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Terry T

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  1. Saturday I had to make a banzai trip from home (Northeastern Indiana) to Kingsport, TN for a funeral. Since 1999 nearly every August we made  a similar trip to Bristol Motor Speedway. Corbin, KY and a few small fuel stops east of Corbin always had the best GAS prices so we planned out to fuel in that area. This trip I took my diesel pick up truck. 4.999 to 5.579 was the fuel prices down and back (over 900 miles in just over 21 hours). I had plenty of time to think about things. I am not blaming the current administration or the former. I will however blame government. Washington has a plan. A plan to take care of themselves and those who take care of them. Everyone in big business has lobbyists. Lobbyists and Politicians scratch each others backs. There is a very real reason that crude oil and gas are fluctuating and dropping yet diesel continues to raise in price.  Someone want's inflation to continue to move on a record pace for some reason. The most simple way to quietly push inflation is to push up the price of diesel because someone has to eat that. That someone is the end consumer (me & you). This quietly creates inflation and it's in an area that the consumer never questions because they don't realize that if they stop at the very moment that they are reading this and do a 360* look around the room they are in every single item they see was on a diesel powered truck at some point.  

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  2. There is a Ukraine on the JOT page and he posted this a few days ago.  He has been updating on the board as he can.

    "Yesterday the occupiers destroyed the largest Mriya plane in the world. From the Ukrainian language, Mriya translates as Dream! They destroyed our dream with wings, but they will never be able to kill the dream of freedom of my people, which will soon come!"

     

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  3. From my Republican/conservative friends who posted on FB it sounds like it was a true sh!t show. From my Democrat/liberal friends it sounded... Well like crickets.  Not a single one posted anything at all on FB and I, easily, have 100 friends & family who are on the left side of the aisle. 

    I have to believe that they too are now wishing for a mean tweet or two.

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  4. Perhaps the pictures don't show the true roughness of it but the fire truck looks more than somewhat salvageable. I'm certainly not the guy to do it but although it's dented and bent it doesn't appear to have the rust that one would think it would being exposed to the elements for so long.  

    I'm looking forward to upcoming photos and info for sure!

     

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