Posted on 08/22/2005 10:23:33 AM PDT by BulletBobCo
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Ok fine, if China and India are catching up to us in the industrial and auto sectors and needing fossil fuels, then it's time for America to once again be ahead of the curve and start enforcing alternative fueled vehicles. We have the technology, but the oil companies you know... Hate to don my til foil hat for you guys, but oil companies have made record profits in the past few quarters especially. This nearly a dollar a gallon increase in a matter of months is NOT because of China and they believe the American people are freaking gullible (ok, so they are). This happened too fast for it to be consumption.
"and start enforcing alternative fueled vehicles"
Correction, start enforcing the ability to compete in this market USING alternative fueled vehicles"
And that'll push your car along exactly how?
This should be a prime example to tell people when they say "we just went to Iraq for oil." Oh yeah you say? Then why haven't gas prices come down? Hmm??
Actually it's a pretty good long term solution. The "Oil Age" isn't going to end for lack of Oil. Conservation isn't the answer - getting rid of gaia-worship is.
(1) Tap into Yellowstone National Park for energy, which would take care all of our needs for generations
(2) Build dozens of nuclear power plants
(3) Use industrial hemp for fuel
The US? Dominion Resources, the electric company for Virginia and parts elsewhere is building a port to IMPORT coal. Seems that they can import low sulfur coal cheaper from SA than ship it from Colorado.
If I didn't know any better, I'd swear that the US was stockpiling and holding its resources in reserve, using up what's out there and getting ready to say: We got it and now YOU are going to pay for it.
Or this whole thing is strategic and no one knows what the big boys know,
Or
Peak Oil is a fact, and I tend to believe it is after much reading,
Or competition for resources is just that and market forces are now in effect
Or ___________ (fill in the blank)
It's just too easy to blame the oil companies. Price gouging might be going on, but that isn't the whole story and the era of cheap oil is finished.
"This is outrageous. Is this why we sent our soldiers to Iraq?"
Ahhhh.... Some people are just beggin' to be b|tch clapped, aren't they?
You have good ideas, but I would suggest we build 100's of nuclear plants :)
make that "slapped", not "clapped"
NUhydro Power Plants(Simultaneously Produces Electricity, Hydrogen & Drinking Water)
http://www.aaenvironment.com/nuhydro.htm
What are you going to do with the spent uranium?
We don't need alternative fuels. We just need the price high enough to make the 400 years of fossil fuels we have economically viable. Tar Sands, Shale Oil, Coal Gasification.
Plus rewriting of the environmental laws so we can build refineries and extraction facilities.
At $100/bbl we can be a net exporter of energy.
Every company does it's markups as a percentage of revenue. If the cost of oil doubles, the profit doubles, that's called capitalism.
You are not entitled to cheap energy and energy companies are entitled to a respectable percentage profit on their revenues.
So9
American consumers are indifferent to price. They don't pay any attention. I bought gas yesterday and observed a 13 cent difference in price in a quarter mile stretch.
And your evidence is....?
Wind power
Ya think?
Between 1981 and 1989, the number of U.S. refineries fell from 324 to 204, representing a loss of 3 million bbl/d in operable capacity. Since then, the number has further dropped to 149.
If Chinese and Indian families required as much gas and oil to run their households and businesses as we do, the world would not have enough energy to meet the global demand.
So let us, by all means, lower living standard to match theirs.
More ominously, gas lines due to supply shortages could return, as they already have in some parts of the world.
Most noteably China and Indonesia , where government interference (subsidies) prices fuel at well below market value.
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