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Posted: 5/22/2008 11:23:43 AM | I had the unfourtunate accident the recently wrecked my Honda Accord. It was no thing of beauty, but it was cheap on gas.
The gas prices have jacked up the used import prices beyond belief! I thought I was going to break even...but no.
The only real solution is to use less gas.
The days of living 40-60 miles from work and commuting are officially comming to an end. This means downtowns where people work will start to re-develop with appartments, townhouses and lofts.
I would hate to own a home out in the sticks in this day and age. | |
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Posted: 5/22/2008 12:00:17 PM | Solutions are all around us.
The solutions are what we should have been doing all along if we hadn't been lazy, vain, and selfish. If we hadn't listened to the lies and propaganda.
Most people shouldn't worry about the solutions because most people are too self involved to even think in those terms.
Oil is the past, and the rich of the future are those who recognize that now. | |
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Posted: 5/22/2008 12:13:40 PM |
True(Louisville was the one I heard about), but the thing about transit is that as people use it, money can come in via the farebox...mass transit/carpooling does work in leveraging pressure against Big Oil, as it goes after demand in a very real way: if everyone that could used transit just one day a week, the weekday consumption of gasoline would drop 20%. Think the oil companies wouldn't take notice of that? Once the use of transit permanently rises in a given area, then the municipalities can look into modes that don't consume refined crude oil: electric and natural gas are two that are used in many cities in the US. Not exclusively, of course; but every vehicle that goes out NOT using an oil-based fuel is one less tankful of economic enslavement by Big Oil.
Sure.... Demand is going to drop.... sure
The only way mass transit works.... with Government aid.
Mass trasit is a Commons issue,
The leadership for 35 years insists on individual responsibility....
'The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.' Ronnie
SO start WALKing....hahaha
This means downtowns where people work will start to re-develop with appartments, townhouses and lofts.
Or a weatherproof Cardboard Box in the alley behind work.... | |
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Posted: 5/22/2008 12:16:55 PM | | I have been riding my bicycle to work. I realize not everyone can do it, but more people should be carpooling, using mass transit, working from home, etc. | |
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Posted: 5/22/2008 12:56:41 PM | I carpool to work. I used to bike but job now is 40 miles from home, so a car is necessary. however there is hope in sight: i've spotted a few gas stations around, especially in industrial neighborhoods, sporting huge signs that say "WE SELL BIO-DIESEL!"
There's also been people driving around on bio-diesel cars, picking up used cooking oil from restaurants to use as their fuel. that's a great idea! the restaurants save money on dumping the cooking oil, and the drivers get free fuel! it's clean, almost as efficient as regular diesel, and unlike oil it's an infinitely renewable resource.
it's definitely not going to be an overnight process, but i seriously think bio-diesel is going to be our next fuel source. | |
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Posted: 5/22/2008 12:58:44 PM | I have to say though, that it is kind of amusing
to see humans wiggle and squirm at the cause
of their own stupidity! And then to yell and blame,
pointing fingers at everyone but themselves!
I havn't noticed. Are the auto makers STILL
advertising first on HP, secondly on finance rates?
One could hope that this is only a double wammy!
High oil prices and general economic woes!
Unfortunately it's going to be MUCH, MUCH worse
with a host of other disasters thrown into the mix! | |
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Posted: 5/22/2008 3:49:22 PM | Senator Chuck Schumer claims that coercing Saudi Arabia to increase oil production by 1 million barrels a day would drop the per barrel price by $25, saving Americans 62 cent per gallon at the gas pump. Yet, somehow, that same amount of oil coming from Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would only ease oil prices by a penny.
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Blame Wall Street for $135 Oil on Wrong-Way Betting
==May 22 (Bloomberg) -- Oil's rally to a record above $135 a barrel came as traders bought crude to cover wrong-way bets that prices would decline, according to data from the New York Mercantile Exchange.
The number of outstanding futures contracts, known as open interest, fell 8.1 percent in a week to 1.36 million at the same time that prices rose 2.6 percent, the data show. Falling open interest and rising prices are signs that traders are buying to exit so-called short positions that would profit if oil fell, and lose money as they rose.
``In a market like today, which is trending higher while open interest is falling, it's a sign that money is moving out of the market,'' said Stephen Schork, president of Schork Group Inc. in Villanova, Pennsylvania. Open interest in Nymex crude futures peaked this year at 1.5 million on March 13.
Crude for July delivery touched a record $135.09 a barrel on the Nymex today. Oil futures later dropped on signs that a 15 percent run-up in prices this month isn't justified by stockpiles and demand. Oil fell $2.36 to settle at $130.81 a barrel. Prices have more than doubled over the past year.
Open interest has been sliding for months, after the number of outstanding crude futures reached a record 1.58 million on July 16, 2007.
`Shrinking Market'
``It is not a growing market, it is a shrinking market in terms of open interest,'' said Olivier Jakob, managing director of Petromatrix GmbH in Zug, Switzerland. ``It is also facilitating the move upward.''
Wall Street banks, hedge funds and other investors have been boosting spending on commodities such as oil for several years. Global investment in commodities rose by more than a fifth in the first quarter to $400 billion, Citigroup Inc. said April 7.
In the last year, non-commercial market participants have raised bets on rising prices, known as long positions, by 37 percent to 263,378 contracts, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said May 16.
The rush to buy back contracts may be linked to the record number of short positions that had been built up in recent weeks by small-sized speculators, which the CFTC refers to as ``non- reportable'' traders because their holdings are small. Those investors held 123,194 futures contracts betting oil futures would fall in the week ended May 6, an all-time high, and 47 percent more than the number of bets they'd placed on rising prices.
Record Oil
Oil prices have closed at record highs on 27 days so far this year, prompting OPEC oil ministers including Saudi Arabia's Ali al-Naimi to declare that the rally is led by investors, rather than a shortage of supply.
Crude for delivery in December 2016 ended yesterday at $142.09 a barrel, signaling investors anticipate prices will gain for years. Some traders speculate oil will reach $200 this year. The price of a December 2008 option contract that allows the holder to buy 1,000 barrels of crude at $200 each jumped 67 percent in three days to $1.72 a barrel yesterday on the Nymex.
U.S. oil executives told Congress yesterday that prices should be between $35 and $90 a barrel. John Hofmeister, president of Shell Oil Co., the Houston-based subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell Plc, pegged the proper range ``somewhere between $35 and $65 a barrel.''
Saudi minister al-Naimi said in March when oil was trading near $100 that prices were unlikely to fall below $60 or $70, representing the cost of producing alternatives such as biofuels or tar sands.
Biofuels such as ethanol are the only alternative to crude oil, Sun Microsystems Inc. co-founder Vinod Khosla said in an interview on Bloomberg Radio yesterday.
``The only realistic option that we have, and there is none other, is to use biofuels,'' said Khosla, an investor in ethanol makers. ``There is only one choice.''
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Posted: 5/22/2008 4:22:24 PM |
Sure.... Demand is going to drop.... sure Yeah, you caught me in the lie-the only thing that can realistically happen is that the US becomes a police state whiere our very thoughts are regulated; the sky is falling, the world is coming to an end.
The only way mass transit works.... with Government aid. While building superhighways and promoting sprawl pays for itself, every time! Heck, all those workers out there on the Marquette Interchange in Milwaukee or the "Big Dig" in Boston weren't collecting paychecks; they just showed up and started building.
You got us there, Bob zero; no suggestions or alternatives will work, ever-better to just be cynical and bitter, and wait for the inevitable end of civilization as we know it. | |
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Posted: 5/22/2008 4:37:10 PM |
Biofuels such as ethanol are the only alternative to crude oil, Sun Microsystems Inc. co-founder Vinod Khosla said in an interview on Bloomberg Radio yesterday.
``The only realistic option that we have, and there is none other, is to use biofuels,'' said Khosla, an investor in ethanol makers. ``There is only one choice.'' Take what Vinod Khosla says with a grain of salt, he's a venture capitalist, and heavily invested in ethanol.
There are, in fact, many other options, including wind, solar, wave, tide, hydroelectric, and yes, nuclear. Electric cars will run off electricity produced by any of these sources, internal combustion engines (gas and diesel) will only run on energy-intense liquid hydrocarbon fuels. | |
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Posted: 5/22/2008 4:39:54 PM | | I haven't read all the posts here, but do a google on the HHO fuel technology being promoted by Jimmy Carter...It is an "add on" to you vehicle that will better your gas mileage and is working. Ultimately I think the air engines invented by a Frenchman will ultimately be the best answer to the gas problem. I believe they may already be manuacturing some cars or are in the process of producing them and they may even be affordable...I watched a video about this with my brother and the cars engine is run from air pressure....instead of a gas tank you would have a built in air compressor or tank and instead of fueling up with gas there would be air stations...air is a free resource...what better solution can you ask for? | |
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Posted: 5/22/2008 5:21:54 PM | I don't follow the news much because it's all just lies and
tactics designed to control! And I certainly don't follow
politics, which is even more BS.
But this ignorant man, can't help but wonder why the
SUDDEN increase? Is there a chance that the US
Government or whoever is really pulling the strings,
wants the US citizens to be so outraged, that the
US can perpetrate more of it's shenanigans in the
middle east? | |
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Posted: 5/22/2008 8:28:55 PM | Or you could finally listen to this guy and get a real knowledge from an insider who knows about American oil reserves. This is stuff the government will not let you know about. if you can't access this on a slow server google lindsey williams . This man has put his life on the line to provide this information to you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbakN7SLdbk | |
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Posted: 5/22/2008 8:45:16 PM | I found this in another thread, for some reason I think it may be appropriate here; 40 points grants you official "crackpot" status, 100 gets you a rubber room, a strait jacket, and those wonderful pink pills that make everything so peaceful...
The Crackpot Index
John Baez
A simple method for rating potentially revolutionary contributions to physics:
1. A -5 point starting credit.
2. 1 point for every statement that is widely agreed on to be false.
3. 2 points for every statement that is clearly vacuous.
4. 3 points for every statement that is logically inconsistent.
5. 5 points for each such statement that is adhered to despite careful correction.
6. 5 points for using a thought experiment that contradicts the results of a widely accepted real experiment.
7. 5 points for each word in all capital letters (except for those with defective keyboards).
8. 5 points for each mention of "Einstien", "Hawkins" or "Feynmann".
9. 10 points for each claim that quantum mechanics is fundamentally misguided (without good evidence).
10. 10 points for pointing out that you have gone to school, as if this were evidence of sanity.
11. 10 points for beginning the description of your theory by saying how long you have been working on it. (10 more for emphasizing that you worked on your own.)
12. 10 points for mailing your theory to someone you don't know personally and asking them not to tell anyone else about it, for fear that your ideas will be stolen.
13. 10 points for offering prize money to anyone who proves and/or finds any flaws in your theory.
14. 10 points for each new term you invent and use without properly defining it.
15. 10 points for each statement along the lines of "I'm not good at math, but my theory is conceptually right, so all I need is for someone to express it in terms of equations".
16. 10 points for arguing that a current well-established theory is "only a theory", as if this were somehow a point against it.
17. 10 points for arguing that while a current well-established theory predicts phenomena correctly, it doesn't explain "why" they occur, or fails to provide a "mechanism".
18. 10 points for each favorable comparison of yourself to Einstein, or claim that special or general relativity are fundamentally misguided (without good evidence).
19. 10 points for claiming that your work is on the cutting edge of a "paradigm shift".
20. 20 points for emailing me and complaining about the crackpot index. (E.g., saying that it "suppresses original thinkers" or saying that I misspelled "Einstein" in item 8.)
21. 20 points for suggesting that you deserve a Nobel prize.
22. 20 points for each favorable comparison of yourself to Newton or claim that classical mechanics is fundamentally misguided (without good evidence).
23. 20 points for every use of science fiction works or myths as if they were fact.
24. 20 points for defending yourself by bringing up (real or imagined) ridicule accorded to your past theories.
25. 20 points for naming something after yourself. (E.g., talking about the "The Evans Field Equation" when your name happens to be Evans.)
26. 20 points for talking about how great your theory is, but never actually explaining it.
27. 20 points for each use of the phrase "hidebound reactionary".
28. 20 points for each use of the phrase "self-appointed defender of the orthodoxy".
29. 30 points for suggesting that a famous figure secretly disbelieved in a theory which he or she publicly supported. (E.g., that Feynman was a closet opponent of special relativity, as deduced by reading between the lines in his freshman physics textbooks.)
30. 30 points for suggesting that Einstein, in his later years, was groping his way towards the ideas you now advocate.
31. 30 points for claiming that your theories were developed by an extraterrestrial civilization (without good evidence).
32. 30 points for allusions to a delay in your work while you spent time in an asylum, or references to the psychiatrist who tried to talk you out of your theory.
33. 40 points for comparing those who argue against your ideas to Nazis, stormtroopers, or brownshirts.
34. 40 points for claiming that the "scientific establishment" is engaged in a "conspiracy" to prevent your work from gaining its well-deserved fame, or suchlike.
35. 40 points for comparing yourself to Galileo, suggesting that a modern-day Inquisition is hard at work on your case, and so on.
36. 40 points for claiming that when your theory is finally appreciated, present-day science will be seen for the sham it truly is. (30 more points for fantasizing about show trials in which scientists who mocked your theories will be forced to recant.)
37. 50 points for claiming you have a revolutionary theory but giving no concrete testable predictions.
© 1998 John Baez
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Posted: 5/22/2008 9:58:57 PM | F.William Engdahl fromGlobal research seems to agree with nefarious 101. he says unregulated futures speculation by hedge funds, banks and financial groups are driving up the price. speculators can purchase a crude oil contrac for as little as 6% of the value. We see how well that works, with a little frantic bidding speculators can reap millions in minutes.
So it's not supply and demand as we are told. He says peak oil is a hoax. He says big oils is sitting on vast reserves in Alaska. The Saudis will son be bringing two new fields into production Brazil will soon be producing from its' offshore oil. not to mention the shutin oil in Iraq. | |
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Posted: 5/23/2008 4:18:43 AM | Again, there are no experts on here, but some analysts say we're seeing the same kind of "bubble" in the oil markets that was seen in mortgage/real estate; many of the same institutional factors and global financial speculation just switched from one market to the other. Oil prices "may" come down once the bubble bursts, maybe not.
The world could also find more huge reserves and aggressively expand refinement capacity, flooding the world with much more supply than demand, thus (theoretically) driving down prices, but that will only delay the inevitable.
Oil is a finite resource, a fossil fuel. Sooner or later, it will run out, and we'll "have" to switch to a global economy based on some alternative. We better start doing the necessary steps now, while the crisis is still reasonably contained and managed. To wait until there's a REAL global energy crisis that forces the world to endure some very painful corrections would be criminally negligent, on "everybody's" part. | |
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Posted: 5/23/2008 4:26:48 AM | >>>.instead of a gas tank you would have a built in air compressor or tank and instead of fueling up with gas there would be air stations
What would power the compressor? And isn't compressed anything way more dangerous than gasoline when it explodes? | |
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Posted: 5/23/2008 5:11:51 AM | Well...I'm not a self proclaimed energy crisis expert...and had the same questions you have here...they would be better directed at the inventor and designers of the inventions or electricity experts, however I can speculate...
Electricity from Nuclear powered power plants to power ur air compressors...
As far as the questions about explosion...I'm not an explosives expert so ur asking the wrong person...Is very likely the cars could become more dangerous in wrecks (i had the same thought), but let me remind you once again...I'm not an expert on the subject, but simply introducing what I heard...sounds good to me...if you need to get from point A to point B and the price of gas will push everyone's household budget to the limits it sounds good....Car wrecks are already dangerous
If you don't like the engine that runs off of air you can just rely on the HHO converter or offer a better solution? | |
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Posted: 5/23/2008 6:45:02 AM | | It has been suggested that a spring device could be used for regenerative braking in an automobile (compressing a spring, helping to slow the car); air is also a compressible medium, imagine an air compressor used instead of a spring. The storage tank would only need to hold enough compressed air to launch the vehicle and accelerate to 30 mph or so. (Not my idea, I read about this in Popular Mechanics or some other similar magazine). I don't know if the gain would make up for the extra weight, apparently the inventor thought so. | |
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Posted: 5/23/2008 6:53:27 AM | A car company in India is building compressed air vehicles....
I think the Driving range is around 70 miles.
The company is building compressor stations in the cities.... | |
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Posted: 5/23/2008 7:02:24 AM | I am a big fan of air tools but would imagine that
there just isn't much energy stored in compressed
air. Maybe these Indian compressed air vehicles
weigh no more then a bicycle! Probably not something
I can haul my backhoe with! lol | |
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Posted: 5/23/2008 7:16:28 AM | If there's a war.....gas prices go up
If there's a hurricane.....gas prices go up
If a tree falls, and no one hears it.....gas prices go up.
I'm gettin' on the bus. | |
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Posted: 5/23/2008 7:54:49 AM | .
I can haul my backhoe with!
I think calcium in the tires would be the limiting factor... put that in a chase vehicle?
a Rigs-haw? Or
Maybe a pedal assist? Or .
cut out the floor boards... Fred Flintstone?
This car is a four passenger.... It is pretty neat package.
I could use a Bike tire pump and drive for Free... kind of how many MacDonalds $.99 menu.......per PSI?
The Long Beach Port is going all electric with the shuttle truck fleet.
A huge cost saving... and much lower emissions... This is set to be the model for Ports internationally
The $12,700 CityCAT, one of a handful of planned Air Car models, can hit 68 mph and has a range of 125 miles. It will take only a few minutes for the CityCAT to refuel at gas stations equipped with custom air compressor units; MDI says it should cost around $2 to fill the car’s carbon-fiber tanks with 340 liters of air at 4350 psi.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/automotive/new_cars/4217016.html
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Posted: 5/23/2008 8:44:43 AM | I'm surprised and impressed!
Wonder, if it sounds like the dentist's drill
Curious what the insurance would be for that?
The SMART car was so high, because it is my understanding
that prosthetics are awfully expensive not too mention the time
it takes to teach a person to walk again! lol | |
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Posted: 5/23/2008 8:55:22 AM | .
The SMART car was so high,
I don't understand that.... The safety ratings are very high... Better than most SUV's
Repair should be low because of design .. go to the site.
They look very strong... the second question buyers ask is Safety...
I would guess its high because there is no history?
I remember hearing last year about a bus on the autobaun tha drove over one...
The bus driver didn't know the Smart Car was stuck to the front bumber for quite a distance....
the guy in the Smart Car was waving out the sunroof for attention.......
I think safety on the air car would be low... like if you got hit by a bus....
sweep it up and put it all in a box.... only real insurance needed LIFE>>>>
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Posted: 5/23/2008 9:22:46 AM | "Electricity from Nuclear powered power plants to power ur air compressors..."
Yes, I know you're not an expert but huh? | |
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