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Peak oil
Bones:
I think the emphasis should be on the long term solution and not delaying the inevitable with low fuel consumption vehicles. Sure it's great in the short term but eventually you end up at the same point. ie- no more gas and the earths air polluted with what used to be conveniently trapped underground.
Crazy Cooter:
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--- Quote from: Crazy Cooter on March 27, 2005, 11:36:36 pm ---Oil production will (if nothing changes) top out between 2006 & 2008.
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GGKoul:
--- Quote from: BrokenBones1 on March 27, 2005, 07:16:47 pm ---So much has advanced in 100 years but the good old filthy combustion engine has remained largely unchanged (in principal at least). Sure today's motors produce more power, use less fuel and last longer but there is still that filth being pumped out of every exhaust pipe.
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I've always wondered about that... Why is a 1900's technology still be used today?
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on March 28, 2005, 04:48:26 am ---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?
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Why not? We destroy it while we are in the process of consuming the fuel.
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.
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For those among us with a family about which they care: What happens when that little econobox collides with that Escalade?
GGKoul:
Just one thing, the automotive companies are doing what then can to reduce emissions. But what's really hurting the environment is all the small engines. (Lawn Mower, Gas trimmer) as those have no smog filter on them.