I Have been thinking about all this
fuel talk latley and here on this
forum everyone seems to discuss it a bit. I have a view that perhaps some people may relate too. It seems that most scientists agree that we have consumed a fair amount of the earths oil
reserves and that as we are speeding up the consumption we may not last too long on the stuff. This introduces some probs, first when we run out of the stuff the society we live in will change to what it was like perhaps 100 years ago (as in no easy long distance travel) and secondly even if we had unlimited oil we would kill our habitable environment for ourselves. Stuff all the animals, we may not be able to ensure our own survival! Anyway does any one care? or do we just think that becuase one person cant do a hell of a lot about it we should just work hard, earn more money, buy more
fuel so we can burn more in our 4x4's. I am thinking that because we are running out, gone are the days of very cheap
fuel. Although to put into perspective it is calculated that 1L of Petrol is roughly equal to 1 months labour for one man in pure energy. This means we burn through lots of man hours of energy every day in our cars. It also explains why the poorest labourer today lives better than the richest kings of old as we use so much energy to support our life styles. So basicly $1.50 for a month labour = cheap. This brings me to the last thought of our consumption, instead of complaining about the government (on tv & radio) and trying to lower the price of
fuel to get us back to the good old days when we burned heaps for no real cost, i think the emphasis should be on trying to acheive our lifestyle we are used to with less
fuel, meaning use less for the same result, i dont want to live in a comune with out the internet and no 4x4. Perhaps we should consider that any car/4x4 which uses over 10L per 100km is unacceptable to the car buying public, make the manufactures change the way they make cars so they have to do what we want them to. "I want a large powerful 4x4 which can tow a boat and use no more than 10L" I dont actually expect this to happen, cause i think we take what manufactures say for the truth, that this type of economy is unrealistic, but if the consumer demanded it, it would happen. Hybrids diesels could go along way to solving our problems but i really dont think the manufactures give a damn about economy, only pretend to cause they think they need to be seen to care to sell cars. The holden ceo on tv last night was a classic example of not giving a damn, said something like "we are looking at hybrids as a back up plan to move on to if we need to in the future" i interpret this as "we dont care about using less
fuel and dont want to spend money investigating economy or hybrids, but am throwing these words in to make you all think we are doing something in the background to help" "the future" denotes that we do not have to act now! it' s a word used by procrastinators who want to do nothing different, not people or companies who want things to change. So anyway thats about it, i run 2 cars, i dont care about
fuel prices, i kind of look past me, now, to what may happen to us all one day if things dont change. I recon short term we should use bio
fuel, in efficient modern diesels with hybrid technology, i reocn this is the way foward to having what we have now with much less energy consumption. Am interested for anyone else's opinions on the subject.
P.S. Of all the people who post stuff like the above, i am sure its younger poeple like me (under 30) who say it, and have the most to say! I read exploder is
young today and i assumed he was not
young - and he also has a lot to say. I think the older guys dont ask big questions, i recon they sit back laughing as this stuff, glad they are past trying to solve the worlds problems on an internet
forum. It would be interesting to see how old all the people are who regularly post Q's and A's here as it would make me feel better if older people also say stupid things and put their feet in their mouths.