By the end of the year, Biden will have purged 275 million barrels of oil from the reserve, which has an authorized capacity of 714 million. According to the Department of Energy, the reserve now holds less than 400 million barrels of petroleum, marking its lowest level since 1984. The emergency petroleum reserve, established in the 1970s to prepare the U.S. for a sudden and severe disruption in supply such as a hurricane hampering gulf coast refineries, has been transformed into the president’s personal oil bank to cash in on for political capital. //

Pyle prescribed a legislative fix to the issue as the administration empties the petroleum reserve to save face as the midterms draw near.

“Congress needs to step in and put binders on the administration and make it very specific about what types of uses the releases are for,” Pyle said.

House Republicans have repeatedly sought to intervene. In June, Democrats blocked for the seventh time Republicans’ “American Energy Independence from Russia Act,” which would have placed restrictions on White House use of the emergency petroleum reserve. The legislation would require the president to submit an energy security plan within a month of tapping the emergency stockpile and require the energy secretary to develop plans for replenishment. //

Congressional Republicans tried to restock the oil reserve in the early months of 2020 when the industry was on the brink of collapse from Covid-19 lockdowns. At the time, oil prices had plummeted, and it could be purchased in bulk at a bargain. Democrats, however, obstructed the effort, and now the Biden administration is forced to deal with replenishing millions more barrels at a far higher price. When the Trump administration looked to refill the reserve, oil was trading at less than $24 per barrel. Today, Biden is facing prices between $67 and $72 per barrel, about three times as much as oil cost just two years ago.

How easily particular letters are heard (or misheard) can be one consideration when choosing a Vanity callsign.

This Air Force study looked at the intelligibility of each letter when phonetics are used and in the presence of random white noise, which seems to me makes it especially helpful to determine how well the various letters can be heard thru a pileup or in rough conditions. I have pasted what i find to be the key info in the table below, to see the full study please use the link below it.

TABLE II

Intelligibility Scores of the Twenty-Six Alphabet Words (when Masked by Random White Noise)

November 91.16
Romeo 87.67
Whiskey 85.14
Sierra 80.54
Uniform 78.89
Bravo 78.58
Delta 77.62
Tango 76.55
Foxtrot 76.24
Yankee 72.89
Charlie 72.22
Lima 71.58
Pappa 70.45
Mike 69.22
Hotel 68.69
Oscar 67.86
Echo 66.98
Quebec 65.49
Kilo 62.96
Victor 62.67
Juliet 61.77
Zulu 61.67
Golf 58.06
Alfa 54.95
x-Ray 54.25
India 28.67

source:
https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/404051.pdf

No more refunds. The FCC isn't getting the money. The Treasury is. And, they don't do refunds.

So, multiple applications will simply cost more to no good. Unless you consider it a donation.

Yeah. Blame That Guy with the 500 applications.

I had to go look that up. Make that Those Guys. As in more than one. The callsign applied for was K7DX.

One guy applied 232 times.

Another 115 times

Another 110 times (he won it)

Another 101 times

Another 46 times (slacker)

So, I bet all those refund requests sent up Very Star flares (rather than red flags).