PingSpike
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- Feb 25, 2004
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Originally posted by: JDub02
Originally posted by: PingSpike
Originally posted by: JDub02
Originally posted by: Fatdog
Originally posted by: Queasy
Gee, drilling in ANWR and more oil refineries sounds good right about now.
And what do we do after draining the ANWR?
The price needs to go up to force us to wake up and get serious about conserving.
conservative estimates are that the oil reserve in ANWR is freaking HUGE. that'll give us another couple hundred years or so to develop alternate fuel technology.
We'd just piss those extra hundred years away like we did with the last 100, likely increasing our consumption rate in the face of the lowered prices. What happened when gas prices dropped down a little for 5 years or so? Everyone bought huge vehicles so they could use more gas. Imagine the effect after 100 years of cheap fuel, it'd quickly turn into 50 years.
Naw, alternative fuel won't take off until there's a real financial incentive to do so. We'll just keep going until all the oil's gone (or totally unaffordable), THEN we'll sh|t our collective pants and finally do something about.
but think of where technology and R&D was 100 years ago. in 1905, cars just started showing up. no such thing as computers, let alone ECU controlled engines. i can't imagine where it'll be 100 years from now.
What I don't get is how everyone talks about the price of gas but no one mentions the ~$.60/gallon tax on gas. The government has the ability to instantly lower the price of gas. So without the taxes, gas is sellign for something like $1.40/gallon ... way cheaper than even milk. heck, cheaper than alot of bottled water.
You're missing the point. There will be no serious research or infrastruction change until gas becomes to expensive. Lower the gas tax would simply retard progress on that front.
If gas suddenly cost $500/gallon tomorrow, it'd probably take us just a few years to switch over to some other fuel source. It would be literally all anyone was doing or thinking about. There would be a huge finacially incentive to get something, anything out there to solve the problem.
