Comments on: Crude Oil Hits Record Price

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:43:36 +0000

We should vote for Clinton then next time Bush then Clinton then Bush then Clinton … then bush isn’t that the pattern we’ve all been stuck in …

By: David M

David M — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:10:57 +0000

Don, you are so right;
My father would say war makes money, not just by the weapons it uses but by the rebuilding of what was destroyed…..the rebirth is where the real money is at. He would also say “you never know who you work for”.
I was capitalist .But what I have been seeing in the last few years has been Crimes against countrymen backed by blocking power of the government to cut the competition out . Now they do not get angry, or even EVEN, they just make you lose money in expenses….They take your moneyand you go broke. no money no fight,no pot to piss in

By: DonQuixote

DonQuixote — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 07:33:57 +0000

Both parties are avoiding the coming crisis that will be created by the peaking of global oil production – followed by a never ending decline. It will likely lead to another Great Depression. But nobody believes in infinite resources and is against conservation like the conservatives, aka Republicans. They will be the last to come to terms with the reality of Peak Oil. Most unfortunately, it is likely they will lead the charge in using our military superiority to steal (and in the process kill and destroy) large amounts of the remaining production. And as you can see from the Iraq invasion and occupation, Republicans lose no sleep from killing and destroying. In fact, they sleep like happy babies.

By: David M

David M — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:19:30 +0000

The saddest thing about all that is talked about there is good and bad that has come out of this .We are now looking at what should have been look after since the industrial revolution started……taking care of what we conquered.
” Money” got us into this mess ,maybe just maybe it will get us out of it. But….. great invention never came from the desire of money.
The Maya indians where abscess with time.
we are absecss with time and money. that is why we will go down twice as fast we have a lot of luggage to carry

By: John Acheson

John Acheson — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:27:53 +0000

Human beings will consume all or most of the solar produced oil we discuss in a few centuries. Does it matter if it's two or three.

Why is the debate centered on who and what used it???

If anything we should save oil for the things we use everyday, from the computers we typed on to the fuel that delivers everything in every store we shop at.

Why not talk about saving oil rather than bashing the addicts.

We'll never get 1,000,000,000 growing to 2,000,000,000 automobiles to get off oil over night. Heck, in Beijing, there are 1,000 BRAND NEW automobiles on the streets everyday, and traffic cops dying in their 40s and everyone's wearing a mask in the city that will host the highest performance human beings on Earth.

What can we do that would make other worlds proud.

Bash each other or talk about digital solutions at
http://johnacheson.blogspot.com/

By: David

David — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:18:22 +0000

Thanks Sean.

Just FYI, I research this stuff daily and all I really care about is us taking the best path and the right path in the direction that keeps our ethics and morality about the environment up. I drive a 16 gallon car that gets 35MPG and I fill it up maybe once a month!... So you know I'm not whining about gas. I'm one of the people who want's to actually do something bigger with my life. Hopefully next summer I will be graduating as Mechanical Engineer willing to jump into the challenges to make everyone else's life better.

The nay sayers might now think, oh look at this kid he's a dreamer.... YEA!.. AND?! Someone tell me what's wrong with that? We can do better than this. But, in order for that to happen we must hope for the future. that's why Obama needs to win. We need to raise the bar and become the greatest country again.

... Screw Oil I don't even like oil.. I mean, what is oil? I get hives even thinkin about oil...(Dane cook)

By: sean

sean — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:55:04 +0000

Professor Garnaut in Australia is preparing a report on Climate change and Economy. An extract from the interim report:
"...
The decision not to ratify Kyoto by the US and Australia after the election of the Bush administration seven years ago was of historic importance in disrupting an international approach…"

The USA is the biggest market for cars, so the "taste" of buyers is very important for the trend of designing cars in the whole world, not only in the USA. Car companies around the world, especially ones with big productions (like Toyota) will have to try hard to satisfy their consumers. No wonder cars are getting fatter and fatter, thanks to the "American taste".

By: BoilerCivicHy

BoilerCivicHy — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:09:37 +0000

Thanks Bush? I seem to remember 8 years of a certain democratic president who was more interested in chasing skirts than worrying about the environment. When are people going to stop blaming one party or the other, look in the mirror, and admit that we are the problem. Thats the issue with this society always looking for someone else to blame, and not owning up to our own sins and excesses. I know I am preaching to a group of people who are probably the least guilty here, but we as a society have to own up to our gasoline addiction like a heroin addict would, and do something about it and stop whining. When Americans make it obvious they really want alternatives and are willing to pay a little more to get them, we will finally get some real movement away from oil. The yuppie, I can only drive an SUV mentality is going to be the death of this country due to our dependence on a group of people in this world that would like nothing more than to see America on its knees and begging.

By: AP

AP — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:53:51 +0000

David, one of my points earlier is that the foreign (mainly Japanese)manufacturers have NEVER had to adapt quickly to change. Their governments have taxed their citizens heavily on fuel, so always have made small, fuel-efficient cars. They don't have to react to the whims of American consumers - they just sell what they already make.

Because of their governments having an energy policy, the foreign manufacturerers are always ready if Americans decide they want fuel economy, which today we do: tomorrow, who knows? If our government had taxed us in the same way, our manufacturers would also have reacted. It isn't that Japanese engineers are smart and Americans are not - it's mainly US government policy. Perversely, the lack of American government action before may cost us our domestic auto industry, which employs many more people than the Japanese transplants.

But CAFE isn't the way to do it. It creates a fuel-efficient product
without creating a reliable market for them (i.e., predictably high fuel prices). It may force automakers to provide a more expensive product for the same price as before, making them unprofitable. Every other country taxes fuel heavily, creating a demand for smaller vehicles and enabling manufacturers to make a profit on them.

Obama isn't doing the right thing here - he wants to keep fuel cheap.

By: lesly

lesly — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:21:37 +0000

By the way stop complaning about the gas price you american here in canada is a 1.20$ the liter (1 liter=3.54 usgallons) we are paying way more than you do so stop complaning and change your habits..:) peace