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Diesel fuel - Will no longer need.
Motor Oil - We have synthetics
Bearing Grease - We have synthetics
Ink - Can be made from tree products
Floor Wax - Create floors that don't need to be waxed
Ballpoint Pens - See Ink. If the point is brass and the casing can be made of practically anything.
Football Cleats - Can be made from leather.
Upholstery - Can be made from leather.
Sweaters - Wool
Boats - Wood or steel
Insecticides - Any number of chemicals
Bicycle Tires - Rubber Trees
Sports Car Bodies - Graphite
Nail Polish - Can be made from almost anything.
Fishing lures - Can be made from other things. Fishing line made from oil is only 1 of 5 types of fishing lines.
Dresses - Can be made from cotton, silk or any number of other materials
Tires - Rubber trees
Golf Bags - Leather or other materials
Perfumes - Any number of other materials
Cassettes - CD's, DVD,s, and other storage mediums have already placed cassettes on the 'endangered products' list.
Dishwasher parts - Can be made of other materials. Originally made of metal.
Tool Boxes - Metal
Shoe Polish - Can be made of many other materials
Motorcycle Helmet - Don't need them
Caulking - is already being made from non-oil products
Petroleum Jelly - Don't need.
Transparent Tape - Don't need
CD Player - Can be made from other materials. Most important parts aren't made from oil products anyway
Faucet Washers - Neoprene Washers (which can be made from limestone)
Antiseptics - Don't have to be made from oil
Clothesline - aluminium
Curtains - cotton or other natural fibers
Food Preservatives - Not a good idea to eat foods preserved with oil products (that's why we have so many diseases)
Basketballs - leather (they're better anyway)
Soap - can be made from any number of materials.
Vitamin Capsules - use pills
Antihistamines - Salt is a natural antihistamine
Purses - leather
Shoes - leather
Dashboards - leather or fabric
Cortisone - can be made from fish oil
Deodorant - can be made from the oil of trees
Footballs - leather
Putty - Can be made from linseed oil
Dyes - Can be made from practically anything
Panty Hose - Can be made from synthetics
Refrigerant - We already have non-oil based refrigerants
Percolators - There's always instant coffee
Life Jackets - Can be made from cork
Rubbing Alcohol - Can be made from other products
Linings - can be made from practically anything.
There are two things to remember here.
1. With the exception of gasoline, the vast majority of products made from oil can and are being made from non-petroleum sources.
2. We don't need to eliminate oil based products entirely; we simply need to replace them as fuel for vehicles and fuel for power generation. Then we should have enough oil on US soil (and not in the ocean) to facilitate producing the rest, if you want to keep using oil for some thing. But it can be totally replaced in our economy by things that are:
1. Easier to get.
2. Replenishible
3. Not the threat to the environment if something goes wrong.
I'm patiently waiting for your dollar cost analysis.
Good short term thinking lad, just what tomorrows children need.
I'm patiently waiting for your dollar cost analysis.
Good short term thinking lad, just what tomorrows children need.
Call it what you want, Joe. But items are going to become very expensive, and I don't see a lot of money in the hands of the children with all the taxes that will be added in our generation to clean up the mess we're in. just sayin....
How about waving the Jones act 2 months ago and accepting the help offered from other nations. Oh wait I forgot Obama can only ignore the laws he wants to. He has to follow the Jones act.
After Jindal strenuously made his case, the barges finally got the go-ahead Thursday to return to the Gulf and get back to work, after more than 24 hours of sitting idle.
from the same:
After Jindal strenuously made his case, the barges finally got the go-ahead Thursday to return to the Gulf and get back to work, after more than 24 hours of sitting idle.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has spent the past week and half fighting to get working barges to begin vacuuming crude oil out of his state's oil-soaked waters. By Thursday morning, against the governor's wishes, those barges still were sitting idle, even as more oil flowed toward the Louisiana shore.
Louisiana Governor Jindal frustrated over decision-making red tape.
"It's the most frustrating thing," the Republican governor told ABC News while visiting Buras, La. "Literally, [Wednesday] morning we found out that they were halting all of these barges."
Watch "World News" for David Muir's report from Louisiana tonight.
Sixteen barges sat stationary Thursday, although they had been sucking up thousands of gallons of BP's oil as recently as Tuesday. Workers in hazmat suits and gas masks pumped the oil out of the Louisiana waters and into steel tanks. It was a homegrown idea that seemed to be effective at collecting the thick gunk.
BP Oil Spill: Against Gov. Bobby Jindal's Wishes, Crude-Sucking Barges Stopped by Coast Guard - ABC News
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has spent the past week and half fighting to get working barges to begin vacuuming crude oil out of his state's oil-soaked waters. By Thursday morning, against the governor's wishes, those barges still were sitting idle, even as more oil flowed toward the Louisiana shore.
Louisiana Governor Jindal frustrated over decision-making red tape.
"It's the most frustrating thing," the Republican governor told ABC News while visiting Buras, La. "Literally, [Wednesday] morning we found out that they were halting all of these barges."
Watch "World News" for David Muir's report from Louisiana tonight.
Sixteen barges sat stationary Thursday, although they had been sucking up thousands of gallons of BP's oil as recently as Tuesday. Workers in hazmat suits and gas masks pumped the oil out of the Louisiana waters and into steel tanks. It was a homegrown idea that seemed to be effective at collecting the thick gunk.
BP Oil Spill: Against Gov. Bobby Jindal's Wishes, Crude-Sucking Barges Stopped by Coast Guard - ABC News
and your point is?
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has spent the past week and half fighting to get working barges to begin vacuuming crude oil out of his state's oil-soaked waters. By Thursday morning, against the governor's wishes, those barges still were sitting idle, even as more oil flowed toward the Louisiana shore.
Louisiana Governor Jindal frustrated over decision-making red tape.
"It's the most frustrating thing," the Republican governor told ABC News while visiting Buras, La. "Literally, [Wednesday] morning we found out that they were halting all of these barges."
Watch "World News" for David Muir's report from Louisiana tonight.
Sixteen barges sat stationary Thursday, although they had been sucking up thousands of gallons of BP's oil as recently as Tuesday. Workers in hazmat suits and gas masks pumped the oil out of the Louisiana waters and into steel tanks. It was a homegrown idea that seemed to be effective at collecting the thick gunk.
BP Oil Spill: Against Gov. Bobby Jindal's Wishes, Crude-Sucking Barges Stopped by Coast Guard - ABC News
and your point is?
The point is that Jindals laziness and incompetence resulted in a weak request and so he had to go back and "strenously" argue his request.
.....hack
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has spent the past week and half fighting to get working barges to begin vacuuming crude oil out of his state's oil-soaked waters. By Thursday morning, against the governor's wishes, those barges still were sitting idle, even as more oil flowed toward the Louisiana shore.
Louisiana Governor Jindal frustrated over decision-making red tape.
"It's the most frustrating thing," the Republican governor told ABC News while visiting Buras, La. "Literally, [Wednesday] morning we found out that they were halting all of these barges."
Watch "World News" for David Muir's report from Louisiana tonight.
Sixteen barges sat stationary Thursday, although they had been sucking up thousands of gallons of BP's oil as recently as Tuesday. Workers in hazmat suits and gas masks pumped the oil out of the Louisiana waters and into steel tanks. It was a homegrown idea that seemed to be effective at collecting the thick gunk.
BP Oil Spill: Against Gov. Bobby Jindal's Wishes, Crude-Sucking Barges Stopped by Coast Guard - ABC News
and your point is?
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has spent the past week and half fighting to get working barges to begin vacuuming crude oil out of his state's oil-soaked waters. By Thursday morning, against the governor's wishes, those barges still were sitting idle, even as more oil flowed toward the Louisiana shore.
Louisiana Governor Jindal frustrated over decision-making red tape.
"It's the most frustrating thing," the Republican governor told ABC News while visiting Buras, La. "Literally, [Wednesday] morning we found out that they were halting all of these barges."
Watch "World News" for David Muir's report from Louisiana tonight.
Sixteen barges sat stationary Thursday, although they had been sucking up thousands of gallons of BP's oil as recently as Tuesday. Workers in hazmat suits and gas masks pumped the oil out of the Louisiana waters and into steel tanks. It was a homegrown idea that seemed to be effective at collecting the thick gunk.
BP Oil Spill: Against Gov. Bobby Jindal's Wishes, Crude-Sucking Barges Stopped by Coast Guard - ABC News
and your point is?
lots of folks believe that this deal needs to be a disorganized panic. instead, i think that with everyone compliant with regulations like safety vests and fire extinguishers on boats skimming oil, even if it takes over 24 hours exclusion from the thousands of other boats involved, that the job will be done right and safely.
that's the way shit's done in the US, man. a foreign operation without a grip on these principles set this whole mess off in the first place.
reactionaries take incidents like these and try to inflate them into a criticism of america, to which i say, 'what's your point?'
lots of folks believe that this deal needs to be a disorganized panic. instead, i think that with everyone compliant with regulations like safety vests and fire extinguishers on boats skimming oil, even if it takes over 24 hours exclusion from the thousands of other boats involved, that the job will be done right and safely.
that's the way shit's done in the US, man. a foreign operation without a grip on these principles set this whole mess off in the first place.
reactionaries take incidents like these and try to inflate them into a criticism of america, to which i say, 'what's your point?'
so you've got a talent for making a big deal out of selectively quoted bullshit, making happy faces and non-sequitur commentary. great, Intense.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has spent the past week and half fighting to get working barges to begin vacuuming crude oil out of his state's oil-soaked waters. By Thursday morning, against the governor's wishes, those barges still were sitting idle, even as more oil flowed toward the Louisiana shore.
Louisiana Governor Jindal frustrated over decision-making red tape.
"It's the most frustrating thing," the Republican governor told ABC News while visiting Buras, La. "Literally, [Wednesday] morning we found out that they were halting all of these barges."
Watch "World News" for David Muir's report from Louisiana tonight.
Sixteen barges sat stationary Thursday, although they had been sucking up thousands of gallons of BP's oil as recently as Tuesday. Workers in hazmat suits and gas masks pumped the oil out of the Louisiana waters and into steel tanks. It was a homegrown idea that seemed to be effective at collecting the thick gunk.
BP Oil Spill: Against Gov. Bobby Jindal's Wishes, Crude-Sucking Barges Stopped by Coast Guard - ABC News
and your point is?
They were halted because they couldn't find the safety vests.
