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Bill scott
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USA
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 Posted - 03/30/2006 : 07:31:14
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The American Crusaders are finally leaving Pakistan I see. I, personal, think it was just a PR stunt. They were really flying stolen oil out of the country with all those Chinooks...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060330/ts_nm/quake_pakistan_usa_dc
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"Lets get one thing clear, Bill. Science does make some assumptions." -perrodetokio-
"In the end as skeptics we must realize that there is no real knowledge, there is only what is most reasonable to believe." -Coelacanth-
The fact that humans do science is what causes errors in science. -Dave W.-
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Edited by - Bill scott on 03/30/2006 07:34:12
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GeeMack
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 03/30/2006 : 08:19:40 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Bill scott...
The American Crusaders are finally leaving Pakistan I see. I, personal, think it was just a PR stunt. They were really flying stolen oil out of the country with all those Chinooks...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060330/ts_nm/quake_pakistan_usa_dc
Uh yeah, okay, right. A Chinook has a payload capacity of about 10,000 pounds, which would be about 1,386 gallons of crude oil, or 33 barrels. If those Chinooks were loaded to capacity for every one of their 5,000 sorties, a total of 165,000 barrels of oil could have been moved. At about $63 per barrel that would amount to about $10.4 million. So 24 helicopters and 1,200 US servicemen and women worked for 7 months, for over $14 million in wages alone, plus literally tens of millions more in helicopter fuel, to move a little less than $11 million worth of oil. An amount, by the way, which could be transported in about 400 loads in tanker semi trucks in less than a week with 100 teamsters driving, for less than $25,000 in wages and maybe a million bucks worth of diesel fuel. Okay, Bill, making sense clearly isn't one of your strong suits, but this time you appear to have completely flipped your paranoid wig. 
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Bill scott
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USA
2103 Posts |
Posted - 03/30/2006 : 12:32:12 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by GeeMack
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Originally posted by Bill scott...
The American Crusaders are finally leaving Pakistan I see. I, personal, think it was just a PR stunt. They were really flying stolen oil out of the country with all those Chinooks...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060330/ts_nm/quake_pakistan_usa_dc
Uh yeah, okay, right. A Chinook has a payload capacity of about 10,000 pounds, which would be about 1,386 gallons of crude oil, or 33 barrels. If those Chinooks were loaded to capacity for every one of their 5,000 sorties, a total of 165,000 barrels of oil could have been moved. At about $63 per barrel that would amount to about $10.4 million. So 24 helicopters and 1,200 US servicemen and women worked for 7 months, for over $14 million in wages alone, plus literally tens of millions more in helicopter fuel, to move a little less than $11 million worth of oil. An amount, by the way, which could be transported in about 400 loads in tanker semi trucks in less than a week with 100 teamsters driving, for less than $25,000 in wages and maybe a million bucks worth of diesel fuel. Okay, Bill, making sense clearly isn't one of your strong suits, but this time you appear to have completely flipped your paranoid wig.
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Okay, Bill, making sense clearly isn't one of your strong suits, but this time you appear to have completely flipped your paranoid wig.
Or maybe you, Gee, can not even recognize obvious satire and then you attempt to write a rebuttal to the obvious satire...
Man dude, you need to lighten up just a little. You might be wraped just a little to tight there gee... |
"Lets get one thing clear, Bill. Science does make some assumptions." -perrodetokio-
"In the end as skeptics we must realize that there is no real knowledge, there is only what is most reasonable to believe." -Coelacanth-
The fact that humans do science is what causes errors in science. -Dave W.-
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