Chef Jim

How soon?

The guy hauling his landscaping gear down the street is very worried about the price of gas. Perspective. 🙄

So it would almost be worth letting Russia have Ukraine. Add the cost of rebuilding to the sanctions and Russia could be totally *****. Sarcasm folks…..mostly.

Jackie Chiles? Is that you?

Always the silver lining guy here is some great news about the skyrocketing gas prices here in California. Our $.51 per gallon excise tax has dropped from 20% down to 8.5%. Yay! 🙄

Just saw this on FB. When I read it to my wife she sent the Prager U (yeah yeah) video which says a lot of the same things. Not sure how accurate all this is but what I like is it lays out the “facts” and doesn’t say green energy is horrible. Just that it’s not the panacea it’s being made out to be. Any thoughts or comments of those who know this ***** better would be appreciated. This is an excellent breakdown. Batteries, they do not make electricity – they store electricity produced elsewhere, primarily by coal, uranium, natural gas-powered plants, or diesel-fueled generators. So, to say an EV is a zero-emission vehicle is not at all valid. Also, since forty percent of the electricity generated in the U.S. is from coal-fired plants, it follows that forty percent of the EVs on the road are coal-powered, do you see?" Einstein's formula, E=MC2, tells us it takes the same amount of energy to move a five-thousand-pound gasoline-driven automobile a mile as it does an electric one. The only question again is what produces the power? To reiterate, it does not come from the battery; the battery is only the storage device, like a gas tank in a car. There are two orders of batteries, rechargeable, and single-use. The most common single-use batteries are A, AA, AAA, C, D. 9V, and lantern types. Those dry-cell species use zinc, manganese, lithium, silver oxide, or zinc and carbon to store electricity chemically. Please note they all contain toxic, heavy metals. Rechargeable batteries only differ in their internal materials, usually lithium-ion, nickel-metal oxide, and nickel-cadmium. The United States uses three billion of these two battery types a year, and most are not recycled; they end up in landfills. California is the only state which requires all batteries be recycled. If you throw your small, used batteries in the trash, here is what happens to them. All batteries are self-discharging. That means even when not in use, they leak tiny amounts of energy. You have likely ruined a flashlight or two from an old, ruptured battery. When a battery runs down and can no longer power a toy or light, you think of it as dead; well, it is not. It continues to leak small amounts of electricity. As the chemicals inside it run out, pressure builds inside the battery's metal casing, and eventually, it cracks. The metals left inside then ooze out. The ooze in your ruined flashlight is toxic, and so is the ooze that will inevitably leak from every battery in a landfill. All batteries eventually rupture; it just takes rechargeable batteries longer to end up in the landfill. In addition to dry cell batteries, there are also wet cell ones used in automobiles, boats, and motorcycles. The good thing about those is, ninety percent of them are recycled. Unfortunately, we do not yet know how to recycle single-use ones properly. But that is not half of it. For those of you excited about electric cars and a green revolution, I want you to take a closer look at batteries and also windmills and solar panels. These three technologies share what we call environmentally destructive production costs. A typical EV battery weighs one thousand pounds, about the size of a travel trunk. It contains twenty-five pounds of lithium, sixty pounds of nickel, 44 pounds of manganese, 30 pounds cobalt, 200 pounds of copper, and 400 pounds of aluminum, steel, and plastic. Inside are over 6,000 individual lithium-ion cells. It should concern you that all those toxic components come from mining. For instance, to manufacture each EV auto battery, you must process 25,000 pounds of brine for the lithium, 30,000 pounds of ore for the cobalt, 5,000 pounds of ore for the nickel, and 25,000 pounds of ore for copper. All told, you dig up 500,000 pounds of the earth's crust for just - one - battery." Sixty-eight percent of the world's cobalt, a significant part of a battery, comes from the Congo. Their mines have no pollution controls, and they employ children who die from handling this toxic material. Should we factor in these diseased kids as part of the cost of driving an electric car?" I'd like to leave you with these thoughts. California is building the largest battery in the world near San Francisco, and they intend to power it from solar panels and windmills. They claim this is the ultimate in being 'green,' but it is not. This construction project is creating an environmental disaster. Let me tell you why. The main problem with solar arrays is the chemicals needed to process silicate into the silicon used in the panels. To make pure enough silicon requires processing it with hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid, nitric acid, hydrogen fluoride, trichloroethane, and acetone. In addition, they also need gallium, arsenide, copper-indium-gallium- diselenide, and cadmium-telluride, which also are highly toxic. Silicon dust is a hazard to the workers, and the panels cannot be recycled. Windmills are the ultimate in embedded costs and environmental destruction. Each weighs 1688 tons (the equivalent of 23 houses) and contains 1300 tons of concrete, 295 tons of steel, 48 tons of iron, 24 tons of fiberglass, and the hard to extract rare earths neodymium, praseodymium, and dysprosium. Each blade weighs 81,000 pounds and will last 15 to 20 years, at which time it must be replaced. We cannot recycle used blades. There may be a place for these technologies, but you must look beyond the myth of zero emissions. "Going Green" may sound like the Utopian ideal but when you look at the hidden and embedded costs realistically with an open mind, you can see that Going Green is more destructive to the Earth's environment than meets the eye, for sure.

I know people that are older who have lost a lot of weight and look terrible. The fat/pudginess keeps the wrinkles from showing.

Why am I paying to protect private US citizens and what the ***** are they getting for $2m a month?? Nothing to see here folks. No one in government past and/or present are getting their pockets lined. I’m so ***** tired of what is happening to our money. 😡

Is it a coincidence the foreign despots make so much money on the world’s “addiction”? These guys aren’t stupid.

We can't, and will never change the planet's climate. It has heated and cooled over and over during it's existence. How many civilizations have been wiped out or picked up and moved due to climate change? I'll tell you. Lots and there we not billions and billions of humans on the planet burning fossil fuels then. I really hate people trying to push things using doomsday tactics. The ole "break their legs" sales technique.

Well nothing personal but I've been thinking you should have been cutting back on the snacks a long time ago. 😁

So what should have happened is that instead of political talking heads that 50% of the population will never agree with telling people (mainly fat people) to get vaccinated. This should have come from the medical community and I'm not talking Dr Fauci. I'm talking about people's personal physician...if they have one. My doctor told me a few years ago that I needed to get my vitamin D levels up. He told me, in a very understandable way, why this was important. I have bloodwork done twice an year and that was the area (along with my A1C) that he really focused on. Well guess what. My D levels have been great for a couple years now. So here's a question for all of you. How hard did your PCP push you to get the vaccine? Mine didn't. Before I got it he asked and I said "no". All he told me was that the vaccine was very safe. He never told me about why I SHOULD get it. He only told me why I SHOULDN'T be afraid of getting it. I wasn't afraid. I had other reasons. But the bottom line is he never had a real personal conversation with me regarding it.

Inflation is a leading indicator of war. Come on man!!!

$5.13 a gallon with $.40 per gallon discount with my Ralph’s points. $200 for groceries. Used to be about $130. These were both yesterday.

Im not one to point fingers regarding this actually. Carry on.

Cute. But actually most of them have moved on with their lives. A long time ago.

How about comment on the content.

Newsflash! The unvaccinated likely moved on a long time ago. 🙄

How do they know the sexuality of the respondents? And how do you oversamle them? Keep asking until you get the answers you want I guess?

Bovine slum lord? 😁

Asking them to define their ***** argument is getting old? WTF dude.

Define gay rights please.

No….they likely would have graduated with 4.0’s

“You may have noticed your gas prices going up this past week…..” I stopped right there. No need to go on after that.

I’ll just put this here. How often were people screaming 25th Amendment during Trump’s Presidency? There were an awful lot of armchair psychologists back then that have become very silent today.