Gas Prices

Gandalf Parker · #1 August 19th, 2005, 10:30 AM

Plastics are also made from petroleum. And bubble gum.

Im abit irritated that Bush is going to allow oil drilling in so many preserves. Its short-range tactical. Besides the fact that I hate opening preserves to lumbering/drilling/mining.. I also think that we should use up everyone elses oil at any price, and then be the last ones to have any.

Gandalf Parker

El_Phil · #2 August 19th, 2005, 11:07 AM

Dangerous talk there matey.

A. Wildlife preserves, so what? 95% maybe more of Alaska will continue to be an empty depressing tundra. The other 4% will continue to be moose filled slightly less depressing tundra leaving 1% that will be drilled for oil for a few years, then returned to being depressing tundra with/without mooses.

B. To even think about getting a mining licence you have to promise on your first born child to make the area significantly better when you leave than when you found it. How on earth you make Alaska better I have no idea, intensive moose breeding perhaps?

C. On the contrary I think the US should use up all it's own oil first. It might stop you using oil-fired power and make you stop buying pickups.

Gandalf Parker · #3 August 19th, 2005, 10:33 PM

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El_Phil said:
Dangerous talk there matey.

A. Wildlife preserves, so what? 95% maybe more of Alaska will continue to be an empty depressing tundra.

The other points were at least worthy but that one missed me completely. Im too far from ever agreeing with that view just IMHO

Gandalf Parker

El_Phil · #4 August 20th, 2005, 07:01 AM

Fyron: It seems I must resurrect the old "[joke] [/joke]" tags. It's a joke with a semi-serious point.

Gandalf: Maybe ignore the depressing, but Alaska is just tundra, permafrost with the occasional moose. The world is not short of either of those enviroments. Or moose for that matter.

Take 10% off the Alaskan wildlife preserve and nobody would notice, unlike, say Bamboo forests or African savannah plains. Those last two areas are rare and full on endagered animals Alska, frankly, isn't.

Fyron · #5 August 21st, 2005, 03:54 PM

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El_Phil said:
Fyron: It seems I must resurrect the old "[joke] [/joke]" tags. It's a joke with a semi-serious point.

A point that conflicts with reality?

El_Phil · #6 August 21st, 2005, 05:27 PM

Did you actually read the post I made?

Now I accept that no US car actually does such a low mpg that it become more than one gallon per mile, but US designed cars have the worst fuel efficency of every car in their respective classes, baring exotics and other oddities. So to express that point I didn't laboriously spell it out but was slightly ironic.

From now on, when I remember

, I will use [irony] [/irony] tags for those with a limited sense of humour

Kamog · #7 August 23rd, 2005, 03:35 AM

I filled up my car today and it was $1.099 per liter this time. It looks like these high prices of over $1 per liter is not going to go away. Now it costs me $50 to fill up the tank and I do that about once every two weeks. I should ride a bike or walk more to save money and get exercise at the same time.