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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
There is a whole bunch of potential oil in oil-shale. It's expensive and environmentally harmful to convert to petroleum, but when the price of conventional oil gets high enough those concerns will fall away.
When oil-shale derived petroleum becomes cost-competitive, then suddenly the USA becomes one of the countries with a huge reserve of oil.
From what I've read, they won't be able to ramp up oil shale production fast enough to compensate for the declines in production of existing oil fields. I mean, most major projects to increase oil production would take about ten years to ramp up.
From what I've read, they won't be able to ramp up oil shale production fast enough to compensate for the declines in production of existing oil fields.
But that would imply that oil companies are more interested in short-term profit versus long-term stability. What are the odds of that happening?
Random question for well-travelled ladies: I'm reading this info I just got about the Greece/Turkey trip I'm taking, and it says that women should wear "long skirts or slacks to cover their legs" for some of the religious places. How long is long? Covering the knees or longer than that? Is it different for churches v. mosques?
"long skirts or slacks to cover their legs" for some of the religious places
My experience has been "cover your ankles". But I'm sure others have more recent info.
I would say ankle length if slacks would cover as well.
I wore things to my ankles and long sleeves in Ethiopia, also a shawl to cover my head. I remember places in Germany in the 80s and some places in Italy in the early 00s that would not allow tank tops and shorts. I carried a cardigan in Italy.
Jesse, when I was in Greece I wore skirts that fell about three inches below my knees for church visits. I had no problems going into churches. I wasn't around any mosques, though, so I don't know if requirements there are different.
There were also women going into churches in shorts, but I was in pretty tourist-heavy areas. The people running the churches may have been resigned to it.
OK, I'll have to get some pants then. Man, I hate buying pants!
Jesse, when I was in Greece I wore skirts that fell about three inches below my knees for church visits.
I'm not sure if I really have skirts that long that I'd want to sightsee in, anyway. I think my casual skirts tend to be right at the bottom of my knees.
the guazey Indian skirts were my friends.