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According to the internet, the solution is simple - just run hoses up cow's butts and use the methane generated ...

Sure, just never thought anybody was serious about that moniker as an actual theory of how petroleum is formed ...

I must have missed that theory - as far as I know we've known for ages that petroleum is produced by processes occurring due to the decomposition of ocean-based organisms, mostly microscopic. I've never heard anybody theorize that dinosaurs had anything to do with it ...

No. There have been discussions about "peak oil", the point at which oil extraction peaks and begins declining for several decades. Every time we seem to be getting close to that point, there's a new find, a new technology, or something that increases either our known oil reserves or our ability to extract more from sources already identified (fracking and the extraction of oil from things like the Canadian oil sands are two such examples). As oil prices increase, the viability of extracting oil from less "easy" sources becomes economically feasible and predicted shortages don't occur. It is true that the geological processes that cause petroleum to be formed are continuous, however they're slow and certainly don't produce oil as fast as we pull it from the ground, so it's inevitable that we will someday face permanent shortages, but anybody who claims to know when that date will be is guessing at best ...

Pay really close attention to this statement. I've seen a video of the process and it's almost medieval the way it's done almost entirely by hand. Couple that with the fact that dealing with priming compounds is extremely dangerous, which is why they're handled wet and in explosion proofed rooms and you have a hiring, regulatory and and insurance nightmare. If adding capacity was cheap and easy to do, the ammo manufacturers would have already done it several times over, if for nothing else than meeting their own needs. I doubt you would ever obtain the necessary permits to open a new plant, similar facilities that once manufactured flares and other explosive components have been hounded out of business in many communities, including some right here in Tennessee (to be fair, many of these had truly atrocious safety records, some were well known for routine explosions). Finally, the entire gun, ammo and component business is excessively cyclical, it's "boom or bust" most of the time, which is one of the reasons why companies are hesitant to add more capacity. There's no guarantee that once this extra capacity (and expense) comes online that it won't be left idling once we enter another of the "bust" periods. We're currently in one of the periodic "boom" cycles, but as the old-timers always said, 'this too shall pass" at some point ...

Electric cars were actually quite popular during this era and had many advantages over contemporary gasoline powered vehicles. It's likely that the first powered vehicle used for personal transportation was electric, circa 1880 in France. Thomas Edison was an early proponent of electric cars, and the Detroit Electric was one of the most successful in the teens and twenties - Clara Ford, wife of Henry, used one as her personal car for many years. Eventually gasoline won out over both electric and steam powered cars, but in the early years of automotive history electric cars were in widespread use ... Here's a 1915 Detroit Electric car currently located in a museum ...

Am I reading this right? There were over half a million 50 caliber pistols made last year? Where did they all go, and what are they?

That's a website that needs a serious dose of updating - looks like something out of 1995 or so ...

As much as anything else, it's likely that many of the older, sicker folks who had Covid (or a positive Covid test result) when they died suffered from multiple problems. Statistically, many people who are diabetic, have heart problems, etc. also are overweight, have high blood pressure, problems with cholesterol and other related complicating factors. Thus, the "4 or more" statement ...

Good suggestion. I can recommend double pneumonia as well. During my last bout I lost something like 21 lbs. in 21 days ...

So you're saying that we need to get off our butts, start buying more guns, and pass Kentucky?

Oh, goody! A pissing contest ...

It's probably due to all these damn Yankees moving in ...

After the results of this year's bowl season, it looks like the SEC might need to consider a name change - maybe something like "The Big 2 and the Rest" ...

Both games were physical mismatches, although Cincinnati did play about as well as they could and kept it relatively close for a while. These games showcased the disparity of talent between the top-level SEC teams, and everybody else ...

This. Although most of us who on the backside of the 30-40 age range can remember days when guns were more "affordable" than today, prices on most everything have been rising forever. We did go through a short period of deflation in guns, ammo, parts, etc. after the last bout of panic buying subsided, but that period is over. Statistics show that there are millions of new gun owners who have entered the market in the last few years, many of these are relatively young and have good paying jobs and can afford to indulge their hobbies. In addition, the massive amounts of government stimulus in the last decade worldwide has too many dollars chasing too few goods, a recipe for inflation. Couple that to the current shipping/logistics problems going on, then add in the fact that the entire gun and ammunition industry's production capabilities are relatively small, and you have sufficient explanation for why prices have been, are now, and will continue to rise on all things gun related ...

Numrich has been around forever, and is well knownand highly thought of in the collector community. You might also check with Liberty Tree, among others

All good points. Covid is well on the way to being just another seasonal viral epidemic (and is perhaps already there), one we'll live with forever. I suspect that eventually resistance to the vaccinations will fade, kids will get the shots as part of their routine childhood immunizations, and there will still be occasional periodical outbreaks like flu and other common viruses. Like these other viral infections, some people will do poorly, primarily due to pre-existing health problems or age. Statistically, as a vaccinated individual, you have only a small chance of hospitalization or severe complications even if you get Covid from your exposure, which is equally unlikely due to your vaccination status. On another note, getting a test Monday shouldn't be a problem, as even in cases where exposure leads to infection it typically takes several days for the tests to be valid anyway. Good luck, and follow the others' advice to not worry and don't obsess over this. And for the record, I have received all three Moderna shots, and work in an environment where I'm likely routinely exposed to Covid, or at least individuals who have been exposed themselves ...

ATF frowns on such shenanigans, and there are some who've wound up in jail over similar "workarounds" for people (and sales) that are illegal for some reason or another. I have no idea about the guy's circumstances, but you're correct that a better solution would have been a sale from uncle to Dick, rather than going off on TGO ...

In this guy's intro post, he states that he works for a company that does event hosting. I would assume that sort of job requires better people skills than those he demonstrated here ...

Not knowing what you're talking about rarely stops anybody from blathering ...

True. I really miss the old "hive of scum and villainy" section ...

Don't they all, eventually? What's unusual is that this one went sideways even though nobody said "gay" ...

The Russians used vacuum sealing for a long time