Have you heard? We live in the middle of nowhere. Yet on Monday, there was a crew putting in natural gas lines on our gravel road! Farmer H warned me when he came home around 2:30.
"Be careful. There's a crew on our gravel road putting in gas lines."
"Where? Can I go out the other way?"
"On our gravel road! By the S curve up the hill."
"You mean on [NAMED ROAD]?"
"No. On our gravel road by the S curve up the hill."
"Isn't that where [NAMED ROAD] branches off?"
"Yes. But they're not on that road. They're on our gravel road."
"I KNOW THAT! I'm just trying to figure out exactly where!"
"You can go the other way, but that's driving out the other gravel road and going the long way. You can get through."
Here's the deal. I DID get through, on the half of the road left open, since no other traffic was coming my way. But I don't understand this gas line installation. Where is it coming from, and where is it going?
The section where the gas line is being installed it about a quarter mile from the county blacktop road. How is this gas line going to be connected to something? There's been no gas line installation on the county blacktop road. Nor on the quarter mile from blacktop to this section of the gravel. What's the purpose of a gas line that doesn't receive gas?
Something is fishy in the enclave of Hillmomba.
Apparently, even if the gas lines aren't needed, having the infrastructure in place can be beneficial for future upgrades or changes. I just googled it because I was wondering why also. Ranee (MN)
ReplyDeleteRae,
ReplyDeleteWe saw a crew like this on a remote blacktop road while taking a shortcut to get to the highway on our last casino trip.
Farmer H's theory is that the government is going to ban electric stoves and furnaces and other appliances, and there will be too much load on electricity for all the electric vehicles they're going to force us to buy and charge. So gas has to be supplied to all of us hicks for when that happens!
Huh! Out here our Goevernment would like to ban all gas stoves and make us all use electric. I hate electric stoves. In all my life I never used one until I moved here and I've hated cooking with it for thirteen years now. If I was offered a place with a gas stove I'd be there yesterday!
ReplyDeleteRiver,
ReplyDeleteDifferent strokes for different folks! I actually enjoy my electric stove. I rented a house with a gas stove, and was constantly anxious that it would explode! The oven would light with a BOOM whenever I ventured to use it. And it had a gas heater in the living room that also came on with a BOOM. Perhaps the landlord should have looked into it...
Funny how natural gas is also a form of fossil fuel, but here coal is the demon resource, along with gasoline. Yet over there, your government is pushing electric stoves.