OPEC on Thursday agreed to raise output by two million barrels a day from July

[Ready]

Has it occurred to anybody that this also mean we're dumping 2 million barrels worth of
carbon dioxide into the air or whatever the math work out is?
Of course, this isn't political, I was just wondering does what is the global environmental effect of
buring 2 million extra barrrels of oil a day?

 

[BadNewsBears]

Originally posted by: Ready
Has it occurred to anybody that this also mean we're dumping 2 million barrels worth of
carbon dioxide into the air or whatever the math work out is?
Of course, this isn't political, I was just wondering does what is the global environmental effect of
buring 2 million extra barrrels of oil a day?

Just because there pumping an extra 2 million barrels doesnt mean it will be burnt. Not like, ooh theres EXTRA gas at the station lets go fill up. No.

 

[beatmix01]

now lets see how much of that makes its way to the refineries.

 

[Ready]

so where does that extra oil goto then?
It kinda gets me. Our freeways are flooded with giant gas guzzlers, and when demand goes up and prices go up, we want OPEC to
pump more oil. Why can't people be satisfied with smaller cars? I was kinda liking this high price oil trend cause I was hoping that it will force us to find more fuel efficient. Doesn't anybody else think that we as a country consume waaaay more oil then we need or should?

 

[SilentZero]

I doubt this will mean any price cuts at the pump that mean anything.

 

[Feldenak]

Now, if we could only build some more refineries.

 

[TheBDB]

We will always need oil because it is used for many things besides being burned for energy. I do look forward to the day when most of our energy comes from cleaner sources like nuclear and solar.

 

[FleshLight]

Originally posted by: Ready
so where does that extra oil goto then?
It kinda gets me. Our freeways are flooded with giant gas guzzlers, and when demand goes up and prices go up, we want OPEC to
pump more oil. Why can't people be satisfied with smaller cars? I was kinda liking this high price oil trend cause I was hoping that it will force us to find more fuel efficient. Doesn't anybody else think that we as a country consume waaaay more oil then we need or should?

w/o oil we would cease to exist. Since it's projected that we will exhaust the oil reserves (most of which is sitting under the middle east) within the next 50 years, I think we might as well give up our lives.

 

[AbsoluteParadigm]

Originally posted by: Ready
so where does that extra oil goto then?
It kinda gets me. Our freeways are flooded with giant gas guzzlers, and when demand goes up and prices go up, we want OPEC to
pump more oil. Why can't people be satisfied with smaller cars? I was kinda liking this high price oil trend cause I was hoping that it will force us to find more fuel efficient. Doesn't anybody else think that we as a country consume waaaay more oil then we need or should?

I agree with your point about too many gas guzzling cars, especially in California. Forcing OPEC will decrease the gas price somewhat, but it makes us more dependent on foreign oil. Researching more efficent technology would be the way to go in my opinion.

One of my pet peeves is the complaining from SUV drivers about how much they have to pay at the pump. You chose to buy the car, you take the hit in the wallet, quit complaining.

 

[Ready]

Originally posted by: FleshLight

Originally posted by: Ready
so where does that extra oil goto then?
It kinda gets me. Our freeways are flooded with giant gas guzzlers, and when demand goes up and prices go up, we want OPEC to
pump more oil. Why can't people be satisfied with smaller cars? I was kinda liking this high price oil trend cause I was hoping that it will force us to find more fuel efficient. Doesn't anybody else think that we as a country consume waaaay more oil then we need or should?

w/o oil we would cease to exist. Since it's projected that we will exhaust the oil reserves (most of which is sitting under the middle east) within the next 50 years, I think we might as well give up our lives.

Are you fvcking serious? 50 years? WHy are people burning gas like there's no tomorrow?

 

[gsaldivar]

Doesn't anybody else think that we as a country consume waaaay more oil then we need or should?

No, I don't think that, as a nation, we consume 'too much' oil.

The reason behind recent high gas prices really has nothing to do with any sudden added demand by "giant gas guzzlers".

Rather, a collection of issues has been the cause. These issues include: lack of supply (controlled by OPEC), uncertainly over the war in Iraq, lack of refining capacity (no new oil refineries have been built in the USA since 1976), closure of outdated refineries, increased tax and environmental regulations, and voluntary diversion of oil to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (in part, to replenish the oil that was released to market by Clinton to alleviate an oil price spike in 2000).

 

[FleshLight]

Originally posted by: Ready

Originally posted by: FleshLight

Originally posted by: Ready
so where does that extra oil goto then?
It kinda gets me. Our freeways are flooded with giant gas guzzlers, and when demand goes up and prices go up, we want OPEC to
pump more oil. Why can't people be satisfied with smaller cars? I was kinda liking this high price oil trend cause I was hoping that it will force us to find more fuel efficient. Doesn't anybody else think that we as a country consume waaaay more oil then we need or should?

w/o oil we would cease to exist. Since it's projected that we will exhaust the oil reserves (most of which is sitting under the middle east) within the next 50 years, I think we might as well give up our lives.

Are you fvcking serious? 50 years? WHy are people burning gas like there's no tomorrow?

http://www.hubbertpeak.com/summary.htm

Well it won't actually "run out", but it will either be all owned by the saudis or will be extremely expensive to retrieve.

And also don't forget, at our current growthrate, the world's population is expected to double within our lifetimes

 

[gotsmack]

it doesn't take into account new technologies that will be created overthe next 50 years that will enable us to recover more oil and make us less dependent on crude.

also, I remeber in the 80s and 90s they said we only had 30 years of oil left.

 

[Ready]

new oil from where?

 

[BadNewsBears]

i will have a 1million gallon gas tank buried beneath a farm, saving up on good deals until i retire, and then I will be enjoying my hotrods. Beotch