He's far west NSW. Tough trying to get stuff out that way for sure let alone backloads or anyone going that way. A DIY job if ever I saw one. 

Freight companies are in it to make a dollar not a charity. You're talking around 40hrs + for someone to do this job for you including load and unload. 

Sounds like you have less than 20 cube so you should be able to hire a 3.5t pantech to do the job yourself. Perhaps have someone who can take your car and drive the hire truck back. Other than that do a round trip yourself to position your stuff.

Maybe age has its benefits in some respects. I've been watching this thing for 20 years on and off. The optimists point to all sorts of reasons why this scenario won't play out, however none of their solutions are gaining traction and the situation continues to slide in the direction of disaster. 

So unless Superman is going to come racing over the horizon sometime soon I'll keep tracking towards prepping for the inevitable.

We passed sustainable when we hit 3 billion.

we better start tracking a lot faster then.

Then you weren't listening. Hubbard was predicting peak oil. IE when supply and demand would separate. Discovery rates aren't matching decline rates. Everyone alrteady knows this but cling to the idea that technology and some new super field will be found. problem is there has been no significant new finds for decades now.

I thought you were smarter than this. This is pure fiction!!

You need to stop reading marketing hype for investors. The field has a theoretical capacity but has not been proven and is an assumption based on a few test wells. Even those show that anything they may find may simply be uneconomic or require more energy to extract than it produces. Shale is the wonder story of the last decade but is fast proving to be an absolute disaster both ecologically socially and financially. Dutch Shell dropped shale because it simply couldn't make it pay.

At current depletion rates US shale could be played out in as little 10 -15 years. 

The path toward U.S. energy independence, made possible by a boom in shale oil, will be much harder than it seems.

Just a few of the roadblocks: Independent producers will spend $1.50 drilling this year for every dollar they get back. Shale output drops faster than production from conventional methods. It will take 2,500 new wells a year just to sustain output of 1 million barrels a day in North Dakota’s Bakken shale, according to the Paris-based International Energy Agency. Iraq could do the same with 60.

Consider Sanchez Energy Corp. The Houston-based company plans to spend as much as $600 million this year, almost double its estimated 2013 revenue, on the Eagle Ford shale formation in south Texas, which along with North Dakota is one of the hotbeds of a drilling frenzy that’s pushed U.S. crude output to the highest in almost 26 years. Its Sante North 1H oil well pumped five times more water than crude, Sanchez Energy said in a Feb. 17 regulatory filing. Shares sank 7 percent.

It was too late decades ago. People will ignore the risks of collapse in favor of self preservation. It will always happen to the other guy and its some one else's problem is standard MO for dealing with these things.

Whenever someone, who's livelihood is integrally connected to the industry and who says, "I do it to help people", I just cringe.

Slip some vodka in his/her bottle. About half a nip. Should be quiet as a mouse after that

It's actually easier to upload offsite and simply link it. 95% of my pics/graphics are simply links to referred material but occasionally I'll download a pic, edit it and re-upload to a storage site. An annoying aspect of linking pics here is that it has a sizing function which has never worked other than limiting the pic size to the limits of the text display box. 

Let me see if I'm understanding you Comrade Ziv. 

The total wages are up but on an individual per person basis they're down and that inflation growth that exceeds wage growth is OK because at least you don't have deflation which actually increases the buying power of the individual.

Not sure if you actually figured it out that the wealth of the 99% is surely but slowly being transferred to the 1%. 

I luved this one;

“Exiting deflation is positive for growth because it assists recovery in the job market,” said Takuji Aida

…and this guy's a Chef Economist no less. It's scary when we've got idoits like that in charge and even scarier when the masses can't tell there's an idiot at the wheel.

This will be interesting…

Chinese Authorities Halt Virtual Credit Card Payments; Tencent, Yahoo Crashing

I've been buying a few K in stuff out of China through AliExpress for a few months now. About NZ$900 is still waiting to ship. Alibaba (a B2B) hub and AliExpress (a B2P) hub use Alipay to facilitate their hubs. This is like PayPal being suspended so you can imagine the angst going right now amongst customers with skin in the system but more importantly the 1000's of merchants who will be hanging out to get paid after shipping their goods. Payments sit in ecscrow and are released on confirmation from the buyer that they have arrived and are in merchantable condition. 

I just did a US$3k deal with another Chinese manufacturer and we side stepped the Alibaba system for the sake of expediency. I wouldn't normally do this but for a few weeks now the hairs on the back of my neck have been up with regard to deals out of China. 

Ali site's offer the Chinese manufacturers and smaller merchant facilitators (those doing smaller deals for the large run manufacturers enabling the sale of smaller quantities). Anything that damages confidence in their payment system could take a long time to rectify. To say this will be interesting is an understatement.