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We wrote about Osoyoos several times in the last 10 years, notably in August of 2002 (The South Okanagan) and then again in 2005 (Osoyoos, Oliver, Penticton - Napa Valley North?).
One of my favorite area’s in North America!
‘evening. I think I’ve seen you mention this before. If I understand your point, we’re going to see a bust in the oil and gas boom when more of Canada’s oil sands crude is available and economically refined? Is the implication that these vast resources can and will have a moderating effect on peak oil problems that are causing so much doom and gloom? Further implication that oil stocks benefitting from high oil prices are destined to come down? Do you have a timeframe for the technical achievements necessary to make it happen?
…..Does Dangriga have a downtown?……..
…thats a good story…but the consesnus is….. No f word in Paradise….
….really it looked out of place…
Gartman Sinclair Mogambo Russell Embry Kaplan Murphy Rosen Chan Casey Hamilton Mahendra Adrian Jesse……there are soooo many candidates…..I think SOEE liked the Favorite Gold Personality theme too…..lets see if we can put it together…..I think the Plebs will like it..probably see double the votes….
Late news: Major fire in Dangriga
And before we sign off, late word out of Dangriga reports a massive fire in the downtown area. Details are sketchy, but sometime after five this evening the blaze erupted at the Habet residence on St. Vincent Street. At this point, the greatest danger is to surrounding buildings as firemen continue to fight the conflagration.
How ’bout…
Which item will witness the greatest PERCENTAGE increase in value in 2008 in the USA?
A Gold Eagle
A Silver Eagle
A Gallon of Gas
A Loaf of Bread
A Roll of Toilet Paper
A Kaplan subscription
It appears to be spring fed, and there were three places of open water with upcurrents so it was signed NO Skating and not cleared of snow. The local town hall has a pleasure skating rink. I’ve been so busy the past many years that I have not used it. I hope to start soon.
The old hockey days are over for this bad puppy. Just memories now. Very glad that you are able to get out on the ice so much. I used to make a rink in the back yard for the kids when they were little. But the warm winters of the 90s ended that. Maybe this winter I’ll make one.
Cheers, TQ
back in ‘88 was my first visit out to see my Dad on Vancouver Island. I checked out real estate prices. Very reasonable, as they were priced for the local workforce.
Little places like a 1000 sq foot bunglow in a small town up the road from Victoria were well under 60,000. Then the Boomers began to retire and sold their big house and went looking. Now the 2 acre on a former farm in the valley with a mountain view, anywhere along the sunshine coast is more.
Get into a car and go drive around. See if you like the area. I think that you can still find a town here or there that is reasonable. email me for more if you like.
you’ve been laundered! wj
the yahoo messenger and windows messenger etc and have a question for the board.
i’m replacing ’skype’ and need another medium for tel-video comunications. any suggestions would be much appreciated. tia. wj
‘fav gold person’ i like that too. fav site is a loaded question no good. wj
a few things to keep in mind on the oil and gas front. although oil and gas may come out of the same hole, the economics of each are far different. oil is transportation based, natural gas is electricity and heating based. with that in mind, think about the following. canada has vast deposits of oil sands which are being processed into heavy oil. that oil is sent to cushing, oklahoma where only a few refineries can take advantage of it. there are currently over eight refineries being upgraded and expanded to process the heavy oil. when these refineries come back on line, several others will go down for upgrading and expansion of capacity. the inventory reports for cushing only include light sweet crude so someday a report will come out with lots of product and the same amount of crude. the news is always best just before the bust. i have witnessed three booms and two busts. it never seems to fail that when the housing is expanding and at the peak, the oil patch busts carrying the housing market with it.
i just returned from a little trip around the western edge of oklahoma city. entire farms are being turned into housing developments. there aren’t nearly the jobs to support that many new houses and when the oil and gas boom busts, lots of folks will simply walk away just like they did in the 1980’s.
do some research on the heavy oil sands of alberta and saskatchewan. i think you may get a real eye opener. there is a lot more oil in north america (canada) than most people realize. all it needs is new technology to produce and refine it. the refinery technology is already in place. when the production and transportation problems are solved, auto and truck fuel will go to half its current price. the cost to produce heavy crude is currently just above $36. bbl.
do a search on enbridge (enbrige??) pipeline for transportation.
hope this is of some help.
rno