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Old 06-24-2011, 01:09 AM
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In the oil industry of Loyang industrial area of Singapore if you want a job you go door knocking literally. Put your head round the door and ask for a job. working on the premise that you got to be in the right place at the right time.

I often employed on the spot standing in front of a guy, they did'nt have internet in those days but reading letters saying they liked cricket because they knew I was English never worked.
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Old 06-24-2011, 01:16 AM
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I know what you mean and I'm all kinds of sympathetic to the folks out of work today who work in fields were a more personal touch isn't the general order of the day. Often I can still find work simply by showing up on a job site up in the mountains somewhere and seeing if I know anyone working. I've been in the area long enough that typically I do. Thing is that used to work pretty well. Any more ( last few years for instance ) its been pretty rough. At the moment I've got a dream customer who never bugs me, pays when I ask him to what I ask him to and is thrilled at what I'm doing for him. Apparently several people have failed him in the past over these windows and I'm determined to get it done properly for him. Great guy, just wants some bloody windows that work.

anyway the days of door knocking are over when it comes to the job market

its all internet now son
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Old 06-24-2011, 02:06 AM
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In the oil industry of Loyang industrial area of Singapore if you want a job you go door knocking literally. Put your head round the door and ask for a job. working on the premise that you got to be in the right place at the right time.

I often employed on the spot standing in front of a guy, they did'nt have internet in those days but reading letters saying they liked cricket because they knew I was English never worked.
Half the staff in Loyang still cant use the internet or speak Engrish but they can play Cricket
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Old 06-24-2011, 01:30 PM
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I know what you mean and I'm all kinds of sympathetic to the folks out of work today who work in fields were a more personal touch isn't the general order of the day. Often I can still find work simply by showing up on a job site up in the mountains somewhere and seeing if I know anyone working. I've been in the area long enough that typically I do. Thing is that used to work pretty well. Any more ( last few years for instance ) its been pretty rough. At the moment I've got a dream customer who never bugs me, pays when I ask him to what I ask him to and is thrilled at what I'm doing for him. Apparently several people have failed him in the past over these windows and I'm determined to get it done properly for him. Great guy, just wants some bloody windows that work.

anyway the days of door knocking are over when it comes to the job market

its all internet now son
I pulled up to a job site in Bel Air, CA one time during my carpentering days, and the contractor walked over to see what I wanted. I told him I was looking for work and he asked, "got a resume?"

That one floored me for a second. Then I pointed at a wooden tote box full of hand tools in my pickup bed and said, "right there."

He looked my tools over for a minute and said, "well... they look used, all right. How much an hour you lookin' for?"
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Old 06-26-2011, 12:12 AM
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when I was a kid a guy asked me once when I walked up looking for work what I did, being kinda a smart ass I told him I was just another nail monkey. He yelled over at his partner "hey, got a guy here says he's just another nail monkey" his buddy yells back "hire him".

Those days are long over and I'm thrilled not to be framing my way through school again but in a way I miss it. Once upon a time you could just walk up to any job site and find work. Anymore its hard hats and corporate employees.

I was really hoping to get my boat under me on this job I'm on now but its been set back after set back with no end in sight.
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http://www.rense.com/general75/zoil.htm

I dont care to explore the racial comments here. this is just one quick article describing origins of oil.

another similar article.
http://oilgeopolitics.net/Geopolitic...___russia.html

http://freeenergynews.com/Directory/...ustainableOil/

etc...
The 'crackpots' who write this stuff know that oil is all GEO POLITICS. And what is taught and communicated is what the teachers believe, the prevailing wisdom of the moment.
Those were some interesting perspectives you brought to the forum...granted some of them were a little wacky in their written style.

But I do know of the White Tiger oil field off Vietnam, and it is a reality that remains unexplained in many conventional terms.

Of course THIS REF would have it linked to biological sources.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%E1%BA...B%95_oil_field

I may have to do some more reading on this subject
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Old 07-05-2011, 02:42 PM
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Those were some interesting perspectives you brought to the forum...granted some of them were a little wacky in their written style.

But I do know of the White Tiger oil field off Vietnam, and it is a reality that remains unexplained in many conventional terms.

Of course THIS REF would have it linked to biological sources.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%E1%BA...B%95_oil_field

I may have to do some more reading on this subject
That area is just beginning to be explored. China US and asian countries all reaching to stake regional claims. Could be a lot of oil there. I think there is a lot there.

We will never run out of oil. DARPA is now saying they have figured out how to make significant amounts of algae based oil.
http://www.heatingoil.com/blog/darpa...per-gallon215/

http://biofuelsdigest.com/bdigest/20...scale-by-2011/
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n Washington, the special assistant for energy at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which has been conducting two algal fuels projects, said that “Darpa has achieved the base goal to date. Oil from algae is projected at $2 per gallon, headed towards $1 per gallon.”

Barbara McQuiston told the Guardian that the General Atomics and SAIC-led projects have been recording harvests at more than 1,000 gallons per acre and predicted that large-scale refining, at the 50 Mgy level, would commence as soon as 2013. DARPA is chasing a US military-based goal of obtaining half its fuel from renewable sources by 2016. In Afghanistan, if you could be able to create jet fuel from indigenous sources and rely on that, you’d not only be able to source energy for the military, but you’d also be able to leave an infrastructure that would be more sustainable,” McQuiston told the Guardian.
I have read predictions on harvest are up to 5000 gallons an acre or more. AND algae love CO2. so combine CO2 from coal fired plants with algae to create oil. Redeems coal somewhat.
Anyone suggesting scare of peak oil on world's future is not telling you the real story. I used to believe in peak oil, but proponents are simply fear mongers trying to gain world power, IMO, influence the UN, Global warming, al gore, etc....., it is all related.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algae_fuel
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The United States Department of Energy estimates that if algae fuel replaced all the petroleum fuel in the United States, it would require 15,000 square miles (39,000 km2) which is only 0.42% of the U.S. map.[11] This is less than 1⁄7 the area of corn harvested in the United States in 2000.[12] However, these claims remain unrealized, commercially. According to the head of the Algal Biomass Organization algae fuel can reach price parity with oil in 2018 if granted production tax credits.[13]

I read that DARPA is working with the private sector to bring algae oil to everyone.

There is also Annelotech.
http://www.anellotech.com/press.html
which can make gasoline directly from any plant cellulose, wood sawdust, etc... using cheap zeolite catalyst , heat, and pressure.
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