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Date: 10 May 2007 14:34:22
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Subject: bicycle in oil-industry book
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A bicyclist has just appeared in Lisa Margonelli's nicely written book
"Oil on the Brain," which traces oil in the U.S. back from its corner
gas station destination to its drilling rig source.
The bicyclist does not come off well:
"In the end, the worst part of the emergency [a medium-level whoops at
the British Petroleum oil refinery in Carson that supplies a quarter
of the gas used in Los Angeles] was that one of the operators
[refinery workers] was badly hurt. When a pump needed to be restarted
by hand, he jumped onto a bicycle with a wrench to rush to another
part of the unit [a 630-acre refinery]. The wrench fell out of his
basket and between the spokes of his bike, flipping him over the
handlebars and sending him to the emergency room with injuries to his
face."
--"Oil on the Brain," Lisa Margonelli, p. 56
Cheers,
Carl Fogel
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Date: 10 May 2007 19:47:00
From: Carl Sundquist
Subject: Re: bicycle in oil-industry book
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<carlfogel@comcast.net > wrote in message
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>A bicyclist has just appeared in Lisa Margonelli's nicely written book
> "Oil on the Brain," which traces oil in the U.S. back from its corner
> gas station destination to its drilling rig source.
>
> The bicyclist does not come off well:
>
> "In the end, the worst part of the emergency [a medium-level whoops at
> the British Petroleum oil refinery in Carson that supplies a quarter
> of the gas used in Los Angeles] was that one of the operators
> [refinery workers] was badly hurt. When a pump needed to be restarted
> by hand, he jumped onto a bicycle with a wrench to rush to another
> part of the unit [a 630-acre refinery]. The wrench fell out of his
> basket and between the spokes of his bike, flipping him over the
> handlebars and sending him to the emergency room with injuries to his
> face."
>
Just another way to loosen the cog on your lockringless fixed gear bike.
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Date: 10 May 2007 16:18:28
From: datakoll@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: bicycle in oil-industry book
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>
> I'll drive around it tonight and let you all know.
>
> Greg
WATCH OUT FOR ANY WEIRDOS STANDING ON A STREET CORNER
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Date: 10 May 2007 15:51:42
From: Joe Riel
Subject: Re: bicycle in oil-industry book
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carlfogel@comcast.net writes:
> Well, he could have wrenched his back jumping onto it.
Ouch. Did that last month (Friday 13, go figure), but not jumping
onto a bike. Currently at 20mi/day, but annoyingly slowly. Actually
was feeling pretty strong the last couple days, but had a bit of a
relapse today. And so it goes...
> The 630 acres did puzzle me. It could be just a mistake, since it's
> ten acres short of a square mile. But the refinery may sit on a
> square-mile section and for tax purposes doesn't count ten acres of
> narrow public road around its perimeter.
I'm wondering if the author never realized the equivalence, or if it
was intentional to sound impressive. 630/640 acres sounds bigger.
Trifles...
--
Joe Riel
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Date: 10 May 2007 15:30:39
From: datakoll@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: bicycle in oil-industry book
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amazing how an attempt at light humor devolves into a world crisis:
miss your bouy?
any commies under the cactus?
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Date: 10 May 2007 14:12:32
From: Joe Riel
Subject: Re: bicycle in oil-industry book
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carlfogel@comcast.net writes:
> When a pump needed to be restarted by hand, he jumped onto a bicycle
> with a wrench to rush to another part of the unit.
Wow, they had bicycles with wrenches! Or one wrench, anyway.
> [a 630-acre refinery].
That would be one square mile. Talk about a stupid unit conversion.
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Joe Riel
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Date: 10 May 2007 16:21:20
From:
Subject: Re: bicycle in oil-industry book
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On Thu, 10 May 2007 14:12:32 -0700, Joe Riel <joer@san.rr.com > wrote:
>carlfogel@comcast.net writes:
>
>> When a pump needed to be restarted by hand, he jumped onto a bicycle
>> with a wrench to rush to another part of the unit.
>
>Wow, they had bicycles with wrenches! Or one wrench, anyway.
>
>> [a 630-acre refinery].
>
>That would be one square mile. Talk about a stupid unit conversion.
Dear Joe,
Well, he could have wrenched his back jumping onto it.
And it wasn't (with apologies to P.G. Wodehouse) a great wrench, at
least not in the sense of a great cattle-wrench.
The 630 acres did puzzle me. It could be just a mistake, since it's
ten acres short of a square mile. But the refinery may sit on a
square-mile section and for tax purposes doesn't count ten acres of
narrow public road around its perimeter.
Cheers,
Carl Fogel
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Date: 10 May 2007 16:03:50
From: G.T.
Subject: Re: bicycle in oil-industry book
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<carlfogel@comcast.net > wrote in message
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> The 630 acres did puzzle me. It could be just a mistake, since it's
> ten acres short of a square mile. But the refinery may sit on a
> square-mile section and for tax purposes doesn't count ten acres of
> narrow public road around its perimeter.
>
I'll drive around it tonight and let you all know.
Greg
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Date: 10 May 2007 14:04:40
From: datakoll@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: bicycle in oil-industry book
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getting touchy are they?
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