20 minutes and then we are out of here.. 
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Wasn’t planning on it but there was a happy accident when I stopped for gas yesterday.
100,111 miles on the odometer.
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JASDF Kumagaya sakura festival. A former student of mine is garrisoned there with the mobile signals unit.
Sabre Dog next to a fire hydrant…fitting.
Mitsubishi F-1
I thought all the Cobras had retired but apparently not.
T-4 flyover
Hook heading home. They sprayed down the field with water to minimize dust.
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Beautiful pictures!
Did Sabre Dogs catch on fire a lot?
And is that a rocket launcher right under the intake? Interesting design decision.
They’re all great pictures, and seeing the planes and helicopters (especially that Cobra) makes me happy, but I’m going to have to pick this as the best picture. It looks unreal:
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I’m curious about the rocket launcher looking thing too. Never seen it before, though I rarely see F-86D’s either. I thought the fire hydrant was funny because in American culture it’s closely associated with where dogs pee in urban environments.
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The rockets fired from that launcher are called Mighty Mouse XD
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Interesting Wikipedia article on the F-86D..
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The Chinook scattering grass clippings is gold!
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My heart bleeds for you Americans.
I paid 2.51 dollars a litre this morning
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Guessing that is converted to USD, not Pounds?
If so we paid basically the same for diesel yesterday USD2.47 per litre.
Premium unleaded (95RON) was USD1.88 per litre.
That works out to about two bucks per gallon more than you’re paying Wheels.
Yep. Its killing me
Some places its up over the £2.00 a ltr mark already
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Our .gov screwed the pooch, royally… Let our fuel reserves drop to about 30%
We have one maybe two refineries still operating in this country and import 90% of our fuel from, primarily China, South Korea and Singapore. They are obviously prioritising their needs over ours.
We already have entire towns without fuel - and farmers who, if they can get diesel, can’t get enough when they should be harvesting crops right now.
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Ya’ll should have never switched to the metric system. The pricing sounds a whole lot better at 2.?? per liter than at $9.00 to $10.00 per gallon. 
It also seems that basic math is beyond the grasp of way too many these day too.
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Since there have been too many flare up lately, all of that above is supposed to be taken in jest. Quite sadly, Once again energy prices are a challenge for everyone.
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Who hasn’t at this point. Short term gain has been the M.O. for what, the past 40 years? For as much ■■■■ ADHD’ers get for not being able to plan or think about the future, governments all over are even worse about it.
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Hey mate. It is either cry or laugh about it, jest is needed right now IMHO 
At the moment it is definitely hitting us in the pocket, and re-doing our budget on almost a daily basis. Especially as we contemplate burning nearly a 1/4 tank of ‘gas’ just to get to the nearest Service Station and back home again. 1st World problems, as the bride and I tell each other… at least we aint being bombed.
But this is probably the wake up call WRT energy supplies that we (we, as in globally) needed?
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Since I started driving in the late 80’s there’s been half a dozen wars/conflicts/crisis centred around the Middle East.
Everytime this causes the fuel price to get spanked. Petrol stations profiteer/ insist they aren’t, the govt urges calm and promises support yet adds more tax on fuel in budgets.
When things settle down, OPEC decide to increase extraction/production/release of oil, the fuel price drops, but it never ever goes back to the price it was.
The sooner humanity finds a solution to its dependency on dinosaur blood the better.
If it were to happen it’ll cause such a massive step change/shift in the global economy and power bases that I am convinced those in charge won’t allow it to happen.
Reaches for aluminium foil.
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I still say hydrogen is a better solution than electricity for vehicles …and there is a shed load more of that than there is lithium 
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