Gas Prices

[InfiniteNow]

Interesting video about Peak Oil:

Quicktime
http://media.globalpublicmedia.com/R...licymakers.mov

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http://media.globalpublicmedia.com/R...olicymakers.rm

[Grains]

Originally Posted by Thunderbird

It has to do with supply and demand. The demand in newly industrialized countries has sky rocketed while production has stayed about the same. The oil companies are making huge profits but this only to off set the future and current cost of exploration of new oil reserves.

The problem of high fuel cost is not going away. What we need to decide in the US is to elect a president that thinks that drilling new wells and continuing and expanding a war in the middle east is the solution {McCain } or push for alternative sources of energy { Obama } This is going to be the issue that Americans need to decide on in the next election.

Your comment on McCain is ridiculous and unfounded!

Top Three Reasons for High Oil Prices.

1. China
Investor's Business Daily: China's Oil Needs Keep Rising For Trucks, Industry, Stockpiles
*Notice the graph at the end

2. Speculation
Spot price - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

3. Supply and Demand

Future oil prices now lie in the hands of the Phoenix Mars Lander!!!

[Michaelangelica]

Originally Posted by Turtle

Current price for Regular unleaded gasoline in my area of Vancouver USA, is $4.29 per gallon.

here it has almost doubled in price in 12 months
Like Canada we have vast areas to connect
It is about $1.70 a litre. Some mathamatican (not the Hubble one!) will need to convert that.
There is 38c tax in that + a 10% GST State Tax.
Despite the inflationary impacts of such taxes the government holds on to them


We (or at least Exxon Mobile) have more Natural Gas than we know what to do with.
The government is subsiding car conversions now (two year waiting list) Most Taxis run on gas. Gas is also heavily taxed.

Re Hydrogen from water
Sorry I don't do sums- but i guess the answer is "yes"
A pity. It would be a great way to de-salinate too.
Michael

[Turtle]

Originally Posted by Michaelangelica

here it has almost doubled in price in 12 months
Like Canada we have vast areas to connect
It is about $1.70 a litre. Some mathamatican (not the Hubble one!) will need to convert that.
Michael

3.785411 liters per gallon (US) * ($1.70 Ozzonian * 0.949902 conversion to US dollar) = $6.11 US dollars per gallon. Glad the US doesn't have any vast areas to connect.

[Michaelangelica]

Systematic review on the efficacy and safety of herbal medicines for Alzheimer's disease.

J Alzheimers Dis. 2008 Jun;14(2):209-23

Authors: Man SC, Durairajan SS, Kum WF, Lu JH, Huang JD, Cheng CF, Chung V, Xu M, Li M

A systematic review was conducted to assess the efficacy and safety of herbal medications (HM), as either monotherapy or adjunct to orthodox medications (cholinesterase inhibitors and nootropic agents, OM) for Alzheimer's disease (AD). Sixteen studies testing different HM were included. Out of the 15 HM monotherapy studies, 13 reported HM to be significantly better than OM or placebo; one reported similar efficacy between HM and OM. Only the HM adjuvant study reported significant efficacy. No major adverse events for HM were reported and HMs were found to reduce the adverse effects arising from OM. Imbalance in ethnicity among participants was observed; gender distribution was unclear. Heterogeneity in diagnostic criteria, interventions and outcome measures hindered comprehensive data analysis. Studies comparing HM with OM suggest that HM can be a safe, effective treatment for AD, either alone or in conjunction with OM. Methodological flaws in the design of the studies, however, limited the extent to which the results could be interpreted. Among various HMs, the safety and tolerability of EGb761 was best established. Further multi-center trials with large sample size, high methodological qualities and standardized HM ingredients are necessary for clinical recommendations on the use of HM in treating AD.

PMID: 18560132 [PubMed - in process]

[freeztar]

So you're saying that Alzheimer's is contributing to the gas prices?

[Moontanman]

There may indeed be plenty of natural gas but I don't see any TV commercials promoting NGV yet, but I see a lot of them promoting hydrogen vehicles and we don't even have hydrogen available on a commercial basis. makes you wonder just where the priorities are, it's not on replacing gasoline anytime soon that's for sure.

[Moontanman]

I'd like to convert my Jeep to propane, natural gas isn't available to my home where I am now. I wonder if they offer kits for that? At the DuPont site I used to work at all the fork lifts and tow motors were powered by propane. It had to be clean burning because we ran them in enclosed spaces.

[LaurieAG]

Originally Posted by Turtle

3.785411 liters per gallon (US) * ($1.70 Ozzonian * 0.949902 conversion to US dollar) = $6.11 US dollars per gallon. Glad the US doesn't have any vast areas to connect.

Hi Turtle,

I paid 12.9 cents per liter for fuel in early 1978, just after Australia went to metric weights and measures. The massive increase in the price of fuel in the past couple of years seems to herald the neo age of globalism along with its handmaiden, rampant speculation.

Glad the only remaining vast unconnected areas in the US lie between the ears of the politicians who cooked the whole thing up.