BF2S Forums Oil Consumption - Should the Govt step in?

No

CC-Marley wrote:

No

Bell wrote:

Stop trading it in dollars.  When it was $100 back in january(ish), I read an article quoting that in terms of Gold, Oil had remained pretty flat for the last decade (if not longer).  Supply and demand is having a bad effect but not $140 a barrel bad.  Trade it in an appreciating currency so as supply and demand begins to actually make a major difference the appreciating currency evens the pain out.  Trading it in dollars is hitting us in a double whamy.

Edit:  Infact triple, those speculators are artificially inflating the value of the Oil aswell.  I think some form of regulation is in need here, as much as am for capitalist ideals, something as crucial as Oil cant be left in the hands of a bunch of traders who are fucking us over with the value of our money let alone this.

Martyn

we let you run rampant

sorry to hear that

nicaragua pioneered death squads

CaptainSpaulding71 wrote:

we are not only consuming oil at a large rate but also rare earth elements used in the making of LCD displays and computer chips

http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0806/ref.shtml

they claim that many of these elements will be exhausted on the planet by 2017. 

so, it's not just oil

But by all means, keep having 5 kids.  Overpopulation surely isn't the problem!

To those who said no, how far are you prepared to go?
Every male 18-35 drafted to garrison Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, invade Russia etc.?
Or is it about time to say people shouldn't be driving F250s and Dodge Rams, or maybe should just be driving less?

Last edited by Dilbert_X (2008-07-03 02:47:47)

Dilbert_X wrote:

To those who said no, how far are you prepared to go?
Every male 18-35 drafted to garrison Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, invade Russia etc.?
Or is it about time to say people shouldn't be driving F250s and Dodge Rams, or maybe should just be driving less?
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj25 … _X/SC3.jpg

Clinton had passed legislation to reduce engine capacity. Bush had to appease one of his campaign funders, GM, so scrapped it. In hindsight yet another brilliant policy decision from the Bush Oil Co/administration.

clogar wrote:

what could they do that would help people within less than 5 years

Disallow speculating on the Stock Market.  That is primarally been driving up the price of oil;  It has been artificially inflated over the last year.

well, I hope it won't be necessary. If anything, there should be regulations on fuel consumption and fuel efficiency, that would allow us to use the little oil we have left more efficiently.

My hope is that the big car manufacturers will soon realize that cars with combustion engines will become useless once the stuff we combust is gone, and develop cars that run on something else, preferably from re-newable energy sources.

I doubt I'll live to see that though ( not because it won't happen, mind you, simply because I'll probably be dead before the world runs out of oil ).

So keep driving those big SUV's, but keep in mind that the price of oil is only going to go up.

One problem I see is that at some point, gas may become to expensive, that the average american worker/taxpayer can no longer afford it to drive to work, or bring the kids to school, etc.
At that point, the government will have to step in, mainly because such a situation would threaten america as a whole.

Until a situation as BSchuss described appears, the only stepping in they should do is funding and promoting advances in alternate sources... electric cars, better hybrids, better biofuels (what happened to those bacteria that eat plastic and shit oil?).