The pain at pump: gas prices rising - Page 5

+kitleen+ · 05-13-2008, 12:40 AM

the price of oil will continue to increase. and now iwtht he recent tornado hit in myammar and earthquake in china, it will increase further more.

as for using ethanol as alternative fuel, it would be feasible.. but then the other question is.... the world is having shortage of food. which is more important? saving human life or getting alternative fuel for car?

whcih puts me in a great delimma. my job requires me to drive alot / go outstation / visit suppliers... and i have been relying on public transport. but the new job i am at does not have any public transportation available.. making / forcing me to decide to either buy a car or get another job. which eventually make me picky cause i cannnot / dun have a car to travel.

we are too dependent on oil till now we feel so crippled when the oil price increasing.

none the less, i remember the good ole days when 1 L of oil was a few cents in malaysia. hurts like hell when i drive my mom / dad's car sometimes... i try to use more public transport but the location sometimes is just terrible.

ichigo_neko · 05-13-2008, 01:38 AM

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who wants to go nuclear with me so that hydrogen cars will actually be feasible?

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I don't know, I keep thinking that the oil companies can following the tactic of "supply-and-demand." If they are, I will personally go to their president, and give them a swift kick in the ass.

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^It's that, or people just need to use either ethanol, sugar cane gas, or buy hybrids to avoid this stupid gas crisis. I'd say solar power would be an awesome idea, but that won't come until several years, decades, possibly even a century.

Well if the country is serious then it can be done. Germany have used solar power and astonishingly, wind power for electrical supply. Though it's on a small scale it shows that we can do it if we want to. But the problem is people thinks about money first and life second.

yea, I remember watching a news report on that and I was like, "Wow, I want that. how come we don't have it?"
My school has this huge solar panel that provides some of the power for the campus. Eehhh, it always comes down to money and then life....That's just my opinion and I agree with you on that.

+Shin RYU+ · 05-13-2008, 10:58 AM

Nissan has recently announced they will go full electric in 2010 so the end of opec is in sight because you know other car manufacturers will do the same eventually.

YukiUsako · 05-13-2008, 12:36 PM

This whole gas thing is ridiculous. It's all about greed in government systems. >.< Honestly, I'm glad I don't currently drive.

**+ChukoLiang+** · 05-13-2008, 12:52 PM

If only Americans could learn how to conserve and stop wasting. Right now the lower and low-middle class are getting hit hard with the prices, but there are still a lot of upper-middle class and upper-class people who waste gas on stupid things.

We can't run cars on ethanol, which comes from corn right?, because there isn't enough crops to support the entire nation for fuel, not to mention for food. Doesn't India have cars that run on air? Why the hell isn't America on this shit.

I think the first action the gov't needs to take now (to start the change) is to rehaul all semi-trucks (the big-rigs) and make them more fuel efficient and greener. Semi-trucks are the backbone of all supply transport in America, it should be our first step.

**+Skycat+** · 05-13-2008, 12:57 PM

gas is just too much for me, so I take public tranist it cheaper than filling up a gas tank..We have tax already on the gas, so I think that the goverment should take off the tax on gas

**+ChukoLiang+** · 05-13-2008, 01:08 PM

Yeah, I started using my college i.d. to ride the bus for free now instead of driving to the campus.

More public transportation and carpooling would definitely help the situation.

GhostHacker · 05-13-2008, 05:23 PM

Obviously nobody's going to think kindly of the rising fuel costs. I just think it's absolutely stupid of humanity to suck dry the planet of NON-RENEWABLE resources and do little to move forward in creating alternative fuel sources (and no, do not even get me started on bio-fuels). The closest we've ever come to sucessfully creating alternative energy sources would be wind, hydro, electric, and solar. I don't really expect for these problems to be solved within my own lifetime, so I don't care much. But it pains me to think of our beautiful planet being sucked high and dry of everything green and good just so we can get to work everyday and power our engines.

+BlackWhiteFox+ · 05-13-2008, 06:13 PM

since my moms car already install NGV (Natural Gas Vehicle) as alternative fuel, the rate are USD0.21/liter or USD0.81/gallon
pay USD2.57 for full tank of 12liter/3.2gallon can go as far as 150km/94miles
so i can go anywhere without killing my pocket money
kewl

another problem is food price also on the rise because the side effect of fuel price rise =.=

**+Scooternut+** · 05-13-2008, 07:50 PM

I should probably point out to you people that petroleum is used for a things other than cars. Most of the worlds electric power if still generated from fossil fuels, so even if you were to all buy electric powerd cars, chances are you'll still be drawing the electricity to run them off the oil+gas fueled grid.

Your average Boeing 747 burns high end jet fuels at about 5 gallons per mile, meaning a 10 hour flight will burn around 36k gallons of fuel. You'd struggle to burn that in a car in a year.

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Doesn't India have cars that run on air?

Air isn't combustable enough to act as a fuel. Hydrogen powerd cars exist, though word has it that these have a tendancy to explode during crash testing.