$150 per barrel, your opinion of the impact.

[scubabri]

This is a somewhat hypothetical question. Should the price of oil go above $150/bl, what do you think the impact would be in aviation and our livelyhood?

sb

 

[air_chompers]

Okay lets hope this dosent happen.

 

[blueridge71]

Umm. I'm guessing

Not a positive one.

 

[(o) (o)]

Remember those coal burning trains?

 

[BD King]

This is a somewhat hypothetical question. Should the price of oil go above $150/bl, what do you think the impact would be in aviation and our livelyhood?

sb

Actually, the impact on aviation will pale to that of the rest of, not only ours, but of the world economy.


www.bdkingpress.com

 

[urflyingme?!]

I'd be in a rock band.....

 

[pwendell]

My Hona Insight (65+ mpg) would be worth a fortune

 

[Draginass]

At $150 a barrel, the best investment you could make is in lots of guns and ammunition . . . . 'cause there'd be anarchy in the streets.

 

[WMUSIGPI]

I'd guess it would make 1929 look like paradise....

 

[FN FAL]

I'd guess that I wouldn't have to go into work the next day...but I'd be glad that I had the foresight to have socked away 1,000 rounds of 9mm, 1,000 rounds of .223, 1000 rounds of .308 and a hefty brick or two of .22LR and .40 S&W on hand, because getting dinner on the table won't be like it was when driving up the road to the grocery store was an after thought.

Don't sweat it...there will be fuel ups and downs untill we or someone we buy technology from, find a way to make oil obsolete. Then they will be eating their peak oil.

Greasy drama waters down ‘Oil Storm’

By AARON BARNHART

The Kansas City Star


“Oil Storm” (7 p.m. Sunday, FX). Imagine: It’s late 2005, and America’s gas and oil supply is cut off. A huge hurricane takes out Louisiana. Terrorists attack Saudi Arabia. Icy storms rock New England. Tankers go boom. We lose a bidding war with the Chinese. Suddenly, light sweet crude is more precious than extra virgin olive. Think $52 a barrel for oil is too high? Hah! Try $152. Fill up your SUV? That’ll be 200 bucks, you greedy, greedy consumer.

All this takes place on the current president’s watch, we’re told. So where is the president? More importantly — where’s the vice president?

That’s what’s screwy about “Oil Storm.” Although made to look like a “Frontline” special, mentions of Bush and Cheney are more scarce than petrol in this movie. We see the Saudi royal family and Russian president Vladimir Putin, but there’s no risk in showing them.

Nuclear fusion? Drilling in Alaska? Cheney’s energy task force? They don’t figure in “Oil Storm,” which chickens out just when it’s getting interesting. Instead of delving into the causes of the oil crisis, it revolves around two families that are in this movie to represent All Our Pain.

One family runs a gas station in Texas and enjoys taking shaky home videos of themselves (so much for the “Frontline” look). The other runs a farm in South Dakota and is hit hard when, in response to the fuel shortage, Congress ends the agricultural subsidy program.

Leaving aside what a silly storyline that is, do the Brits who made “Oil Storm” realize that most farming in America is carried out by corporations that hire expensive lobbyists, just like the oil companies?

The producers of “Oil Storm” also do historical simulation shows for PBS, such as “Colonial House.” They’re better at that than they are at simulating the future.