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DrEntropy

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Now officially $4/gallon for "premium" corn tainted fuel.

There ain't (postable) words for what I'm thinkin' just now.

:madder: :wall:
 
$5.28 here. (for regular)
 
Should have my Lambretta on the road next week.... 80-100 mpg.
Everytime I fill up my Ford Explorer it cost me $75... I hate it :wall:
 
What better way to force us off evil ol once and for all! Viva wind and sun and corn! I think I giv a [censored] no longer
 
Seems to me we're regressing to the days of the Conestoga at an ever-increasing pace.

Gotta find a good smithy really soon.
 
DrEntropy said:
Seems to me we're regressing to the days of the Conestoga at an ever-increasing pace...
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Interesting that the Saudi's are reportedly spending $100 billion (pauses to give Doctor Evil laugh) on other energy sources. They have 20% of the oil reserves and yet are prepared to spend so they don't have to go back to their version of the Conestoga.
 
I don't even care any more. There are agendas at play that Im no longer going to waste time worrying about. If the price of gas goes to $100/ gal so be it...
 
What have we been doing since the oil shortages of the 70's?
It's our own fault.... we knew these days were coming long ago.
 
That's why I drive a great big thirsty longbed four wheel drive Ford work truck w/racks and tool boxes. I want to be able to use my share before it runs out. --elrey
 
Here's my corn of choice:

CORN!
 
Now we're talkin!
Just add some of them fore mentioned Pimentos
 
With all the trouble brewing in the Middle East one may assume that the oil prices will continue to rise. And, history proves that greed generally has no limits, little or no chance for pricing to fall significantly, ever.

European-esque gas prices that are inevitably coming over here WILL force folks into more fuel-efficent vehicles. A few more years or so of $5 per gallon-plus gas prices will just about do it for the SUV/big car crowd, methinks. Look at the Europeans, rarely do you see big cars on the roads.

The end of the internal combustion engine era is near. What genius will invent the alternative?? I bet he's out there right now, somewhere, in his garage tinkering like Edison . . . :yesnod:
 
Gliderman8 said:
What have we been doing since the oil shortages of the 70's?
It's our own fault.... we knew these days were coming long

Was no oil shortage....but what the **** screw it:
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vagt6 said:
With all the trouble brewing in the Middle East one may assume that the oil prices will continue to rise. And, history proves that greed generally has no limits, little or no chance for pricing to fall significantly, ever.

European-esque gas prices that are inevitably coming over here WILL force folks into more fuel-efficent vehicles. A few more years or so of $5 per gallon-plus gas prices will just about do it for the SUV/big car crowd, methinks. Look at the Europeans, rarely do you see big cars on the roads.

The end of the internal combustion engine era is near. What genius will invent the alternative?? I bet he's out there right now, somewhere, in his garage tinkering like Edison . . . :yesnod:
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Damned capitalist pigs! Viva la revolution!!
 
Basil said:
Was no oil shortage....but what the **** screw it:
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I stand corrected, you are right Basil. Whether contrived or not, we always knew we were held by the short hairs by OPEC and we idly stand by and do little about it.

<span style="font-size: 10pt">Note: this is not meant to be a political statement... feel free to delete it if you see fit.</span>
 
vagt6 said:
The end of the internal combustion engine era is near. What genius will invent the alternative?? I bet he's out there right now, somewhere, in his garage tinkering like Edison . . . :yesnod:
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One has to wonder, though....

Look at the Chevy Volt, Nissan Leaf and whatever else out there currently (sorry for that pun) passes for an electric car...something that has been around in one form or another almost as long as there have been self-propelled "horseless carraiges"! With all the technology available, does anyone else find it strange that today's electric cars aren't really all that much better (I'm thinking about useful range and such) than, say, a 1912 Detroit Electric? On the other side, compare a 1912 Ford Model T to the newest Ford Focus or Fiesta (or whatever), where it seems to me that much more progress has been made.

Sure, it's easy to say that no one was really interested in electric cars on a major scale since probably before WW I. Still.... :rolleyes:

Meanwhile, don't get me started on the fact that we here in the US can't get the much more fuel-efficient versions of cars such as the MINI and so many others...presumably because we all have to go 0-60 in 3 sec. in vehicles meant to carry six passengers and tons of cargo...but never do!!!

Sorry, it's time for my medication.... :thirsty:
 
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