Strategic Oil Reserves

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popper

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Nope, Biden says he contracted to buy a little @ 77$/barrel but price has been around 70+$ so far. Normal Biden stuff. Wonder who has stock in the seller?
Just contracted to sell the Helium reserve in Amarillo too (to foreign Co).
 
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fiver

fiver

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that helium reserve is pretty much all of the helium there is... except for a little bit in oklahoma.
it's not like we can just swing by the sun and scrape more off the surface.
 
RBHarter

RBHarter

West Central AR
I bet maybe 3 on the whole forum know where the entire Mercury reserve is .

Seems to me 95% of the air type gasses should be able to be pretty readily harvested with multistage wet/cold/hot compressors and relief trapping...... In a grossly oversimplified manor of speaking. Of course I'm still struggling with why dumping spent oil back in the high end of a spent oil field and use it out of the low end for all of the low grade non-fuel or lubricant uses .....
 
Rick

Rick

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Don't feel bad Dale, I was not only in the military but was a mechanic in the motor pool and I don't know what GI LWS is either. :rolleyes:
 
RBHarter

RBHarter

West Central AR
The amalgamation solution for the removal of all the metallic fouling in rifle barrels.... Aka mercury .

It's in a little dirt water desert town once known as "the world's largest NAD " ,
 
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Jeff H

NW Ohio
Thumbcocker said:
My bad LSA
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I remember that stuff. Specifically, in basic training, having to present my M16 in such a manner that the ejection port was facing up, with the dist-cover open so the Drill Sergeant could POUR as much of that stuff into the action as would go until it ran over. We had to hold our M16s like that to let that stuff ooze down around the bolt before we locked the bolt back and tromped onto the firing line to qualify.

Never understood what that was doing for us, as these M16s were rattle-traps that reminded me of a cartoon jalopy convulsing down a dirt road. Loose as a goose, I guess you'd say.

81 or 82, we got Break-Free, CLP and that ORIGINAL stuff was the berries. Cleaned M16s, M203s, 1911s, 4.2" mortars, M60s and M2 BMGs with that stuff and it worked much better cleaning carbon. I get a nostalgic tingle when I smell the stuff and still have about a quarter of an ounce I save just for a whiff once in a while.
 
todd

todd

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i just shivered my shoulders when i was in the Army and all the time we spent to make weapons clean. i still hate making my rifles' clean. that is good reason to use cast boolits. just wipe down the outside and you are done. i've had 5000+ cast rounds out of my 444 Marlin and i haven't cleaned the bore. it still shoots sub minute for 5 shots at 100 yards.
 
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