Quote from limitdown:
this actual discussion is being held all across the US, and those defending the rights of the oil industry and its component companies are in the severe minority....
Evidencing their lack of knowledge about the industry that they so vehemently despise. There is very little that the average American understands about this discipline, yet because its products are so entertwined in the everyday fabric, they feel compelled to manage from emotion. To scream at the heads of these companies and demote the paychecks to what most would call reasonable compensation would not have any material impact on the ability to buy buck-a-gallon gas.
Get Over It!!!
We are cajoled into thinking that merely saying, "the price will be XXX" is all that is required but somehow these companies won't do it because they want the money. This thinking is just another in the long line of responses that would have the industry filing bankruptcy. There would be hearings all over congressional dockets. Once again, no clue about what to do, just making sure we focus on a villain and making the politico's feel important.
There is no leadership being evidenced in many areas of just plain old living today. It doesn't take a genius to figure many things out. We need no specialized experts to lay out any fictional pictures that they percieve. And in spite of all the laymen who think the government can do it, that is the worst solutioin of all. Legislation is not even an effective bandaid in a country where unlimited personal freedom is the object, the right, and the percieved entitlement of the population. A population that includes, and wishes to extend, its image of correctness upon the multitude of races that reside within its borders. Legally, and illegally!
Because so many have abused the priviledge of driving into a right, we feel compelled to elevate its place in the American survival hierarchy. This pain-at-the-pump seems to be able to make even the sane amongst us resort to name calling and scowling. In this day and age, innovation in the minds of many has become a dusty shadow. It's no wonder that we blindly follow any perception of answer. The phantom green projects which fill so many pages of text and movie screens can bring a tear to the faces of those who have no clue. Charge!, goes the impending battle cry of activists and couch potatoe generals alike.
No incremental plans with milestones anywhere. Just unstructured running, marching, emotional treking into the mist is the plan. Experts that claim to see the end of the journey with supposed unerring clarity, start the drums to pace the public cadence. Forget that they have no clue of how to arive at the destination, it's the starting of the actions that has become paramount. And somehow this will solve the problems of today?
Dare I ask questions? How long the march? Is the journey a straight line, or a parabolic path through additional pains and tortures unseen? Will we all be able to travel this walk? Will it be without subsidy? Surely this trip will be at a cost, what of those who can't pay? Are they not entitled to make this God-vernment luxury/right part of their lifestyle?
The true answer is in the entrepreneural bent that causes invention and intervention. Somewhere there is an independent type with the answer. The horizon of his/her/their moment is closing in as the public pool for causing success is now growing. Like so many ants, the answers and the solutions to the problem are there in the cracks in the major corporation thinking. Too small for them to concern themselves with at the outset. Too numerous to stop, yet not enough perceived danger to smite down.
Mini-production plants, capable of producing 15,000 to 20,000 gallons a month of output could easily take care of some budding owners' station need. 1,000 barrels a month would take care of this plant. That's within the production of just 40 barrels a day. Modular production capabilities where a need is met could be an answer to so many ills here.
Yet there are those who would argue the perils of such a little venture. There is no clearly discernable route to mega-fortune capability so venture capital goes lacking. No one desires to just enjoy life, it's a pursuit of the stuff of fantasy fulfilment that fuels the daily focus. And the importance of political posturing, arm-chair critisism's and nay sayer's haven's are preserved.
If you truly seek answers to many questions that plague you, try these two things. First, make sure the person that you inquire from is NOT an expert! Self-declared or otherwise. Most experts have long since become full of themselves and no longer seek answers but form conslusions that fit their unquestionable theories. You want to find a very knowledgable person on the topic. They still will possess a modicum of humility and a better valuation of their personal position of importance in the world. Their views will still smell of wonderment and inquisition.
Second, become mobile in your solutions. Many answers require you to change something that you have become sedimentary about. Most of the time you have to truly evaluate your historical selections, decisions, choices, and then counter your move.
Then before you venture out on this new course, think about it then,
MAKE A PLAN! Don't let your success be an accident! Get out there and cause it!
