[AT] OT Gas prices new all time high :-(

[Cecil Bearden]

I spent 5 months trying to get an approval thru Oklahoma City for a first 
time homeowner to build his dream house on his own 15 acres.  My part was to 
design a small dam and creek crossing with a pond that he could have some 
ducks swimming.  We surveyed it in May last year.  Submitted proposals more 
than 5 times to OKC.  They were rejected every time.  I contacted a friend 
who used to work in the engineering dept and retired from the City and went 
to work for a local consulting firm.  After he talked to the city engineer, 
I had to file an additional form last thursday, and it was approved today. 
I will hold to my original price to do the work, but fuel is over $1/gallon 
higher.  I feel like it is my fault for not contacting my friend earlier. 
However, now all his materials are going to be higher to build his house due 
to the wait.....  It also would have been a lot more convenient for me to 
build the dam in October....

Damn Gummit bastards.  Nothing wrong with what we wanted to do, just could 
not get it through the first idiot that looked at it....

Cecil in OKla

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "charlie hill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 12:16 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] OT Gas prices new all time high :-(


> Cecil I'm right there with you, almost out of cash and no work to do. 
> What
> work is out there is going dirt cheap.  Cheaper than I can do it and even
> hope to make a profit.
>
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Cecil Bearden
> Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 12:55 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] OT Gas prices new all time high :-(
>
> Problem is by the time all these big players get their money back or lost.
> Us small guys will be out of business and bankrupt.  I will have to sell 
> off
> equipment to make fuel bills.  Insurance is going sky high.  There is a
> limit to what can be sold, scrapped, etc before it is all gone.  I spent
> over 40 years building this and will lose it due to some big shots on wall
> street.
>
> Cecil in OKla
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ron Cook" <rlcook at longlines.com>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 9:03 AM
> Subject: Re: [AT] OT Gas prices new all time high :-(
>
>
>> Charlie......exactly correct.
>>
>> Ron Cook
>> Salix, IA
>>
>> On 3/9/2011 6:51 AM, charlie hill wrote:
>>> Cecil, I haven't read your link yet but I have two friends in the fuel
>>> business. One is a large oil jobber that distributes all over NC and has
>>> a
>>> fleet of trucks and multiple tank farms.
>>> The other is an aviation fuel jobber that provides FBO's at airports all
>>> over the eastern US.  They both tell me the same thing that I'm hearing
>>> on
>>> the news.  Tankers are loaded with fuel and sitting in the ocean with no
>>> where to unload and US refineries are running at between 65 and 80 %
>>> capacity.   The whole reason fuel is high is because our government is
>>> devaluing our currency and investors are running to commodities to
>>> protect
>>> their wealth.  Gold, Silver, Copper, Oil,  Grain, you name it, are all
>>> going
>>> up relative to the dollar but what is actually happening is the dollar 
>>> is
>>> loosing value against those commodities.  The trickle down effects 
>>> almost
>>> every economy on the planet.   Everyone thinks the Chinese own all of 
>>> our
>>> Treasury notes.  That used to be true.  Not now.  Currently foreign
>>> "sovereigns" own about 30% of our treasuries.  The FED owns the other
>>> 70%.
>>> Almost none of them are privately held at this point and the sovereigns
>>> (other countries) are selling them.  The fed is buying them with dollars
>>> printed by the US treasury in an attempt to keep the whole house or 
>>> cards
>>> from collapsing.  If you and I did what the fed and the treasury are
>>> doing
>>> they'd put us in jail for what is commonly called check kiting.
>>>
>>> Charlie
>>>
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