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Ariz. Senator Says States Should Have Right To Explore Energy Near Coasts
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- The answers are simple: It is a problem of the mind set that we should live in an UTOPIA. We don''t.
So....1. Oil in Alaska. 2. Offshore OIL. 3. Offshore Wind power ( sorry Kennedy estates ) 4.and...PLENTY of NUCLEAR ENERGY - just like the great state of COnn. and the entire country of FRANCE.
5. Hybrid Electric CARS.
the key here is really getting off our stupid butts about NUCLEAR ! Nuclear is the ANSWER ! - Reply to this comment
- If the US starts pumping and drilling, and less is being sold TO us...everybody else will have to come down also.
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Posted by RowdyWicca at 12:02 AM : Jun 17, 2008
The trick is to flood the market! Not cripple it! - Reply to this comment
- Posted by boatdocster at 10:44 PM : Jun 16, 2008
Actually our refineries have only been operating at 85% and never been opened up full speed.
And the marketers are making this money because the supply isn''t meeting demand.
If we up the supply over demand, it only makes sense that the price will settle down.
Sabre rattling in the Middle East hasn''t caused a damned thing! The''re still producing as much as they ever were. They''ve just refused to up their production and meet the demand under the PSA agreements.
If the US starts pumping and drilling, and less is being sold TO us...everybody else will have to come down also. - Reply to this comment
Though initial models won''t pass air-quality standards in five states (California and New York among them), Mercedes has announced three 2008 SUVs that will achieve 50-state standards.
Honda, VW, and GM are close behind. How big is the market? J.D. Power estimates that diesel sales will triple to 9% of the U.S. market by 2013, compared with a projected hybrid share of 5%.
While a diesel may have won LeMans, winning over American consumers won''t be easy.
"[Toyota''s] success has been to put the idea in consumers'' minds that hybrids are the only solution, but that''s wrong," says clean-diesel proponent Carlos Ghosn, the CEO of Renault and Nissan.
Though half the new cars in Europe have diesel engines (credit $6-a-gallon gas and tax subsidies), most Americans still associate the word with soot-spewing, bone-rattling specimens from the ''70s. "People ask why we don''t just bring them over, but it''s a challenge," says Frank Klegon, chief of Chrysler Group''s global product development.
While hybrids are seen as cutting-edge, "with diesels, it''s ''Well, those have been around for 100 years.'' "
More than 100, actually. Bavarian Rudolf Diesel patented his groundbreaking engine in 1892. While a gasoline engine squeezes gas and air together, a diesel compresses only air, at high pressures, creating so much heat that added fuel ignites without a spark.
Note: (The Diesel contains more energy than gasoline, and Engines Burn it More Efficiently.)- Reply to this comment
- Fortune magazine) -- As night fell over the 24 Hours of LeMans this summer, spectators at France''s prestigious endurance race detected a pattern. While competitors entered the pits to refuel, a sleek pair of Audi R10s kept stealing laps around the 13.7-kilometer track. Already the fastest cars on the course, and eerily quiet thanks to a unique emissions filter, the Audis were also proving the most fuel-efficient.
Note: When the checkered flag flew, the Audi had made history as the first Diesel Car to win a major international race.
Diesel isn''t just changing LeMans. Thanks to technological breakthroughs, at least six automakers - starting with Mercedes on Oct. 16, Jeep in early 2007, and eventually even hybrid pioneer Honda - will be launching a fleet of New Age diesels. They promise to boost fuel economy by 25% to 40%, with huge torque and turbochargers to deliver the power American drivers crave.
Though initial models won''t pass air-quality standards in five states (California and New York among them), Mercedes has announced three 2008 SUVs that will achieve 50-state standards.
Honda, VW, and GM are close behind. How big is the market? J.D. Power estimates that diesel sales will triple to 9% of the U.S. market by 2013, compared with a projected hybrid share of 5%. - Reply to this comment
- Hybrids, are set up to make Money, Now, but Diesel & Electric Cars are the Very Best and will Last long after the Hybrid Make their Billions off of You Eager Beavers.
A detailed announcement about the planned car is expected soon, Automotive News reported Monday.
Mitsubishi''s plans call for the Electric Car to be launched 1st in Japan, according to the newspaper. A Hybrid version could also be made available.
"From an environmental standpoint, we believe the electric car is the way to go because it has zero emissions," Mitsubishi president Osamu Masuko said at a dealer meeting in Las Vegas, according to Automotive News. "Fuel cell technology is still off in the future. Diesels are big in Europe but not in Japan and the U.S."
Several major car companies, including General Motors, Ford and Toyota, produced and sold electric cars in small numbers, mostly in California, in the early 1990s when environmental rules there promoted zero-emission vehicles. Several small companies now make electric cars in limited numbers. - Reply to this comment
- Posted by boatdocster at 10:44 PM,
Good post. The only thing you did not cover was the speculation by hedge fund managers trying to make a quick profit rather than using the stock market.
The GOP needs to spin the truth since they have not represented most of America over the last 8 years. Now its payback time with the upcoming election.
I cannot wait to fire my GOP representative to congress! - Reply to this comment
- Posted by boatdocster at 10:44 PM
EXCELLENT!!!! VERY WELL SAID!!!! - Reply to this comment
- Posted by boatdocster at 10:44 PM
EXCELLENT!!!! VERY WELL SAID!!!! - Reply to this comment
- The US is not suffering from a lack oil, despite what McStooge states. I''d guarantee you a paycheck that if oil is selling for 140 a barrel, and Exxon Mobile drills off the coast of the USA, they will sell that oil to the USA at 140.00 a barrel, and not a penny less.
Our refineries are already working at peak capacity, so having more available crude oil is somewhat pointless without additional refining capability.
Nor our we suffering from a gasoline supply shortage - there are no closed stations with signs stating "NO GAS", no odd or even days like they had back in 1979 and 1980.
There is increased demand from China and India, and instability caused by the Bush administration''s illegal war, upsetting the stability of the middle East and lots of saber rattling about Iran. - Reply to this comment
