New biodegradeable replacement for oil based solvents to help America rid themselves of mid-eastern oil stranglehold.
201710
Try www.rephunter.net. I'm an independent sales rep and I have found several products thru that service. I think that you have to pay to use it if you're a manufacturer, but it may be worth it. Good luck!
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-We need better transit. This means cutting OPEC out of our budgets, from the Federal level down to the Individual level. The alternatives are fastly approaching, but, the government can make it happen faster: \n\n--B-100 Biodiesel is 0% petroleum, and consumable by modern deisel engines. The fuel can be created from plants, and therefore increase our agricultural base, bringing closed farms back to the forefront of the backbone of America\n\n--H2 vehicles will be able to give us a more oxygenated and humidified environment, with no flourocarbons. These vehicles run faster, quieter, and are healthier for us. There are surely other alternatives to petroleum oil.\n\n-We need faith in ourselves. Taking a note from history, and re-instituting the CC Camps would put people in a job, and help them build something of lasting value in the nation. My grandfather helped to build firewatch towers and ranger stations for the CC Camps, and those in turn, helped prevent the spread of forrest fires.\n\n-Our closest neighbors need to be our best defenders. By reaching out, and helping our neighbors in real, and meaningful ways, we can reduce the resentment against us, internationally.
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The only way to stop this is something big that stops us from fucking up our own planet like WWIII. The oil companies own the governments of the world and can stop cleaner and cheaper fuel methods by killing the creators or by buying them off.\n\nGeorge Bush is their bitch...that's why we are at war\nWe're screwed
329017
I used to buy a product from Exxon called Varsol.  You can use gasoline also.
412691
Our home is headed for ruination. All the reports including one i saw on the news today regarding the fish stocks in the sea needing to be protected from commercial fishing , fossil fuels like gas, oil,  climate change, deforestation.  We will not make it past 2050 without radical change.\n         Revelation 11  v 17.
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Not necessarily.  Oil that spills on the ground or into the water and is *never* recovered is a waste, but there's still plenty of energy inherent to the oil to make it worthwhile -- if the price is right.\n\nThe fact that the oil gushes out of the ground is because the drilling process has punctured a "bubble" (for lack of a better term) of petroleum that is under high pressure underground.  The puncture releases that pressure and forces the oil to the surface.  Now the trick is to control that flow without wasting any.\n\nOnce we control the flow of oil, it is then processed to make the petroleum products we have come to rely on so heavily -- motor oils, gasoline, aircraft fuels, kerosene, diesel, etc.\n\nA few years back, I was on the island of Aruba.  We visited one of the largest petroleum refineries in the world there -- produced something like 70% of the aviation fuel used by the Allies during the Second World War.  All the waste products they didn't need were dumped in a giant slag heap on one end of the island.\n\nForty years later, when oil prices had risen significantly, it became economically feasible to recycle that petroleum slag heap to produce more useful fuels from it.  So it didn't go to waste, it just wasn't the time.
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This is an oil driven eceonomy. We are looking.
196225
It is possible, but it will be a difficult road.  <---Get it.\n\nFirst Ethanol is a very small baby step, it won't save us.  It might burn cleaner and take slightly less oil to make, but the horrible gas mileage make you have to use more of it to get where you're going.\n\nHybrid technology is on to something.  Electricity is the way to go.  With the advancements of battery & motor technology, you will soon see electric cars and trucks out perform the internal conbution engine.  The current problem is the high voltages necesary to drive those motors make these cars potentially very dangerous for mechanics to repair.  They can also be very dangerous in an acident.\n\nSo my solution is nuclear energy.  But this scares too many people.  All you have to do is build several plants out in the desert that will provide enough electricity to power everything including: heating/cooling, transportation, manufacturing, and comercial consumption.  \n\nThis will make us more ecconimically independant (richer) so that we can develop better ways of cleaning or disposing of the nuclear waste products.  My vote is shooting it into the Sun.\n\nBush's solution really isn't one.  He has to politicise the issue to placate the American people while allowing American companies to retool, research & develop, and create a delivery system for a new power source.  The current problem isn't the alternate energy source as much as it is how do companies sell us that new source.
192853
It's cooperation between oil companies and politics.
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Oil is less dense than water.
627063
Sure we could, but why bother taking over such a wasteland.  Once the oil goes, they are done.
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Oil is one of the end results of a long, long process of decomposition, heat, pressure, and transformation of molecular structures.  Many people are unaware that there are multiple types of oil resulting form differences in all of the components of the process.\n\nAs a "renewable resource," you are barking up the wrong geologic age.  Once the oil available on Earth is gone - that is, the "petroleum" created through metamorphic processes in deep layers of the planet - human beings may berely live long enough for them to see more.  it takes many millions of years to create oil through purely natural processes.  And the many physical changes in the planet that cause it to begin with, including vast earthquakes, total transformation of the layers of the Earth's crust, extinction of life forms, and other events, suggest that when is more oil made in the distant future, humans might themselves be part of the matter eventually converted into petroleum.\n\nWell, no, that's hardly likely.  Decomposition would prevent that.\n\nBut, anyhow - no, oil is not a practical form of a renweable resource.  It is possible to make synthetic versions of petroleum, or to make alternative fuels that have some of the key features of petroleum, however.\n\nUltimately, humanity may discover that petroleum is much too valuable to just burn.  It is a fundamental ingredient of many kinds of medicines.  It plays a role in various types of chemistry and other applications that may not ever be replaced or reproduced artificially.\n\nAnd humans will never live long enough to get more once it is gone.
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Not a chance.  The U.S. has to have oil from somewhere to survive.  Without imported oil factories go idle, power generation slows, transportation is ground to a halt – the entire economy would be in freefall.  You may not remember (or have been around) for the oil shocks in the 1970s.  Imagine spending the entire day in line just trying to gas up your car.  It was terrible.  Without oil from the Middle East we go through that mess again.  Even if domestic sources were located the time to locate, drill, and process that oil would take ages to of use to anyone.  The U.S. is stuck with a serious addiction to oil and the path out of that situation is a long, tough road.
191147
Yes I agree in the sense that the US needs to get off its dependence of oil. Since most of the oil comes from the middle east it may not be wise to give money (or trade) with the region that probbaly has the most hostile attiude toward us.
118893
you are correct -- how do you think all these Middle Eastern countries are getting the money to purchase up all of these US assets that they've been buying for the last 25 years.\n\nI think that America needs to get back on the 'rid ourselves of mid-east oil' kick that we had in the mid to late 70s.  For our own economic protection, we NEED to get alternatives -- nuclear, non-fossil, solar, wind, etc.
615253
I'm afraid no...  We will not be able to get oil from garbage dumps ever (besides what we leave in there as "garbage"), but as the bio matter degrades and decomposes, the garbage does create methane gas (natural gas like we use to heat homes and run power plants).  Oil actually comes from decayed oceanic plant matter mostly.  It dies, falls down to the bottom of the ocean, and in the right conditions, is preserved.  With time, the right temperatures and pressures, and with a proper reservoir, it becomes free oil.  One thing about garbage dumps though.  As steel, aluminum, and other metals become more scarce, I fully expect us to one day "mine" our garbage for resources we foolishly throw away today.
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None we keep all our oil just in case.