Recent content by Fishing Nerd

No trolling here, just not falling for ignorant groupthink. So far, the reasons presented to be against this are: Impact to the environment - the impact from offshore drilling is far worse, and we've had environmental disasters related to spills multiple times over the past several decades...

You were already on ignore JPD - I asked about subsidies, you made some completely pointless remark about fuel ranges? This one is pretty simple - but it's obviously above a lot of pay grades here. You guys are stuck on 'those leftists are just a bunch of tax and spend tree huggers'. You've...

I must have missed the part where the objective was to get truck drivers to immediately cease and desist driving their existing trucks. I can imagine this is the crew that must have been bitching to no end when the phone company announced it was discontinuing dial telephones.

Not gullible, ignorant. If you're stuck on 'they're trying to save the world' - you clearly don't understand what's at stake here.

Do you have a source to quote here? I recall Siemens spinning off some of their wind manufacturing (for a tidy profit), but as recently as a few months ago I saw an article building a fairly large farm in the midwest somewhere. Right now - these companies can't meet demand. Fearing the end of...

Wait, are you claiming you wanted to have an honest discussion and you're bringing up these two points? Did I miss a memo somewhere - don't they have to do the same work and then some for offshore petroleum digging? Or are you suggesting we should put a moratorium on that? You don't care...

I'll take that as 'sure, I don't mind subsidizing the oil companies, but not the renewables'. I can understand you being beholden to them, if you routinely need to take 600 mile trips in your car. Luckily, the vast majority of Americans don't have that problem.

Did you feel the same about the petroleum and coal industries? Because those guys get a ton of subsidies despite the fact that they're both long beyond the early adoption scale. And that's without getting into the number of wars and conflicts we've gotten into trying to stabilize regions known...

You missed a few points there George - the point about the rest of the world wasn't with regards to carbon emissions, it was in regards to building out the manufacturing and technical expertise around renewable energy. We're already lagging - if we fall further behind, well - at some point, you...

C'mon - the environmental impact to fishing from spills like the BP spill in the Gulf, the Exxon Valdez - are orders of magnitude worse for the environment than these farms. The rest is just nonsense - why are the wealthy in the Hamptons able to prevent these from obstructing their view and...

George - have you ever visited or fished near an offshore oil rig? I have - they're an order of magnitude worse in terms of the impact on the surrounding ecosystem. Oddly enough, they do help the fishing. Are you familiar with the massive oil spills that have occurred in the past two decades...

Good lord some of you guys are gullible. You've fallen for a pitch that was aimed at keeping coal fired plants around, while the rest of the world was decommissioning them - partly because of the nuclear fallout and pollution generated, and partly because they're not economically viable...

Both solid recommendations. Lighthouse is great, a quick phone call and I can usually confirm what they've got in stock, and they can even pull it for me and have it ready for pickup later. Makes that quick run to Riverhead when I'm working on the boat and realized I forgot something that much...

If you're heading out from west of Riverhead, I'd strongly suggest you go no further east than Mattituck. There's an actual ramp and a pier, a much larger parking lot. The Oysterponds site is literally a concrete slab that goes into the water, nothing more - and as pointed out the tide and...

Yep, that's the one! I knew they sold the place but wasn't aware they shut down the ramp. Good heads up for anyone who might have gone looking for it, my one trip there was enough for me.