To be honest up front, these days my everyday driver is a Cadillac STS. V-8 gas hog monster. Love it. My Porsche is more fuel efficient, but not exactly what you'd call a gas sippper-plus, it's just not comfortable for my somewhat older 6'2" frame anymore.My bikes and some of my other cars are fuel efficient-but those cars are even less comfortable, and bikes? Let's jsut say that's no more about transportation than an MG is....:lol:
Rita, that's the wife, drives a truck. Let's not even go there.:lfao:
With all that said, the offshore oil reserves of the U.S. may be enough to fuel our needs for 11 years. Or less. No one's really sure-those are estimates, but 11 years seems to be the most optimistic estimate available today. It could be more, but that seems to be doubtful. If it is 11 years, then that begs the question -what does that even mean, exactly, "begs the question?" It's just one of those things we say that everyone understands even though it makes no sense....:lol: -anyway, it makes us ask the question of what we'd do when those 11 years were up? (11 years that are more like 30, when you include the time required to actually set up the rigs, do the drilling, extract ande transport the oil, but by then we'll all be riding bicycles...._
Anyway.....
As an aside, if someone can solve the problem of rectifying electricity down from billions of Hz to a useable frequency, we'll all be quids-in when it comes to power:
http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/02/infrared-solar-panels-even-work-at-night-but-cant-output-energ/
How annoying is that?! To have a pretty good answer to the planet's consumer energy needs and not be able to access it because the frequency is too high!
I know about this. The problem shouldn't be insurmountable.....by the time my grandkids are having kids, maybe....:lfao:
Comparisons of U.S nuclear power with Chernobyl are somewhat misleading-it was a different sort of technology, and one prone to exactly the kind of problem they encountered-especially from the deliberate "experiment" that led to it. Stupid, really. While the waste problem is a real issue, we'll have no choice in the years to come but to exploit this technology.
As for offshore oil-or any oil-our first and best choice is to free ourselves of it as soon and as much as we can. It's a finite resource that will run out-regardless of where it comes from.
. We call them 'Chelsea Tractors' over here in Blighty and they are used by middle-class mums to take little Johnny to school (as clearly his poor legs are atrophied so he can't walk!).
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