Friday, July 1, 2016
The new Mopar Hemi block has been updated, cast with extra-thick cylinder walls, deck surfaces, inner lug bosses for head studs, and lifter bores. That means 60 pounds more than an original piece.
The new Mopar Hemi block has been updated with numerous improvements in oiling and structural integrity based on feedback from Super Stock racers and big name Mopar engine builders.
The only "bad" news: it cosmetically looks nothing like the original casting or even the Mopar Performance Hemi replacement block from 10 years ago, and weighs 60 pounds more.
http://www.hotrod.com/how-to/engine/1603-win-this-hemi-part-1-the-572ci-short-block/
California attorney general subpoenas oil refiners in gas-price probe
California drivers paid pump prices that have been as much as $1.50 higher than the rest of the nation since last summer.
So California state AG Harris has issued subpoenas to oil refiners as part of an investigation into unusually high gasoline prices in California during the last year.
During the Exxon Mobil Torrance outage in February 2015, California refiners reaped record net income, even as gasoline prices were falling elsewhere in the country. Beyond the Torrance outage, critics of the oil companies blamed manipulation of the gasoline market for exacerbating the price increase. 80 million gallons of gas was shipped to China in Sept 2015 http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2015/09/todays-new-refineries-in-california.html
Questions include why an Exxon Mobil ship was not used to deliver gasoline to California as inventories depleted as the Torrance refinery’s production level dropped below 20%.
The Torrance refinery can account for 10% of the state’s refined-gasoline capacity, and 20% of the capacity in Southern California, but rarely does, as the annual shut downs to switch from summer to winter blend and back (no idea why that is necessary when the weather doesn't change in So Cal) and when that isn't causing a shut down, the irregular explosions and break downs, and scheduled maintenance seen to take it down from optimum operation once or twice a year.
the aftermath of the flooding in Clendenin, Camden, White Sulphur Springs, and a couple other small towns in West Virginia... the photos of David Stephenson
Steep mountains and narrow valleys were the terrain that resulted in the flash floods, fed by a series of storms that hit West Virginia in a phenomenon meteorologists call 'training' because the thunderstorms line up over the same location like the cars of a freight train.
The vicious line of storms dumped "one-in-1,000-year" amounts on the state last week. This "train track" formed June 21st 2016 along a weather boundary between cooler air to the northeast and moist, warm air to the southeast.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2016/06/27/west-virginia-floods-storm-train/86429020/
The only truck that didn't make it out of the Clendenin Fire Department before water filled the building, the working fire trucks were moved to higher ground.
https://www.facebook.com/dtstephensonphoto/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1024987660918156
A small side effect of this disaster is the revealing of politicians to be good or bad, and one example stands out as the worst: Three of the eight counties that have been declared eligible for federal relief are in the state’s Second Congressional District, which is represented by first-term Rep. Alex Mooney.
While he is on an all-expenses paid junket, every other elected official in the federal and state government there is on hand to help, not to mention the thousands of people who are not running for any office.
But what makes Mooney’s absence so notable is that he moved to the state right before the 2014 elections, having run for congress once from New Hampshire and having filed to run from Maryland. Given that he neither voted nor volunteered in the state before running for office in West Virginia, is it surprising that he is unavailable now to pitch in? So, watch out who you vote for http://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2016/06/30/are-west-virginias-floods-the-result-of-climate-change-and-a-congressman-gone-awol/#4d3150a86d03
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