What would you do if all the gas dried up? (page 3)

Cygnus

BTW, gas won't dry up.. We have enough oil to last us 40-60 years at least. By then alertnate fuels will be ready and marketable. sorry for all the edits and typos tonight, my hands and ribs are killing me (came down with pleurisy again tonight)

CaptainSchmideo

I think I'd like one of these, which will be available in the year 2015 (From "Back to the Future, Part II")

tetrapod.sapien

I say drill in Alaska. Who cared about moose and caribou?

i care. i share a common ancestor with them. just because i am big brained ape, does not give me the automatic birth-right to disturb/destroy ecosystems and take from the earth with no further thoughts beyond those at the end of my nose. the very fact that we have the ability to think about these things should mean that drilling in a caribou birthing and migration route should be an obvious stupidity. yes, stupidity. it started with the genesis god telling us that the earth is ours for the taking, and us saying, "hey, swell! we already agree with that!"

i personally would like to see us run out of oil and go through a major crisis, but that is not likely to happen. i would also like to see us adopt community based water treatment and permaculture programs for sustainability. hell, i would like to live in a teepee, but that's just me, and it's not likely to happen either.

i would like to see our species grow a real brain about the earth and our place in it, but that's not likely to happen either.

TS

sonnyboy

I guess then we'd finally see an onslaught of electric cars.

The only reason why we're not seeing them now is so we'll be forced to support the oil companies.

tetrapod.sapien

it would be sweet to see an onslaught of people riding bicycles, and an onslaught of community based economies. but this is a wet dream. most westerners will only have their precious car torn from their cold dead hands.

any takers? china? ...

Norm

I do not feel sorry for the US consumer. It's about time you pay for the gas you use.
In the rest of the civilized world we have been paying our way for gas for years alreay.
Here we pay $8 a gallon at the moment. I wonder how long it will be before Rummy and pals
will kill Chavez in Venezuela and take over the oil fields there, just to keep you in
artificially cheap gas. Nothing seem to get the attention of the US populations as the gas
prices.

Maybe you should try to elect a thinking human being as president in the future.

Norm

Jim_TX

"What would you do if all the gas dried up?"

Well... I would get serious - again - about making my own fuel = bio-diesel. I made it in small quantities (approx. 10 gallons every other week) back in 2000, and ran my 1982 VW Rabbit on it all summer long.

Bio-diesel is beginning to be noticed more these days... as far as a supply of vegetable oil - there is plenty available at the fast food restaurants.

As far as 'growing' the plants for making the fuel - there are many alternatives that do not require the acreage that plants do - and work well.

If anyone is interested - check out the information on http://biodieselamerica.org/biosite/index.php?id=141,0,0,1,0,0

Or - like I did - buy the book by Josh Tickell - From the Fryer to the Fuel Tank. Lots of good info there.

The amazing thing is... bio-diesel requires no modifications to the vehicle or engine.

Regards,

Jim TX

crinklestein

If all the gas dried up then we would have to become more self sufficient on walking or riding a bike. I only work 9 miles from home so riding a bike is do-able. In fact, to make it a little quicker and easier I am purchasing an electric motor for my bike so that I can get up to 25 MPH on it. It's battery powered and it'll got around 30 miles on a single charge. Then when I'm at work I can plug it in a recharge it or I can purchase a solar panel and have the sun recharge it.

We all have to adapt to our changing times or we're going to die. Survival of the fitest still applies.

jeeprube

I think the real question is "What will we do WHEN all the gas dries up?". Oil is a finite resource. One day it will be gone. If we are not developing alternative energy sources now, we will be royaly screwed later. When the oil dries up, the world will plunge into a depression unlike any before it. Our entire civilization is built on oil. Without oil there will be no use in even trying to walk to the store, because the store won't have anything to sell you, it recieves all it's goods by truck. Our local and national economies are so entertwined, that a stoppage in one area will effect all others. In other words no oil, no jobs.

How many posters here know how to build a fire or a shelter? How many can kill, skin, and preserve a deer?

As a nation we are soft. New Orleans illustrates that. The majority of the people trapped were there because they lacked the ability, desire, and means to get out. If you don't have a car, start walking. If you couldn't afford a hotel room, sleep under a bridge.

N.O. is a microcosim of what will happen to the U.S. without oil.

jayhawk1

I am impressed with all the thoughts so far on this subject. I am looking into some of the bio-fuels to see which one would work best for me.

What would you do if all the gas dried up?

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