Gas Prices

Cause you can't pimp some hos on a scooter like you can in a Benzo or Escalade, yknaw wha I'm sayin, booyyeeee!!!!
 
Just read since the war in Iraq started, oil company profits have gone up three-fold.

And that ****head in Washington known as Karl Rove said oil would pay off the Iraq War. What ****ing dumbasses everyone in Washington is. They all live in a fantasy land.
 
Yeah don't get me started on this topic. My number one overall concern is energy independence. It absolutely pisses me off how the US prioritizes things. We are the country that put people on the moon, created the atom bomb, and produced Epistane (haha had to throw that in) and yet we are putting funding out $100 million bike trails in Minnesota.

I just read an article in Scientific American showing how they cut the particle accelerator funding to nothing and cut the funding for fusion research. Being a young scientist myself I see how many brilliant minds we have. If only they had the right funding :(.
 
LakeMountD, you have to remember, the majority of Americans are dumbass blind sheep. They believe anything and everything the television tells them. They believe everything their neighbors tell them without thinking.

The majority of America also lacks common sense. This is a fact.
 
AM07 said:
LakeMountD, you have to remember, the majority of Americans are dumbass blind sheep. They believe anything and everything the television tells them. They believe everything their neighbors tell them without thinking.

The majority of America also lacks common sense. This is a fact.
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I know, no one has their own well thought out opinion, just the opinions of others.
 
Palo Alto Labs said:
the fact that they need heavy, expensive, and corrosive batteries that must be replaced every few years..
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I just wanted to point out that this isn't the case. I work with Hondas and their hybrids come with a 10 year 150,000 mi warranty and my service department has replaced very few, and the ones that were were replaced under warranty because they just weren't 100% right. They last hundreds of thousands of miles.

But you're right, diesel is great. It's just heavily restricted like here in CA where you can't buy diesels that are available in other areas like the Jeep Liberty diesels. Honda is supposed to be coming out with some diesel engines...will be interesting to see in something like the Fit or Civic.
 
ReaperX said:
If they want to price gouge and charge $10.00/gal people will pay it. It is impossible to find an adequate substitute. Hell, the government should just tax the hell out of it, score some extra bucks.
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Of course people will pay it: we've designed our cities around the personal internal combustion engine, and "public transportation" is scarcely even an afterthought. Try and imagine the number of people who have to change jobs if they can't afford the gas to get back & forth. That said, I've noticed a lot less traffic on the road since gas started going up...rush hour used to last 3 hours, easy (and worse on Friday), but now, it's a little congested for an hour or so....

So yeah, $10/gal? We'll buy it, we'll just buy a lot less of it.

The govt already taxes the hell out of it: it's one of the big hidden sources of income for Congress, like alcohol and cigarettes.
 
I don't think its really hidden. EVeryone is aware of the huge amounts of money the gov't makes from taxing alcohol, gas and most importantly cigarettes.......like they really want people to stop smoking!
 
Neil5585 said:
I just wanted to point out that this isn't the case. I work with Hondas and their hybrids come with a 10 year 150,000 mi warranty and my service department has replaced very few, and the ones that were were replaced under warranty because they just weren't 100% right. They last hundreds of thousands of miles.
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Good to know...
I worked with batteries for a few years so im fairly familiar with them. I know the battery disposal issue was a concern with the first hybrids. hopefully battery technology has improved since the first prius. I just dont agree with over-complicating an internal combustion engine when their are simpler options out there.
If we really wanted to, hydrogen could be a reality in less than 10 years. I feel like Hybrids are just adding a speedbump to that path.
By diverting energy and engineering to hybrids, we are delaying future technologies because much of the man power is spent on hybrids and other temporary technologies.
 
Palo Alto Labs said:
Good to know...
I worked with batteries for a few years so im fairly familiar with them. I know the battery disposal issue was a concern with the first hybrids. hopefully battery technology has improved since the first prius. I just dont agree with over-complicating an internal combustion engine when their are simpler options out there.
If we really wanted to, hydrogen could be a reality in less than 10 years. I feel like Hybrids are just adding a speedbump to that path.
By diverting energy and engineering to hybrids, we are delaying future technologies because much of the man power is spent on hybrids and other temporary technologies.
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Honda has leased out some hydrogen fuel cell cars in southern California for preliminary testing :) So I'd definitely say it's possible to see them in production in less than 10 years.
 
Neil5585 said:
Honda has leased out some hydrogen fuel cell cars in southern California for preliminary testing :) So I'd definitely say it's possible to see them in production in less than 10 years.
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I wrote a 20 page research paper on hydrogen cars about 4 years ago.. if I can find it, i will post up part of it.

hydrogen is a great technology, but establishing the hydrogen infrastructure can be extremely hard.

one of the easiest ways to transition from gasoline to hydrogen can be through a liquid fuel that is heavily enriched with hydrogen. this would allow us to buy fuel from a gas station, as we normally do. this would also allow the economy and people to gently transition into hydrogen.. it would allow hydrogen availability across the country without having to build separate hydrogen stations in every city. being an open market, im sure a few of the major gasoline companies would jump on board immediately as they would profit.

This would also get big gasoline finally on the side of hydrogen.. which would aid in its use / availability in the US as well.
 
There are political reasons as to why we will not seek out alternative energy sources in the near future. There is still a **** ton of oil left in the world, and the oil companies want to make sure we use it all up so they can still make their billions. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, in fact, greed is a GOOD thing in this country.
 
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