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Oil is up over $4 barrel today $112 barrel

Posted by Lucky on October 22, 2026, 10:52 am

That’s not good for the common person

Looks at this 6,000 pound 170 MPH pickup truck:

Posted by Ken C on October 23, 2026, 2:12 am, in reply to "Oil is up over $4 barrel today $112 barrel"

6,000 pounds, 170 MPH and 777 horsepower. Only America would create such a thing.

It would never make it to 170 MPH ...

Posted by Mondo Fuego™ on October 24, 2026, 1:26 pm, in reply to "Looks at this 6,000 pound 170 MPH pickup truck:"

... it would go airborne and crash.

We are tired of your oil worship. Just hush, lamebrain.

Posted by Mondo Fuego™ on October 22, 2026, 9:53 pm, in reply to "Oil is up over $4 barrel today $112 barrel"

Good for Oil Conservation. Oil will NOT last forever, and high prices reduce consumption.

Posted by DFM on October 22, 2026, 12:10 pm, in reply to "Oil is up over $4 barrel today $112 barrel"

We haven't run out yet, and won't in the foreseeable future...

Posted by Cheap Seats Shaman *= on October 22, 2026, 2:10 pm, in reply to "Good for Oil Conservation. Oil will NOT last forever, and high prices reduce consumption."

...so we might as well keep using it until a viable alternative is available.

No serious effort has been made to seek a viable alternative to fossil fuel.

Posted by DFM on October 22, 2026, 2:27 pm, in reply to "We haven't run out yet, and won't in the foreseeable future..."

So far, alternative energy technology is a BAD JOKE, and not a nickel has been spent for a serious solution for this long-term problem. Sure, we have decades of oil remaining, but it WILL eventually run out and we have done NOTHING to establish a practical alternative.

Solid-state batteries will be available soon.

Posted by Ken C on October 23, 2026, 2:19 am, in reply to "No serious effort has been made to seek a viable alternative to fossil fuel."

They will be lighter, safer, and faster charging. They will reduce some of the disadvantages of electric vehicles.

Batteries are NOT primary energy sources, only electric power STORAGE devices.

Posted by DFM on October 23, 2026, 2:04 pm, in reply to "Solid-state batteries will be available soon."

Batteries are an enabler. They make is easier for cars to use alternative fuels.

Posted by Ken C on October 24, 2026, 12:25 am, in reply to "Batteries are NOT primary energy sources, only electric power STORAGE devices."

For example: It would be too dangerous to put nuclear reactors in cars, so instead we can make nuclear power plants that make power for EV's.

"alternative fuels"?

Posted by Cheap Seats Shaman *= on October 24, 2026, 9:34 am, in reply to "Batteries are an enabler. They make is easier for cars to use alternative fuels. "

How would they store electrons any differently?

I don't get it either.

Posted by DFM on October 24, 2026, 8:33 pm, in reply to ""alternative fuels"? "

How are those batteries charged?

Posted by Cheap Seats Shaman *= on October 23, 2026, 5:39 am, in reply to "Solid-state batteries will be available soon."

How do you charge the batteries in your buggy?

They can be recharged overnight at home, or at a Tesla Supercharger.

Posted by Ken C on October 23, 2026, 10:01 am, in reply to "How are those batteries charged?"
Edited by board administrator October 23, 2026, 10:25 am

I live in an apartment, so I can't recharge at home. If I lived in a house, I could plug the car in at home and not need to drive to a supercharger.

Tesla Superchargers take about 30 minutes. All other recharge places take too long and are too unreliable. If it was not for Tesla, I would be driving a gas car now.

Google says : "About 10 years from now, solid-state batteries are predicted to recharge from 10% to 80% in 5 to 10 minutes, closely matching the 2 to 5 minutes it takes to refill a traditional gas car. "

Because there haven't been any alternatives that were cost effective...

Posted by Cheap Seats Shaman *= on October 22, 2026, 2:58 pm, in reply to "No serious effort has been made to seek a viable alternative to fossil fuel."

...or practical.
But wouldn't Fusion be great? Maybe in someone else's lifetime.

During my lifetime, I'll go with the cost effective use of fossil fuels and the limited nuclear one for power generation.

There is ONE that could provide cheap electricity without environmental damage.

Posted by DFM on October 22, 2026, 3:47 pm, in reply to "Because there haven't been any alternatives that were cost effective..."

https://seasolarpower.com/

Not cost effective and rife with maintenance issues...

Posted by Cheap Seats Shaman *= on October 22, 2026, 4:06 pm, in reply to "There is ONE that could provide cheap electricity without environmental damage."

Sea water is like slow working acid, eating everything it touches.

There are tens of thousands of steel ships and platforms operating in the oceans.

Posted by DFM on October 22, 2026, 7:27 pm, in reply to "Not cost effective and rife with maintenance issues..."

Seawater is just another engineering challenge which has been overcome MANY TIMES.

Of course, it must be carefully engineered in order to be economically successful. Simple-minded designs will not work.

It IS cost-effective since it uses very small, very efficient heat exchangers with large area in a compact package.

A complete investigation was make by the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Maryland which observed the heat exchangers in actual operation in seawater and found the system to be entirely feasible.

I am one of a very few persons who has actually held the heat exchange surfaces in hand.

The biggest problem is ignorant persons who keep insisting if it is that good it would have already been done.

Better get on with it. Not only is the earth off balance from all the oil and ground water depletio

Posted by GOG on October 23, 2026, 4:13 pm, in reply to "There are tens of thousands of steel ships and platforms operating in the oceans."

but global civilization as we know it will implode.

No investment capital is available.

Posted by DFM on October 25, 2026, 4:39 pm, in reply to "Better get on with it. Not only is the earth off balance from all the oil and ground water depletio"

I think $4.00 gallon is cheap

Posted by Lucky on October 24, 2026, 1:56 pm, in reply to "Better get on with it. Not only is the earth off balance from all the oil and ground water depletio"

$4 to drive 20 miles is cheap compared to walking 20 miles

Very few persons would ever walk 20 miles.

Posted by GOG on October 25, 2026, 6:44 am, in reply to "I think $4.00 gallon is cheap"

Most have zero physical stamina, thanks to oil. The whole world population is in a very precarious dependency situation. Given the ruling elite psychopaths are forever scheming and fighting among theirselves, for commodities and trade routes, their unstable lust for wealth and power is the true powder keg. They are destabilizing the global economy ‘blood flow’ and threatening starvation and war upon billions of human beings. However, as a regional encapsulation, the US is the world’s by-barrel largest oil producer. This nation could be its own total source. Currently the US oil, as is all global oil trading, is a complex trading and delivery scramble, routing oil tankers hither and yonder in a massive economic shell game. Revelation 18…. notice the commodities listed for end-time trade. The odd man out is oil. Most people think it’s olive oil. No. …”don’t touch the oil”. The chapter is all about Mystery Babylon, her great men, her commodities, her merchants, her trade.

Off balance?

Posted by 7:77 on October 24, 2026, 1:53 pm, in reply to "Better get on with it. Not only is the earth off balance from all the oil and ground water depletio"

Possibly...but detectably so? I have my doubts.

According to a couple estimates I was able to find with a quick search, the total mass of all petroleum extractions in history is approximately 140 billion metric tons. That's a lot...but the mass of the earth is just a little under 6 sextillion tons. that's about 0.00000000000233% (2.33 x 10^-12).

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