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Suspending the gas tax is shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic.
They need to attack the problem at the source, the market price manipulations.
 
vanderbilt_grad said:
Electric cars are nice. I worked at an electric power producing utility company for nearly a decade. Several of the company engineers built their own electric cars and the company provided free parking with “recharge” outlets in the parking deck for them. Still those 10 “recharge” spaces were NEVER more than 1/4 full. At this point, unless you can build and maintain your electric car yourself it’s simply not practical ... and even a company full of talented folks only had a small handful that actually had the know-how and gumption to actually do it.

It’s not about oil companies buying up the tech, it’s the support infrastructure, or lack thereof. There aren’t mechanics shops for electric cars scattered throughout cities and across the countryside. There are hardly any houses really wired properly to charge these bad boys. There isn’t much in the way of fallbacks for trips beyond battery range ... i.e. no gas stations for a quick recharge or battery change-out. Conspiracy theories are fun, but it’s not always a matter of shady dealings that stand in the way of new tech. In this case it’s money. It will take a massive effort in terms of money, time, and education (mechanics) to really be able to support a country of electric cars.

The other hidden factor is that plenty of electric utilities have GAS power plants that essentially burn fuel to produce electricity. To this point it’s been a cheap way to do things. Even if we magically changed all the cars we would still have to change the back end power producing infrastructure to be less gas reliant as well.
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But dont you think after about a 100 years since the car was invented that the technology would be upgraded? We seen big changes in vehicles until about the start of the 1980s when Reagan took took office, not much has changed except alot of additions to the old technology and design.

I remember hearing a story many years back that the oil companies paid a guy off to keep a car off the market that ran on Water...........YES... Water.... why? well if this got out in the open, be less demand for oil. I dont anyone truly knows how this car was designed either. This is what oil companies do, they want the demand for oil to keep going up, they seem to control the world right now, when you do that, you can just about do anything, you may say Electric cars are not very practical because of the reasons you mentioned, but the technology is there to make Electric cars work, not the kind of electric car technology you see spreading all over the place on TV and such. Ethanol has been one alternative to fuel and I havent seen one ethanol fueling station in 200 mile radius of where I am, even if it is better. I know some cars run off of old cooking oil you need to filter, I like this idea more then anything but question what does it do to your cars performance like does it cake up in the pipes? Because Cooking oil is something that needs to stay warm temperature so it wont clog up pipes with caked up grease.

I dont believe theirs an energy crisis, if their was, they would be trying to put more effort into drilling then whats done now, Alaska? Gulf of Mexico? I dont even see many drilling rigs on our own soil.
 
Recently Canada has had success in removing oil reserves found in soil deposits that are abundant in their country. If we were really in an oil crisis, we would be asking our neighbors for help.
 
If you're not angry, you aren't paying attention.




Flaming Spinich has over 5,800 posts in just 3 years.

That's more then 5 posts per DAY.

That's not total spam or unneeded threads, it's pure POSTS.



And he's still chugging on.
 
drmario said:
And the Dems control congress. They wont' do anything because they want a democrat elected in November. My point is already proven with your post.
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And the Dems dont own a 2/3 majority in Congress, ergo they cannot override a VETO w/o the help of the Republicans.

'Pop nailed it tho....the prices are skyrocketing bc the market speculators (futures trading) is outta control crazy with super high prices for barrels of gas, food, etc.

Keith
 
This is nuts! I live 15 min away from anything, and I'm dreading what my weekly gas bill will be when I go back to college in the fall. I really don't want to have to cut out my weekly pokemon league trips either. It's simply unbelievable, I mean, what does an oil executive think about this? They know the whole nation is hurting because of this, a whole nation, and it means nothing to them. How rich do you have to be before you're happy in this world?
 
Lakak said:
If you're not angry, you aren't paying attention.




Flaming Spinich has over 5,800 posts in just 3 years.

That's more then 5 posts per DAY.

That's not total spam or unneeded threads, it's pure POSTS.



And he's still chugging on.
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Winnarz.
 
bullados said:
It Is Never Enough. Ever. Go and ask Bill Gates if he's satisfied with his billions. Guaranteed, he's not.
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Yet again, exactly right. Something people get it so wrong now a days. Money isn't a source of true happiness. Nothing you can put a price on is a source of true happiness. That brings up the saying "money is the root of all evil". Something even more people get wrong. Money is not the root of all evil. The LOVE of money is. May not seem that different, but believe me it is.
 
Here VA, some people who drive the huge trucks did boycott gas for a few days, but most didn't do it for long because they have families to support. And please tur off Caps Lock its very annoying to read.
 
bullados said:
It Is Never Enough. Ever. Go and ask Bill Gates if he's satisfied with his billions. Guaranteed, he's not.
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I dunno, I'm pretty happy with the 1 billion donation he put into my university. We had to name a couple of buildings after his parents to do it, but meh. We get better facilities, and the UW becomes the training ground for all of microsoft's engineers, fun =D.

There isn't a car that runs on water, bullet. In fact, you'd be more likely to find a car that runs on bullets than water. Any physics or chemistry student could tell you that.

BTW guys, how are you planning to power these electric cars? Because if your power supply comes from an oil power plant you're perpetuating the same problem.

Cooking oil or any type of biofuel won't work. You think food prices are high NOW? Wait until they take more of that land and use it for fuel, you either gonna eat or you're gonna drive your SUV. Pick one.

I almost want to say switch to nuclear power, but that'd open a ton of problems safety and storage wise.
 
Articjedi said:
I dunno, I'm pretty happy with the 1 billion donation he put into my university. We had to name a couple of buildings after his parents to do it, but meh. We get better facilities, and the UW becomes the training ground for all of microsoft's engineers, fun =D.

There isn't a car that runs on water, bullet. In fact, you'd be more likely to find a car that runs on bullets than water. Any physics or chemistry student could tell you that.

BTW guys, how are you planning to power these electric cars? Because if your power supply comes from an oil power plant you're perpetuating the same problem.

Cooking oil or any type of biofuel won't work. You think food prices are high NOW? Wait until they take more of that land and use it for fuel, you either gonna eat or you're gonna drive your SUV. Pick one.

I almost want to say switch to nuclear power, but that'd open a ton of problems safety and storage wise.
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Maybe todays Physics students dont know, but I bet you people inside Area 51 and MJ12 could tell you something different, much how UFO's has defied all physics. Theirs things our government knows that could eliminate so many problems now, but you dont see it.
 
Bullet said:
Maybe todays Physics students dont know, but I bet you people inside Area 51 and MJ12 could tell you something different, much how UFO's has defied all physics. Theirs things our government knows that could eliminate so many problems now, but you dont see it.
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Somehow I knew UFO's were gonna get dragged into this....
 
Bullet said:
Maybe todays Physics students dont know, but I bet you people inside Area 51 and MJ12 could tell you something different, much how UFO's has defied all physics. Theirs things our government knows that could eliminate so many problems now, but you dont see it.
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Are you just trying to be dumb or is this a sarcastic remark? Because I'm darn well taking that bet.
 
There are hydrogen powered cars out there today. The byproduct is WATER! Gov. Terminator was touting the "hydrogen highway" in Cali where there are now about 22 hydrogen stations.

Keith
 
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