A serious question for evry one. We need to stop using gas and oil. I hate spending $3.00 a galon for it, just like everyone else does. However, in Germany last I knew, when I was there a year ago, it was 1.35/liter. There are about Four liters in a gal. That is 5.40 Euros a gallon.
What should and what can be done to get rid of the need for gas completely? Canidates for President in the US are saying they want to eliminate the need for forrign oil in 20 years. Well, I don't want to wait that long! We need to get rid of the need for oil period! Now! Not in 20 years!
We don't just need to eliminate the need for forrign oil, but ALL oil, forrign and domestic!
When I was a young kid, I had a toy car that ran on Water! It was called a "Gas Guzzler" That was in the 80's. Here it is over 20 years later and that was a toy in the 80's, now you would think, they would be doing some thing like that for real cars.
BTW: When Bush took office, Gas was $1.46! I blame him!
2007-12-11 12:45:35 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Current Events
We can get rid of the pushers in the White House.
Bush's war is directly responsible for the high price of gas.
He as disrupted the flow of oil and inflated the price of oil.
That is good news for his buddies in the oil companies that have been posting record profits,.
It is bad news for Americans that have to pay their hard earned dollars to Bush's buddies in the oil companies.
We need to invest in alternative energy.
The oil companies in charge won't let that happen.
The tax credit for a hybrid is peanuts compared to the hefty tax break that is given for buying a troop-killing SUV.
2007-12-11 15:21:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Trade your SUV in for a Camel and oats. Or, do what the libs want and buy a turban.
How much of the oil we use is for gasoline and heating oil? Most uninformed would say almost all of it. But remember the straw you suck soda from is also a petroleum product. The use of plastics has exploded over the last few decades and coincindentally the cost of oil has also.
You seem to have forgotten your economics 101. Prices are set by supply and demand. When the demand goes up, the supply stays the same or goes down, the price of the item goes up. We no longer explore for new sources of oil and we don't spend the money to get the oil we have already found (ANWAR in Alaska and offshore Florida and California). When gas was $1.46 it was not economically advantageous to get that oil, now at $3 is is looking better to some.
Environmentalists scream and we stop.
As usual in these forums, the blame is placed on the wrong person. Bush is used to it though because he is supposed to be the focal point of blame in his position.
To stop our dependence on oil it would take much more of us than just get better mileage or walk. We have to give up anything that is a petroleum based product. Do a little research and see how many common everyday products have components that are petroleum based. Dare you.
Joe M you show how uninformed you are, please remove the ring from your nose, the media keeps yanking and taking you where they want you to be. You make no sense when you speak just trash.
2007-12-11 13:57:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
The problem we face in replacing our gas guzzlers for what comes next is that in spite of the need for the hybrid and affordable hydrogen fuel cell technology, many of us can't afford the technology. I own a 1991 Pontiac Sunbird with 60,000 or so actual miles on it. I will probably drive it until the doors fall off. The current economic crisis in our country will put the purchase of this technology even further out of reach for most of us. If the government would stop killing Muslims and buy each of us a hybrid, we still have the Russians who dispose of their nuclear waste in their rivers and caves and the Chinese who burn so much coal that in the next Olympiad, the 100 meter dash will have to be shortened to the 25 meter dash so the participants are able to breathe during the entire race. Don't blame Bush for the energy problems we face. Blame the corporate fascists who pull his strings.
The Icelanders are on the cutting edge of the hydrogen fuel cell revolution. They sit atop a volcanic field that produces enough geothermal energy to make this technology effective. So do we! The western U.S. sits atop a vo;canic field so vast that it dwarfs any other It's our refusal to embrace this technology, not our inability that should piss off the entire American public. There is more money to be made greening the planet than the money our neo "lumber barons" have stolen from us in the modern era. Blame the oil lobby for that!
2007-12-11 13:11:18 · answer #3 · answered by Stephen C 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
We can cut our addiction to oil by taxing all US oil going overseas. Not importing oil is easy: don't export oil. The German tax system is a good idea too; tax by displacement. The Germans don't seem to have much trouble getting 2 Liter engines to do 100 on the autobahn. Actally I can do it here with my 18 yr old Mazda. But over here we can't seem to get to WalMart with less than a 7,000 SUV w a 6 Liter. How to turn a qt. of milk into a $5 purchase.
2007-12-11 13:20:29 · answer #4 · answered by Bob H 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No we are able to not the time it takes from start to end is a minimum of ten years, if something ought to have exceeded off it ought to have exceeded off whilst Ronnie became residing interior the White homestead. not now. Why have maximum of refineries been taken off line, why have maximum of wells been capped here in this united states of america, if power(oil) became so significant? It became not touching directly to the OIL, Boys & females, it became, and is touching directly to the "income". You, (the OIL companies), administration the provision, you administration the fee. You cap wells here in this united states of america, you decrease the uncooked cloth, you boost the fee. You decrease the refinering skill of that uncooked product, you boost the fee. This plan has been in result considering Ronnie became President. The PNAC knew then what might convey this united states of america to that is knees, and that they have got carried out their plan ok, and the lemmings have bought into the plan hook, line, and sinker.
2016-11-02 23:14:32 · answer #5 · answered by crandall 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
who says were addicted? more like dependant whether we want to be or not. our food, medicines, etc are dependant on this source that is why they aren't afraid of raising the cost so high because they know we will pay it we have no choice, not unless you don't want to eat, or get yoru medications or get to work.
after all how else can we get around since alternatives were suppressed over the decades?
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2007-12-12 05:10:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
this whole phrase "addicted to oil" is retarded. we have an oil based economy, and we have plenty of oil in our nation but we won't use it because liberals hate it. if democrats hate oil so much, they should join the Amish and drive a horse and buggy.
2007-12-11 13:15:52 · answer #7 · answered by Whittaker Chambers 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
David, David, David!!!!
The worst thing about people like you is your hypocrisy.
Anytime you want to stop driving and stop using all oil based products GO AHEAD!
Don't preach to me about stopping the using of gas and oil..I like it!
Anytime you'd like to crawl back to the stone age be my guest. There are plenty of caves in Afghanistan available.
As for our "need" for foreign oil I have but one thing to say. DRILL ANWAR!!!
2007-12-11 14:26:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
hate to tell you this,but as many want to end this gas addiction....welll look up addiction,......wont happen,i am williling to bet my life we have alternatives,but the money the gov gets is too good,man is as greddy as it can get.
2007-12-11 13:00:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
stop using it as mouthwash
2007-12-11 14:04:28 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋