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I emailed him to tell him not to. You can too. (https://gov.texas.gov/apps/contact/opinion.aspx) Oil! posted:I've been listening in all day and the last time the Railroad Commission had production limits was 1973. A couple of the really old producers that are still around said the way it was managed was the commission meeting monthly, determining how much production was prudent, and then manually looking at individual fields/leases. This time, people are proposing a flat 20-25% cut across all producers and it seems like most small operators are for it (they have been locked out of pipelines recently and have 50%+ cuts because of that) and the large ones want to hit the gas, drive into the wall and buy up all the bankruptcies.
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LLSix posted:What does the Railroad Commission have to do with, I assume, oil prices? *grins texanishly*
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LLSix posted:What does the Railroad Commission have to do with, I assume, oil prices? as the name plainly states, the Railroad Commission regulates the oil and gas industry edit: and, like, not "oil & gas but also railroads". just oil & gas
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The railroad commission has as much to do with the railroads as our state government has to do with governing. It makes sense really.
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FoolyCharged posted:The railroad commission has as much to do with the railroads as our state government has to do with governing. It makes sense really.  The wikipedia page on it is wild. quote:through the 1960s, the Texas Railroad Commission found it difficult to enforce fully Jim Crow segregation legislation. Because of the expense involved, Texas railroads often allowed wealthier blacks to mix with whites, rather than provide separate cars, dining facilities, and even depots. In addition, West Texas authorities often refused to enforce Jim Crow laws because few African Americans resided there. The TRC enforced segregation so hard that it was wildly unprofitable to do so. And that's a good thing! quote:The TRC typically worked with the regulated industries to improve operations, share best practices, and address consumer complaints. Radical activities like rate setting to favor shippers or producers or consumers, and heated court battles, were the exception rather than the rule. The TRC was only sometimes wildly corrupt. Mostly it focused on screwing over consumers. And that's a good thing!
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Modern Texas was partially created and controlled by the railroads in the late 19th century, but before pipelines and trucking and so on, railroads were the primary conduit for fossil fuels, they were linked, so then when pipelines and things came along, they were put under the TRC. As well, railroads in Texas essentially demarcated most of the modern state in a legal sense, so anything to do with logistics was sort of a natural fit for the TRC. If you know a surveyor who knows the history of land demarcation, ask them about it. Anyway, it's one of those weird things that doesn't get as much space in our Texas History textbooks, but it's true. Even the small town I use for addressing, having grown up in the county, is named after the guy who brought the first train stop that created the town. One of the funnier moments was in the late 1980s when Kent Hance, whose name I somehow remember, went to an OPEC meeting to deal directly with OPEC on behalf of the State of Texas and pissed off the national Republicans. Back in the day, as they say. EDIT: On the point of oil and trains being linked, if you think back to trustbusting that's partly what it was about. Stopping the rail and oil barons from working together to fix prices.
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He's not forcing open the state by fiat Thursday, he's going to issue a get-back-to-work roadmap, you know like the NE and Pacific state coalitions are doing. Some of yall are some facebook rear end motherfuckers, always sure the worst thing is happening and not even bothering to look into it. “This is not going to be a rush-the-gates, everybody-is-able-to-suddenly-reopen-all-at-once" situation, Abbott said. "Our ability to open businesses in Texas will be tied to our ability to contain the spread of the coronavirus. ... We want to expand those that are able to open." https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1250150010177683458 Gavin Newsom wants to kill Claifornians bleeehhh zoux fucked around with this message at 04:33 on Apr 15, 2020 |
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ReindeerF posted:One of the funnier moments was in the late 1980s when Kent Hance, whose name I somehow remember, went to an OPEC meeting to deal directly with OPEC on behalf of the State of Texas and pissed off the national Republicans. Back in the day, as they say. i would absolutely watch a movie about this. old photos of him even look like nic cage
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ReindeerF posted:After trail running near Galveston yesterday I stopped by to grab some food at one of those coastal communities Also Kent Hance, that sumbitch is the reason Mike Leach left Texas Tech. He wanted a big new contract and Tech didn’t want to pay, so chancellor Hance and former ESPN commentator (and political hopeful) Craig James manufactured a controversy to get rid of him.
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Bayou Vista, heh. Better restaurants. Yeah, the Craig James / Mike Leach thing was lol. I mean classic stupid Texas football politics, so victimless crime, but yeah. I didn't know about Hance's involvement.
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zoux posted:He's not forcing open the state by fiat Thursday, he's going to issue a get-back-to-work roadmap, you know like the NE and Pacific state coalitions are doing. Some of yall are some facebook rear end motherfuckers, always sure the worst thing is happening and not even bothering to look into it. If Abbot told me the sky was blue, I would go outside and check.
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I had completely forgotten that Craig James tried to get into politics after all that.
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i say swears online posted:speaking of, zoux go outside No I shan't
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Man I hope I never end up in a nursing home https://mobile.twitter.com/bethanymac12/status/1250431693078421506
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Dameius posted:If Abbot told me the sky was blue, I would go outside and check. 
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https://mobile.twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1250451436409958400 Huffines is typical libertarian nutjob poo poo, Strauss talks about sacrifices and innovation, which is Republican code for “deep cuts and finding ways of providing social services for free, as if by magic, but never, ever more revenue “ Meanwhile a barrel of West Texas Intermediate is less than $20 today.
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ReindeerF posted:After trail running near Galveston... Might I inquire where you ran? Love me some trail running. I spoke ill of Corpus Christi Mexican food a while back, but one of my favorite things there was getting myself lost in Oso Creek Park.
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Hospital update southwest of Houston -- The totality of the supply situation is staggering, it's really hitting me how bad it is now. The hospital has been sending out emails warning everyone that supplies are limited, but now it's straight up telling us that PPE usage has and is unsustainable. As I said before, I work in our supply chain, so I see this firsthand. Based on what I deliver daily, if we don't find another source, we probably have only four days worth of isolation gowns for our ICUs and Emergency depts only, not including the floors set up to house COVID patients. That is on top of having to take supplies from the OR dept, as we don't have any stock of germicidal wipes, shoe/boot bovers, and surgeon's caps. We've already used our allocated supplies for the month and it's only the 15th. I'm not sure what the hospital intends to do with its employees once the sum total of supplies are consumed before we get more supplies; a co-worker's wife works at a different hospital that offered a 25% temporary raise to nurses who would work without the necessary PPE and sign a waiver waiving any/all liability on behalf of the hospital, but she said no. I'm wondering if we're looking at the same thing here. We pale in comparison to the poo poo NY hospitals are going through and it's still this chaotic, jesus loving christ.
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What % of your beds are covid patients
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zoux posted:What % of your beds are covid patients I do not know the exact number, but I do know one of our ICU's, which I think is 22 beds, is consistently at max capacity with COVID patients, with the second ICU also containing positive patients, although I don't know the number there. We've converted two floors in a separate wing for positive patients as well, each holding 20-25 beds, with the third floor opening this past Monday for more as the hospital is/was expecting a surge in positive patients. I can't confirm capacity numbers, but most rooms are occupied as far as I can tell. I deliver to the Emergency department as well on graveyard shift, and even at that time I see suspected patients transferred nightly from there to the COVID wings.
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Devils Avocado posted:Might I inquire where you ran? Love me some trail running. I spoke ill of Corpus Christi Mexican food a while back, but one of my favorite things there was getting myself lost in Oso Creek Park. They closed Brazos Bend, it's my other favorite. I thinking of checking out the Brazoria National Wildlife refuge soon. I prefer canopy running like at Jack Brooks, where you can't see landmarks and can get lost easier, but I'll take anything that has some distance right now. Up Borth there's Memorial and Anthills, though I hear Memorial is packed, which I would try to avoid. Jack Brooks packs in the disc golfers, but they're off disc golfing, so I barely come into contact with anyone running there. If you head out there, I'm easy to spot. I always park at the disc golf lot in a black truck, I always have a shaved head and I almost always wear black. Say hi from 6'+ away!
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BetterToRuleInHell posted:Hospital update southwest of Houston -- 25% is insultingly low
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zoux posted:Man I hope I never end up in a nursing home I'm glad that my uncle failed to convince my grandparents to come down to Houston.
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https://twitter.com/by_jmiller/status/1250510425634091008 It's like they know if voting was even slightly easier in Texas, the GOP would be finished nationally 
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/by_jmiller/status/1250510425634091008 texas is not going blue even with mail-in voting lmao, dont get your hopes up
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enraged_camel posted:texas is not going blue even with mail-in voting lmao, dont get your hopes up Even if it doesn't, the down ballot would massively benefit. It's kinda like how Beto lost but massively improved a lot of areas by increasing turnout and causing wins in judicial races.
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ReindeerF posted:
Thanks, man! Will do!
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/by_jmiller/status/1250510425634091008 I occasionally have to vote by mail because of the nature of my job, working at sea for two months at a stretch, and every single time an expedition coincides with an election I deal with the same poo poo; they will not send you an absentee ballot to your own address in your own county unless you're old/disabled, even if you can prove that you'll be away during the early voting AND election period. You must have it sent outside your county for some dumb reason. Calls to my state representative and state senator to complain about it were met with responses of "well, if anything, we want to make it harder to vote". That is very literally what I was told by the office of Charles Schwertner (SD 5, R) in 2016. I mean, it's nothing we didn't all know already, but it's hosed up to hear it on the phone directly from their office.
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enraged_camel posted:texas is not going blue even with mail-in voting lmao, dont get your hopes up your redtext owns
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ReindeerF posted:I always have a shaved head and I almost always wear black. lol
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Love too protest anti-pandemic measures in my facemask https://twitter.com/kherman/status/1250854538195673090 Sorry vaccines! All this poo poo with people saying the virus is a hoax or overblown, we're going to have to go through all this again 10 times worse when they start mandatory vaccinations at some point. https://twitter.com/scottbraddock/status/1250855424863109120 Forcing my staff to go work at a place for no reason and endangering their health to own the libs zoux fucked around with this message at 19:44 on Apr 16, 2020 |
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Man I wish this didn't have to get worse before it got better. It is depressing. Wasn't the governor supposed to release his 'guidelines' today?
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zoux posted:Love too protest anti-pandemic measures in my facemask once we get a vaccine I couldn't give a poo poo, I would be so owned when they die of respiratory illness, please don't own me
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syntaxrigger posted:Man I wish this didn't have to get worse before it got better. It is depressing. Wasn't the governor supposed to release his 'guidelines' today? He was until Trump pre-empted him. Now Abbott's in the position of either bucking Trump, or getting his constituents killed. We probably know what the answer is going to be, but it'll have to wait until the national dog-and-pony show is over.
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Kemah, which is a city that exists primarily as a weekend destination for (mostly) Houston-area tourists who like chain restaurants near the water, or people who own sub-yacht-level-but-bigger-than-bass-boat boats, just furloughed all its cops, transferred money back from capital improvements to the general fund, fired its marketing person, etc. https://dereferer.me/?ohjj8VAdWGe5y...O2j0xj2KNnwmb4K quote:With its largest tourist draw the Kemah Boardwalk closed down along with the dozens of restaurants and bars that entertain and feed tourists, the sales-tax dependent City of Kemah City Council on Wednesday made a series of budget cuts that still may not be enough to prevent the city from a crippling deficit. Expect to see more of this, I reckon. ReindeerF fucked around with this message at 21:12 on Apr 16, 2020 |
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saintonan posted:He was until Trump pre-empted him. Now Abbott's in the position of either bucking Trump, or getting his constituents killed. We probably know what the answer is going to be, but it'll have to wait until the national dog-and-pony show is over. Basically all the midwest states, minus IA, formed a re-opening pact today, making it the 3rd one so far. Whatever Trump announces today is going to be loving so bonkers and so far away from what the science tells us we need to do, I have no idea how that is going to affect Abbott's announcement. Abbott said his plan would account for best practices and wouldn't rush stuff, but I hope when Trump says "May First" Abbott doesn't go along with it. e: hmm or maybe not https://twitter.com/jdawsey1/status/1250881068678471686
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