High Gas Prices Fuel an Octane Rebellion 2011On Sat, 06 Aug 2005 21:43:52 -0700, Scott en Aztl‡n , said the following in rec.autos.driving... True, the "gas out," concept is a nice knee-jerk reaction to the situation. True, because all the "gas...
You could be right. Unfortunately, all alternative energy sources rely heavily on crude oil. This has nothing to do with cost. For example, if you build a nuclear power plant, many of the materials you will need (to build the nuke plant) are produced using tons of petroleum products from crude oil. Once you use tons of crude oil to produce the parts for your nuke plant, you need to get those parts to the construction site. (more crude oil used) The construction site itself needs to be prepared using tons of crude oil. More crude oil is used in the buttembly of all those parts on site. This is NOT counting all the crude oil used in transporting all the construction workers to-from their housing areas.
High Gas Prices Fuel an Octane Rebellion 2009No could be about it, its very well established technology. Just no need to use it currently when crude oil production hasnt even peaked yet. Lie. Natural gas doesnt. Nukes dont...
High Gas Prices Fuel an Octane Rebellion 2010Roger that big guy. Here's an interseting hit: Two excerpts for your academically challenged self: Amoco said its commercial production should get underway by 1980, with full scale production of 50,000 to 100,000 bopd by...
The long-term solution to the oil crisis involves a lot more than just switching to alternative sources of energy. Entirely new construction materials and techniques need to be invented to NOT use petroleum products at all.
If the oil were to run out tomorrow (it won't happen quite that quickly, but if it did) we would be back to the stone age for probably the next century or so. Want to build an electrical vehicle? Can't do that without petroleum products. Want to build a nuke plant? Again, can't do it without petroleum products. This ignores the fact that while we are trying to build all this alternate energy infrastructure, the people will be literally starving to rest. Without petroleum, we currently can't grow food or transport it to the supermarket, either. -Dave
