All I can say is "GULP " Mommy.....

[deziloooooo]

What is one to say if it is true.....my advice, call for MOM...she was always there to comfort and make things right....
MOMMY.....

Hi speed trains anyone ??

MOMMY...MOMMY..where are you when I need you, Mom , MOM..please...


www.newsmax.com/Headline/de-borchgrave-oil-mideast/2011/02/22/id/387042
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De Borchgrave: Mideast $400 Oil Imminent With Mideast Upheaval
Tuesday, 22 Feb 2011 07:09 PM

By Jim Meyers and Ashley Martella

Award-winning journalist Arnaud de Borchgrave tells Newsmax that the increasingly volatile situation in the Middle East could push the price of oil quickly to $300 or even $400 a barrel.

De Borchgrave, who has interviewed Moammar Gadhafi six times, also says the Libyan leader is manic-depressive who is going through a manic phrase where he is “taking on the world.”

A 30-year veteran of Newsweek magazine, de Borchgrave now is director of the Transnational Threats Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, editor-at-large at United Press International and The Washington Times, and a Newsmax correspondent.

In an exclusive interview with Newsmax.TV, de Borchgrave discussed the impact that the uprisings in Libya, Iran, and other Middle Eastern nations could have on the price of oil. Some economists also have speculated that, if oil surged to $400, the pump price for gasoline could hit $15 a gallon.
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[deziloooooo]

Ok , so it isn't $400 per barrell....yet. However......
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news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110223/ap_on_re_us/us_oil_prices
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Oil prices hit $100 per barrel

By CHRIS KAHN, AP Energy Writer Chris Kahn, Ap Energy Writer –

49 mins ago
NEW YORK – Oil prices hit $100 per barrel Wednesday as forces loyal to Libya's Moammar Gadhafi clashed with protesters expanding their control over parts of that OPEC nation.

In afternoon trading benchmark West Texas Intermediate crude for April delivery was up $3.48, or 3.7 percent, at $98.90 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Prices climbed as high as $100 earlier in the day, hitting triple digits for the first time since Oct. 2, 2008. WTI has jumped 18 percent since Valentine's Day.

In London, Brent crude added $5.33, or 5 percent, at $111.11per barrel on the ICE Futures exchange.

The rebellion in Libya, which has the most oil reserves in Africa, follows uprisings in other North African countries that have ousted leaders in Tunisia and Egypt. As protests widened in Libya, French oil giant Total said it started to wind down its oil production in the country, which produced an average of 55,000 barrels per day last year. That follows similar moves by other oil companies working in the country.
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[Savoir Faire-Demogague in NJ]

Still pushing those high speed trains?
We do not need high speed rail service, we just need good and convenient service with plenty of free parking in lots adjacent to the stations.
Large segments of the population will still need to drive a car to work.

[marjar]

money.cnn.com/2011/02/23/news/international/libya_oil_production/index.htm?hpt=T1

[deziloooooo]

Feb 23, 2011 16:00:12 GMT -5 Savoir Faire-Demogague in NJ said:

Still pushing those high speed trains?
We do not need high speed rail service, we just need good and convenient service with plenty of free parking in lots adjacent to the stations.
Large segments of the population will still need to drive a car to work.

lighten up already...you take things a bit to literal..though if gas ever gets to those real hi rates..literal will become reality.

[deziloooooo]

Feb 23, 2011 16:34:03 GMT -5 @marjar said:

money.cnn.com/2011/02/23/news/international/libya_oil_production/index.htm?hpt=T1

Saw that..and the other Oil Companies who are there are doing the same..have to get their workers out..in desperation there is no knowing what would happen, if he, Gaddafi is going down, in a last act of ..remember the fires in Kuwait, he and his have no feeling for the people there, in the 40 plus years in power he has spread the least amount to the people of the oil revenues ...edication, health, infrastructure, services tot he people, social servics..nada to speak of.

[Value Buy]

Tonight, there was a blurb about the King coming home in Saudi Arabia.
The people were in the streets. Thousands of them.
Protesting?
No. Celebrating. They were cheering for his return, with cries of love.
The newsreporter was taken aback by this outpouring of admiration and demonstration.
His closing remark to the television host?
Based on this outpouring, consider shorting oil futures real soon, because the House of Saud, and Saudi Arabia is not going anywhere.

[deziloooooo]

There was also the report that he is giving out $35 Billion to his people..think there are 25 million there..I don't mean checks as they did to the families in Berrain, though possible some tha way..but raises in wages, benefits..supposedly has 400 billion stashed away...so...
The thing is he is 87, not well at all, brother is older?....so for how much longer....

[floridayankee]

Feb 23, 2011 16:00:12 GMT -5 Savoir Faire-Demogague in NJ said:

Still pushing those high speed trains?
We do not need high speed rail service, we just need good and convenient service with plenty of free parking in lots adjacent to the stations.
Large segments of the population will still need to drive a car to work.

The reason the high speed rail will fail in the Tampa - Orlando route is because of urban sprawl. Once you get there, you still need transportation to whatever your final destination is. My office is nearly 8 miles from the current Amtrak station in Tampa.

[deziloooooo]

Feb 24, 2011 10:48:52 GMT -5 floridayankee said:

Feb 23, 2011 16:00:12 GMT -5 Savoir Faire-Demogague in NJ said:

Still pushing those high speed trains?
We do not need high speed rail service, we just need good and convenient service with plenty of free parking in lots adjacent to the stations.
Large segments of the population will still need to drive a car to work.

The reason the high speed rail will fail in the Tampa - Orlando route is because of urban sprawl. Once you get there, you still need transportation to whatever your final destination is. My office is nearly 8 miles from the current Amtrak station in Tampa.

Florida thought we left the yadda on Hi Speed, whole thing was a possibility, a point of conversation, but saw your post here..so you expect a mode of transportation to be a success only if it takes you from A to your door, or ok, a bit much but it better be no more then 1 block from the door?

[973beachbum]

Feb 24, 2011 12:50:43 GMT -5 deziloooooo said:

Feb 24, 2011 10:48:52 GMT -5 floridayankee said:

The reason the high speed rail will fail in the Tampa - Orlando route is because of urban sprawl. Once you get there, you still need transportation to whatever your final destination is. My office is nearly 8 miles from the current Amtrak station in Tampa.

Florida thought we left the yadda on Hi Speed, whole thing was a possibility, a point of conversation, but saw your post here..so you expect a mode of transportation to be a success only if it takes you from A to your door, or ok, a bit much but it better be no more then 1 block from the door?

At the moment we live about 1 hr 15 minutes from Phila and 2 hr drive from NYC. Yet if I want to take a train into either one I would have to drive 1 hr to the train station to go to Phila and then sit on another train for an hour. To get to NYC I would have to drive 1 hr 15 minutes to get to a bus to get to a train to go to NYC. And yet all the politicians say is that we don't need trains to get there because clearly if people wanted to use mass transit we would be using what is already out there.

[floridayankee]

Feb 24, 2011 12:50:43 GMT -5 deziloooooo said:

Florida thought we left the yadda on Hi Speed, whole thing was a possibility, a point of conversation,

and still...you couldn't help responding

but saw your post here..so you expect a mode of transportation to be a success only if it takes you from A to your door, or ok, a bit much but it better be no more then 1 block from the door?

"To my door" sure would be nice (HART is actually experimenting with this service), but no, I'm not implying that at all. The point was, with the urban sprawl, there is no easy way to get around once you get to your destination. Sure, you can add stops here and stops there, but that would defeat the entire purpose of high speed rail. More stops = more time = less incentive for high speed.

Have you ever been in Tampa or Orlando? I'm not talking just Disney or Busch gardens...I mean out and about either of these cities? Take Orlando for example. Some might take the train to go to Disney. Some may take it to go to work. The problem is, there's between 10 and 20 miles between Disney (depending on where in Disney you're going) and downtown Orlando. It's not like you can get off the train downtown and hop on a subway to get to Disney World.

Now, Tampa...While Downtown Tampa is only a mile and change to center downtown (From the existing Amtrak station which I would assume the high speed rail would use due to the existing RR tracks), other destinations like MacDill AFB is 12 miles away. Bush Gardens is 7 miles away, the Airport is 10 miles away and the closest Gulf beaches are 30+ miles away. The next leg was supposed to be Orlando to Miami and Miami has even more sprawl than Tampa or Orlando.

[deziloooooo]

Feb 24, 2011 14:06:05 GMT -5 floridayankee said:

Feb 24, 2011 12:50:43 GMT -5 deziloooooo said:

Florida thought we left the yadda on Hi Speed, whole thing was a possibility, a point of conversation,

and still...you couldn't help responding

but saw your post here..so you expect a mode of transportation to be a success only if it takes you from A to your door, or ok, a bit much but it better be no more then 1 block from the door?

"To my door" sure would be nice (HART is actually experimenting with this service), but no, I'm not implying that at all. The point was, with the urban sprawl, there is no easy way to get around once you get to your destination. Sure, you can add stops here and stops there, but that would defeat the entire purpose of high speed rail. More stops = more time = less incentive for high speed.

Have you ever been in Tampa or Orlando? I'm not talking just Disney or Busch gardens...I mean out and about either of these cities? Take Orlando for example. Some might take the train to go to Disney. Some may take it to go to work. The problem is, there's between 10 and 20 miles between Disney (depending on where in Disney you're going) and downtown Orlando. It's not like you can get off the train downtown and hop on a subway to get to Disney World.

Now, Tampa...While Downtown Tampa is only a mile and change to center downtown (From the existing Amtrak station which I would assume the high speed rail would use due to the existing RR tracks), other destinations like MacDill AFB is 12 miles away. Bush Gardens is 7 miles away, the Airport is 10 miles away and the closest Gulf beaches are 30+ miles away. The next leg was supposed to be Orlando to Miami and Miami has even more sprawl than Tampa or Orlando.

Actually, when I heard about the route a few years ago, I questioned it, been both places, was wondering why, good roads between the places, not a lot inbetween I think, isn't tha where they raise cattle, citrus, agriculture? Figured they knew something I didn't, my thoughts were the Gold Coast...Miami North..semi hi speed. Possible florida not the place.
North East absolutly, but $ have to be spent...{Montriole??} threw that one in...Boston, New York, Washington, possible a Connecticut stop, if along the shore, New london , middle, possible Hartford, lots and lots of people.
He is saying spend the money..so it could be done..a lot of work has been done..lots more needed.

Florida, since so many are older, workers eem to be concentrated in and near locals, possible not needed at all..but in parts of the country..yep.


Gas gets to $10 and more per gallon...