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Coincidentally ... I was just loading fresh water onto my off road vehicle.. and dumped 150L into the long range tank yesterday + 40 into jerry cans.... food for two weeks goes on board this evening... and we'll start to roll towards this tomorrow https://exploreparks.dbca.wa.gov.au/park/karijini-national-park

I've tested the Star Link and it's all systems go....

Mad Max with wifi coverage and photos???

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gerry maddoux

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04/07/2025 at 12:49 pm

Contrary to corporate opinion, this abrupt fall of WTI to $60 is very good for U.S. energy independence. These CEO’s aren’t thinking past their next earnings report. No matter alternative forms of energy, the U.S. (and the world) is going to need oil and gas for decades to come. Look no farther than the Permian Basin. They have run through an amazing collection of source rocks like maize through a goose, with absolutely no regard for anything but money.

For the uninformed, man has traditionally drilled into oil that had migrated a good distance from the source rocks, gathering in an oil trap of some sort.

Drilling deep into the earth to blast oil and gas out of the SOURCE ROCKS represents some degree of desperation–this is the last gasp in American oil and gas production.

I make my living from oil and gas, primarily from shale. However, I would very much rather sell less product at higher prices than to give away large quantities as though it’s no big deal to replace it. When the source rocks are all blasted to smithereens, there’s no more production.

The world has not known fossil fuel starvation for over a century. It will not be a good look. Those who are demonstrating against FF’s have no concept just how bleak an oil-starved world would be. This correction–if it persists for months, not just weeks–will idle a lot of rigs, bankrupt a lot of people drilling the next well from the flush of the last one, and will reset the priorities. At least that would be the ideal. No pain, no gain.

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