HOWARD’S DAILY CHRONICLE
NUMBER 30 VOL 12
JULY 30TH 2008
WEATHER; STILL HOT, HIGH HUMIDITY, 74/103 DEGREES
HOW IS THE PRICE OF GAS DOING IN YOUR AREA? WE’RE STARTING TO SEE A DEFINATE DROP FROM THE HIGH WE HAD TWO WEEKS AGO OF $3.79-$3.99. YESTERDAY WAL-MART WAS $3.55 LESS .03 IF YOU USED THEIR CARD! OIL WAS A LITTLE OVER $121.00 A BARREL!
IT SEEMS TO BE THE RESULT OF BUSH’S EXECUTIVE ORDER TO STOP ADDING TO THE OIL RESERVES AND ALLOWING OFF SHORE DRILLING!
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE NANCEY PELOSIE WAS BEING INTERVIEWED BY WOLF BLITZER ON CNN LAST WEEK AND SHE SAID IF WE COULD TAKE JUST 10% OF THE RESERVES, 70 MILLION BARRELS THE PRICE OF GAS WOULD START TO DROP WITHIN 10 DAYS AND THEN WE COULD START REPLACING WHAT WE TOOK OUT! LOOKS LIKE SHE WAS RIGHT!
AS FAR AS OFF SHORE DRILLING GOES I DON’T SEE THE NEED, WE HAVE PLENTY OF OIL IN THE BAKKEN OIL FORMATION WHICH TAKES IN MONTANA, NORTH DAKOTA AND SASKATCHEWAN CANADA! IT’S THE BIGGEST OIL DISCOVERY IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES AND IT WILL BE PUT INTO THE PIPELINES IMMIDATELY AND WE COULD SEE THE EFFECTS WITHIN 90 DAYS AND THE COST OF A BARREL OF OIL FROM THE BAKKEN FIELD IS $16.00! EAT YOUR HEART OUT SPECULATORS WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND, RIGHT?
WHERE IN THE CASE OF OFF SHORE DRILLING IT WILL BE 10 YEARS BEFORE THE FIRST DROP OF GAS GETS TO THE PUMPS! PLUS, THERE ARE OVER 1000 DRILLING RIGS IN THE GULF OF MEXICO AND THEY’RE PUTTING IN MORE EVERY DAY! IT’S THE BIG OIL COMPANIES THATWANT TO DO THE OFF SHORE DRILLING! THEY WOULD SERVE THE COUNTRY BETTER IF THEY WOULD BUILD 5 MORE REFINERIES TO HANDLE WHAT THEY ARE ALREADY PUMPING!
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE CUTTING DOWN ON THEIR DRIVING AND BUYING MORE GAS EFFICIENT CARS AND CONSERVING ON THE ELECTRICITY BY PUTTING THE THERMOSTATS AT A HIGHER SETTING. SO ALL OF A SUDDEN THE OIL COMPANIES ARE FACED WITH A SURPLUS AND DON’T HAVE ANYPLACE TO PUT IT! ISN’T THAT TOO BAD? HEY DUMMIES, TAKE THE PRICE OF A GALLON OF GAS BACK TO THE 1972 LEVEL, .29-,35 CENTS A GALLON THEN WE’LL START DRIVING OUR BIG GAS GUZZLERS AGAIN AND TAKING MORE VACATIONS BY CAR! NOW WE’LL SEE JUST THE REVERSE, DEMAND AND SUPPLY INSTEAD OF THE OTHER WAY AROUND!
BOY, WHEN I GET ON MY “SOAP BOX”.LOOK OUT!!!!!!!
WHEN I WAS IN THE AIR FORCE AND STATIONED AT BARKSDALE AFB LA. AND I HAD SOME LEAVE COMING I’D GO TO BASE OPERATIONS AND SEE WHAT FLIGHTS THEY HAD GOING ANYWHERE! IF IT LOOKED LIKE I WOULD ENJOY THE TRIP I’D SIGN UP FOR IT ON A SPACE AVAILABLE BASES THEN GO GET MY LEAVE SET UP FOR THAT TIME SLOT!
ON ONE PARTICULAR FLIGHT THAT WAS GOING TO MARCH AFB IN RIVERSIDE, CA. IN A C-124 ONE BIG AIRPLANE! MARCH WAS JUST 60 MILES FROM HOME! I CALLED MY SISTER MADELINE AND ASKED HER IF SHE COULD PICK ME UP AND SHE SAID SHE AND CHUCK WOULD BE THERE WHEN I GAVE THEM THE TIME AND DATE! WELL THE BEST LAID PLANS OF MICE AND MEN CAN GET SCREWED UP!
WE WERE OVER OKLAHOME AND THE PILOT DECIDE TO FLY THROUGH A THUNDERHEAD RATHER THAN GO 150 MILES OUT OF THE WAY TO GET AROUND IT! THERE WERE 22 OF US ON BOARD AND WE ALL SAT IN THE WEB SEATS AND BUCKLED UP OUR SEAT BELTS WHEN THE SIGN LIT UP AND THE HORN SOUNDED!
WE HAD JUST GOTTEN IN THE STORM WHEN THE AIRPLANE DROPPED ABOUT 1500 FEET INSTANTLY! IT REALLY STRETCHED THE SEAT BELTS, THEN THE PILOT WENT TO EMERGENCY POWER AND STARTED TO CLIMB AND WE DROPPED ANOTHER 500 FEET, HE FINALLY GOT CONTROL AND ALL OF A SUDDEN THE AIRPLANE WENT UP ABOUT 1000 FEET IN THE SNAP OF A FINGER! I KEPT WAITING FOR US TO GET CLEAR OF THE THUNDERHEAD BUT IT MUST HAVE BEEN MOVING ABOUT AS FAST AS WE WERE! THE 124 ISN’T A VERY FAST AIRPLANE! WE BOUNCED AROUND IN THAT DAMNED STORM FOR AT LEAST 20 MINUTES! I HAD NEVER BEEN IN A C-124 BFORE BUT I’LL SAY THIS, IT TOOK ONE HELL OF A BEATING ON THAT TRIP AND SO DID I.
THEN WE DIDN’T LAND AT MARCH WE LANDED AT GEORGE AFB WHAT IS NOW EDWARDS AFB IN PALMDALE, CA., I CALLED MADELINE AND THEY PICKED ME UP AT THE MAIN GATE! I STAYED TWO DAYS AND THEN CALLED BASE OPS AT MARCH AND GOT A FLIGHT TO MITCHELL AFB IN NEW YORK IN A B-25! I SPENT 3 DYS THERE AND GOT A CALL FROM BASE OPS THAT THEY HAD A FLIGHT GOING BACK TO BARKSDALE AFB IN A KC-97 IN TWO HOURS, I GOT MY B-4 BAG AND GOT A RIDE ON THE BASE BUS TO THE OPS BUILDING AND GOT BACK TO BARKSDALE WITH 12 HOURS TO SPARE! BY EATING IN TRANSIT MESS AND STAYING IN ENLISTED BARRACKS THE WHOLE TRIP COST ME A LITTLE MORE THAN $50.00 MOST OF WHICH WAS WHEN I TOOK MADELINE, CHUCK, BOBBY AND DONNA OUT TO DINNER! THE KIDS WERE YOUNG AT THE TIME!
WE HAD SOME REAL BAD NEWS TODAY, OUR VERY GOOD FRIENDS, GARY AND CHARLEEN LATINIS’S DAUGHTER DEBBIE WAS KILLED IN AN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT THIS AFTERNOON (TUESDAY, THE 29TH OF JULY)! “PLEASE SAY A PRAYER FOR HER AND GARY AND CHARLEEN!” THANKS, HOWARD
THAT’S “30” FOR THIS ISSUE.
HOWARD
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