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I've got news for you. America is energy independent. We export a lot of it. The reason why prices go up is because we live in the world and we are not insulated within the US borders. Energy prices are dependent on the world markets. Big oil is not interested in keeping the oil prices low. Instead they are more than willing to create artificial shortages (much like OPEC) in order to control the prices. Big oil is more than Trump can chew.

Solutions are way above my pay grade, but betraying my friends is only encouraging the enemy and making my other friends mistrust me.

In 1938 Britain negotiated Czecho-slovakia away to Nazi Germany without Czecho-Slovakia even at the table. Chamberlain came back to Great Britain and declared "Peace In Our Time". It only took Germany one year to attack Poland and start world war 2. I fear for Ukraine and the credibility of the USA. After all, why would anybody trust a country that abandons its friends for exactly.. what? And Gill, maybe it is time for you to remove your "long live the king". People might misinterpret it

Just your example should send shivers through all of us. Alzheimer research with the potential of solving a great scourge is just thrown by the wayside because of bone chilling ignorance. It must be terrible for you and your group to see all your effort ignored and trampled by political entrepreneurs.

I have the funny feeling that if there is such a check, it will be distributed a short time before the next congress elections.

Eh.. You got what you voted for, now eat it.

It's been a while since I was involved in the microbiology of the cell ( on a primitive level) but I clearly remember the mood at the chemistry department on the River Campus the last time The NIH grant money was frozen while at the same time the Lazer Lab was in danger of closing down. People were down right discouraged and people lost their jobs. My wife had sleepless nights seeing all her grant work evaporating and promising scientists abandoning research. At the same time China increased its research budgets and lots of Indian and Chinese promising scientists chose to go to or stay in China. Why are we mutilating ourselves? I wish you strength.

I think that you all are misreading what is happening here. What I see is a repetition of the pre-worldwar 2 socioeconomic reality. Except that this time it is artificially created by deliberately sowing chaos. Thereby making the country ungovernable and getting it ready for a strong man to "save us all" from disaster. Along the way we'll betray a few friends and throw a few of them to the trash bin of history, so we can make a bit more money and stroke our narcissistic ego. It will not be long now before a scapegoat is picked so the the blood lust of the crowd can be appeased by letting them loose on that scapegoat. But just remember, that repetition of history can only happen if we allow it to. So my advise is to go out and explain to as many people as possible that their rights and freedoms are traded away by a few power sick individuals. Those people will cynically try to make you support them, but they will only use you up and spit you out. Support the constitution and let nobody take it away from you by making false promises.

What if the 2 billionaires (one a convicted criminal) decide to fire all the people who keep the carp out of the great lakes? After all those stinky fish are just a waste of money. And yes they can by simply stopping to subsidize the program.

That is a tricky problem and politics are involved. Today the federal government has to protect publicly owned spaces from states interests, but tomorrow the states may have to protect the publicly owned lands from the federal government which might have bad intentions. Dependent on the political situation today's friends may be tomorrow's enemies. That sounds like a loose loose to me

It will not replace 50 years of experience, But it will help you pick up on new regulations that did not exist until 10 years ago. It will also fine tune your experience and make you aware of little shortcuts that may have crept in your boating behavior. But you should remember that having been on the water for fifty years makes you ,like me, probably in your late sixties or early seventies and at that age we start forgetting things that we knew all our lives. And that makes taking that course a great refresher that helps sharpen the edges that have become dull with the years

Do you guys remember that awful accident a bunch of years ago when a boat hit the pier of the Genesee River late in the evening? Alcohol and testosterone was involved and at least one girl died.

It would seem that way. But as water vehicles change and water traffic signs change, there may be refresher courses to get up to date on the latest changes. As an example I would say that personal water vehicles were unheard of 60 years ago and now there is a slew of rules because of them. Now there are new water vehicles like motorized surf boards that zoom along at high speed and before too long there will be rules about those as well. As for having lost your certificate. If you remember through which organization you took the course they should have it on file and you can request a replica.

I did mine in 2014 and I took the certificate to the DMV about 2 months ago. They accepted it and upon my request for $12 they added it to my drivers license. So now I have a boat anchor on my drivers license, which for me is great because a have a tendency to crumple things up or just plain loose them.

Yes. It is like any other law. On the other hand, there probably is not enough manpower to enforce this law. But if you get into some accident and you don't have the license it would be very easy to throw the book at you. Still, I do not see how a NYS resident can be fined for braking this law because he is a boat owner while if he rented a boat he would not have broken the law and if an out of stater or renter is not held to the same standard then this law will stand a snowball's chance in hell in any court of law. BUT... It is winter now and there is not much boating going on. So why not sign up for an online course ( Boat USA has them) and spend some time thinking and studying boat safety, if only to confirm that everything you know already is really the right thing.

That is true and very true.

I use a 3 inch piece of 2 inch pvc, a piece of pool noodle to wrap the leader around and a diver dock made by Rapala. I have one on each side of the boat screwed into the side. Stored this way I always let the dipsy out on the right side.

It is amazing how this did not sell. This is practically a give away. It is very user friendly and perfect for trolling with its 600KH transducer You will get a clear picture all the way to the bottom. You will get a great fishfinder at a great price.

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I used to get all sorts of disturbance on my GPS and fishfinder until I changed to spark plugs with the internal resistors. It made the problem completely go away. You may want to look into that.