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Mike Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 34381 Credit: 79,922,639 RAC: 80 |
I hope they have fun. I would never buy a drop. With each crime and every kindness we birth our future. |
Stealth Eagle* Send message Joined: 7 Sep 00 Posts: 5971 Credit: 367,640 RAC: 0 |
Friday Gas jumped $.10 in one hour here to $3.93/ gal. What you do today you will have to live with tonight |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
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Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
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OzzFan Send message Joined: 9 Apr 02 Posts: 15691 Credit: 84,761,841 RAC: 28 |
With the holiday weekend here in the U.S. (Memorial Day), gas prices jumped about $.20. I just filled up at $4.19/gal (again, 87 octane). Prices have hit $4.40 - $4.50 in the city. |
Luke Send message Joined: 31 Dec 06 Posts: 2546 Credit: 817,560 RAC: 0 |
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Es99 Send message Joined: 23 Aug 05 Posts: 10874 Credit: 350,402 RAC: 0 |
I heard a while back (perhaps a few months) it costs US$0.02 for an Arabian country to extract a barrel of oil... and how much are they selling it for? About US$135..... Yes..but we are consuming it at an exponential rate so it isn't going to last as long as that first 25 % did. Reality Internet Personality |
John McCallum Send message Joined: 5 Dec 04 Posts: 879 Credit: 599,458 RAC: 8 |
I heard a while back (perhaps a few months) it costs US$0.02 for an Arabian country to extract a barrel of oil... and how much are they selling it for? About US$135..... Also a lot of that crude is in relatively small pockets that are difficult to drill economically or are in places like the deep ocean that will never be exploited in our lifetime. Old enough to know better(but)still young enough not to care |
Luke Send message Joined: 31 Dec 06 Posts: 2546 Credit: 817,560 RAC: 0 |
I heard a while back (perhaps a few months) it costs US$0.02 for an Arabian country to extract a barrel of oil... and how much are they selling it for? About US$135..... True... and as Es99 (part i) stated.... our demand is exponentially increasing... So all round doom and gloom.... :( Petrol Unleaded 95 hit NZ$2.00 per litre in Wellington NZ, a few days back.... - Luke. |
Misfit Send message Joined: 21 Jun 01 Posts: 21804 Credit: 2,815,091 RAC: 0 |
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1mp0£173 Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 8423 Credit: 356,897 RAC: 0 |
Hydrogen Fuel - Engine Fundamentals #1 Hydrogen is not "fuel" it is a transport. You burn the fuel someplace else, use that to split hydrogen away from something else (usually water), take it to the fueling station, and then burn it in your car. ... but the energy comes from nuclear, or solar, or coal, or whatever you have to "make" the hydrogen in the first place. |
Sniper Send message Joined: 9 Jul 99 Posts: 310 Credit: 2,831,142 RAC: 0 |
Hydrogen Fuel - Engine Fundamentals #1 Hydrogen can be generated by the vehicle it is being used in... Split out of water using power from the vehicles' alternator..... AND... used as fuel. No fuel station required, no other fuel burned to generate it. |
Rush Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 3131 Credit: 302,569 RAC: 0 |
Oh yeah, because the people in the UK are perfectly happy paying some of the highest prices in the world. "Charge me more please! Oh, and I need some free health care too." Heh heh. Cordially, Rush elrushbo2@theobviousgmail.com Remove the obvious... |
Mike Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 34381 Credit: 79,922,639 RAC: 80 |
Believe me Rush we in germany feel the same. With each crime and every kindness we birth our future. |
Rush Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 3131 Credit: 302,569 RAC: 0 |
Believe me Rush we in germany feel the same. Feel the same what, that it's wrong for Americans to complain about high gas prices? I mean, the complaints as posted here on these boards are mostly mindless drivel about oil company profit and whatnot, but I don't think that's what you feel the same about. Begging for more gov't programs so that you think "the gov't" is paying for them has driven your fuel costs though the roof. Americans are starting to catch up with stupid ideas that further drive costs up. Limiting refineries, preventing exploration, et cetera. What a great plan. Though you environmental types should kinda be thrilled. It may bankrupt those that can afford it least, but it *might* lower total usage. Maybe. Cordially, Rush elrushbo2@theobviousgmail.com Remove the obvious... |
Mike Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 34381 Credit: 79,922,639 RAC: 80 |
This tactics dont work. We use lower patrol every year by rising aamount of vehicles. The result is just higher taxes. With each crime and every kindness we birth our future. |
Al Send message Joined: 4 Oct 99 Posts: 5832 Credit: 401,935 RAC: 0 |
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John Clark Send message Joined: 29 Sep 99 Posts: 16515 Credit: 4,418,829 RAC: 0 |
Hydrogen Fuel - Engine Fundamentals #1 Unfortunately, the highlighted bit is a definition of the perpetual motion machine, where motion and energy is free. This does not exist in reality. The use of high effieiency electrolysis of water to split it in to it's constituant parts - 2 atoms of Hydrogen and one of Oxygen then sending it to the air intake of a conventional petrol or diesel engine is OK. The energy for the electrolysis is drawn from the vehicle battery, which in turn draws on the petrol or diesel being used to fuel the engine. This system/kit is variously known as HHO gas/Brown's gas equipment. The burning of the air intake fed 2 atoms of Hydrogen and one atom of Oxygen is said to smooth out the burn of petrol or diesel and improve response and lower fuel ccnsumption. This results in various claims for improved fuel consumption ranging from 25% to 250%. Examples of these sort of claims can be seen here or Googling for Brown's Gas or HHO Gas systems It's good to be back amongst friends and colleagues |
Dirk Villarreal Wittich Send message Joined: 25 Apr 00 Posts: 2098 Credit: 434,834 RAC: 0 |
Good morning! Today and for the first time the local prices for 98 Octans gasoline have reached 1,006 €/liter. For metric conversions, see: WorldWideMetric For foreign currencies: Universal Currency Converter. Though, it is annoying such expensive prices, something must be done in order to reduce pollution. |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
Hey lets Have all the oil companies dig up, tear up where ever they want to find oil!! and have no regard for area they are exploring!! I am for exploration however the Oil companies have not shown to the masses that they can operate they equipment with hurting the surrounding in which the are exploring. Example. The oil spill in Alaska to name one. LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
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