04-22-2005, 12:36 PM
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Resurfacing
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: New Orleans
Posts: 1,908
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Originally Posted by dicksbro
Let's face it, the real solution will be when we can come up with alternatives to using oil in our cars and trucks ... things like hydrogen or maybe electricity or maybe something more exotic than I can imagine. Even a better public transportation system would help. Federal support for rail right-of-ways might go a long way to bring that form of transportation back as a "people mover." Need to try something, that's for sure.
Either alternative fuels or at least doing like Brazil and bringing the level of ethenol (corn alcohol) up to 70 or 90%. Retuned engines run fine on this and it dramatically reduces the amount of oil needed by our cars and trucks.
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I agree with DB on this one as far as long term solution.
In the short term, I get the impression that price of gas has more to do with OPEC nations and politics and less with gas companies. The people at the top set the prices for barrels of oil and the price is carried out to gas companies and gas station dealers, and so on. I have not done extensive research on the matter so I apologize if I am off base, but I don't see how boycotting exxon and mobile can affect the political web that determine the price of gas in these foreign countries.
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