[Jacksoncage]

Peak oil may not be so hard to solve after all.

1. Offer a giant tax incentive to the first car company to improve its fleet's MPG to a 100 mpg average. Offer considerable incentives to every other manufacturer who achieves the same feat.

2. Research and develop electric cars - their implications as to power grids, their costs, their benefits, and how they can be brought to market.

3. Sell these cars to citizens, shipping and delivery companies, offering simple, easy-to-understand payment plans for people who cannot yet afford them.

And peak oil is nullified. I have a feeling the electric car (or any other car that uses an oil-substitue) will be brought to market sometime before we start eating each other because gas is too pricey.

[emersonbiggins]

Wow, I wonder why no one has ever thought of that!

You are a true visionary.

[Petro]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jacksoncage', 'P')eak oil may not be so hard to solve after all.

1. Offer a giant tax incentive to the first car company to improve its fleet's MPG to a 100 mpg average. Offer considerable incentives to every other manufacturer who achieves the same feat.

2. Research and develop electric cars - their implications as to power grids, their costs, their benefits, and how they can be brought to market.

3. Sell these cars to citizens, shipping and delivery companies, offering simple, easy-to-understand payment plans for people who cannot yet afford them.

And peak oil is nullified. I have a feeling the electric car (or any other car that uses an oil-substitue) will be brought to market sometime before we start eating each other because gas is too pricey.

[rogerhb]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jacksoncage', 'P')eak oil may not be so hard to solve after all.

[Jacksoncage]

I've been lurking for quite some time.

"Have you noticed anyone talking about power-generation failing?"

Yes, and it seems even less secured by fact than a "rapid production collapse" of any oil field.


"Do you think people need to get even more into debt with pile-them-high-and-fleece-them-dry schemes?"

They won't have to shell out any money for gas, so that certainly frees up capital to pay for an electric car. People will pay off their debt for a mode of transportation that will become more vital in the years to come, second only to a house.

[TonyPrep]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jacksoncage', 'P')eak oil may not be so hard to solve after all.

[Jacksoncage]

The majority of oil's other uses have substitutes that won't cause the collapse of society.

[Jacksoncage]

"What do you propose to use to manufacture those cars; transport to market...and all the rest?"

This will not be taking place in a post-oil world. The old methods will have to be used at first to the bring these to market.

[rogerhb]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jacksoncage', 'T')he majority of oil's other uses have substitutes that won't cause the collapse of society.

[venky]

Agreed that an eventual solution to the liquid fuel crisis will involve a greater shift to electricity.

However,
How long do you estimate it will take to replace the current vehicle fleet with the new electric cars? What will be the cost, the investment required and everything else. And more important, I hope you know that electricity is not a form of energy, where do you propose to generate the extra electricity from, how much extra electricity will be required each year to make up for the shortfall in oil supplies. Natural gas supplies are constrained, and coal is simply not an option; so I suppose the bulk of it will have to come from alternatives and renewables, how soon can they be scaled up, there is just a thread on that on this forum.

While I think that we will get there eventually; I have a feeling it is not going to be as straightforward as you seem to think it is.

[dub_scratch]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jacksoncage', 'P')eak oil may not be so hard to solve after all.

1. Offer a giant tax incentive to the first car company to improve its fleet's MPG to a 100 mpg average. Offer considerable incentives to every other manufacturer who achieves the same feat.

[Aaron]

I like this idea... it'll be like a giant bumper-car ride.

While we are at it, let's do the slidewalk things too... that's very cool.

And those segway scooters... sweet.

Man... this is gonna rock!

<passes meta-bong back across the room>

[omgwtfbyobbq]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jacksoncage', 'P')eak oil may not be so hard to solve after all.

[rogerhb]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('omgwtfbyobbq', 'W')ill canabalism generate more money than electric or hydrogen cars?

[NEOPO]

Ok ok it was funny up until the bong part in an attempt to insinuate that pot smokers are stupid and I will not stand for that!

How many times must I explain to you idiots how the human brain functions!!!

Jacksoncage is in stage 2 Rationalization.
The next few steps are critical!!
If he/she is debased by this forum he/she may decide POers are lying assholes and end up being part of those who die off.......
Oh right........shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

<passes the bong to specop>

[dissimulo]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jacksoncage', '
')They won't have to shell out any money for gas, so that certainly frees up capital to pay for an electric car. People will pay off their debt for a mode of transportation that will become more vital in the years to come, second only to a house.

[americandream]

Simple arithmetic......scope out American consumption patterns to all 6 billion of this world, then mitigate some of the oil usage as in these electric cars, solar panels and others mitigationational mechansims, then figure out where our demand curve will be for the remaining crude based cornucopianism OF SIX BILLION........

which ever way you approach things, extending capitalism worldwide and encouraging its extension with an expensive Cold War sounded the death knell for capitalism......I see no future.

[MonteQuest]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jacksoncage', ' ') I have a feeling the electric car (or any other car that uses an oil-substitue) will be brought to market sometime before we start eating each other because gas is too pricey.

[rogerhb]

This thread should be renamed to:

"Peak oil - coming in for the big turkey shoot"

[LadyRuby]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('emersonbiggins', 'W')ow, I wonder why no one has ever thought of that!

You are a true visionary.