AndyMan

Oil Is Still the Key to U.S. Economic Future

most things are a joke.

I mean.....you realize that when they test cars they take a reading of so many particles per gas emitted.....you could measure it in parts per million or some other form....but its a percentageof emission from a tailpipe.

So you could emit a very high amount of a toxic substance but as long as you emit a shitload more non-toxic byproducts...you are ok...since its a percentage. This just doesn't make sense to me????

Shouldn't we be looking at total byproduct of toxins released per mile? Is it possible to have a very lean running car which emits hardly any toxins on a per MPG basis....but might be 100% toxins when coming from the tailpipe......but the overall toxin amount emitted per mile is just a fraction of a percent of what emitted from our cars today?

wouldn't that be the ultimate goal of a car anyway? efficiency.

I don't think most of the policies are well thought out, and I am questioning how this government is run. I can't believe that our government is this inept, I think there is a higher power running our government......whomever that may be....yea conspiracy theory stuff. who knows.

I just DO NOT want them making any decisions at all. I want to choose how to live my life....and spend my money.

How to Invest in Peak Oil

Oil and NG are going to be pretty difficult to replace....it will take some time.

With all the technological advancement.......over all these years...we still haven't been able to use other forms of transportation or heating.

Wind has been around for many years......and Solar may never become the low cost solution people think it might be (atleast not in my lifetime).

Huge investments would be needed to make these intermittant sources even workable......as in trillions of dollars just in electrical grid upgrades...and power lines to the renewable sources........then trillions for the renewable sources....maybe even more. We don't even know the evironmental effects of putting wind turbines everywhere....and remember...we already put these turbines in a lot of the best areas.....much like oil and NG production....more and more wind turbines or solar installed will go into less and less returning areas with time.

I am sticking with the oil and NG investments........and only have a small exposure to alternative energy.....as many years have passed when the two have coexisted with not much headway....low prices or not.

Stay Away from U.S. Treasuries - Invest in Energy Stocks

We first need to cut spending like no other....abolish the fed reserve, get rid of departments on the federal level...shrink government everywhere we can....let the market control interest rates, etc.

We should have a recession...let credit contract and build a solid foundation.

Once we do these steps.....businesses will come back...taxes will be low.....and people will need to work again. Borrowing will decrease...home prices will probably continue to fall to affordable levels....the price of education will fall.....the dollar with strengthen...commodities will cheapen.....and savers will not get killed through decreased purchasing power.




On Jun 15 04:50 PM jack kreg wrote:

> A1234, you are right about the coming collapse of the Obama dollar,
> with Trillion $$/year borrowing, and FED buying up 30yr treasury's,
> sure the US dollar is expected to weaken alot in coming years. <br/>Why
> not cut this extrodinary explosion in gov spending, infact, if the
> economy seems to be getting on track, why not cancel the "Stimulus",
> that would cut the deficit a cool Trillion over the next year or
> so.
> Then, with NGV's and a strengthen dollar, at least relative to a
> collaspe, America's cost of energy will be lower, AND we will be
> buying our energy from ourselves, paying American salary's instead
> of OPEC's bank accounts,
> And please dont forget where much of the $$ that funds ME terrorist
> organizations, PS, from American car drivers.
> So, lets buy an American fuel, NG.

My Thoughts on Oil

I see a lot of people commenting about GDP....GDP really isn't a good indicator of anything.

Its a doctored number....and only measures output.

Say you are building cities......you build 1 city per year on top of all the cities the years before. GDP is 1 city. So 1 extra city for people to live in.

Let's say a disaster comes and knocks down a city that your country has previously built. The next year the GDP doubles and rebuilds one city that was knocked down and builds 1 new city.

GDP doubles....yet only 1 new city was added. Productivity collectively has only grown in real terms by 1 city from the previous year before.

I think GDP numbers aren't a good measure to go by...and are definitely manipulated to some degree....just MO. What effect does this have? The government overinflated GDP and underinflated inflation.....when in real value.....we have been declining for years...some more than it shows. Most people value things by purchasing power of a commodity, gold or some other tangible thing to get a better gauge on productivity growth/dollar growth and inflation.

My Thoughts on Oil

I think what people tend to forget is energy density.....and when it comes to battery powered cars.....you can only pack so much energy in a battery....so battery technology and the weight of the vehicle become very important when considering batteris.

I am pretty sure you could manufacture gasoline or diesel engines that are more efficient than a battery powered car of todays technology. You could probably even muster a 300MPG vehicle....the problem lies in the size of the vehicle. No one in thier right mind would be driving such a small efficient vehicle on 4 wheels next to huge vehicles...and a huge vehicle could be a chevrolet aveo...weighing 2400lbs....but a small fuel efficient vehicle might have a weight of only a few hundred pounds.

In order for vehicles to work with batteries of todays technology....I believe they would need to be a lot lighter....atleast if you are going to go any distance with them.

I look around me and everyone strives to be the most inefficient they can be. Its even engraved into most peoples DNA.

I mean...lets take a look at girls for instance. They typically like guys who own vehicles who suck down gas.....trucks, sports cars, luxury cars....limo's, airplanes (huge plus there), etc.

How much action does the guy get for taking a bus or train? come on!

Think about the size of homes....striving to be bigger and bigger....and half the house isn't even used....bigger TV's etc.

We need the price of oil to increase in real terms for anything to change....oil has been up and down with money supply growth/destruction and nothing else really.

Americans Forget High Oil Prices Too Quickly

I bought my Chevrolet Aveo brand new in 2005 for $7,700 at a huge discount sale.


You can buy cars under $10,000.


Oil will go higher at some point....this is all demand destruction from the financial fall out....oil is just trading alongside the stock market it seems. Just be patient...wait for the investment to dry up in new projects...which it is....and wait for the declines from conventional oil to set in.....pick up the cheap shares today...collect the dividends...and wait.


On Dec 08 06:41 PM Wadhamite wrote:

> I am awaiting the day when China produces and sells in the USA a
> $10,000 fuel-efficient small car. Does anyone really doubt that it
> will happen? When it does, the implications for "big oil" and "Detroit
> 3" should be obvious. And, in today's cheap-oil and auto-bailout
> scenario, there might be just enough time for America to beat the
> Chinese. If we lose this opportunity, it's gone for a long time.

Black Gold or Yellow Gold?

the US produces 5.5 million barrels of oil....and I believe the demand is 21 million barrels.

do the numbers and we actually import 73.8% of our oil.

We are also starting to import more gasoline.......we may be worse off than you think.

Oil Manipulations Exposed

For abiotic oil to save the day....the rate of that would need to regenerate itself at hundreds of millions of barrels a day.

I highly doubt that we can grow exponential and have the RATE of oil production meet our demand......abiotic, if true, could only cover a very small portion of demand.

There is nothing on this earth or solar system that can cover exponential growth.....the argument can be food, metals, energy, etc. Sure we can probably produce a lot more of food or energy...or possibly metals from other metals....but we aren't god...and we cannot make something from nothing when it comes to that point.