Our transition to $20/gallon gas (€3.70/liter of petrol)

2009-08-02 18:56:05

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Harmor: Error_Name_Not_Found; +605|6837|San Diego, CA, USA

It Won’t Be So Bad: A Q&A With the Author of $20 Per Gallon

Just last year our lives were changed when gasoline spiked to $4...but what if it spiked to $6? $8? How would you change your lifestyle, if at all? How would you work, travel, vacation?

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2009-08-02 19:49:02

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DesertFox-: The very model of a modern major general; +796|6973|United States of America

1. Why do they keep talking about sushi?
2. That sounds like a terrible future.

2009-08-02 20:59:21

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LividBovine: The Year of the Cow!; +175|6669|MN

I would start selling bikes for a living.

"The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation" - Barack Obama (a freshman senator from Illinios)

2009-08-02 21:00:09

#4

Macbeth: Banned; +2,444|5874

LividBovine wrote:
I would start selling bikes for a living.

I'd kill for oil.

2009-08-03 07:21:58

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Krappyappy: 'twice cooked beef!'; +111|7109

it boggles the mind to think about the effect that $20 gas would have. i don't feel like the author painted a grim enough picture.

as i sit in my chair and look around the room, there is not a single thing whose price/worth wouldn't be affected. everything is either made from plastic or transported across the world.

better start traveling the world before airline tickets become unattainable.

2009-08-03 18:19:08

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BVC: Member; +325|6984

A couple of local firms have partial solutions to this problem, and others. Turns sewerage and polluted water into crude oil.
http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news … 72809.aspx

With that sort of tech, production could work closer to the source of consumption - large cities consume lots of fuel, and generate lots of sewerage. Its not the be-all and end-all of the fuel problem, but it will help ease the burden of OPEC's greed.

2009-08-03 18:26:13

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Reciprocity: Member; +721|6869|the dank(super) side of Oregon

Harmor wrote:
Just last year our lives were changed when gasoline spiked to $4

not really.

2009-08-03 18:43:49

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jsnipy: ...; +3,277|6811|...

technically i could work and never leave my house

2009-08-04 04:38:22

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Harmor: Error_Name_Not_Found; +605|6837|San Diego, CA, USA

jsnipy wrote:
technically i could work and never leave my house

Yes but would the business that hires you still be in business? Granted some of us have jobs where we can work from home, but jobs like Plumbers, Cable Television technitions, Delivery Drivers, etc...those guys obviously have to get out of the house.

Pissed at $65/hour (€45) for your Plumber...just wait.

Besides well before we get to $20/gallon (€3.70/liter of petrol) I think we'll be using Biofuels and Thermal depolymerization well before then.

2009-08-04 06:55:01

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ghettoperson: Member; +1,943|6938

The sooner it happens, the sooner we'll move to something better than oil.

2009-08-04 10:29:34

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CameronPoe: Member; +2,925|6844

I'd walk to work... hey wait a minute I already do! Probably engage in a bit more teleconferencing at work rather than trapsing out to the country.

2009-08-04 10:34:41

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Bevo: Nah; +718|6810|Austin, Texas

CameronPoe wrote:
I'd walk to work... hey wait a minute I already do! Probably engage in a bit more teleconferencing at work rather than trapsing out to the country.

Work for me is over 20 miles away on multiple highways, it's rarely an option in the states to walk or even ride a bike.

2009-08-04 10:42:54

#13

KEN-JENNINGS: I am all that is MOD!; +2,982|6921|949

Bevo wrote:
CameronPoe wrote:
I'd walk to work... hey wait a minute I already do! Probably engage in a bit more teleconferencing at work rather than trapsing out to the country.
Work for me is over 20 miles away on multiple highways, it's rarely an option in the states to walk or even ride a bike.

Yep. Us Americans love urban and suburban sprawl.

I read that article and it seems interesting. I'll have to get that book, I'm just hoping the actual book is much more in-depth and informative than the interview is. It seems like he's painting this simplistic and dismal view of the future

2009-08-04 20:36:50

#14

Spark: liquid fluoride thorium reactor; +874|6963|Canberra, AUS

I would think that people would notice before it got to $20, not wake up one day and say "oh shit, gaspetrol is 10 times as expensive as it used to be"

The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
^{~ Richard Feynman}

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