WTF Is Up With The Damn Price Of Gas??

[Kristy]

The reason Sears is failing is that right about the time of the merger with K-Mart, the company was put in the hands of a CEO who was a hedge-fund mismanaging Randtard idiot who didn't give a flying fuck about the company's legacy or long term survival, much less its employees. Every decision that asshole made was wrong, and now we see the results. If Sears had modernized their old catalog business to a 21st century model, while keeping their brick & mortar stores running, they could have very well been a competitor to Amazon... and maybe without a CEO as craven & narcissistic as Jeffy Bezos is.

Watch this, you Bernie Brat. Apparently, American retail is long, long dead.

[Kristy]

Craftsman was sold to Stanley Black & Decker last year. SB&D plans on bringing Craftsman production back to the states.

Still won't be the Craftsman name.

[FORD]

Those interior shots of the dead mall with the glass elevator gave me 80s flashbacks....

[FORD]

BTW, the local Sears here was originally one of the "anchor" stores for the first mall in town. It was at one end, and another department store called "Peoples" was at the other. There was a Woolworth's in the middle and a bunch of smaller stores in between including the radio shack and the record store that used to sell bongs before the pigs figured out what bongs were for and made them illegal.

Peoples got taken over by Mervyn's which got taken over by Kohl's and all the stores in the middle got wiped out a few years back with a Target now occupying that space. Sears is the only thing that remains of the original mall. I've probably been there twice in the last decade, and it was the automotive dept, but I was in there long enough to notice that the rest of the store seemed fairly empty. No official notice that they will be closing yet, but if that news changed in January, I really wouldn't be that surprised.

[jacksmar]

Well, you finally came out of the closet. That's only half the battle.

Closet? Maybe you don't understand. Let me say it so you can get this through your typical woman mind: big fucking tits. If you don't understand this you are the typical woman. Tell yourself what you want to keep you happy but the truth is size matters. If your tits never got any bigger than your 11-year-old self, you're really not any use to me but truly you aren't any use to any other men either.

Except the men that look at a woman in the hopes for a seven-year-old boy.

Now did you really have anything to add to the oil conversation or were you just looking as usual to trade insults? The kitchen is to your left...

[FORD]

[jacksmar]

Back on topic, apparently there's trouble with the Canadian pipeline as well as the Keystone pipeline. Even so I saw Canadian oil at $15 a barrel. I don't know if it's due to provincial welfare or not because I really don't care that much about Canada.

What I do understand about oil prices is there's going to have to be a breakeven price per barrel at some point. I'm guessing $50 a barrel. Right now fracking is keeping prices low, too.

[jacksmar]

Paul-Stanley-Michael Jackson

I though KISS got rid of Michael Jackson on MAD TV?

And way off topic, that photo is from 2004 Paul Stanley. I would love to have 2004 Paul Stanley vocals back, but that's the conversation for another thread...

[Kristy]

Right now fracking is keeping prices low, too.

Wrong again, you F A T fucky fucktard fish fart.



What keep oil prices competitive was under Obama when he decided to allow for Arctic drilling in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas in the Arctic Ocean’s Outer Continental Shelf. This was a strange and highly overlooked by the "MSM because oil industry had no immediate plans at the time for exploration or drilling in the Arctic Ocean. And Obama, like the F A T Orange man, was great at obscuring the abysmal environmental protection records as well as the whole god damn Democratic Party who are just as greedy and corrupt when it comes to raping this earth for profit.

Now this could have been due fact at the time of the Obama Administration many oil companies were going bankrupt - even before the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and many decommissioning a majority of their rigs laying off more people than GM. But in reality, it was really about estimations that oil @ $100/barrel would never see the light of day again and presidents love it when gas prices are low around election time.


As for frack-fucking, it is no better of an alternative. Even now under the F A T Orange man federal agencies have issued more hydro-fracking permits then one can count for platform wells in the Gulf of Mexico. Under Obama and now the F A T Orange man, both administrations have permitted the dumping tens of billions of gallons of extremely toxic carcinogenic fracking wastewater right back into the Gulf and exempted some 300 of the fracking jobs from environmental impact assessments.



The irreversible and shameful environmental damage both administrations have done to this planet is atrocious. Fuck them. And fuck you.

[jacksmar]

Wrong again, you F A T fucky fucktard fish fart.


What keep oil prices competitive was under Obama when he decided to allow for Arctic drilling in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas in the Arctic Ocean’s Outer Continental Shelf. This was a strange and highly overlooked by the "MSM because oil industry had no immediate plans at the time for exploration or drilling in the Arctic Ocean. And Obama, like the F A T Orange man, was great at obscuring the abysmal environmental protection records as well as the whole god damn Democratic Party who are just as greedy and corrupt when it comes to raping this earth for profit.

Now this could have been due fact at the time of the Obama Administration many oil companies were going bankrupt - even before the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and many decommissioning a majority of their rigs laying off more people than GM. But in reality, it was really about estimations that oil @ $100/barrel would never see the light of day again and presidents love it when gas prices are low around election time.


As for frack-fucking, it is no better of an alternative. Even now under the F A T Orange man federal agencies have issued more hydro-fracking permits then one can count for platform wells in the Gulf of Mexico. Under Obama and now the F A T Orange man, both administrations have permitted the dumping tens of billions of gallons of extremely toxic carcinogenic fracking wastewater right back into the Gulf and exempted some 300 of the fracking jobs from environmental impact assessments.

The irreversible and shameful environmental damage both administrations have done to this planet is atrocious. Fuck them. And fuck you.

https://nypost.com/2018/09/12/fracking-helped-make-the-us-the-worlds-oil-king/

Fracking helped make the US the world’s oil king

Move over, Russia — and Saudi Arabia, too: The United States is now the world’s largest producer of crude oil.

“US crude-oil production exceeded that of Saudi Arabia for the first time in more than two decades,” the US Energy Information Administration reported Tuesday. “In June and August, the United States surpassed Russia in crude-oil production for the first time since February 1999.”

That assessment confirms an International Energy Agency prediction in March that America would soon be No. 1, and it should keep that slot through 2019, at least.

Thanks to the fracking boom, US oil production has topped more than 10 million barrels per day this year — a first since the 1970s, Reuters reported.

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You don't know what you're talking about. I'm recommending stripchat. But wear the Peter Chris boots. Feet like a set of boat oars. Kitchen is to your left...

[Nickdfresh]

Chip, I appreciate that you're excited that as many as 14,000 people are losing work, but this has a little more to do with how GM ran the corporation than tax incentives. So I guess they're not to build the Volt anymore? Wasn't that an Obama car?

You seem really happy. Wasn't GM too big to fail?

No dope, it has to do with trumps tradewar with China, one of GM's largest markets and his policies being publicly decried by not just GM, but Ford as well...

[Nickdfresh]

The reason Sears is failing is that right about the time of the merger with K-Mart, the company was put in the hands of a CEO who was a hedge-fund mismanaging Randtard idiot who didn't give a flying fuck about the company's legacy or long term survival, much less its employees. Every decision that asshole made was wrong, and now we see the results. If Sears had modernized their old catalog business to a 21st century model, while keeping their brick & mortar stores running, they could have very well been a competitor to Amazon... and maybe without a CEO as craven & narcissistic as Jeffy Bezos is.

Exactly! Sears and Kmart were purchased for their properties not as retail operations. If you've been to a kmart lately you know it's like walking into the late 1980's-early 90's. No efforts to make updates and really compete with Walmart or Amazon, or the dozens of other online retailers that even have brick-and-mortar operations. Sears and Benzos would have fucked themselves even without the growth of online. It's kind of sad actually, as Kmart probably built one of its last new and most modern stores in my hometown in the early 90's and it closed in less than ten years, and now sits vacant largely because the assholes at a certain development company still are getting paid from Kmart...

[FORD]

The K-mart here was located right across the I-5 freeway from the Sears, so they were an early casualty of that merger. The store was vacant for years, and is now home to the FundaMENTAList "Hobby Lobby" store (the folks that brought the "corporations are religious people" case to the Supreme Court). Never have set foot in the place, and can't see a reason why I ever would.

[twonabomber]

The local Super Kmart opened in the mid 90's and made it about 20 years before being closed. It's now torn down and Meijer is going in, about a block away from Walmart. That Walmart is not a Supercenter and has nowhere to expand, I'm betting Meijer pushes them to a new location closer to the freeway and Sam's Club.

Retail is booming here, there is a Menard's going in within sight of Home Depot and a big retail development not far from that. Sears has been empty a year but one of the Dillard's stores (our mall had two) has become a bowling alley/arcade. They're doing okay. Hobby Lobby is being built on an outside lot at the mall, it started out as a grocery store and was an OfficeMax after that.

[Kristy]

Corporations are people, too. This was just so sad to watch: