. Build on a 10 year flood plain and you're basically asking for it. Now I remember in 1995 the plains flooded, Missisippi breached its banks, when was the prior/next time.
Cool.
Srinath.

Quote from: porsche4786Very well said!

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Now My other question is, why did we build such a huge city in such a precarious location. Cool.
Srinath.

Ok, Mr. Bienville, a french dude, original built New Orleans although everybody else was like WTF? that ain't gonna work.  So you can blame it on the french.

Oh and how do you get into Yale if you are retard?  MONEY and FAMILIAR INFLUENCE!!!!! DUH!!!!

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Quote from: porsche4786Why do people blame Bush for everything?

Because he's a retard?  :dunno:

I don't think you can get into Yale if your retarded...He is only one man and cannot do everything! It's funny how everybody blames him but they don't do anything theirselves.

Also, I did see on TV that people were stealing stuff other than what they needed, such as guns and tv's. Then probably realized that their homes were gone and had no place to put them.

I've never seen nor heard him say anything intelligent. So until he does, he's a retard in my book.

Quote from: 2005-GS500-PDXI've never seen nor heard him say anything intelligent. So until he does, he's a retard in my book.

Retarded or not, gas prices have very little to do with the president.

"Retarded or not, gas prices have very little to do with the president."

Well considering he's in bed with Sheik what's his name I think that is very debatable.

Peak Oil

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Quote from: 2005-GS500-PDXI've never seen nor heard him say anything intelligent. So until he does, he's a retard in my book.

Retarded or not, gas prices have very little to do with the president.

Well, let's make it a little less personal. It is not George Bush's fault that gas prices are high, but it is greatly the PRESIDENTS fault that we have a lousy energy policy. The president happens to be George Bush, and the energy policy happened to have something to do with fuel prices.

Better?  :dunno:

Quote from: Phaedrusit is greatly the PRESIDENTS fault that we have a lousy energy policy.

Presidents is right...  It's been many presidents.  Many cabinets.  Many Congresses.

Just like all the other problems we have right now...

You can try to blame one person, but it's not one person.  It's many many people...  You can blame the entire US government for our gas problems, but it's not just the government.  The people of this country are as much to blame...

There's no easy solution, we passed that point.  We're pretty much f%&ked now and you can blame if you want, but it won't un-f%$k us.

there was this interesting trend..when bush got into office...the price of gas went up like no other.

Seemed like a good correlation to me.

The various reasons given for the war in iraq (at least the quieter agendas) was to get cheaper gas...what happened??

We have dead people now and it seems like everything is going crazy.

Quote from: bannerThe various reasons given for the war in iraq (at least the quieter agendas) was to get cheaper gas...what happened??

I'm not saying oil has anything to do with the Iraq war (that's an argument that's been beaten to death), but oil is on our government's agenda.  And...  We're not done yet...

Peak Oil has been coming for a long time.  Many people in high places have known it (and many more have denied it for far too long).  Obtaining the most oil possible for this country is the right thing to do for a short-sighted government.  We didn't bother trying to get off the oil when we had enough time to do so, so now we're stuck on it.  So, what to do?  Get oil.

Here's the thing...  Oil is going to get really damn expensive no matter what.  The question is: HOW expensive?  $5 a gallon or $25 a gallon?

Even at $5 a gallon, we will feel an economic pinch.  Everything will cost more to compensate for the increase in gas prices...  At $25 a gallon, with short supply, we'll feel MUCH more than a pinch...  It'll be a flat-out punch in the face...  With a possible kick to the nads in waiting.

This page has a ton of info about peak oil...  Take it or leave it.

Give me a T
Give me an A
Give me an R
Give me a D

Give me a F
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What does that spell?

Tard Farm! Where this is heading!  :mrgreen:

Perhaps.  If I can ever find the time to read it and figure out why.... :dunno:

I wasn't really sure why either...   :dunno:

I just spent 10 minutes reading through the Peak Oil web page RVertigo pointed to.  How depressing is that!!  What with the Bird Flu readying itself to create the next Black Death-like plague on humanity, all the sorrow in AL-MS-LA south and a falling stock market, it's getting hard to feel good about something these days.

At least the gouging has abated a bit here.  Regular dropped from $3.39 Thursday to $2.99 Friday.  Guess the fossil fuel flow has magically resumed.  :dunno:  

I hear another bottle of sunshine calling me from inside the fridge...

Reading about Peak Oil for the first time makes you feel like Sarah Connor in T2...

But, you eventually learn to accept it or move into total denial. :dunno:

I just read that Peak Oil crap and most of those statements about what requires oil can be alleviated with corn. Both corn and soybeans can yield higher amounts of quality usable product than the equivalent oil product. PLUS it doesn't have the nasty by products that have to be burned or buried for 200 years. Byproducts of ethanol manufacturing- CO2 which can be captured and compressed and sold, hmm, thats nice and a nutritious feed grain which certainly help grow more cows and animals and their poop will grow more corn and soybeans. All the doomsday predictions are for not because as humans, we find a way to survive, we survived the asteroids that killed the dinosaurs!

Here's the thing, I want to grow some damn corn and feed my gs off it. OK? maybe I drink a little too cause it is a nice grain alcohol, goes nice with some OJ. Hey orange mash whiskey, that might give the exhaust a citrus smell. mmmmmmm citrus...

I think I will open up a still in my backyard and when the ATF comes knocking I am gonna say hey @$$hole, I'm just burnin' it in my bike cause I can't afford 5 agallon! My wife already planted the corn.....(seriously, its in my backyard)

I commute 140 miles a day 4 days  a week and in Tulsa Gas is 3.19 a gallon while here in Stillwater, OK. It is still 2.99 hence the purchase of a 92 GS500E today   just dont kow what the hell I am gonna do when it gets cold  :dunno:

Quote from: bettingpythonI commute 140 miles a day 4 days  a week and in Tulsa Gas is 3.19 a gallon while here in Stillwater, OK. It is still 2.99 hence the purchase of a 92 GS500E today   just dont kow what the hell I am gonna do when it gets cold  :dunno:

Wear longjohns underneath your gear!

 And get a balaclava.