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werdd
11-08-2007, 06:41 PM
I was talking to him today about the skyrocketing oil prices. He told me that when he worked, oil was 15 bucks a barrel, and right at the fall of sun oil in Texas, oil rose to 40 bucks because we began buying it overseas. They thought 40 bucks a barrel was outrageous in the late eighties. Here we are, 97 dollars a barrel of crude today and the sky is really the limit.

I was watching jim cramer, and like him or not he is generally pretty good with his predictions. He predicts that 3-5 years from now, we could be seeing prices like 200-300 dollars a barrel, paying 10 bucks at the pump per gallon of unleaded.

It is a combination of our failing dollar, and the enivetiable reaching of peak oil, that some beleive we have just breached. Not to mention that petro china tripled its assets this week, making it the first trillion dollar corporation.

Further evidence that we need Ron Paul more now than ever... the US is losing its grip.

CurtisLow
11-08-2007, 06:59 PM
10 bucks at the pump per gallon of unleaded:eek:
crazy...

Wow, I guess I better sell my pickup now. 5.7 suks gas

weatherbill
11-08-2007, 08:50 PM
I'm gonna get a bio diesel van and run on waste veggie oil.......gas is gonna get bad!

xao
11-08-2007, 08:58 PM
I'm gonna get a bio diesel van and run on waste veggie oil.......gas is gonna get bad!

where do you get the waste/veggie oil? restaurants? Wouldn't everyone be doing that who already has biodiesel? I don't think this is so easy as you make it sound.

CurtisLow
11-08-2007, 10:09 PM
I think this would help..

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/02/loremo_ag_157_m.php

amonasro
11-08-2007, 10:43 PM
Where can i buy a rage-powered car???

xao
11-09-2007, 02:07 AM
I think this would help..

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/02/loremo_ag_157_m.php


Interesting car but aren't there new ones coming out that are ALL electric? I'd rather have one of those cars like the Tesla or that new ultra cheap $2500 car that is basically a computer and wheels and you pick the body. It's like a giant skateboard essentially. Electric charged by solar is the only way to go. No more internal combustion engine. No more a-hole mechanics to rip you off.

fluoridatedbrainsoup
11-09-2007, 02:26 AM
In a truly free society, we could be driving vehicles like ... this: http://exopoliticsjournal.com/vol-2/vol-2-1-Salla.htm

freelance
11-09-2007, 04:19 AM
In 1955, Otis T. Carr, a protégé of Nikola Tesla began a highly visible public effort to develop a prototype civilian spacecraft that could be mass produced in kits and sold to the public.

Hey Floridated, is this the same Tesla of cancer cure fame?