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www.bikebandit.com from the states but they shipped to Canada. Theoretically if they won't ship to Australia ship it to me and I'll pass it on using grim Canada Post, won't be too fast but it will get there cheaply. I'm not sure of the shipping arrangement that Canada Post uses but if it's small enough I'm sure just Air Mail will work. Who knows maybe they just throw the shit on a raft and hope the ocean currents will beach it in Australia somewhere. Let me know how the 115's work with the K&N so I can give it a try. I'm thinking though 117.5's are probably what's needed after running 112.5's at least here in Canada where the more demented members of the riding community are the first to ride and even ride after a couple of melted snowfalls. (no names)
As far as oil goes it more comes down to speculation, when the US and Israel, or even just the US itself bombs Iran in late spring/early summer this year there will be disruptions for those nations who import there oil by sea. In Canada we have a shitload of oil that we can't even give away because the hippy protesters in the States are worried a phucking badger is going to get disrupted in the middle of nowhere on the prairies. I wish they would actually do some phucking research before bitching about something they know little about. The main concern is oil spills but what they don't understand is a land based multi pump station has pressure valves all along the length of the pipeline so if there is any drop in pressure along the pipeline the oil is immediately shut off, even if multiple sensors fail for some crazy reason due to sabotage or sunspots, global warming, whatever, they all don't fail. Eventually the break will be detected and again the oil will be shut off. A pipeline is only used at %50 capacity for this very reason.
Even if a spill happens the cleanup is way easier than a ship going tits up in the ocean where even a small spill spreads miles and miles. The beauty of a land based spill is the oil can be reclaimed as it generally just creates a pond that you can pump up and just shoot it back into the pipeline or truck away in days, not weeks. What's really bad is we spend billions of dollars in research, building materials, studies, etc etc. The pipeline is just sitting there waiting to build in huge storage fields ready to go. Then the Obama administration pulls the plug and suddenly gasoline goes to near $5 a gallon. Coincidence??? The problem is not the amount of oil as they are currently saying there is more than Saudi Arabia just sitting there, it's to get it from bumphuck nowhere to the Gulf coast where %95 of the refining factories are. So you got to get it down there somehow. The beauty of the original pipeline plan is it will link up with the oil fields in North and South Dakota(which they just found shitloads) and then shoot it all down to the Gulf coast for refining. They would have more oil than they know what to do with. There's already a bottleneck now, not in supply but delivery.
So now the danger is not in if there is enough oil, but where it's going to go. The backers of this Keystone pipeline project are mightily pissed the American Government pulled the plug. They are now talking about just building a pipeline over the Rockies to Vancouver and just saying phuck you to the American government and selling to China at a much better price. If that happens you'll be looking at $5 a gallon as the "golden age" of gasoline prices 5 years from now. The whole reason for this pipeline was to help each other out. We supply cheap oil to America and in turn they supply cheap gasoline to Canada, it was a win/win arrangement. Everyone made money and the States could cut down on killing Arabs and/or backing Islamic dictatorships which is the main driving force whole "war on terror" was started anyway. Did you really think Al-Queda(CIA/ISI asset) attacked America because "they hate freedom" or is it they are mad that America kind of got screwed over and is supporting dictators in Islamic countries in return for secure oil supplies? If we can supply the States with all they could ever need, there is a whole effect on the entire supply chain. If America's overseas consumption is reduced even as little as %15 there is that much more oil on the markets to supply other countries with. Suddenly you'll see gasoline drop like a rock EVERYWHERE.
If we could supply America through a pipeline linked up with the other ocean of oil just found in the Dakotas, gasoline prices may go as low as $1.75 a gallon(maybe less with some oversupply problems). There would be too much oil, producers would probably have to cut production to keep the prices up.It's win/win all and up down the board. If its cheaper to ship stuff because fuel prices are low prices drop, especially for food items or "just in time" shipping items. It will be cheaper to keep employees, so more jobs will be created, and not bullshit jobs either like that so called "green" solar power plant in Nevada that cost $50 million to build and only has 5 employees and makes a profit of $3000 a year(look it up) with government money. Or the shitloads of money GM got and as a concession they had to build, where is very quickly turning into a lemon, the Chevy VOLT which is SHITTIER than the EV1 they built 15 years ago and isn't electric either. The only reason that the EV1 got cancelled as it had over double the range of the VOLT was because the only hardcore maintenance was to change the brushings in the engine every 100 thousand miles at around $40. They could not get the dealer to take them since most of the money for dealerships is made in the shop.
So for anyone that has half a brain. This "green" movement, while having lofty goals, is expensive, not fully developed technology wise, and is rife with government wastage and corruption. Thats not a good combo. Like it or not, oil is here to stay for at least another 50 to 100 years until we get some better technology online. I have no doubt will get there eventually especially with the explosion of electronic items and when there are electric cars out there like the Tesla getting 250 to 300 miles per charge. It seems like every year the battery technology is getting better and better. Just think like even just 10 years ago, you'd brag to your friends that you got an 1.5 hours on your laptop(that weighed like a brick). Now it like 10 hours on a battery half the size that like a 1/3 of the weight. What we need is cheap enough energy to spawn innovation and jobs to support such a venture. And there is nothing that kills jobs faster than high energy prices. I guess when their Latte's cost $10 will they suddendly realize maybe going to far too fast without the proper support wasn't such a good idea....
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