Gas war - Bring down prices

[jetflyer]

Bener,

I searched the web and found that most the GAS scooters only get at most 60mpg. So you'd be spending currently about 5 cents per mile there.

Your daily commute with a gas scooter= $1.20 at 3.00/gallon gasoline
BUT your daily commute with the ELECTRIC Vectrix would be only 25 cents

I think you've read some of my thoughts on future oil prices caused by a future decline in the amount of available oil. I think gas will be $5.00 per gallon in the next 2 years and $10.00 per gallon in the next 5 years, so that is why I personally am considering electric.

At $10.00 per gallon your daily commute would cost 16.66 cents per mile or your daily commute would be $4.00 even with the gas scooter!

Good luck,
Jet

 

[414Flyer]

Its a bit misleading when it says no emissions, because there are emissions, however the source is changed from the tailpipe, to the power plant, if it is a coal power plant.

However, electric vehicles with electric powered light/long distance rail powered by nuclear, would put a big dent in oil consumption, along with cleaner air.

 

[jetflyer]

414,
Great points.

Bush has been pushing the development of electric-Hybrid PLUG-IN vehicles. These will be huge in the future but yes their emissions will now be mostly from the coal plants in the U.S.

The PLUG-IN hybrids are supposed to go about 50 miles on a charge before having to ever use the gas engine. Let's hope GM wakes up and starts making these. They are clueless!

These will be our future....
Jet

 

[C601]

A must read......

http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2006/04/state_of_the_planet.php

http://www.oilposter.org/

According to this Fuel production peak will be 2007-08

Expanded detailed view...scroll down.

http://www.oilposter.org/posterlarge-x.html

 

[BenderGonzales]

Jetflyer,

Realistically if peak oil happens (and i'm not saying I believe it's there yet, I strongly believe that the technology required to use oil-sands, and coal-to-oil will come down in price before long) -- but if and when it happens, this conversation will be irrelevent.

We'll all be out of work - airplanes are gas guzzlers and scraping together every penny. As you mentioned plastics are petrochemical products and the things we buy every day, even shopping at Target and Wal-Mart are going to get a WHOLE lot more expensive.

Is it too late to go to law school?

 

[FN FAL]

How about we take some of this 200 billion dollars we've spent at war for the last couple of years and spend it on a "Manhattan Project" of sorts to figure out a way to make ourselves energy independant.

Screw that noise...we need a viable concept for a death ray and we need it yesterday. Break out the slide rules boys and the world will be our oyster.

 

[Swass]

If I saw either one of you riding a moped I'd laugh my ass off. Are you serious? If you're that hard up to save a few bucks on gas (how much could it be, really?) then I would suggest a golf cart.

You aren't serious are you? :erm:

 

[BenderGonzales]

Yep, sure am. Hey man, i'm too old to give a crap how I look. I'm losing my hair, putting on a few extra pounds. (shrug) Vanity is dead. But if I can save an extra 30 or 40 bucks a month -- hey, it adds up.

I'm saving pennies for when I lose my job due to peak oil.

 

[Swass]

30 to 40 bucks a month? Do you go out to dinner? Man, you're wife has to be pissed when she has to order a salad instead of the special of the day. Super sized is obviously out of the question.

 

[Swass]

Another question: What are you going to do with the 40 extra bucks in your pocket? Retirement? Come on now.....