GlassWolf wrote:umm, not Bush. Oil companies. They're showing record profits, and using the war as an excuse to mask their blind greed.
Blame the people who're truly responsible.
Guess I picked a good time to buy a honda..
pressure washer that is. gas powered honda motor, 3000psi
should do nicely for cleaning my engine block and garage floor.
The oil companies technically are not at fault. I am not trying to open a can of worms, nor do I work for an oil company. At current price and consumption, we have an estimated 25-42 years of oil supply remaining(its true, look it up), after that, thats it, no more oil at all. If we left the price of oil at 1.00 per gallon, the estimated 25-42 years would drop significantly to maybe 10-15 years of oil if not less. While I do not condone price levels, I understand them. What other options do they have, we are a "now" nation, there is no way possible that driving can become limited, people will not listen. Seriously, what other possibilities are there to limit oil consumption. If you want to blame someone, blame the Kennedy administration. That is the administration that made deals with auto manufacturers. Consider this, how long have 20+mpg cars been around? Longer than 20 years. You really think with our technology that by now we still cannot produce anything that exceeds 35 mpg's without it be a tiny two seater. Another thing to consider, electric cars. How long have we had that technology? Why are they not more prominent on todays roads? Technology has been there. Even antother thing to consider, alternative fuels. E85 has been around since the late 60's. Hell they even had what is known as Gasahol. That was a alcohol/oil mixture that was shut down. Why hasn't it had the funding it needed to become a prominent fuel by now.
People can get as mad as they want at the oil companies, but when it boils down to it, it is the government, and no it is not the Bush administrations fault. This is something that has been happening for quite sometime now.
There is a man who lives in southeastern Oklahoma who developed a fuel injection system that increased his gas mileage on a chevy truck from less than 20 mpgs to well over 70 mpg's. He patented the system, and sold it to GM for a cool 3.7 million. GM shelved the system, and never produced it. The pnly publicity it got was in the McCurtain Gazzette. There's something to think about.
