Comments on: Changes? http://virescent.wordpress.com/2008/03/27/changes/ (adj) tending toward green Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:31:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: virescent http://virescent.wordpress.com/2008/03/27/changes/#comment-438 virescent Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:52:40 +0000 http://virescent.wordpress.com/?p=171#comment-438 Thanks for the links! Ok, the gas prices deal seems almost insoluable. Oil's holding above 100 for now, and due to a lot of polticial factors it probably won't be headed down anytime soon. And Americans generally haven't got access to any mode of transport that isn't their cars, and they can't all move to someplace car-free immediately- esp here in America. So prices will probably stay up, and people will have to pay them to drive. I think every politician for the last 40 years and every city planner for the past 50 years should stand up and apologize to the country for getting us into a tough situation- spreading us out, and tying us to oil. And the current politicians should take deep breathes and try and fix the situation, instead of subsidizing it. Thanks for the links!

Ok, the gas prices deal seems almost insoluable. Oil’s holding above 100 for now, and due to a lot of polticial factors it probably won’t be headed down anytime soon. And Americans generally haven’t got access to any mode of transport that isn’t their cars, and they can’t all move to someplace car-free immediately- esp here in America. So prices will probably stay up, and people will have to pay them to drive.

I think every politician for the last 40 years and every city planner for the past 50 years should stand up and apologize to the country for getting us into a tough situation- spreading us out, and tying us to oil. And the current politicians should take deep breathes and try and fix the situation, instead of subsidizing it.

]]> By: Cameron http://virescent.wordpress.com/2008/03/27/changes/#comment-434 Cameron Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:20:00 +0000 http://virescent.wordpress.com/?p=171#comment-434 sorry for not spell checking before I posted....use phonics and you should be able to sound it out! sorry for not spell checking before I posted….use phonics and you should be able to sound it out!

]]> By: Cameron http://virescent.wordpress.com/2008/03/27/changes/#comment-432 Cameron Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:56:41 +0000 http://virescent.wordpress.com/?p=171#comment-432 sigh.....being from California, we have be forced to be conscious of two things, water, and energy (both do to crisies)! Durring a 9 year drought that spanded most of my childhood, there were t.v. commercials that said "if it's yellow, let it mellow, if it's brown flush it down"....NO JOKE!! And with energy coasts and rolling black-out threats stearing the West into the 21st century, many Californians have peremenatly ingrained turning off unnecissary lights, and auto shut off everything! I do have to say it proabalby required YEARS of crises and a massive public campaign to change our once wastful ways; but I can honestly say it's changed a whole generation. I have Cali friends living on the east coast that are still VERY aware of water and energy waste. Maybe this trend will set-in with oil. The hope then is that oil pricesses never drop (let the death threats start flowing to my inbox now)! One good sign is that if I buy a hybrid or fuel efficient car, Im not going to immediatly turn it in for a Cadillac or Hummer. So there is some trickle forward effects of these crsises that may keep gas consumption down even in the good times! The problem is, Congress wants to get these priceses down now, and is even threatening Big Oil to get it done now: http://money.cnn.com/2008/04/01/news/companies/oil_hearing/index.htm?cnn=yes On that note, I find it interesting that the US has looked into many other forms of oil for decades but abandoned them because the price to produce was greater then the "then" price of a barel of oil ($25) http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/04/01/algae.oil/?imw=Y&iref=mpstoryemail Oh and look at this too...it's just kinda cool!! http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/all-energy-roads-lead-to-the-sun/ sigh…..being from California, we have be forced to be conscious of two things, water, and energy (both do to crisies)! Durring a 9 year drought that spanded most of my childhood, there were t.v. commercials that said “if it’s yellow, let it mellow, if it’s brown flush it down”….NO JOKE!! And with energy coasts and rolling black-out threats stearing the West into the 21st century, many Californians have peremenatly ingrained turning off unnecissary lights, and auto shut off everything! I do have to say it proabalby required YEARS of crises and a massive public campaign to change our once wastful ways; but I can honestly say it’s changed a whole generation. I have Cali friends living on the east coast that are still VERY aware of water and energy waste. Maybe this trend will set-in with oil. The hope then is that oil pricesses never drop (let the death threats start flowing to my inbox now)!

One good sign is that if I buy a hybrid or fuel efficient car, Im not going to immediatly turn it in for a Cadillac or Hummer. So there is some trickle forward effects of these crsises that may keep gas consumption down even in the good times! The problem is, Congress wants to get these priceses down now, and is even threatening Big Oil to get it done now: http://money.cnn.com/2008/04/01/news/companies/oil_hearing/index.htm?cnn=yes

On that note, I find it interesting that the US has looked into many other forms of oil for decades but abandoned them because the price to produce was greater then the “then” price of a barel of oil ($25)

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/04/01/algae.oil/?imw=Y&iref=mpstoryemail

Oh and look at this too…it’s just kinda cool!!

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/all-energy-roads-lead-to-the-sun/

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