I noticed today at the convenience store gas station near me, diesel was $4.099 a gallon- first $4 fuel I've seen first hand. Paul Johnson
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16 years ago
I noticed today at the convenience store gas station near me, diesel was $4.099 a gallon- first $4 fuel I've seen first hand. Paul Johnson
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My projected scenario is this:
Fuel (oil) prices continue to escalate
US goes into very deep recession or depression
Deflation begins
All prices begin to fall
Guv'ment changes the formula to calculate "inflation" to include fuel, food and housing costs.
Citizens on fixed incomes get the double whammy again.
JT
(Getting the garden ready in the back yard)
Paul Johns> I noticed today at the convenience store gas station near me, diesel was
YEAH!
Wave that majick Wand and Make it so!
Decrease India and China's demand for Oil and make Hugo Chavez act like a regular guy and change all the opposition to Drilling in ANWR and instantly get all the coal gasification plans that have been sitting on shelves passed through the EPA and double nuclear energy production!
Convert the baboon in charge of Iran to be a Baptist Republican who likes the USA and won't disrupt mid-east stability.
What's wrong with him? Why doesn't he do that? We should get a better president! One that promises change! and Hope! And has a wife that finally has achieved pride in the USA.
Or maybe it's a complicated situation, that requires some careful thought......AND REAL ACTION.
MD
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I don't know if I've posted this here before but I've come up with a little energy plan of my own that I really believe would make a difference.
There is a lot of talk among the political types about energy independence, while that is mostly a pipe dream it is insane for a country as great as the United States to let itself up in a position where regimes as warped as Iran's and Venezuela can put our economy at serious risk. While we can't be totally energy independent any time soon we can get ourselves in a position where a major disruption in supplies from other parts of the world won't seriously damage our economy. Toward that end I offer my own energy plan, it offers incentives to reduce our imports, increase domestic production, and provide abundant supplies of clean, inexpensive electricity.
After all is said and done America will be cleaner, richer, more secure, and we could very well be energy independent!
You say that like it's a bad thing! Seriously though I really don't think the government gets that much money for oil and natural gas, and keep in mind this is just for DOMESTICALLY produced oil and gas.
The whole point of this plan is to reduce fuel prices in the short term (or at least keep them from going up as fast), and to minimize the need to use oil as fuel in the long term.
Sadly some of them would be, but the point isn't to make the regulations any stricter, it's to make them make more sense and so cheaper to implement.
I know, but it's a real problem and it's worth putting in the plan.
Obviously we would, but again keep in mind it's just in IMPORTED oil, domestic oil would remain untaxed. The idea here is to make domestic oil relatively cheap and so encourage production.
It doesn't HAVE to be the government that does it, it could be done like the X-Prize.
Yep, but with either of these there is no payoff until the goal is attained.
Interestingly enough the Sandia National Labs has come up with a process that can use sunlight or other high heat source to turn C02 into fuel!
Jeff, you've been around long enough to see some dramatic changes, look at your computer! We actually do have a design for a fusion reactor that could really work, although it needs helium 3 for fuel.
A practical fusion reactor is one of those technologies that could change everything... no more fission reactors with their waste, no more coal plants with their pollution, and the ability to make all the fuel we need, be it some kind of synthetic fuel or hydrogen.
As long as we can produce the power (and we can if we choose to) it's not really a problem, that we eat too much is a much bigger one.
US $4.40 at a (S)hell station in Fairfield, California Sunday afternoon for diesel fuel. Chris Houck
The hallowed halls of Harvard say this about conserving oil:
--Take a close look at the Perfesser's math, right where he does the gasoline to electric cost comparison. Havvrd doesn't really have an engineering school, does it?
Has anybody else noticed how every other pollutant has dropped off the map since carbon dioxide was declared the enemy of mankind and Gaia? I can't remember the last time an article mentioned all the stuff that made the automobile evil in the 70's...
Don't trip over those moving goal posts.
Yep, WFB was right... Better to be governed by the 1st 2000 people listed in the phone book rather than anyone from Hawvahd...
JT
Yep, he usually was right.
Jeff DeWitt
When should I expect the moving truck? Aanderud, Lee
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