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Replying to: ruking1 (Jan 07, 2009 9:42 pm) You came back with a link about Chavez and his social oil program. I'm not connecting the dots, but I'd love to hear what I'm missing.
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Replying to: steve_ (Jan 07, 2009 7:06 pm) 
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Replying to: houdini1 (Jan 08, 2009 8:24 am) How are you holding up Kernick? We may as well talk about it since we can't do anything about it (until Al tells us what we can do).
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Replying to: steve_ (Jan 08, 2009 10:20 am) I was hoping for some warm weather to help the melting, but a cold-front's coming in tonight and we're expectin temps. to be 0 - 20F the next week. Fortunately my oil tank was filled recently. I need to run that, as I had a burst-baseboard-pipe in a closed-off bedroom, when just using my woodstove. My hot-tub has snow on it, and is shutoff (to save energy). Besides that, I'm just loving the cold weather. 
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Replying to: kernick (Jan 08, 2009 10:43 am) The cold does build character. 
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Replying to: steve_ (Jan 08, 2009 10:51 am) I talked to a guy Sunday from Glenallen, AK. He used that stuff in his house. He just shuts down and leaves Drains most of the water out of the lines. But says the stuff just does not burst even if you have water in a low spot. If you ask people up there what they think of this climate change you will get about the same response as Kernick will give you. Bring it on as fast as you can. They have hit -62 degrees up there already. And it is not into the real cold time of year. As you well know. It has been -20 in Anchorage for the last week. I don't miss it at all. I was just out working in the yard in my shorts and T shirt. 72 wonderful degrees. What ever we are doing to the climate. I LIKE IT..... 
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Replying to: steve_ (Jan 08, 2009 10:51 am) The cold does build character. I guess it's not as bad as the character-building methods of many tribes I've seen on Nat. Geo. Jumping off the 80' tower with the vine around the ankle, that stops you just short of the ground, is slightly worse.
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Replying to: kernick (Jan 08, 2009 11:54 am) I never had hot water baseboard heat but I thought an antifreeze mix was SOP. Well, there was a rental in Anchorage back in the early days with baseboard heat. Went camping for 3 days during a cold snap and all the pipes in the triplex busted, the toilets, you name it. We wound up camping in the apartment for another week with just a wood stove for backup. I ran a new line to an outdoor faucet with PEX and a Shark fitting to replace a PVC line that had frozen in a barely conditioned crawlspace, so I'm hoping for no more problems there. I do drain that line in the fall though. Back to the subject, one guy in Uganda is worried about climate change. Well, not too topical since he doesn't talk about cars directly.
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Replying to: steve_ (Jan 07, 2009 10:23 pm)  Shoot if it gets any colder we'd have to break out the sweaters
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