29 Sep 06
Originally posted by ElleEffSeeeIt has for the most part in Canada. We pay about 40% tax on gasoline. Not many people here drive huge honkin SUV's that get 10 miles to the gallon.
Did it work?
I've driven down in the US quite a bit and giant SUV's and pick up trucks are pretty much all you see. Now that gas prices have inched up over the last year or so, americans are telling the government to get the gas price lower, rather than just buy better fuel efficient vehicles.
29 Sep 06
Originally posted by der schwarze RitterIf vehicles in the US were even just 1 mile/gallon more fuel efficient, americans would use less gas in 1 year than is in all of the Alaskan oil field.
If the Democrats and the radical enviros would back off on the issue of drilling in ANWR and the Outer Continental Shelf off the coast of Florida, we could turn Hugo Chavez off like a leaky faucet.
29 Sep 06
Originally posted by der schwarze Ritterso you are like dick cheney and louis the XV: after me, the flood!
The United States should do everything in its power to reduce our consumption of foreign oil. If the Democrats and the radical enviros would back off on the issue of drilling in ANWR and the Outer Continental Shelf off the coast of Florida, we could turn Hugo Chavez off like a leaky faucet. The second thing that needs to happen is we need to buil ...[text shortened]... plore the nuclear option:
http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?page=article&Article_ID=10402
who cares what will happen to our children, we have a blast now.
let me tell you something and all who think enviros are crazy: the world's oil reserves are estimated to end in 2050. and this estimate includes all the discovered and even the undiscovered oil reserves.
so unless you are dick chaney or luis the XV odds or you might just make it to see the end of the world, or even the first chapter. if there is no more oil, there is no more plastic. and while people could get of their asses and driver a bike to work, civilisation cannot do without plastic.
the major oil companies rule the war. and just like they made amerika attack irak(bio weapons my fat hairy behind) they hamper the development of alternate power supplies. we all heard of cars that don't need gas to run. we have been told that they are too expensive and they don't work. when something doesn't work, mankind makes it work. it is called progress. but, no, we still drive the smoking cars and polute and litaraly burn the oil away.
i see no hope to the oil crisis
02 Oct 06
Originally posted by ivanhoeI recommend a twelve step program
President Bush stated a while back that Americs is addicted to oil. Do you agree with that statement ? Should anything be done about it and, if yes, what ? For instance should the consumer gasoline prices go up considerably in order to decrease demand ?
02 Oct 06
Originally posted by Zahlanzithe following link has nice graphs on the topic.
so you are like dick cheney and louis the XV: after me, the flood!
who cares what will happen to our children, we have a blast now.
let me tell you something and all who think enviros are crazy: the world's oil reserves are estimated to end in 2050. and this estimate includes all the discovered and even the undiscovered oil reserves.
so unless you ar ...[text shortened]... e smoking cars and polute and litaraly burn the oil away.
i see no hope to the oil crisis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubbert_Peak_Theory
"The Hubbert Peak theory posits that for any given geographical area, from an individual oil field to the planet as a whole, the rate of oil production tends to follow a bell-shaped curve. Early in the curve (pre-peak), production increases due to the addition of infrastructure. Late in the curve (post-peak), production declines due to resource depletion.
"Peak Oil" as a proper noun, also known as Hubbert's peak, refers to a singular event in history: the peak of the entire planet's oil production. After Peak Oil, according to the Hubbert Peak Theory, the rate of oil production on Earth will enter a terminal decline. The theory is named after American geophysicist Marion King Hubbert, who created a model of known oil reserves, and proposed, in a paper he presented to the American Petroleum Institute in 1956 [3], that production of oil from conventional sources would peak in the continental United States between 1965 and 1970, and worldwide within "about half a century" from publication.
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05 Oct 06
Originally posted by uzlessThe big problem is that too many people - most notably in America - are too selfish to make even a minor 'sacrifice', such as buying more fuel efficient / smaller cars.
... americans are telling the government to get the gas price lower, rather than just buy better fuel efficient vehicles.