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Peak oil
DrewKaree:
--- Quote from: Crazy Cooter on March 27, 2005, 11:36:36 pm ---
Oil production will (if nothing changes) top out between 2006 & 2008. At that time the world will be burning it as fast as we can get it out of the ground.
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Dude, how can you post stuff like that without even THINKING to give us a link to where you come up with such nonsensical-sounding stuff? (please notice the emphasis Cooter)
Bones:
--- Quote from: DrewKaree on March 28, 2005, 02:14:45 am ---
--- Quote from: BrokenBones1 on March 27, 2005, 07:16:47 pm ---
There are clean free energy sources all around us.
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Such as................... ________________?
You can't say something like that and not give us at least a handful you are referring to.
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DrewKaree:
--- Quote from: BrokenBones1 on March 28, 2005, 03:17:58 am ---
I don't pretend to know all the answers
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But you play a guy like that on TV, at least, right? ;) ;D
DrewKaree:
I heard Ducati is working on an atom-smasher for their new bikes, the only problem is, you've gotta be bowlegged to a ridiculous degree to get your legs around it (think Russian gymnast :o ), and if something goes wrong with it, you'll WISH you had the luck to have pins and screws in various parts of your body ;D
paigeoliver:
Well, which one is it? Are we going to destroy the environment with fossil fuels or run out of them? We can't really do both now can we?
Anyway, the auto manufacturers obviously don't actually care about fuel ecomony, we had a 52 mpg GAS car back in 1985 and it only cost $5000 (the Chevy Sprint, later redisgned with worse fuel economy as the Geo Metro). Now all of a sudden they need a $30,000 hybrid that gets WORSE gas mileage?
Now true, the Sprint was only good for about 120K or so before it was worn out, but 120,000 miles divided by 52 is 2307 spent on gas in on the vehicle (at the 80s-Bush rate of $1 per gallon). A NORMAL 20 MPG car would have spent $6000 on gas in the same time period. The car just about paid for itself in fuel savings alone.
They could still make that same little econobox today. Even if they made it $12,000 at tommorrows $3 gas prices it would spend $6900 in gas in it's lifetime, while the ever so popular Cadillac Escalade will spend $21,000 in gas to drive those same miles (replace Escalade with almost anything, I just used the 17 MPG highway figure that it is rated at). The Sprint would pay for itself 100 percent in fuel savings alone.
Not to mention the fact that the big cars/trucks tend to dip down to around 9-11 MPG once they get older.