Results 1 to 10 of 14
-
May 10th, 2008 03:31 PM #1
Just thinking...
Since the price of fuel is currently increasing at a nightmare rate, will this also be the solution to global warming as people try to use less and less of the expensive oil based fuels and turn to renewable alternatives?
Example, people who used to drive around the city with their big fuel guzzling SUVs are now going for smaller and more fuel efficient vehicles.
What do you think?Last edited by ghosthunter; May 10th, 2008 at 03:36 PM.
-
May 10th, 2008 04:04 PM #2
di siguro.
Humans love burning stuff... be it crude, biofuel, coal, entire rain forests etc...
as long as humans keep burning stuff, global warming will continue...
Like ung mga di maka-afford ng LPG for cooking, they dont stop cooking.
They use uling or firewood.Last edited by uls; May 10th, 2008 at 04:09 PM.
-
May 10th, 2008 09:16 PM #3
Maari din.
Siguro bibitawan na nila ang mga SUV kapag tataas pa ang fuel cost. Let's say 5 hundred pesos per liter.
-
May 10th, 2008 10:26 PM #4
hmmm... siguro if we are talking about locally, then baka oo. pero if globally, i think not that much. in other countries, they love the SUV and they love it big...
-
May 11th, 2008 05:49 AM #5
Dear Sirs:
It seems to me that that's like saying death is the solution to cancer.
The pain being suffered now has several origins, first, despite the experience of the 1st major oil crises (1973), no significant long-term changes were adapted by the major energy-consuming countries.
Thus the steady and readily-achievable improvements in fuel economy that could have been implemented since then were neglected. Now with the crises upon us suddenly everyone wants to have a hybrid car.
Remember it was Gerald Ford's energy secretary James Schleschinger that said "We Americans have only two modes - complacency and panic". Once the initial oil panic subsided, the US went back to it's old wasteful ways.
Better economy and conservation is of course the best new source of fuel. Another (slower and more expensive to implement) is the developement of alternative sources.
Another is that demand for petroleum now very closely parallels production (for several various and involved reasons) thus opening the door to speculation.
One of the lessor known facts of the Enron story is that that company lobbied and got the rules regarding energy trading (especially for oil) changed.
Before that regulations required that purchases of oil futures could only be made by end users (and not traders) thus preventing speculation on a strategic commodity.
It is the current Bush administration (with its links to the oil company Halliburton) that allowed this to happen (along with many other unsavory things).
The International Bank of Settlements has data that shows that up to 65% of the current price of oil is due to speculators.
Of course all of this is exacerbated by the weak dollar policy of the US and especially that of the Federal Reserve (led by Ben Bernanke).
Since oil is priced in dollars, a weak dollar means that in order to keep its value vs other goods and services the price must go up. It (the weak dollar) is also responsible for the current inflation in all sorts of commodities (including rice).
So it seems that the current high prices (of everything) will continue at least until the current US administration is in power.
George W. Bush cannot leave office too soon.
Best Regards,
Dusky Lim
-
May 13th, 2008 03:10 AM #6
Nasa'n na yung Pinoiy imbentor (si Dingle ba yun?), na sumikat sa invention nyang car being fed with water? Panahon na para i-mass produce yung produkto nya.
-
May 13th, 2008 04:56 AM #7Nasa'n na yung Pinoiy imbentor (si Dingle ba yun?), na sumikat sa invention nyang car being fed with water? Panahon na para i-mass produce yung produkto nya.
-
-
May 13th, 2008 08:29 AM #9
-
May 13th, 2008 08:57 AM #10
I understand that there are other more significant contributors to global warming that we can't do without nor that we can do with less....
6000:mobile:
Burberry Men Leather Jacket oskarjacket
Verifpro - paypal, ebay, banks, crypto, docs and...