US Oil Problem...

[FettsBabe]

<< That's so racist >>



No, its not, its a economical decision based on facts.

 

[IGBT]

Yes your right...to ask why?? The US energy infrastructure is severely overloaded. 1/2 of consumed oil is imported, electrical power grid operating near overload. Water shortages on the horizion...so why is the US hell bent on a massive immigration program that's overloading it's power infrastructure?? The US doesn't have the power infrastructure to sustain immigration at current levels without immporting yet more oil and completly overloading the power grid and running out of fresh water. Excessive population negates all conversation.

 

[LaBang]

Yeah I agree completely that our oil situation SUCKS. Drilling locally isn't a solution (there isn't enough to fully support us) and depending on other contries isn't a good thing. I don't understand why we don't start switching to something other than fosil fuels. In 50 years we will HAVE to do it so why the heck don't we start now!

Well, we all know why. Our government is too strongly influenced by special intrest money.

 

[Fausto]

Well, if you guys don't like the oil situation, do your small part to decrease consumption: Buy more fuel efficient cars and drive your cars less than you already do....give mass transit a try if it's available to you...try riding your bike to work if this is feasible...or at least carpool.

Not to get all starry-eyed-idealist on you all, but everyone not driving at least once a week would make a humongous difference in the level of consumption....not to mention reduction in smog in bigger cities (like my hometown Atlanta:|)

Just my 0.02

Fausto

 

[rufruf44]

People are so quick to bitch and complain, but when asked to make some sacrifice, they just turnaround and gripe about something else.
Americans won't give up or conserve the use of their car, and use public transportation until the fossil fuel is totally depleted.

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

We should be using MORE oil from the Middle East. The sooner we bleed them dry the sooner we can stop putting up with their crap.

 

[trmiv]

<< People are so quick to bitch and complain, but when asked to make some sacrifice, they just turnaround and gripe about something else.
Americans won't give up or conserve the use of their car, and use public transportation until the fossil fuel is totally depleted. >>



That isn't entirely a normal citizen's fault though. I can't speak for everywhere, but in my area, it's impossible for me to get to work or school without my car. There is no public transportation that goes from Newark, CA where I live, to San Jose where I got to school and work. If I was able to use public transportation to get to work and school, I would do it, because I hate sitting in traffic for an hour every day. If public transportation systems in a lot of areas were improved, it would make it much easier for people to conserve. At least they would have that alternative.

 

[StormRider]

<< << That's so racist >>



No, its not, its a economical decision based on facts.
>>



I think he was joking.

 

[Fausto]

<< That isn't entirely a normal citizen's fault though. I can't speak for everywhere, but in my area, it's impossible for me to get to work or school without my car. There is no public transportation that goes from Newark, CA where I live, to San Jose where I got to school and work. If I was able to use public transportation to get to work and school, I would do it, because I hate sitting in traffic for an hour every day. If public transportation systems in a lot of areas were improved, it would make it much easier for people to conserve. At least they would have that alternative. >>


This is true...some people just have no other way to get to work. BUT, a lot of people could find other ways to get to work, they just don't bother because they're lazy. An interesting example of this occured here in Atlanta a while back. A tanker truck blew up on GA 400 right underneath I-285 (the perimeter highway here in atlanta) shutting both down for several days. These are both major commuter routes every day here so this forced a lot of people to explore other means of getting to work. Everyone bitched about this (naturally), but at the same time everyone commented of how much better the traffic was that week, and we had not a single smog alert the whole time (these are very common during the summer here). Everyone suddenly saw the value of mass transit, commuting and telecommuting.......and then promptly hopped back in their cars once the highways were fixed.

Fausto

 

[evergreen96]

if the car industry would like to move toward natural gas it will help a lot

there was a post about why car industry hasn't move to renewal source of energy (natural gas, electric cars)

 

[Fausto]

How the hell is natural gas renewable?

Fausto