Walls of Red Wing" is a folk and protest song, written by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. Originally recorded for Dylan's second album, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan,[SUP][1][/SUP] it was not included, and eventually attempted for his next work, The Times They Are a-Changin', but, again, this version was never released. The version recorded for Freewheelin' eventually appeared on The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961-1991. The song describes a boys' reform school located in Red Wing, Minnesota.
Dylan based "Walls of Red Wing" on the traditional Scottish folk ballad "The Road and the Miles to Dundee", which he may have learned during his trip to London in early 1963, from other aspiring folk singers, such as Martin Carthy.[SUP][1][/SUP] In his narration, Dylan goes to describe a juvenile detention center in Red Wing, Minnesota. The description is hyperbolical, and goes to describe the students there as "thrown in like bandits and cast off like criminals",[SUP][2][/SUP] the walls of "barbed wire" and the fence with "electricity's sting",[SUP][2][/SUP] the guards holding their clubs like they were "kings",[SUP][2][/SUP] and the supposed "dungeon" of the building.[SUP][2][/SUP] Despite these harrowing descriptions, Red Wing was not the impenetrable "Gothic fortress" (as John Bauldie calls it[SUP][1][/SUP]) portrayed in this song.[SUP][1][/SUP]
Dylan based "Walls of Red Wing" on the traditional Scottish folk ballad "The Road and the Miles to Dundee", which he may have learned during his trip to London in early 1963, from other aspiring folk singers, such as Martin Carthy.[SUP][1][/SUP] In his narration, Dylan goes to describe a juvenile detention center in Red Wing, Minnesota. The description is hyperbolical, and goes to describe the students there as "thrown in like bandits and cast off like criminals",[SUP][2][/SUP] the walls of "barbed wire" and the fence with "electricity's sting",[SUP][2][/SUP] the guards holding their clubs like they were "kings",[SUP][2][/SUP] and the supposed "dungeon" of the building.[SUP][2][/SUP] Despite these harrowing descriptions, Red Wing was not the impenetrable "Gothic fortress" (as John Bauldie calls it[SUP][1][/SUP]) portrayed in this song.[SUP][1][/SUP]
There is a refinery not that far from Red Wing. Koch brothers own and pollute the Mississippi for everyone down stream...they have been fined numerous times and it is cheaper to pay the fine than make changes.
Think about that price though. $0.84 a gallon. 42 gallons in a barrel. That is $35 for a barrel. Price for the crude, refining, shipping and sales tax.
I think with demand going down the price has to stay low. Unless we do something stupid like put a tariff on oil and basically make all Americans pay more to prop up the oil industry.
We have bigger problems than the oil industry right now.
there is a bit of a problem in that logic, something I didn't know until like 10 years ago....
you have 42 gallons of crude oil, you can't just make it into whatever you want
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gasoline is primary, maybe 20 gallons per bbl, then some diesel fuel/ heating oil ( same thing, except for some dye, essentially )
some jet fuel, which is now pretty much worthless, some LP, and hundreds more things, maybe thousands !
my point is you can't just refine it to being just one particular commodity
