Fred Alonie's Hardware and Garden Stores brings your garage logic podcast number 810

March 15th already, 2022.

It was 70 degrees on this day in 2015 and 7 below in 1897.

And now from the mayor's office above the boat house on the east shore of Spoon Lake.

It's garage logic with working on production, Chris Reaver's director of social media.

John Hyde in the loose room and occasionally Kenny from the crabby coffee shop.

Here is your flashlight king, fireworks commissioner and keeper of common sense.

The only are Joe Suschina.

An interesting email from Randy Rankin helping us understand better oil production dynamics.

Joe just catching up on the garage logic podcast, listening to the March 9 episode.

You mentioned oil production in the US has increased in recent years and is predicted to increase in 2023.

I thought the increase surely could be more dramatic than the predicted increase of 2023.

So I thought I'd ask someone literally in the field, my brother gave works as a foreman manager for a company whose sole purpose is to drill oil in the decodas.

I asked if all the oil wells have been capped during the pandemic have been reopened.

He assured me they are.

Everything drilled is currently producing, he said and he informed me to get new product that is more barrels per day.

They need to drill new wells.

He stated two factors hindering increased production.

They can't find labor to stand up the new drill rigs and material is in short supply.

There you have it.

So it's a labor issue too.

I said labor.

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