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Originally posted by Lancer
It was 2016, oil is $160 a bbl, lines at the stations, drilling in arctic wilderness, SUVs with no gas, heat off, lights going out, people beating each other up, distraught women being distraught, lions and lambs eating each other...

Here in Quebec, leftism extremism are playing that card. Whatever if it's true they forget, that before people awake one morning with no gas, the price for oil will go up in the way that it will lead us to use new energy, new kind of vehicle, it will create new market and finally reducing the demand for oil, and making new oil field open to exploitation (since the price would be higher)..

[Grzqbmhy]

Still, getting an electric car might be a good idea.

Somewhere they got a couple to use in Manila to fight polution there, but where to get them?

[D6b2v1HA]

Zkrib, "All electric vehicle" "Tank: 50 liters, 13.blah gallons"

Something fishy there.

[Gscvbhhv]

How about the Tesla with a base price of just $90,000?

A saw a show a year or two ago on the developing of a hydrogen fuel cell car. There were a bunch of big name manufacturers, and they were pretty far along. I'm surprised these cars aren't being marketed yet.

[I9dydJrX]

Originally posted by Sirotnikov
Don't electric cars run on electric energy made by huge power stations running on .... fossil fuels?
Mainly on coal, somewhat on NG, hardly at all on oil, at least here.

If the price of coal is going to go up like the posited increase in the price of oil, I want land in West Virginia.

[Wezfyowk]

Dirty nasty coal, and plenty of it.

Hydrogen still requires sci to pull a few miracles out of its buttocks I believe. No time soon anyway...(psst, that's why the oil cos like it)

[haittiweerved]

Ahh, a skycar version of the OT, great.

[CevepBiageCefm]

Originally posted by Sirotnikov
Don't electric cars run on electric energy made by huge power stations running on .... fossil fuels?

This just means that instead of producing the energy needed to run your car in the car itslef, you're outsourcing it to the powerplant. A power plant is a power plant.
It could be a nasty, coal burning plant.
Or it could be a clean hydroelectic plant in a dam.
Or it would be a wind or solar power generator.

And someday, it will be a nuclear fusion plant -- clean, safe and cheap.

[Soolfelpecelf]

Tesla should be making a mass market electric car in around 5 years. Currently, they're selling the roadster and next year they'll be selling a sedan ($50-60k-ish).

[Kimmitmelvirm]

So far, I'm sure it has everything to do with volume produced. It's a lot cheaper per unit to build a million small combustion cars than 10,000 small electric cars.

[Flikemommoilt]

This trip to the Phils $1360

Last trip, a couple years back $1000

First trip in, erm, '97 $700

That's getting personal.

I think I better build a sailboat.

[bloriMal]

Originally posted by lord of the mark


why would the lights go off? That's a really good question. In fact they would not, which is why I'm looking for an electric car.

[dalnecymync]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
The kicker, though, is that there's so much that we depend upon oil for: plastics, pharmaceuticals, fertilizers, etc. The cost of anything that needs to be transported will go up. Still, it won't be the end of civilization as we know it. We're just going to have to act more rationally. Dear God, we're doomed!

[7HlBQS8j]

Peak Oil is going to be a huge issue over the next 20 years or so, but. contrary to the screeds of "doomer" types, it ain't the end of civilization, just some economic belt-tightening (that is, recessions, a depression at the very worst) while we switch over to a post-fossil fuel society.

[DoctorAlexandro]

I look forward to high(er) gas prices. It will drive us toward alternative fuels and the beginning of the end of our subservience to the oil producing asshats.

[sasaderesada]

I'm totally sold on electric cars and will now be very pig headed about changing my mind, thank you, you guys have confirmed me in my view.

The increase in ticket prices to the Phils seems a bit drastic. I wonder at what fuel price do they start making zepplins for passenger travel again. I bet those good people at the zepplin works in Manhiemstattin are keeping a close eye on ticket prices and reaching for their drawing boards...

[VoriEremiagem]

Originally posted by Lancer
I bet those good people at the zepplin works in Manhiemstattin are keeping a close eye on ticket prices and reaching for their drawing boards... They is already back, baby! LINK

[WordofViagra]

Please, don't confuse the increasing worthlessness of the the US $ with global economic issues. I may be talking about of my ass but the supposedly surging oil prices are barely being felt down here in euroland.

[Wymdqcvb]

Those words are going to taste a little funny if a few years Colon.

[karkinadze]

What about China?