[TheForge] Slack tank

[Andrew Vida]

peter fels & phoebe palmer wrote:
> Hey Andy;
> Go look at the data and the puter models.
> The folks who understand them are pretty well convinced...
> and they are way smarter than either one of us.

	This may be so, but it is rendered irrelevant by their dishonesty and 
ongoing secrecy.  Last I heard, they were still refusing to release 
their models, and I mean the code.  They used public information and 
monies, yet keep secrets.  They "massaged" the raw data but refuse to 
reveal how.

> Besides, even if we take them seriously and move to
> alternative energy sources...and they turn out to be wrong...
> Then we will be in a position to stop sending so many trillions
> of bucks to people who don't much like us.

	This brand of reasoning is wholly fallacious.  I agree with developing 
other energy sources but not mandating them and banning what we have. 
This whole deal stinks to high heaven, what with the cap and trade 
nonsense, which is such a bald-faced scam that I can barely believe 
anyone with a pulse and not in a permanent vegetative state would buy 
into it... except those who stand to make uncounted trillions off the 
deal, of course.  The changes proposed stand to screw a lot of people 
and cost untold sums.  Making such changes based on opinions that are 
suspect at best is idiotic to a fault.  Let the free market take care of 
this.  It has always found the better solutions.

	As for the slack tub deal, wooden barrels are pretty good in my 
experience.  I suppose a hoop could pop, especially if the tub freezes 
solid, but unless you're living in some ridiculously cold place like 
Minnesota where winter is 364 days, 23 hours and 26 minutes long and the 
average temperature is 8 degrees below absolute zero, you may not have 
trouble with it.  I've yet to see one break from cold.  We had 13 1/2 
feet of snow last year and it was FOOKIN' cold.  My two oak tubs were 
full most of the way and nothing broke.