and have to go off road daily. I can't really come up with a practical solution
very capable off-road
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When no one can afford petrol
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Posted 3 months ago #
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I really think the "evil oil companies" conspiracy theory is just nonsense.
The commercial potential of a genuine new power source or means of propulsion are just too huge to ever be suppressed.
Plus its not like the oil companies wouldn't continue to make money out of oil if we all drove cars powered by fairy dust. As others have pointed out there are lots of alternative profitable uses of oil.
+1, just doesn't add up. The internet makes it impossible to suppress information like that- Wikileaks anyone- and why wouldn't some other massive non-oil company buy up this magic technology to sell it?
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@richmtb
"evil oil companies" conspiracy theory is not even conspiracy there are just too many examples to choose from. i can only assume you re either a retard, havent actually looked or trollingI'm not suggesting big oil is the most virtuous industry industry on the face of the planet. I know deep down I'm filling my car with the tears of Iraqi children. My point is just because some dickhead in a shed (well lots of dickhead's in sheds - what's the collective known for dickheads - a forum perhaps) claims they have produced an engine that can do 1000mpg or run on toffee apples but is being suppressed by the "evil oil companies" doesn't make it true.
Serious companies like Honda are spending billions on alternative power sources for vehicles and every manufacturer is desperate to increase the fuel economy of the vehicles becuase they know it will help them sell them.
Of course it could be that I am actually a puppet of the shadow government, in the employ of Big Oil, Big Pharma, the Bilderbergs, the Iluminati and the Zionists
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seosamh77 - Member
34 and still no licence, and no intention of getting one! Has always been purely a financial decision for me, don't want the cost of maintenance or petrol. Don't miss it as I've never had it.This - Never had a car ever, never even started one and no intention of ever doing so.
The only reason I could see for getting one is for going to a trailcentre, but that's not enough to warrant one, surely?
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or getting to the alps (a really big trail centre).
or just having a good old explore around this beautiful island we live on.
cars are ace.
Posted 3 months ago # -
or getting to the alps (a really big trail centre).
or just having a good old explore around this beautiful island we live on.
cars are ace.
For those things, yeah. For clogging up our town centres, not so much.
Cars aren't going anywhere soon, but hopefully the role they play in our lives will change and there'll start to be a shift towards using them for the things they make sense for, rather than by default.I've never owned a car either, and I'd like to see car share outfits becoming more prominent and changing the model away from ownership and all of the associated problems that come with that.
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I've never owned a car either, and I'd like to see car share outfits becoming more prominent and changing the model away from ownership and all of the associated problems that come with that
I think we're set for shit loads of deals for renting/leasing electric and hybrid cars
folks are just put off with things like battery replacement costs etc. so I expect renting leasing to become the normPosted 3 months ago # -
I don't think fuel is expensive. This is coming from someone who until recently was commuting 90 miles a day. A decade ago my car did half the mpg my car does today and fuel is twice the price. No difference.
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See zipcar
Personally if I had to commute by car I'd be looking for a mentally economical car right now, as it stands my fuel bill is pretty crazy for not commuting but I do live in the Cambridge area where fuel is notoriously expensive.
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The website linky above suggests that we've only got 1.3trillion barrels of oil left - or about 40 years worth. That's a low estimate, but it's thereorthereabouts.
According to that website there are approximately 1283689350000 barrels left at 88000000 per day usage that is 14 587 days or ~ 40 years.
However this assumes we use the same amount of oil today as we will tomorrow. A very large proportion of the world is rapidly developing demanding more stuff, travelling more e.t.c. WE currently have a very low rate of increase of oil usage. Here we have 1.8%, with a rising world population the chance of oil use flat lining is very low.
At 1.8% growth rate is takes 38 years for the consumption to double. So by the 39th year we will need to find twice as much per year, but of course by this point we will have used far more oil than the current estimates, which even if they doubled would not be very significant. As others have said oil is far more important to use driving.
The biggest thing the government could do to peoples use of petrol use / miles driven would be to reform the planning laws that have encouraged car use.
Out of town shopping centres and business parks, free parking and frequently requiring a trip into a town centre and then out again for access via public transport if possible at all. Poorly designed sprawling housing estates that still feel crowded.
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I have reduced my miles by about 150/200 a week and plan to buy a more economical vehicle but I have limited choices and a limited budget. As i live in a caravan and work in rural areas and have to go off road daily. I can't really come up with a practical solution
Freelander 2 TD4e - Whilst not the most fuel efficient car, it is certainly the most efficient 4wd car I've driven. And it's certainly off-road capable.
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right this thing about oil companies
I have in the past worked for an NGO negotiating primarily with exxon
they are truely the biggest bastards ive ever had to speak to
closely followed by british american tobacco
I have done a lot of work for global companies like those and I agree entirely - they are utter bastards. And if you think they're bad, look more closely into the operations of non-transnational oil and tobacco companies (you probably have). They can be even bigger bastards.But all the same:
just because some dickhead in a shed...claims they have produced an engine that can do 1000mpg or run on toffee apples but is being suppressed by the "evil oil companies" doesn't make it true.
Serious companies like Honda are spending billions on alternative power sources for vehicles and every manufacturer is desperate to increase the fuel economy of the vehicles becuase they know it will help them sell them.
I don't think Teh Big Oil wouldn't suppress the technology on moral grounds, just that they couldn't (they're not ept enough to keep it secret) and they wouldn't because there's more money in selling it than not (someone who had technology that could reduce energy consumption on vehicles by even 5% would be fabulously rich, let alone something that got 38498439 mpg or whatever). Auto manufacturers in the US, for example, are killing themselves to keep pace even with CAFE - in the past, iirc, they've sold smaller cars at a loss just so they could continue selling big lucrative cars while still keeping their efficiency targets.
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