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Originally posted by verylowfrequency
reply to post by RRconservative
More drilling will solve nothing except make the oilmen richer.
Keep your eye on the up coming plug in cars, 100mpg cars, & air cars.
Originally posted by RRconservative
George Bush is doing his part.
Originally posted by RRconservative
More drilling equals more supply which equals lower prices.
Originally posted by Maxmars
Is this 'current event' related to a news story, or are you just messing around?
Originally posted by verylowfrequency
reply to post by RRconservative
More drilling will solve nothing except make the oilmen richer.
Keep your eye on the up coming plug in cars, 100mpg cars, & air cars.
Originally posted by soup_sandwich
Besides, how the hell are we supposed to power the plugins? 350 million cars juicing up every night requires (according to NEA) 4000 new coal power plants.
Err.. Atleast they are texas oilmen! Not arabs.
Originally posted by verylowfrequency
Originally posted by soup_sandwich
Besides, how the hell are we supposed to power the plugins? 350 million cars juicing up every night requires (according to NEA) 4000 new coal power plants.
Charging batteries doesn't require any more power plants - I don't believe it will. If it comes down to it we can use clean energy such as solar panels, windmills or waterwheels to charge the batteries. We have such inefficient homes in America, that we could probably charge the batteries by just turning off a few lights or insulating our homes better.
Even if we did have to build a few coal plants (which I don't believe), at least we could produce the coal ourselves on our land. Let's see, millions of cars spewing exhaust fumes into the atmosphere or a few new clean burning coal plants that don't require Army's of our children pissing off half the planet.
Err.. Atleast they are texas oilmen! Not arabs.
While it's true a few Americans will profit, the fact of the matter is the multinational oil corporations are not owned by Americans. It is they & those who control(with our soldiers help sometimes) the ground they pump from who are getting fat. It's not hard to see where the profits are going - all you need to do is see who's building all the big buildings on our planet and who's buying all the airplanes and other luxuries in our world.
[edit on 17-7-2008 by verylowfrequency]
Originally posted by verylowfrequency
reply to post by jprophet420
As I've said before they don't have to use fossil fuels, it is a perfect chance to sell little solar powered generators along with the automobile at the time of purchase and give a big tax break on the purchase.
Besides even if it does continue to require fossil fuels at least they can be burned more efficiently while charging the batteries instead of burn on demand as we do now.
Now, lawmakers quietly are talking about raising fuel taxes by a dime from the current 18.4 cents a gallon on gasoline and 24.3 cents on diesel fuel.
In something that some may call a whole load of hot air, Tata Motors, a division of India’s largest conglomerate, has announced it will start selling a car in India by 2009. A car, you might wonder? Yes. A car. Not the usual petrol/ diesel/ hybrid run-of-the-mill car we’ve known for over 100 years. No. This one runs on air. Yes. The type we breathe in and out everyday, the one found almost everywhere on earth.
The five-seater OneCAT (irony) should weigh about 350kg. Work has already started, according to the inventor of the engine system to be used, a Frenchman by the name of Guy Negre. Negre has been working on this concept for over ten years, and says it’s finally ready for production. Tata is just the right partner for him to go with. Tata is the only licensee allowed to sell the car, and for now sales will be limited to India.