Brazil will announce sometime this year that they will no longer need to import oil. They have replaced the imported oil with fuel made from sugar cane. How long before America wakes up and starts replaceing oil imports with home made ethenol? How long before congress and the senate stop letting big oil influence their decisions?
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We need an alternative government to go with our alternative fuels.  It won't happen until we get someone in the white hose with out any ties to BIG OIL.  This goes for the Dems too.
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Actually, from what I've heard from the Hill, we Canadian have taken a step back from legalizing marijuana because the Tories are in power and they're more hardline about drugs and crime than the Grits were. However, the Tories won't be in power forever because the only reason that they're in power is because the Grits were corrupt. Once the Grits have improved their image and the Tories begin screwing up, the Grits will probably become the ruling party again and marijuana will be put back on the agenda. As it is, marijuana enforcement here is pretty lax and most people I know (I'm a 20-year-old university student) smoke pot on a regular, semi-regular, or occasional basis. I've also heard that Spain, Mexico and the UK have discussed decriminalization, but Mexico and Canada have been afraid the American repercussions, but now the Americans are requiring passports from us (grrr!) it might become less of an issue
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Actually there are several alternative fuel sources available.\n\nHydorgen, natural gas, pure ethanol, biodeisel, etc. Even electric cars!\n\nAs long as the big oil companies have so much power, you won't be seeing any of these alternatives used by the masses.
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The argument is that if the price of oil is high enough we will turn to alternative energy sources, one of which is ethanol, made from agricultural products, primarily grain. This demand for high-priced fuel will raise the price of grain, which is also used for making bread.
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Venezuela is the 8th largest oil producer in the world. They got supply coming out their ears...so, yes, approx 14c per gallon for gas is current price.\n\nUK doesn't produce any oil, and they are paying approx $6.40 a gallon. We produce some and we pay around $3. \n\nConstant price thru the world? Do you know ANYTHING that has a constant price all over the world? If everything was the same price, why would we have ships cruising around carrying stuff from one country to another? Stuff is priced differently cause certain countries can grow or make it cheaper than others. Sugar for example. It costs the US a ton of money to make sugar. In Brazil it grows like a weed. It is REALLY cheap there. But, rather than getting sugar cheap from Brazil...our government slaps a huge tariff on it, to make it equal the sugar prices from the US. Great. So, now instead of paying 10c a pound, I pay like $1. 10x what I could be paying. Why??? Well, just cause some sugar grower here in the US wants to keep growing something here that barely grows and takes a ton of work to make it grow. Makes no sense. Grow something else.
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How about a friggin car you can run on food waste?  I'm tired of paying rich bastards who play price fixing games making money off me.  Ethanol or Methanol sound like a better alternative if we can all start making our own fuel without blowing up a few city blocks.\n\nSaw a news bit about a water-fueled motor the other day...\n\nJust read that answer above.  170 miles on a cell?!?  Are you freakin' kidding me?!?  My 113hp/69ft. lb motorcycle with a 4.5 gal tank does over 200 miles!  AND, it does wheelies!
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Big oil=big corruption.\n\nThey need to be investigated and charged.
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I think it woudl sure be a wake up call for the Middle East if suddenly they had a product that wasn't in so much demand! Consdering their whole economy is based on oil sales, they would be in deep.... I think it would be cool to go fuel up with a tank of Jim Beam! Even south of the border could start making more money, how much for a tank of Tequila? I know of several people that use bio-diesel, and just love being able to bypass fueling stations.
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Bloomberg reported on Apr. 26: Oil and gasoline prices fell yesterday after President George W. Bush said the U.S. would waive requirements for blending gasoline with ethanol, which is in limited supply. The switch to ethanol from other additives has cut refinery output, forcing up gasoline prices. \n\nThat is the real reason gasoline prices have gone up recently, the idiot Greenies passed regulations mandating a switch to ethanol when there isn't nearly enough.  If that were not bad enough, Greenie regulations have effectively outlawed construction of new refineries and the Democrats have outlawed new drilling everywhere in US coastal waters and Alaska.  So when the economy expands, as ours has been doing, the only way to increase supply is to buy oil from the Arabs.\n\nWant cheaper gasoline?  Demand saner laws.  Policies have real world consequences.  If you want to preserve ANWR for the caribou, quit bitching about gasoline prices.
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The environmentalists and congress are to be blamed. The environmentalists won't let us drill offshore, every time the oil companies try they take them to court, they fight every effort to drill in ANWAR. The stupid republicans don't have the guts to stand up for it. Then we can't build new refineries because some treehugger is worried about a tree slug or some other worthless animal. When oil prices were low it was to expensive for oil companies to invest in new equipment, now that oil prices are up they are starting to re-invest, but it will take time.\n\nOh one other thing is all these stupid blends in this country that is mandated by the government that really don't do anything. Then forcing the oil companies to waste time on ethanol doesn't help either.\n\nWhile some local stations collude on what they are going to charge. (I have been in a gas station when another station has called to ask what they are charging that day).
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Our idiot president said it.  He also said, "America is addicted to oil."  I would like to counteract and say "no, oil companies are addicted to money."  The greedy idiot.
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Hardly. Methane, ethanol (not yet for cars but already viable for power plants), vegetable oil etc.  If we really had to stop burning fossil fuel, the current service stations could distribute the new fuel.  One of the problems with bringing out alternate fuels is that in order to 'compete' with gasoline, it has to be reasonably available to people driving across the country.  Distribution is a tough issue for some of the products.
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We will never be independent until the oil and coal tycoons are no longer in silent power.  Until presidential candidates are no longer allowed to take campaign donations from these companies, no government official will enforce a law for E85, or any other like it.  We should because it is the best for our environment.  We will not need to level entire ridges for coal seams or spill oil and cause much destruction to natural habitat.  The health of the nation will improve, and the earth will be much better for it, but I don't foresee it ever happening in my lifetime.
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global oil conglomerates aka the cookie monster, greed at it's most BASIC element.  The internal combustion engine has been obsolete since the 1950s.  Oil companies this year have set record profits, so much so  that the US government is  trying to figure out what to do about it.  Renewable energies equates to no profits these companies will sooner shove oil down our throats(WW III) rather than to allow renewable energies to become main stream.  Look for the US government to lead the world into a global government!!!!!
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A) It would make our president less rich.\nB) Americans are WAY too lazy to actually care about our environment because all we wanna do is SPEND SPEND SPEND!\nC) We are neglegent of the benefits of biodiesel and such renewable sources.\nD) We would also be putting Middle-Eastern nations out of business - how sad.\nand\nE) We're Americans - we don't care about anything or anyone but ourselves for the most part.\n\nI agree, it's unbelievably cheap to manufacture biodegradable, renewable sources of energy, but we don't have the time and some of us don't even have the resources.  I also think that if Americans could get up off our lazy butts, we could honestly show the rest of the world that we can change our environment before it's too late.  I spend an average of $80+ per week in gas between two cities.  Biofuels would not only save us, but save our environment.
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Brazil did this and it worked. If American farmers decide to go that way and automakers decide to go that way, all the lobbyists in the world cannot stop them.  We need a Bill Gates type of entrepreneur to promote this industry.
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It is a real concern, but whenever someone makes a prediction about when a country of the world will reach peak oil output, they do so with what then is considered a researve.  As the cost of a barrel of oil increases, sources for oil that were once not considered a researve then become on because at that cost it is economically viable to recover it.  With the recent spike in oil prices, North America can now clasify the tar sands in Canada and the oil shales in Colorado oil researves, and that being the case, it is estimated that in the US alone, we now have more economically recoverable oil then Saudi Arabia, the worlds largest exporter.  As the price continues to increase, other marginal sources will become economically viable.  Sooner or later, we will reach a point where there simply isn't enough oil available for any price, but that is still a ways off yet.  I believe that before we reach that point, oil will be more expensive then alternate fuel sources.  Through simple economics, I believe that people will begin using these alternate fuels simply because they are less expensive.  I believe that the high cost of oil will spawn invention and inovation into the energy sector, and I believe that has already begun.  We are working on increasing production of biodiesels and ethenol, and there is increased research into fuel cells and electric autos.  I think the future lies in hydrogen burning technology personally.  We already have engines that burn Hydrogen, but we're still working on the fuel tank dilema.  So, for a long answer, I believe that there is and will be time. I'm looking foward to being put out of buisiness.