Lets See Your Abandoned and Forgotten Vehicles

KeBul wrote in post #18954330
You are welcome, after looking at the pictures I was intrigued myself so had a search to find out.

Clever implementation by the design engineers.

Kev

Yes it was very clever!

avondale87 wrote in post #18953764
Interesting.
You people seem to have oil wells like we once had water wells.
Are these things on private land and owned by the farmer, ranch owner?
Do they own the oil or only collect for government who pays pittance for the privelege?

Sorry for the late response. The oil companies lease or purchase mineral rights from landowners. A lease can be a flat fee, paid annually, or it can be a percentage fee, based on the amount of oil produced. I suppose a land owner could dig his/her own well and sell the oil, but the expense and liabilities just make it simpler to lease the rights to people who know what they're doing.

Other than environmental and safety regulations the gov't has nothing to do with the process.

Thanks Terry. Much appreciated.
Answered a curiosity from way back

Another thought. In the US when you own land, you may or may not own the mineral rights to that land. A seller may want to keep the mineral rights, so if you bought from seller, he could contact an oil company to dig for oil. The company would have to pay you for using the surface rights, but the previous owner would be paid for the mineral rights. So be careful when buying land, not everyone wants an oil well or a gold mine in their backyard.

Land owners may sell the mineral rights to raise money for something else they want to buy. My mother-in-law has mineral rights to about 600 acres in southern Oklahoma, but only has surface rights for a small percentage of the land.

About 30 years ago there was a mini oil boom in southeast OK. My parents owned surface and land rights to 120 acres. They leased the mineral rights to an investment bank for five years, then the rights reverted to them.

I don't know about other countries, but if you buy land in the US you have the rights to anything under that land, all the way to the center of the earth. Provided mineral rights were included in the purchase. You also own the airspace above the land, but that doesn't mean you can keep commercial or private aircraft from flying over your land as long as they are following FAA rules.

Terry McDaniel wrote in post #18958690
I don't know about other countries, but if you buy land in the US you have the rights to anything under that land, all the way to the center of the earth. Provided mineral rights were included in the purchase. You also own the airspace above the land, but that doesn't mean you can keep commercial or private aircraft from flying over your land as long as they are following FAA rules.

Wow, that's certainly not the case in Australia.

Thanks Terry.
Different as Pippan says, to here. But we have similar issues.
I own my farm and I own separate water rites.
I can sell either to another.
Farm could end up with water rites owned by anyone who then holds the rite to draw water. That's a bit scary.
It's causing some ripples on mainland Australia.

avondale87 wrote in post #18958776
Thanks Terry.
Different as Pippan says, to here. But we have similar issues.
I own my farm and I own separate water rites.
I can sell either to another.
Farm could end up with water rites owned by anyone who then holds the rite to draw water. That's a bit scary.
It's causing some ripples on mainland Australia.

I'd say it's causing fewer ripples as water is used up and rivers become dry beds.

Forgotten Toyota Celica

InPhoto wrote in post #18969409
Forgotten Toyota Celica

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Compared to what is driven about in Crete it is in excellent condition.

Stolen, dilapidated, burned...

Couple I have taken. Have plenty more if you are interested.

The Mighty Mav wrote in post #18979435
Couple I have taken. Have plenty more if you are interested.

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Yes show us more!!