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If you listen carefully today, you’ll hear Mitzy the Wonder Dog barking to go outside.
Today’s episode is actually two pieces I brought forward from my Wordpress days. The implications for the Revolt are multifaceted. First is the supply of reliable gasoline for a market-driven, not government-driven market. Second are the headaches we face at the pump and throughout our energy and farming sectors, now driven almost exclusively by ESG and the WEF.
Hey, they succeeded in gaining the obedience of an entire NATION with the vax and shutdowns and masks. A whole nation is standing by while the future wealth of its very citizens is being torn away in an annual orgy of spending. The debt creates one problem and the resulting inflation rubs salt in the wound.
So they believe the population is compliant enough for them to enact policies that will leave us with nothing; no way to better our lives and our money controlled only by them. The WEF lunatics will still have their mansion and toys and unlimited power over your life. But you “will own nothing and you will be happy.” The words of the WEF, not mine.
And if you own nothing, from whence would come your ability to better your lot in life?
Now, to the business at hand.
Ethanol: It was never a good idea!
Some years ago, a pack of virtue signalers, shysters and political whores came together over a truly stupid idea; put food in our gas tanks. It sounds a butt load crazier when you think of it in true terms, doesn’t it? They decided to take our tax money, or to print money depending on what month the checks go out, and give it to farmers to plow under their varieties of vegetables and just grow corn instead. Maybe soy, but corn works best.
They didn’t actually say to the farmers, “Hey, farmers! Just grow corn!” But they were fully aware that the farmers would do just that as a result of their remarkably absurd idea…and cash.
The corn wasn't to be used as food, not even for the starving nations we normally help. And it wasn't to be used for animal feed. It was to go into our gas tanks!
The political whores were certainly up for the idea. They thought they would corner the vote in the farm belt by subsidizing the hell out of the farms and providing them with a constant artificial market for the corn. It also gave the false appearance of doing something Green. The snowflakes loved it.
To be certain corporate farms were only too happy to play along and provide no end of "political donations" to the political whores. Nice and cozy.
The "thinking" was that you could create ethanol from the corn and then require, by force of law, refineries to put the ethanol into our fuel. They told us that ethanol burns cleaner than regular gas so it would reduce pollution, and the dreaded CARBON DIOXIDE in our atmosphere.
Ethanol production is a very expensive process. So the refineries and the ethanol suppliers were heavily subsidized as well. What would any of them care? They were using your money to do it. To the them, it was like "found" money.
This is nothing new. Look at any of the thousands of things the federal government does, that are actually none of its business, and you'll find billions of dollars of your money being gleefully pocketed by politicians, their campaigns and private entities under similarly false enterprises.
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But there is a half-truth these whores and shysters are relying on to keep you putting food in your gas tank. If you put a match to a bucket of gasoline and to a bucket of ethanol the ethanol will burn cleaner. And you’ll singe your eyebrows off. The ethanol will produce carbon and carbon dioxide, but not as much. Almost no smoke.
What these people, stealing your money, don't tell you is that a molecule of ethanol is nowhere near as efficient, as a source of power, as a molecule of gasoline. The string of hydrocarbons in gasoline is much longer than that of ethanol. That's why gas produces much more power and more carbon, etc. This was explained to me by the lead scientist who worked for the same company as I once did.
BUT...because ethanol is far less efficient, it reduces the mileage in your car. As a result, you burn more fuel per mile, meaning the benefit of having food in your gas tank is lost. Ethanol also retains moisture much more readily and scorches the inside of your engine. That's why you shouldn’t put it in your boat or lawn mower.
SO...we have this huge scam going with big farms and political whores creating fuel that costs you more, while at the same time pocketing your tax dollars, for the relatively worthless process.
AND...It takes just over 3 gallons of water to make a gallon of ethanol. And no one knows what happens to the water or how it is disposed of. The ethanol producers and their government whores say "that's proprietary information."
When you get some time, produce some nice sippin' whiskey in your backyard. When John Law comes around asking you what he smells in your yard, tell him that's proprietary information. See how far that gets you. You see, you don't have the blessing of the government to do what THEY do. AND you don't have the threat of force to make people buy your moonshine if you wanted to sell it.
SO, WHY DID THEY DO IT?
Do you think super farms would plow under a decent rotation of crops, to grow one crop, without a giant subsidy and a guaranteed market backed by government force? And why would refineries create billions of gallons ethanol just hoping people would put it in their gas tanks? How many refineries would bother with an ounce of the stuff if not for the same favors from political whores...who expect to be paid back later?
AND THEN...YOU have to put the lower quality fuel in your car. You don't get a say in any of it.
And when all is said and done, it doesn't do much of anything for anyone. As I pointed out earlier, any cleaner emissions PER GALLON are cancelled by gallons burned PER MILE.
So a good start for reducing how much we pay at the pump, and how many of our tax dollars are wasted by the ruling class, would be to tell your representatives to end ethanol subsidies...NOW. I know, whiners will say, "but MJ, that will hurt the farmers! Boo-hoo-hoo!"
No, it won't. Not really. Do you think the farmers who grew corn this year will say, "Well, if you're not going to put my corn in your gas thank then I'll just burn my crops!" Nope! They may not get the fat subsidy from the government, but the consumer will have a bumper crop of food and feed. Trust me, the farmer will be happy to sell it to you. And if the farmer was fool enough to put all his "eggs" (excuse the metaphor) in the government basket, he deserves a lean year or two before learning how to grow FOOD again.
Do you think the refineries would have processed one pint of this crap if not for a fat check from the political whores? Not on your life!
And knowing what you know now, would you VOLUNTARILY buy a single gallon for your car? Nope!
By my guess, ending the ethanol mandate would create a larger supply of regular unleaded. "Boat fuel", which is just regular unleaded without the worthless ethanol, would be pooled with a now easier to refine, regular unleaded gasoline supply. Prices would come down maybe ten or twenty cents per gallon right out of the gate. Maybe more.
WE'RE DEALING WITH REALLY STUPID PEOPLE HERE.
But thanks to the people who own the president, that savings would be temporary. If we don't take the prices of permits, royalties and leases back to pre-Biden levels, if we don't reopen oil rich regions, if we don't restart Keystone, the price of gasoline will still trend upward again.
I can hear the choir now, "But, MJ. How will we ever end our dependence on fossil fuels?" Well, we can't - FOR NOW. I am a big believer in throttling WAY back on fossil fuels. This stuff IS GOING TO RUN OUT, AND POSSIBLY SOON. But we are not free of our need fossil fuels; nowhere near it. And as of now no one has figured out how to make 80% of what you use every day out of something else.
To get there we must start on an industrial level and within a truly free market. When Uncle Sam does it he screws up every time. We need to start generating industrial power with nuclear power plants.
This can be done on a large scale by more conventional nuclear plants and on a medium scale with lots of small, what are called LFTR reactors. As a bonus, LFTR reactors can be used to "burn off" (reduce) spent fuel from conventional reactors. Yucca mountain? Solved. They do other cool stuff too. I wrote an article on the subject.
Then, with natural gas freed up by Nuke power, we learn to run our cars on the available natural gas...and/or gasoline, until the present day, electric tinker toys are ready for prime time, if ever. And we need a proper way to dispose of batteries, lithium, silica and other crap in those tinker toys. It wouldn't hurt to regain our dominance of the metals used in these expensive toys back from the Chinese.
But for now, we need lots of gasoline, not the government dogshit we've been putting in our cars!
Here’s a side note on how our bureaucratic, train wreck of a government works.
While the government is paying farmers to waste tons and TONS of corn on ethanol, they are now taking a page directly out of the WEF playbook and forcing farmers to use less fertilizer. To do this they are actively manipulating the market for fertilizer in no small part with the “supply chain” scam and oil prices.
Less fertilizer also means less corn for you gas tank. The farmers will ask for a higher subsidy AND GET IT! And it’s ALL YOUR MONEY. And they will fail to overcome the loss caused by fertilizer restrictions. And your gas prices will go up…AGAIN.
But as we’ll see in just a moment, you seem to be fine paying for the same gas and oil over and over again. If you are not fine with it, ROLL WITH US!
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I am constantly seeing friends, followers and influencers online talking about taking the country back, fighting the establishment, all kinds of dramatic calls to action. But no one actually does anything. That includes the callers-to-action.
Every election you vote the same jack wagons that were there last term, to the tune of about 95%, right back into office. And you sit on your phone or laptop talking about fighting the good fight. Draining the Swamp!
They don’t care about you. They’re not afraid of you! They are perfectly happy that you are sitting there bitching. They would only care about any of us if we actually DO SOMETHING! And that’s where the Revolt comes in.
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In this segment there will be a lot of overlap. It was written while Brandon was raiding Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which he would then do a second time before he was done swiping approximately 250 million barrels FROM YOU for purely political reasons. As I said in the last segment, these people don’t care about you or your problems.
Biden is being applauded by the left for draining the reserve while oil was $100 per barrel. And he plans to replenish the SPR when the price is around $70. Shrewd, huh? There are two things wrong with this nonsense. 1. Unless he’s got 250 million barrels hiding somewhere that are not on the market, as soon as he starts pulling whatever amount he pulls per day out of the market to do the replenishment I suppose a million barrels a day as before, the price of oil will rise accordingly. So he may start the exercise at $70/bl, he sure as hell won’t finish at that price. And your gas prices will go up again.
And 2. The Mean, horrible, bad Orange Man wanted to top off a much healthier reserve when oil was about $24/bl. But Schyster Schumer spiked it simply because he didn’t want to hand Trump even a small win. And THAT kind of political prostitution is precisely the motivation behind the Dems with every decision. THEY DON’T CARE ABOUT YOU!
If you wish, you can read this post as a stand alone article on the Revolt’s homepage. When you get to the homepage, just scroll down the the title, “Paying for the same oil again and again! The Biden Oil Scam”.
Bend over for the Biden Oil Scam
For the first time in generations, middle class people in the United States will have severe difficulty heating their homes this winter, thanks the the deliberate sabotage of our energy sector by a corrupt government and their chosen cronies. I call it the Biden Oil scam. And YOU, while your finances are being raped, will pay for the same oil over and over again.
Gasoline prices are too high and have been artificially maintained at these high levels. And prices will go higher still. It is intentional. (As of this writing, prices have dropped to an average close to $3.25. This is a delayed reaction to Brandon, yet again, raiding the SPR and possible speculation over Biden propping up the abusive, socialist Maduro Regime in exchange for oil. This is temporary.)
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is perilously low, as is the nation's supply of diesel fuel. The nation has been put at extreme risk, again, for corrupt political reasons. You will pay several times over for this intentional screw up made by government officials and people like Blackrock and Vanguard who see dollar signs in the "Green Energy" scams.
To mitigate the political damage they brought on themselves, and keep the "Green" scam alive for their cronies domestically, they sent Joe Biden to kneel before the Saudis to get more oil from THEM! He got burned, snubbed, sent packing.
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Now Joe and the Cronies (sounds like the name of a 60s rock band) are crawling sheepishly into bed with Nicolas Maduro, a world class scumbag who presides over the sewer that was once Venezuela. They are squandering American dignity even further to get more oil on the international market, while keeping the Green scams alive here.
How the Biden Oil Scam works.
First, Biden says he is slamming the door on new drilling on day one of his Regime. We were told this was to save the planet. It's won't. It is to force contrived value into the market for the tinker toys I've covered in other posts.
Suffice it to say that even the tinker toys were never meant to save the planet. That's just the sell line. It's like how cereal companies once told you Cap'n Crunch was GOOD for you kids. In the case of the tinker toys, they too, are a scam to bilk hundred of billions of dollars by cronies. But I digress.
Back to the oil
The oil thing has been working this way: First the drilling industry is wrecked here in this country. Big oil companies, NOT THE SAME PEOPLE, are then tasked with importing the oil we need from a much smaller supply pool. They don't care. They buy, they sell, they make money.
Remember when Biden and many DC Dems railed against the oil companies, saying they were the problem with high gas prices because they were greedy! Most of you believed this. But hell, Exxon, Chevron and the lot along with Regime are pleasuring each other under the table while they pretend to be at odds over this.
While all this is going on, Joe Duh releases more around 200,000,000 barrels of from the strategic petroleum reserve (SPR). YOU PAID FOR THAT OIL INTENDED TO PROVIDE SECURITY! [That was the first time you paid.] Now that he's selling it off, you should get your cut right? But you didn't. [Sting number two].
All that SPR oil was sold below market to the BAD, BAD, Greedy oil companies that Joe Duh was telling you were gouging you. When this oil showed up in your market you paid for it again in the form of gasoline, motor oil and everything else. In this case you paid for all the SPR oil released but that was only about half of the total now on the market. But you still paid for it at the retail level. [That makes three times you been burned.] But wait! There's more!
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Are you tired of paying yet?
But it doesn't end there. Twice during the big SPR fire sale Joe Duh through his crackhead son's contacts, sold MILLIONS of barrels of our SPR to CHINA! A strategic asset sold to the fucking ChiComms. Now in this case you only paid a percentage more since by selling it to Hunter's buddies, he only caused about a 25% dent in the domestic supply at the time of the sale. So you only paid a newly inflated price. China didn't. They got their oil below market. But you continued to pay full boat, plus.
Remember, all this time, the big bad oil companies (Biden's labels, not mine) are raking it in hand over fist. Drilling companies are folding left and right.
Here's the final insult [and where you'll pay yet again]. Eventually all that oil needs to be put back into the SPR. 200M BBL! Today's price is $80+ per barrel. It won't drop much between now the the day it all goes back in.
So at that point, while your are still paying for the oil YOU USE day to day, your tax dollars will go to replenish the SPR after you didn't get a cut of for having it stolen from you in the first place!
AND THE FINAL BONUS: Drum roll - BRDRDRDRDRDRDRDRDRDR Symbols: SMASH! Replenishing the reserve will cause the price of gas to go up! Again!
All the while, the big banks, big oil, Biden, Schumer, the ChiComms...all were feeling each other up and giggling together.
IT WAS A SCAM FROM THE BEGINNING! JUST LIKE THE WIND AND SOLAR FARMS ARE A SCAM! ESG IS A SCAM! BUILD BACK BETTER, COVID RELIEF, INFRASTRUCTURE BILL...THEY ARE ALL DESIGNED TO FUNNEL MONEY AND POWER INTO CORRUPT GOVERNMENT AND CRONY HANDS AND RENDER YOU DEFENSELESS! And all this is contributing to the present economic toilet we're now swimming in.
Cheers.
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