Dick Dastardly writes:
> Apparently some fucker at MIT has just rewritten the laws of quantum physics
> and produced a machine where you pour a glass of water in the front and get
> energy out the back.
Cite?
Lonestar beer
Declan
Nobody trusts the stated Saudi oil reserves anymore. Therefore the only people in the World who can buy or sell crude without speculating the oil we have are the king and the oil minister. Of course, theey’re not so sure about other countries resources either. I think the crude prices are surprisingly stable and low.
Lone Star Beer? Then I demand that Dick Dastardly buy enough for everybody in this thread and get us all drunk to the point that we understand what he’s saying.
If America would simply return to the Traditional Values that prevailed in the 1950s then the price of gas will return to 1950s-era levels.
They should probably go back to the gold standard and re-impose segregation and anti-pornography/anti-comic book regulations as well. Plus we need all those blue laws back in place asap…
-XT
I know I’ll quickly get shouted down for this, but would it help the economy if the US released a small percentage of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve onto the market?
I don’t believe that the price of oil or refined fuels are one of the major components of the current downturn, so my answer would be: No. It wouldn’t help in any meaningful way.
-XT
Might provide a tiny short term boost. One so small you wouldn’t even notice it. In general, I am decidedly against using the SPR for non-strategic purposes, which this decidedly isn’t.
A car can do 1500 miles on a litre of water apparently.
You are joking, right?
What did you read that makes you think I’m joking?
This is the very first sentence in their execute summary:
I would take them more seriously if their new source of energy was Christmas spirit.
Maybe it’s rubbish. I remember reading about it a year or three ago and that the process had been independently verified. It may be a nonstarter but when oil prices do eventually stay at an elevated level for the forseeable future it’ll spur some kind of new tech that solves the problem.
you’ve got your arrow of causation backwards. the roads and other infrastructure are bicycle and pedestrian unfriendly because people drive to work. it wasn’t always the way.
Then why are European roads pedestrian friendly? They have cars too.
I find your lack of faith disturbing.