Gas 3.50 a gallon?!?!?!

**...bigdog...** · 04-28-08, 10:22 AM

Originally Posted by Benandorf

Originally Posted by ...bigdog...

As well, if solar cells are so damn expensive, explain to me how I can buy a solar calculator for $1, and solar lawn lights at home depot for $25 or $30? Or solar gate openers? Or solar ______?

Because you'd need 1000x the energy for a car that you'd need for a solar lawn light. Hence 1000x the price.

Yes, "Big Oil" is probably raising prices some, but not 5x or 10x what it normally would be.

so then make a car that's $25,000 on solar power. Thats 1000X the price of my $25 solar lawn light.

$25,000 car payment is less than what I spend on gas. So I win money.

**...bigdog...** · 04-28-08, 10:25 AM

Originally Posted by Tractorpull

http://www.nextenergynews.com/news1/...news2.13s.html

snap

Won't delay the inevitable. Oil is for chumps. They don't use oil in the future. Watching movies proves that. There's no oil in Star Trek and Star Wars, ever.

**CanadianPersian** · 04-28-08, 10:29 AM

Originally Posted by ...bigdog...

Originally Posted by Tractorpull

http://www.nextenergynews.com/news1/...news2.13s.html

snap

Won't delay the inevitable. Oil is for chumps. They don't use oil in the future. Watching movies proves that. There's no oil in Star Trek and Star Wars, ever.

LOL

**Tenrou** · 04-28-08, 10:31 AM

$3.86 Today for regular gas.... It's not even summer yet, I guess we will finally break $4.00 here in CT soon.

**Tractorpull** · 04-28-08, 10:35 AM

Originally Posted by ...bigdog...

Originally Posted by Tractorpull

http://www.nextenergynews.com/news1/...news2.13s.html

snap

Won't delay the inevitable. Oil is for chumps. They don't use oil in the future. Watching movies proves that. There's no oil in Star Trek and Star Wars, ever.

Well, I won't say petroleum is going to go away, but we won't use nearly as much of it. It damn sure won't power our cars unless we figure out how to go 50000 miles on a gallon. Kinda rough. We make too much other stuff with it though.

I want to be the first to strike crude on an alien world

**SAMBO** · 04-28-08, 10:38 AM

$3.53 at the Exxon's in Del Rio. But a regular mom and pop shop are priced at $3.59...hmmmm :2

**dustyCALIBER** · 04-28-08, 10:40 AM

It takes about $ 70 bucks to fill up my damn Truck..I need a small tin can to drive now days.

**mikeN** · 04-28-08, 02:45 PM

i work at a very busy gas station. i sell 20,000 gal a day. and for no one to buy gas for a week/day would cause a supply shortage, the next day/week. and such a great demand would cause gas to go up. in order to keep supply. when katrina hit we would sell out of gas in a hour of a gas drop. its kinda a scary feeling when there is no gas. also my station only gets 3% of its oil from the Persian Gulf. all you could do is problaby not goto stores that get gas from over there.. but in texas that is not many. These Suppliers buy a good amount from the gulf: ExxonMobile, Valero and Chevron. As QT, RaceTrac, 711 buy mostly west hemisphere gas.

a good sight to see wtf we are doing to help our selfs is the department of energy
in a way i am glad that our gas prices are high... its making us finally go green. its stupid for us to depend on other people and think they are not going to take advantage of that. and now we are pissed at paying so much for gas, and FINALLY motor companies are seeing this as $$$$ so they are R&D R&D R&D like a bitch. they are giving us a stupid hybrids to hold us but, and soon i hope better alternatives. i support nuclear energy only runner up to renewable energy.

also fuck the middles east, as we only get 19% of our oil from over there. compared to the 50% of oil we get from canada
CANADA
SAUDI ARABIA
MEXICO
NIGERIA
VENEZUELA
IRAQ
ANGOLA
KUWAIT
COLOMBIA
ALGERIA
ECUADOR
BRAZIL
CONGO (BRAZZAVILLE)
CHAD
RUSSIA
http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/p...nt/import.html

i saw that the US and other countries are building an International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor(ITER) in france and is expected to be complete in 2016.

**...bigdog...** · 04-28-08, 03:01 PM

preach preach

**Tractorpull** · 04-28-08, 03:04 PM

The US started to go green in the early 90's. Companies were starting to make breakthroughs in alternative power and fuels, as well as public transportation systems. What happened? They all got shut down by the oil companies. They bought up the patents, paid city officials to cut back on public transportation, and all kinds of generally prohibitive measures. Some people cried out, most didn't. Why? Because oil was bottoming out. A gallon of gas cost less than a gallon of milk and a barrel of crude was 20 dollars or less. It didn't hurt the average person much, but the oil companies were struggling. Around where I am from, we have 3 main industries, Agriculture, Petroleum, and Chemical Plants. The oilfield crashed, people got laid off, went to work in the chemical plants who bought up the cheap crude and natural gas and made a mint of profit refining it into plastics and other great stuff. The oil companies were hurting, bad. There were no record profits like today. So to them, the green movement was like a final nail in the coffin. They lashed out to save themselves, the only way they could. Now 15 years later, we can look back and say "Yeah, we probably should have let it happen" but hindsight is 20/20. I think it was a perfectly rational response based on what we knew back then. And remember, those companies still have all those patents locked up in their basement, so....companies like Shell and ExxonMobil aren't going away. But expect a shift in capacity. They are energy companies, not oil companies. Even if oil is 99% of their energy.