Re: OT - Supply side solution for oil energy bound to fail.

William Graham wrote:

"Joseph Kewfi" <f_stopblues@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:e30iaj$t4q$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

My father told me in 1950 that we had enough oil in the ground that he knew

about to

last us another 100 years.......He was about right....We may very well run
out of it around 2050.......

The American people above all others today, are making the largest
contribution to making your old man's prophecy a reality.
Driving smaller more efficient cars doesn't mean you're less of a man or you
have small penises. Try it and see, while you're at it try walking and
cycling too, help yourselves with the national obesity problem, hell go the
whole hog, fire some Mexicans , clean your own houses and mow your own
lawns, squeeze your own OJ, help keep America- English speaking , whatever
that matters !


There is a big difference between living on the North American continent, and living in Europe. If you don't understand the difference, you really shouldn't comment on our transportation habits. It is not unusual for people here to commute over two hundred miles a day, or to live places where you have to drive nearly a hundred miles to get to a decent shopping center. If you ever visit here, try driving from Carson City, Nevada to Salt lake City Utah, on Highway 50, and tell me that we should be all riding around on bicycles or Vespa scooters.......If you do make that drive, incidentally, I doubt if you will pass by the living spaces of more than 20 people......

With California, Texas, Florida and the BosWash having 121 M people, there alone is reason enough to improve fuel efficiency. 121 M opportunities to save oil.

At an average of 0.0667 bbl / oil per US person, that comes to 8 M barrels a day being used in those areas.

Save 10% of that and it's about the estimated daily output when peak is reached) of the ANWR.

For your case of travel from Carson City to Utah, there is no reason why it can't use more efficient vehicles. If you're trasnporting two human bodies and a few bits of luggage, this is just as well done in a Honda Accord (or Civic for that matter) as a SUV. Very few people use SUV's for what they are purportedly designed to do. With high quality roads like the US interstate (most parts of it), you hardly need a truck. Even where the US interstate is in poor repair, a car does quite well.

The US could have a magnificent rail transportation system, esp. in the BosWash, but it has a mediocre one instead. The US does have a great air transportation system (if you forgive very long security lines and checkin lines at airports) but that is hardly the most fuel efficient means of travel (it is very time efficient of course).

Cheers,
Alan.

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