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Oil-rail-ship-pipeline… It depends. The more it has to be handled the costlier. Rail can go almost directly from area of the field’s collecting tank farm to the refinery…both of which may be far from the sea and suitable terminals. I think pipeline are the cheapest, but they’re spendy to build, and made for essentially one “cargo”. Tankers run often with no cargo, in ballast, and they can carry only oil. Rail can carry anything, pretty much.
Then there’s the question of torpedoes and rockets…
“convoy attack” das boot…(just a favorite film)
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Democracy Romania…or Kansas. (I brought this up, the Kansas bit, before…)
It’s the Old Army Game, pick any card from the stacked deck…”Heads I win, tails you lose…”
“Brinkley got almost 30 percent of the vote, according to the website of the Kansas State Historical Society. But Republican Frank Haucke and Democrat Harry Woodring both received more, and Woodring won the governor’s office.
Some historians think Brinkley lost only because the state’s attorney general had ruled that votes for him wouldn’t count unless they gave his name properly as “J.R. Brinkley.” Many ballots didn’t give his name properly.” (including rejecting ballots misspelling, or even with with non dotted “i”) In fact Brinkley won… (Ahgot family memorystories about it)
(I don’t imagine Romania has write in ballots)
