I watched a show last night on Discovery about oil running out...

[Lancer]

It was 2016, oil is $160 a bbl, lines at the stations, drilling in arctic wilderness, SUVs with no gas, heat off, lights going out, people beating each other up, distraught women being distraught, lions and lambs eating each other...

I was at my Toyota dealership the other day and there is an all electric vehicle planned for 2020. I told them if they get one I'll buy it. The dealer mentioned a three wheel electric vehicle for around town being imported from europe. Anyone know anything about this?

2020! Wtf?

[CrONoS]

Re: I watched a show last night on Discovery about oil running out...

Originally posted by Lancer
It was 2016, oil is $160 a bbl, lines at the stations, drilling in arctic wilderness, SUVs with no gas, heat off, lights going out, people beating each other up, distraught women being distraught, lions and lambs eating each other...

Here in Quebec, leftism extremism are playing that card. Whatever if it's true they forget, that before people awake one morning with no gas, the price for oil will go up in the way that it will lead us to use new energy, new kind of vehicle, it will create new market and finally reducing the demand for oil, and making new oil field open to exploitation (since the price would be higher)..

[Zkribbler]

LINK to Zap electric car

$49,000!

[Lancer]

Still, getting an electric car might be a good idea.

Somewhere they got a couple to use in Manila to fight polution there, but where to get them?

[Lancer]

Zkrib, thanks! I'll check that out, though sure it's too pricey right now.

[Lancer]

Zkrib, "All electric vehicle" "Tank: 50 liters, 13.blah gallons"

Something fishy there.

[lord of the mark]

Re: I watched a show last night on Discovery about oil running out...

Originally posted by Lancer
It was 2016, oil is $160 a bbl, lines at the stations, drilling in arctic wilderness, SUVs with no gas, heat off, lights going out, people beating each other up, distraught women being distraught, lions and lambs eating each other...

I was at my Toyota dealership the other day and there is an all electric vehicle planned for 2020. I told them if they get one I'll buy it. The dealer mentioned a three wheel electric vehicle for around town being imported from europe. Anyone know anything about this?

2020! Wtf?

why would the lights go off?

[Zkribbler]

How about the Tesla with a base price of just $90,000?

A saw a show a year or two ago on the developing of a hydrogen fuel cell car. There were a bunch of big name manufacturers, and they were pretty far along. I'm surprised these cars aren't being marketed yet.

[Sirotnikov]

Don't electric cars run on electric energy made by huge power stations running on .... fossil fuels?

This just means that instead of producing the energy needed to run your car in the car itslef, you're outsourcing it to the powerplant.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Sirotnikov
Don't electric cars run on electric energy made by huge power stations running on .... fossil fuels?

Mainly on coal, somewhat on NG, hardly at all on oil, at least here.

If the price of coal is going to go up like the posited increase in the price of oil, I want land in West Virginia.

[The Vagabond]

And by 2015 they promised a flying car (cf Back to the Future). Imagine how much oil it would eat.

[Lancer]

Dirty nasty coal, and plenty of it.

Hydrogen still requires sci to pull a few miracles out of its buttocks I believe. No time soon anyway...(psst, that's why the oil cos like it)

[Ninot]

Originally posted by The Vagabond
And by 2015 they promised a flying car (cf Back to the Future). Imagine how much oil it would eat.

It ran on garbage. Duh!

[Lancer]

Ahh, a skycar version of the OT, great.

[The Vagabond]

Originally posted by Ninot


It ran on garbage. Duh!

No. It's only its time circuit that ran on garbage. But the car itself ran on gasoline (cf Back to the Future-3).