[aflurry]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('heroineworshipper', 'P')riuses were big last year, but since credit became free again and people got used to $3.50 gas, the SUV's are back.

[wisconsin_cur]

Prius Designer, "this is what the end of the oil age looks like"

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'J')an. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Bill Reinert, who helped design Toyota Motor Corp.'s Prius hybrid, hovers in a helicopter 1,000 feet over Fort McMurray, Alberta. On this clear November morning, he's craning for a look at one of the world's largest petroleum reserves where there's not an oil well in sight.

Instead, in a 2-mile-wide pit below, trucks head to refineries with loads of sand weighing more than Boeing 747s. Yellow flames shoot skyward as 900-degree-Fahrenheit (482- degree-Celsius) heat liquefies any embedded petroleum. Floating scarecrows and propane-powered cannons do their best to chase migrating birds from lethal wastewater ponds.

Eventually, nuclear reactors may surround the crater 270 miles (435 kilometers) northeast of Edmonton, Alberta, delivering the power required to wring oil from sand.

``This is what the end of the age of oil means,'' says Reinert, 60, who plans the vehicles Toyota will make in a quarter century as national manager for advanced technology at the U.S. sales unit in Torrance, California. ``The car-based culture, the business-as-usual of building cars and trucks, is going to change dramatically.''

[Cid_Yama]

Human Rights Watch has appealed to Saudi Arabia to halt the execution of a woman convicted of witchcraft.

Among her accusers was a man who alleged she made him impotent.

Human Rights Watch said that Ms Falih had exhausted all her chances of appealing against her death sentence and she could only now be saved if King Abdullah intervened.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7244579.stm

[americandream]

Pathetic frickin reactionary blood suckers!

[SILENTTODD]

I don't know? But I do have 4 bycycles and a lot of tires as you all should!!.

[FreakOil]

The important question is, does she weigh as much as a duck?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrzMhU_4m-g

[mos6507]

The number of oil exporting countries that have a good human rights records is small.

[Cid_Yama]

I was refering to the belief and prosecution of witchcraft.

[DomusAlbion]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cid_Yama', 'I') was refering to the belief and prosecution of witchcraft.

[FreakOil]

One thing we should be reminded of when reading an article like this is that many countries, perhaps the majority, are not modern nation states. They are run like Europe was thousands of years ago. The "Saudi" in Saudi Arabia is from the family name Saud. The country is run by a family! Likewise, the people have antedeluvian beliefs and traditions. Trial by jury? Credible witnesses? Evidence? Forensics? Ha!

[Ache]

How Rising Oil Prices Are Obliterating America's Superpower Status

[Novus]

America needs to wake the hell up. Bush is a dumb chimp and the candidates for President are even dumber. Oil and gas need to be rationed right now and gas taxes doubled or its curtains for the good old USA.

[Fishman]

Seems to ignore that this is a crushing burden for all the rest of the world except oil exporting countries. If we lose power and the rest of the world loses power also, what's the change? This is not like the fall of the Soviets, this is like something never experienced by man.

[strider3700]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Fishman', 'S')eems to ignore that this is a crushing burden for all the rest of the world except oil exporting countries.

[kokoda]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Novus', 'A')merica needs to wake the hell up. Bush is a dumb chimp and the candidates for President are even dumber. Oil and gas need to be rationed right now and gas taxes doubled or its curtains for the good old USA.

[dbruning]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') hate to say it but the best hope the US has is to invade Canada and use our resources to fund major war against the rest of the world.

[Denny]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dbruning', 'I') hate to say it but the best hope the US has is to invade Canada and use our resources to fund major war against the rest of the world.

[Twilight]

There is nothing wrong with losing an Empire. Everyone has done it. The US can join the club and it will come as no great loss to the world. The only question is how the US adjusts to its change of status.

[Denny]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Novus', 'A')merica needs to wake the hell up. Bush is a dumb chimp and the candidates for President are even dumber. Oil and gas need to be rationed right now and gas taxes doubled or its curtains for the good old USA.

[mattduke]

ft