Ever increasing cost of fuel = solution to global warming?

[ghosthunter]

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?

[uls]

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.

[v6dreamer]

Maari din.
Siguro bibitawan na nila ang mga SUV kapag tataas pa ang fuel cost. Let's say 5 hundred pesos per liter.

[[archie]]

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...

[duskylim]

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

[chua_riwap]

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.

[judoman]

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.

ayaw naman po sya paniwalaan ng DOST e. siguro po dahil malaki kita ng goverment sa big 3? dati nagpunta yan dito samin. nilagyan nya ng kunganu yung mga jeepney na mausok. tapos nung start at rev, labasan yung usok. pero after that wala na usok. kaso mahal naman ng price. so wala rin bumili na jeepney driver.. haay.. sayang lang talino mo talaga pag dito sa pinas.

[ghosthunter]

the solution is another great purge. Planet earth cant simply hold 6 Billion People and counting.

I guess we can start with Ringostarr...

[ghosthunter]

ayaw naman po sya paniwalaan ng DOST e. siguro po dahil malaki kita ng goverment sa big 3? dati nagpunta yan dito samin. nilagyan nya ng kunganu yung mga jeepney na mausok. tapos nung start at rev, labasan yung usok. pero after that wala na usok. kaso mahal naman ng price. so wala rin bumili na jeepney driver.. haay.. sayang lang talino mo talaga pag dito sa pinas.

you sure that's dingle you talking about or someone else?.. sounds like 3 or 4 other so-called "inventions" that have cropped up in the recent years like weeds including the ever to lovable Khaos.

[CVT]

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:

[v6dreamer]

Do you know that traffic congestion is one of the biggest contributor of global warming? Here in the U.S alone (according to Urban mobility report)79 more million hours and wasted 69 million more gallons of fuel in 2003 than in 2002. Overall in 2003, there were 3.7 billion hours travel delay and 2.3 billions gallons of wasted fuel for a total cost of more than 63 billion U.S dollar. Now its 2008...god knows how much.

[shadow]

ayaw naman po sya paniwalaan ng DOST e. siguro po dahil malaki kita ng goverment sa big 3? dati nagpunta yan dito samin. nilagyan nya ng kunganu yung mga jeepney na mausok. tapos nung start at rev, labasan yung usok. pero after that wala na usok. kaso mahal naman ng price. so wala rin bumili na jeepney driver.. haay.. sayang lang talino mo talaga pag dito sa pinas.

hinde sa ayaw paniwalaan, paano mo paniniwalaan ang hinde totoo...

eh di sana ngayon siya na ang pinaka mayaman tao sa mundo kung totoo yun invention niya...

some people are just so damn naive ...

[niky]

I guess we can start with Ringostarr...

Wahahahaha..... :hysterical:

The big problem is that oil is still too cheap.

Simply put, the rate of development in China and India demands fuel, and with an expanding economy, they actually have the money to pay for that oil, despite record prices.

The speculators know that... and they couldn't give a rat's ass about the rest of us suffering the effects of high prices. As long as someone's still buying, they're still getting rich and the CO2 level is still going up. And there's some sense of urgency amongst these power players... a lot of them are building up huge nest eggs for the post-oil era... where physical assets and other hard properties bought with oil money will ensure that they stay in power and in wealth for the foreseeable future.

As for the rest of us. Well, soybean farming sounds like a nice past-time.

[drey]

If I have the money, I'll go electric!

Even if there is an ambivalent truth about Global Warming. The truth is, lung cancer is also real. Cars may not contribute a lot about these so-called lung cancer. But at least, I helped and a little more advantageous about being a little guilt-free from emmission deposits. Sort of guilt-free.