Iconoclast421

Deregulate Transportation to Beat 100 MPG

Here's some food for thought about the concept of a 100 mpg car. Let's say for sake of simplicity you created platinum/rhodium/gold alloy piston rings that costs a lot of money to make but double the compression and reduce friction to near-zero. Enough to where E-85 would run at 100mpg. If this alloy costed $10,000 worth of energy per piston to make it, would you really be able to claim the car gets 100 mpg? Of course not.

My point is that we may have cars that appear to get 100mpg, but they really wont when you add in alll of the many many hidden costs. The key is to make a car that really truly does get 100mpg, over the life of the vehicle, including the hidden costs. We are nowhere near that, and there is nothing on the drawing board that would bring us there. (Until we reduce the weight of the vehicle down to less than 200 lbs...)

Global Net Oil Exports in Decline

The ELM doesnt really apply to countries that are increasing production. It is a model for post-peak exporters.

As for PBR, I am looking for its RSI to break past 53 by close on friday in order for it to be a buy.

Oil, Iraq and U.S. Foreign Policy: A Way Forward

As long as Halliburton's profits are way up, you cant say that Bush Cheney have been a failure... at least to the ones they serve.

Two Explanations for Surging Oil Prices

It is precisely the increased demand for oil in exporting countries that is going to cause the biggest problem. There are two current case studies... UK and Indonesia, where it only took half a decade for those two countries to become net importers, once they reached their peak in exports. This is extremely solid data, evidence that might have been helpful 10 years ago. At this point in time, nothing in the pipeline can avert what can only be called an apocalyptic disaster. There will most likely be a die off. The only question is how big will it be before people start taking the problem seriously? We need 1 terawatt of new solar power to come online within 5 years, and an equal amount of wind power, AND a 50% increase in fuel efficiency stateside, across the board, in order to avert long term disaster. Do you hear any of the CFR candidates talking about this? Hell no. People need to figure out that it is the stated goal of the CFR to, literally, kill you off.