Re: 20 Dollars Per Gallon = Conservation
Immortalist
Imagine an everyday world in which the price of gasoline (and oil)
continues to go up, and up, and up. Think about the immediate impact
that would have on our lives. Of course, everybody already knows how
about gasoline has affected our driving habits. People can't wait to
junk their gas-guzzling SUVs for a new Prius. But there are more, not-
so-obvious changes on the horizon that Chris Steiner tracks
brilliantly in this provocative work.
Consider the following societal changes:
- People who own homes in far-off suburbs will soon realize that
there's no longer any market for their houses (reason: nobody wants to
live too far away because it's too expensive to commute to work).
- Telecommuting will begin to expand rapidly.
- Trains will become the mode of national transportation (as it used
to be) as the price of flying becomes prohibitive.
- Families will begin to migrate southward as the price of heating
northern homes in the winter is too pricey.
- Cheap everyday items that are comprised of plastic will go away
because of the rising price to produce them (plastic is derived from
oil).
And this is just the beginning of a huge and overwhelming domino
effect that our way of life will undergo in the years to come.
This simple but constant rise
in oil and gas prices will totally
re-structure our lifestyle.
But all of these changes may not be negative--but actually will usher
in some new and very promising aspects of our society; the liberation
of technology and innovation, triggered by climbing gas prices, will
change our lives.
http://www.amazon.com/20-Per-Gallon-Inevitable-Gasoline/dp/0446549541
tadchem
Joeblow
lifestyle. People who drive hybrids are morons.
"Immortalist" <reanima...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Robert Cohen
The current recession (if not depression) in part was catalyzed by
that $100+
barrel in spring and summer of 2008, not really that long ago
The causes of course are a few more situations than solely fuel
prices,
while it's difficult to impossible to isolate and surmount each ugly
factor, which
threaten to further discombobulate the political-economy that remains
Not enough has been changed: Granted, they're
trying to contain Wall Street "casinoism" but that's
considered a catch 22 in that reform would bring chaos,
dodgings around, more companies going off shore, and wreck
the shitty convoluted "insider" vulnerable system it seems
too much to be (bailouts being the most prominent, but
the Madoff affair proves the financial system is bleeding
seriously
I suggest nothing much in reform shall get done until
perhaps the next crises (plural), and this also includes
a truly substantive substitute for refined gasolene,
such as natural gas, lithium battery, and/or fuel cell
of hydrogen (whatever a fuel cell is)
Housing foreclosures and commercial property foreclosures
it's feared here in 2010 have not peaked, and that's SCARY
BRAZIL is today doing well, because in part it
successfully sacrificed a food crop (sugar?) for fuel while the USA
has balked about for 40 f'ing years, .... and the oil buzzards are
roasting the U.S. as we continue to bake in their roosters, or
whatever
Sam Wormley
> Idiot. People will alway's find a way to make more money to maintain
> lifestyle. People who drive hybrids are morons.
>
Why do you say people who drive hybrids are morons? It's one
of the best cars I've ever owned.
Joeblow
You won't like when it needs to repaired.
"Sam Wormley" <swor...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Sam Wormley
> If you like the car fine. If you think your saving the planet, your a moron.
> You won't like when it needs to repaired.
OK--I had to replace a tail light and a set of tires... actually
way less maintenance cost other than my old Volkswagen Beetle.
I bought it for lower fuel cost and reliability.
Androcles
"Joeblow" <Id...@idiot.com> wrote in message
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> If you like the car fine. If you think your saving the planet, your a
> moron.
Only a fuckwitted nymshifting dick without a beard writes "your" for
"you're".
Change your name to reply, idiot.
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"rightist'"
fear of collapse scenario, while at the same time I perceive economic-
finance
collapse fear is today not irrational
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