Dire Predictions

 

1. .20 cents per gallon is the lowest I remember buying it and that was in 1967. I’m sure Dad paid a few cents less in the 50’s and early 60’s. Prices didn’t balloon until 1973. They jumped to .35 cents per gallon and within a year were up to .80 cents per gallon.

   Posted by The Skipper       03/06/2005  at  07:11 PM  



2. allan, you may have something there, but I dont think the mullahs are going to last long enough to see such a plan come to fruition. Things are already starting to get shaky for them Iran’s population is growing and that population is YOUNG and really does not want to live in the 11th century.

   The best answer for our own power generation needs is the development of Fusion.  Solar and wind can be useful as supplementry sources, but the “energy density” just isn’t there for those sources to carry for than a small fraction of the load.

   The Chernobyl facility is a good example of how NOT to build a nuclear power station.
   Some 70% of France’s electricity is nuclear generated, with thier installations having exemplary safety records.

   Posted by Lucius Severus Pertinax       03/06/2005  at  07:36 PM  



3. I paid a dime a gallon on ... Guam!

   In the very near future there will be ‘solar paint’ ... and that will be that.

   I’m not too worried about Iraq. There ase
   so many options available. An EMP a day
   would shut their nuke operations dowm long
   enough to allow over throw from within.

   Posted by Steel Turman       03/06/2005  at  11:26 PM  



4. Geez, my finger ain’t workin’ right today.

   Posted by Steel Turman       03/06/2005  at  11:27 PM  



5. This is an interesting thread.

   Check out Wired magazines’ February issue. They have a great article on nuclear energy and why the US needs to go in that direction now. Their basis is wrong, but the other arguments are cogent and on point.

   1. 3 Mile Island will not happen again, if the right controls are put in place. Most of them are already there.
   2. The efficiency of the nuclear industry has grown significantly. So much so that nuclear has the capability to be cheaper than oil or fossil fuels.
   3. Chernobyl will not happen with US nuclear power reactors, we just build them better and manage them better.
   4. So called alternative, renewable energy resources are not cost effective and can be environmentally devastating. Wind generators chew their weight in raptors each year. Solar requires HUGE tracts of land.

   I remember 18 cents per gallon or that range.

   Posted by Robohobo       03/07/2005  at  01:29 AM  



6. Doesn’t OPEC set the price for oil, and would they allow a glut on the market?

   Also, could not the terrorist organizations be doing the same thing, trying to bring the US to its knees economically by getting us to spend mo’ money mo’ money mo’ money on and endlessly elusive enemy?  Not saying we shouldn’t fight them, but fight them in a much more brutal, economical way.

   “There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time.”
   ------- General George Patton Jr

   Posted by Illegitimi Non Carborundum       03/07/2005  at  04:25 AM  

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