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All info is based upon 2016 data. Last year of complete data. Oops… Oil Reserves in the United States See also: List of countries by Oil Reserves The United States holds 35,230,000,000 barrels of proven oil reserves as of 2016, ranking 11th in the world and accounting for about 2.1% of the world’s total oil reserves of 1,650,585,140,000 barrels. […]

Father Pavel the head of the monastery at our Tiny Russian Village is working on the issue and is in contact daily with the head of the local electric company. Two men, whom said they are specialists, came yesterday and looked at the situation….they said, “Yup, the pole is dangerous and we cannot even climb […]

  A normal trip even to the Big Village, which is only 20 kilometers, will entail at least two of these type of drivers. They will drive on your side of the road and not care if you get out of the way or not… The other day when I went to the Big Village, […]

Getting cold… The power company has finally responded, well somewhat responded….it took Father Pavel the head of the monastery to get some reaction from them. Then they asked a strange thing and yet I did it. They wanted me to get an image of the electric meter….so I crawled around in a collapsing building and […]

Ukraine has been really pissy (Re. arrogantly argumentative) lately about GAZ, GAS, you know that pipeline stuff… Hungary has signed a new 15-year natural-gas supply deal with Russia’s state-controlled energy giant Gazprom in a move sharply criticized by Ukraine. The agreement was signed by Gazprom and Hungarian energy group MVM executives at the Foreign Ministry […]

So today I go to the Big Village and gather antifreeze, oil filter, oil, new fan temp switch and some other goodies to winterize Sammy. Sammy the Volga has to survive through up to -40 C winters and that means maintenance is vital. Though, I have to say, when it gets that cold, I do […]

1. Where are all these other gas suppliers since Gazprom fully honors its commitments. The EU has threatened Russia and threatened turn other suppliers because they didn’t want to be tied to Russian gas? Come on, USA! Where is all that fracking gas you were going to supply Europe? What about you, Israel? Qatar? Norway? […]

we are trying to keep our power pole from falling and tearing a huge hole in our roof of our village home. The power company is not interested, being that it is their power pole on their right of way, kinda does not make sense to me. Yet, it is an issue that will hurt […]

Impressive article below and if you care about the “Skripal Truth” read it. If you prefer “prefab (MSM) propaganda” then don’t read it… New evidence has emerged of gross violations during the UK investigation into the alleged poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury on 4th March 2018. The new revelations put into question […]

For a month now the well has run and the TRV is flooded so bad at the pump station that no one can and or will get to it. I will go get water to wash clothes and dishes with this morning, yet I have to ask, “Who is going to pay for all this […]