Oil Crisis Temp Fix?

[Hottentot]

Originally Posted by Task Force

I say the government should randomly go putting nails in the road. and pop peoples tires...

Hey, that's a good idea! I'm applying at once to be a paid nail placer. I mean, getting paid to cause headache to random people around me? Sounds like a dream job!

Then I can write to my CV: "Professional Mischief Expert Extraordinaire". Imagine how good that will sound to prospective employers.

[Task Force]

Originally Posted by Hottentot

Hey, that's a good idea! I'm applying at once to be a paid nail placer. I mean, getting paid to cause headache to random people around me? Sounds like a dream job!

Then I can write to my CV: "Professional Mischief Expert Extraordinaire". Imagine how good that will sound to prospective employers.

Indeed, just think, you would be on the perfect road for a job in customer service!!!

[Betonov]

Here's on for the mathematicians:

would it be economically viable, to salvage an entire ship, sell the fuel and sell the ship itself as scrap metal. Food for thought

Food for thought

How many rusting broken down hulks are sat floating at some dock without anyone being bothered to buy it for the scrap?
Does that answer your question about the economic viability of an expensive salvage operation to raise a rusting wreck from the bottom of the sea to put it into a scrap yard?

[Betonov]

True true, but I think I read somewhere that a salvaged ship becomes the property of the salvor after certain conditions are met, while you stil lhave to buy the rusting heap in the docks

Buying the Rusted Ships is cheaper then a salvage operation.
The problem is once you buy/salvage one?
You have to move it then cut it up small enuff to scrap it.
The move and haveing a place to move it to with a dry dock is not cheap.
Add the wages to the workers who must then cut it up and all the handleing to get it to a scrap buyer.

[Betonov]

Damn, there goes another idea for a business

Someone could write a paper:

The collective analysis or How Subsim prevents bad ideas in the business world

And a whole section would be dedicated to Tribesman, titled: The devils advocate

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by privateer

Buying the Rusted Ships is cheaper then a salvage operation.
The problem is once you buy/salvage one?
You have to move it then cut it up small enuff to scrap it.
The move and haveing a place to move it to with a dry dock is not cheap.
Add the wages to the workers who must then cut it up and all the handleing to get it to a scrap buyer.

They do it in the cutting yards here in Baltimore. There was the USS Coral Sea cut up to make razor blades. A bunch more. I watched it dwindle everyday I drove by the berth. There is money in cutting them up for scrap. For the most part getting the vessel to the cutting yard is the hurdle. If she is not sea worthy it creates a lot of logistical problems.