Peak Oil

Could Prosthetic's post be any more Armageddon-esque?

Originally Posted by Eleo

when I read stuff like this I get scared.

I get scared any time an American uses the word "shall." THERE SHALL BE DARKNESS!

On topic, though. Call me self-absorbed, but at this point I'm more concerned about the immediate impact this is going to have on me personally. I think it's a bit premature to start predicting an all-out energy war. What I am concerned about is how my husband and I are going to get to work every day. I heard a news report yesterday that analysts are predicting $4/gallon gasoline prices before the end of summer.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Will that stuff work in regular cars, or will we all have to go out and buy specially designed cars. And if so, who's going to manufacture them if we're in the middle of Armageddon?

EDIT: Did you check out the lease payments on the generator? Good lord, regular gas is cheaper than that.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

But you have to have the generator that converts tap water into this Aquygen stuff, and the monthly lease payments are very expensive. Also, it's not very practical to think that everyone would be able to afford the lease payments, OR the new car. And even if everyone could, they couldn't possibly manufacture enough of them in time to save thousands and thousands of people from getting fired from their jobs because of not being able to get there.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

But that won't help the manufacturers spit enough of them out to actually help a large number of people if gas prices suddenly shoot up to $6/gallon or we suddenly enter into a state of such severe shortage that only "connected" people have the opportunity to buy it.

Wow. That was a long sentence.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?