The author is an ASSUMER...Today we have a modernday Steam engine called or installed in a car called the EZEE03 by VW...The Engine has 3 cylinders. 280 HP no transmission had/has an output of 850 punds of thrust at 0 revolutions. Here is the real kicker ready to go 8 seconds after key in start. I know I saw the video...Do any of you posters here have any doubt that if this engine is mass produced that the price of oil will remain high for any amount of time...
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Our gas prices will never go lower as long as there is greed in our Country. Our gas prices could be at $2 per gallon and everyone would still be making money, but not enough because of their "GREED"!
There may be oil, but it is not in our possession. Unless you are willing to go to war for it, they may sell us some at a high price.
Hundreds of billions of dollars will be required to develop the future oil resources. Do we want the world's treasure to be spent on this, or do we want to invest 10% that amount to develop synthetic fuels?
It is pretty obvious that it is time to evolve past oil. We are getting around using technology from the 1800's. Not only is it rapidly destroying the only planet we have but we are starting wars and giant oil corporations have us at their mercy and run our foreign policy.
Maybe because the only thing that really seems to make anyone take notice now is how much things cost, if gasoline went up to it's "free-market" price of at least $10 per gallon, we would take notice and develop alternative energy sources.
bugwhips: "only chicken little's like you who can't think out of the box think it's the end of the world."
Nice convoluted conclusion to my statement of fact, proving once again that all you have is personal attacks, and just like "greennnnnn-2009" stated, that you "just CANNOT face it that things aren't like they used to be."
I have no problem at all thinking outside the box, but it's obvious that rigid conservative ideology disposed of maintaining existing and prevailing views, has no vision for the future that the last trillion barrels of oil will be harder to recover and more expensive on both the consumer and the environment.
"Easy OIL" is disappearing rapidly, which will leave us deeper offshore wells with their own inherent risks, heavy/sour bitumen from the tar sands and kerogen from oil shale which are water and energy intensive for recovery.
You just need to understand Michael Klare's statement: "The world still harbors large reserves of petroleum, but these are of the hard-to-reach, hard-to-refine, 'tough oil' variety. From now on, every barrel we consume will be more costly to extract, more costly to refine -- and so more expensive at the gas pump."
The days of cheap gasoline are over! Live with it!
Personally, I'm hoping that the new Solar Fuels Institute, with its international team of leading scientists, can attain their ambitious goal of being a major and essential contributor to solving the world's energy crisis within a decade. By mimicking one of nature's most fundamental processes - photosynthesis - SOFI scientists aim to fuel the planet sustainably using the ultimate energy source, the sun. The solar fuels developed will use existing infrastructure requiring minimal change in industry and consumer behavior.
Don't think many americans will buy it - range 125 miles, small car, glue construction.
But it misses the point, fine it runs on compressed air but where does the petrol station get the energy to run the compressors + add in the losses in the compressor system - you could end up expending more energy than you save.
Air power really?....Today we have a modernday Steam engine called or installed in a car called the EZEE03 by VW...The Engine has 3 cylinders. 280 HP, no transmission had/has an output of 850 punds of thrust at 0 revolutions. Here is the real kicker ready to go 8 seconds after key in start. I know I saw the video...Do any of you posters here have any doubt that if this engine is mass produced that the price of oil will remain high for any amount of time...
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It is not necessary for us to start drilling in hard to reach places or in places that will cause untold damage to an already damagaged environment.
I heard Obama say on TV the other day that he is going to insist that the UAW and the oil companies are dragging their feet when it comes to developing a gasoline that will provide more mileage per gallon.
INTRODUCING A CAR THAT RUNS ON AIR, and the only emission is AIR.!!
TATA motors in India, a nation that is supposedly far behind the US in technology; has developed a car that runs solely on compressed air.
The US has the capabi;ity to put men on the moon, establish space stations and send rocket to Mars and beyond; yet they claim they cannpt develop a gasoline that would save the American people BILLIONS of dollars each year.
The UAW and the oil companies have no shame.!
I vote we send a whole herd of them to India to see how these cars work.
PS: India will not be exporting these cars out of their own country.
The air car is noisy, slow and has short range. It takes energy to compress the air, space to store it and the efficiency is not good.
Any time you convert energy, there are losses. You burn coal to create steam to turn turbines to turn alternators to create electricity to compress air to turn the compressed air into mechanical energy to turn the wheels through gears, very inefficient.
Oil compamies cold drill, drill and then drill some more, like there was no tomorrow and the price of oil wold not go down. If you think oil companies are going to sell that oil below the market value you are a delusional republicant.
We could drill in ANWR and every where else, then oil production might go from 5.8 to 6.2 million barrels per day and we would still import more than 8 million barrels per day, HALF of that from OPEC.
This is so true, and yet we have many denialists today, unable to comprehend the fact of the disappearance of relatively accessible and inexpensive petroleum -- "easy oil," in the parlance of industry analysts.
We have already burned the first trillion barrels of easy-access oil, and the last trillion barrels will be harder to recover and the price will steadily increase in the 21st century!
Yeah, occupy_cbs, you're a chicken little because you're facing facts. Unlike the rube (bugwhips) who responded earlier to your post. Typical GOPer. They just CANNOT face it that things aren't like they used to be. Ignorance.............
bugwhips: "only chicken little's like you who can't think out of the box think it's the end of the world."
Nice convoluted conclusion to my statement of fact, proving once again that all you have is personal attacks, and just like "greennnnnn-2009" stated, that you "just CANNOT face it that things aren't like they used to be."
I have no problem at all thinking outside the box, but it's obvious that rigid conservative ideology disposed of maintaining existing and prevailing views, has no vision for the future that the last trillion barrels of oil will be harder to recover and more expensive on both the consumer and the environment.
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Hundreds of billions of dollars will be required to develop the future oil resources. Do we want the world's treasure to be spent on this, or do we want to invest 10% that amount to develop synthetic fuels?
Maybe because the only thing that really seems to make anyone take notice now is how much things cost, if gasoline went up to it's "free-market" price of at least $10 per gallon, we would take notice and develop alternative energy sources.
Nice convoluted conclusion to my statement of fact, proving once again that all you have is personal attacks, and just like "greennnnnn-2009" stated, that you "just CANNOT face it that things aren't like they used to be."
I have no problem at all thinking outside the box, but it's obvious that rigid conservative ideology disposed of maintaining existing and prevailing views, has no vision for the future that the last trillion barrels of oil will be harder to recover and more expensive on both the consumer and the environment.
"Easy OIL" is disappearing rapidly, which will leave us deeper offshore wells with their own inherent risks, heavy/sour bitumen from the tar sands and kerogen from oil shale which are water and energy intensive for recovery.
You just need to understand Michael Klare's statement:
"The world still harbors large reserves of petroleum, but these are of the hard-to-reach, hard-to-refine, 'tough oil' variety. From now on, every barrel we consume will be more costly to extract, more costly to refine -- and so more expensive at the gas pump."
The days of cheap gasoline are over! Live with it!
fuel the planet sustainably using the ultimate energy source, the sun. The solar fuels developed will use existing infrastructure
requiring minimal change in industry and consumer behavior.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/news/preview-concept/4217016
Don't think many americans will buy it - range 125 miles, small car, glue construction.
But it misses the point, fine it runs on compressed air but where does the petrol station get the energy to run the compressors + add in the losses in the compressor system - you could end up expending more energy than you save.
Search "Enginion, EZEE03, Modern day steam engine"
THERE IS NO SHORTAGE OF OIL SUPPLIES.!
It is not necessary for us to start drilling in hard to reach places or in places that will cause untold damage to an already damagaged environment.
I heard Obama say on TV the other day that he is going to insist that the UAW and the oil companies are dragging their feet when it comes to developing a gasoline that will provide more mileage per gallon.
INTRODUCING A CAR THAT RUNS ON AIR, and the only emission is AIR.!!
TATA motors in India, a nation that is supposedly far behind the US in technology; has developed a car that runs solely on compressed air.
The US has the capabi;ity to put men on the moon, establish space stations and send rocket to Mars and beyond; yet they claim they cannpt develop a gasoline that would save the American people BILLIONS of dollars each year.
The UAW and the oil companies have no shame.!
I vote we send a whole herd of them to India to see how these cars work.
PS: India will not be exporting these cars out of their own country.
Any time you convert energy, there are losses. You burn coal to create steam to turn turbines to turn alternators to create electricity to compress air to turn the compressed air into mechanical energy to turn the wheels through gears, very inefficient.
The US record average high was $4.22 in June 2008 under big deal oil guy Bush.
But I don't want to follow the Republicans back off the cliff to get gas prices back to where they were when Obama became President.
This is so true, and yet we have many denialists today, unable to comprehend the fact of the disappearance of relatively accessible and inexpensive petroleum -- "easy oil," in the parlance of industry analysts.
We have already burned the first trillion barrels of easy-access oil, and the last trillion barrels will be harder to recover and the price will steadily increase in the 21st century!
Nice convoluted conclusion to my statement of fact, proving once again that all you have is personal attacks, and just like "greennnnnn-2009" stated, that you "just CANNOT face it that things aren't like they used to be."
I have no problem at all thinking outside the box, but it's obvious that rigid conservative ideology disposed of maintaining existing and prevailing views, has no vision for the future that the last trillion barrels of oil will be harder to recover and more expensive on both the consumer and the environment.