Gas is $2.68 a gallon

[Flubber]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Good, maybe it will be safer to ride my bike now.

Interestingly there have been problems in Calgary and vancouver as the bike trails have gotten more crowded. People are complaining about crowding and excessive speeds and IIRC one cyclist died in a collision with a pedestrian. More people are cycling and the bike trails can't cope. (NOBODY attempts cycling on the big feeder roads)

[Sava]

Originally posted by Flubber


Interestingly there have been problems in Calgary and vancouver as the bike trails have gotten more crowded. People are complaining about crowding and excessive speeds and IIRC one cyclist died in a collision with a pedestrian. More people are cycling and the bike trails can't cope. (NOBODY attempts cycling on the big feeder roads)

@ cyclists polluting their own trails

serves 'em right!

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Footie Mad
Yes I know, and that's why you are so dependant on every household having at least one automobile. The reason is simply that the oil will run out sooner or later, probably with consistently rising prices that will make it too expensive for the average person to drive such great distances in a personal automobile.

Cars don't have to rely on oil forever. There is a lot of research being done into hydrogen fuel cell cars. And by the time that oil runs out we may have harnessed the sun (ie, fusion power or cheap, reliable solar energy) and that will provide enough energy to create the fuel cells or electricity for electric car. We aren't simply going to run out of oil and then say "****, what do we do now?". As the price of oil falls due to less supply, other energy sources will rise.

[Imran Siddiqui]

WOW... on CBS news they just showed a gas station in Atlanta with premium gas priced at OVER $6.00 a gallon ($6.07 IIRC). That's European level!

Most around me are around $2.75 a gallon and there are lines for gas... though they say the pipelines may be repaired in the next few days.

[Footie Mad]

Yes I mentioned alternative means of propulsion in my post, the part which you convienently left out.

But that is still dependant on uncertain factors such as "we will probably have the technology then". I hope there is an answer without major drawbacks.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Footie Mad
Yes I mentioned alternative means of propulsion in my post, the part which you convienently left out.

You only mentioned electricity generation for electric cars.

[alva]

Good to know that it's not only hotels cashing in.

[faded glory]

Alot of kids down here take Honda Civics and put Turbo's and Supercharge them to make them sound fast (notice I said 'sound' cause there still slow ****ty civic's). They may remove the muffler and may install catback. Most just remove the pipes. Killing there fuel efficiency. To those who dont great.


Edit: They are most commonly referred to as Ricers. And if someone under the age of 22 owns a honda Civic. There is a 90% chance they are a Ricer.

Edit and edit: See Maddox

[BlackCat]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui


Why?

This isn't England, everyone doesn't live within a day's drive of each other.

Well, you may have relatives spread more than in England, but I seriously doubt that that your day to day distances are much more than european.

[Theben]

$3.29 in Indianapolis.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by BlackCat
Well, you may have relatives spread more than in England, but I seriously doubt that that your day to day distances are much more than european.

You've never been to the States have you?

I know plenty of people at my workplace who regularly drive over 70 miles (about 113 km) one way to get to work (and back home).

[BlackCat]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui


You've never been to the States have you?

I know plenty of people at my workplace who regularly drive over 70 miles (about 113 km) one way to get to work (and back home).

Well, I only have a couple of such people at my workplace - the others with equal distances uses public transportation.

Such distances isn't just an american issue - we actually have them in eourope too

[Imran Siddiqui]

It is far less common for people in Europe to live so far from their workplaces. That's partly because the US is far more rural than Europe in general.

[DanS]

Someone mentioned electric cars and that's probably the only method of adaption that would maybe ensure the amount of cars. But how would you go about producing such massive amounts of electricity and would it be cost efficient?

Electricity is really cheap in many places of the US. $0.06 or $0.07 per kwh residential. You can buy a hybrid and plug it in at night to run on electricity for the first 15 miles or so.

(Don't expect that price in California, however.)

[Rufus T. Firefly]

$1.66 on the US residential compound here in Manila

Sometimes I really love goverment work...