Bebop
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Let's build a car that does not need oil from Utah or Alaska or anywhere else and screw over all the oil barrons everywhere.
Spoken like a true Left Coastie! Go ride a bike :kick: I'll take my truck.Bebop said:Let's build a car that does not need oil from Utah or Alaska or anywhere else and screw over all the oil barrons everywhere.
Dusty Rhodes said:Spoken like a true Left Coastie! Go ride a bike :kick: I'll take my truck.
Bebop said:Let's build a car that does not need oil from Utah or Alaska or anywhere else and screw over all the oil barrons everywhere.
The Wingnut said:Bebop, why are you complaining about gas prices and dependence on oil if you drive such a huge truck?
Either get something that gets better mileage or quit complaining...
Joseph Casazza said:The problem remains, however, that the resources we are talking about are finite, and the amount of time they will last is measurable. The faster we pump and refine, the faster we run out. Will we run out in our lifetimes? Probably not in mine, but I'm pretty old now; your future might be at greater risk. The US is 11th in the world in terms of oil reserves, but first in terms of coal reserves, but the same problem still arises with coal, though on a slightly different time scale. The wise course for the long term would be to keep our oil for what we really need oil for, use coal where it can be used safely (I for one remember breathing the coal-smoke filled air in the winters as a youth, and I would not wish that on anyone), and use and improve already extant technologies (solar, hydroelectric, and wind power generation, hybrid automobile engines) as much as possible, and CONSERVE (yes, I do mean no more Hummers to take the kids to soccer). You need to do all of it, not just keep pumping and refining oil, if you are to plan wisely for the future. But when were American politicians, when was American business, when were the American people ever wise? Human nature has not changed at all, since the days we were gnawing on roots and berries and the old bones the hyenas left behind.
Joseph Casazza said:The problem remains, however, that the resources we are talking about are finite, and the amount of time they will last is measurable. The faster we pump and refine, the faster we run out. Will we run out in our lifetimes? Probably not in mine, but I'm pretty old now; your future might be at greater risk. The US is 11th in the world in terms of oil reserves, but first in terms of coal reserves, but the same problem still arises with coal, though on a slightly different time scale. The wise course for the long term would be to keep our oil for what we really need oil for, use coal where it can be used safely (I for one remember breathing the coal-smoke filled air in the winters as a youth, and I would not wish that on anyone), and use and improve already extant technologies (solar, hydroelectric, and wind power generation, hybrid automobile engines) as much as possible, and CONSERVE (yes, I do mean no more Hummers to take the kids to soccer). You need to do all of it, not just keep pumping and refining oil, if you are to plan wisely for the future. But when were American politicians, when was American business, when were the American people ever wise? Human nature has not changed at all, since the days we were gnawing on roots and berries and the old bones the hyenas left behind.