Hydrogen is…bleh. Conceptually speaking its z0mg…the emission is friggin water, its everywhere, and conceptually dirt cheap.
But to use as fuel requires it be kept under extreme pressure, this in itself is difficult - especially on ‘fill up’…its easier ot use feul cells at that point. It has to be kept at some obscene PSI - like 10k - so if that fuel cell ever ruptures just a lil-bit…there goes the block…seriously. Thie shit is flat out dangerous and difficlut to work with. About 4 yars ago I was told by someone working on a Toytoa hydrogen car that the technology is a good 25 years away from being truly applicable as a mainstream source. so don’t hold your breathe.
Gas continues to reach exceeding prices than before. What sdoesn’t surprise me is how Bush was so concerned about oil fields in Iraq, ok we already have taken control of the oil fields. If we are in control of dispensing the gas why is it so damn high.
That’s right I completely deviated from the thought of coporate america. But do you guys remember when Clinton was serving his term in office, how our sea ports and trades were going up in gasoline prices. All it took was a week to tap into our oil reservers to restrict price expedentures from rising. I am not sure if anyone remembers this, but this made the companies realize just how much it hurts to not have buisness with America for nearly a week, the prices ended up staying the same and not exceeding the consistant affordable price.
Actually this has nothing to deal with gas, but in so cal mortage companies have been getting raped by the feds because of their increasing interest rates for the past three years. After awhile the feds picked this up and decided to narrow down the companies, making some downsize a couple of millions. Lower intersts rates came in for people, maybe the feds will do the same on gas?
Because despite studying shit and reading and researching shit, unless you ahve a piece of paper validating it, you don’t know shit. I can blow people with Masters out the water in the tech field(s) - but I don’t have a paper saying I know that shit.
“Oh he’s a EE he can’t program”…stfu I compile in 5 different languages.
I don’t ahve a degree in industrial engineering or energy I forget the actual name of the degree but there is one for it, so no one will listen to me. Besides the cost of most stuff is 75% politics…which is all talk (I might actually vote McCain I hate the election so much this time around 0_o - everyone full of talk and nothing else). I mean lets be real about this, people don’t have the money to just buy new cars. Retro-fitting a car for use of another fuel would damn well be the price of a new car. On top of that you have to have places retro-fitted to dispense a new type of fuel. Ethynol will never be a good substitute becauses its actually corosive…they can’t ship it across America in pipes like oil because it eats that shit son! We have to find ways of making MORE of the existing type of gas instead of researching alternatives. Diamonds were too expensive but great for cutting and drilling. Took the ma while, but we can now grow diamonds for CHEAP. If they put money into methods of making the current form of gas/oil in high volumes then I think we’d solve our ‘current’ problem. Being green is a problem for another day.
Predictions for the national average of gas by the end of the 2008 year if continuing on their current course will put it at $7.00 a gallon. Just saw this on CNN as they stated the price of gas per gallon is increasing a cent a day and if it continues people will be knocking on that $7 mark. The future isn’t looking too hot.
Back in 2002 the national average was $1.42. Hard to believe in just six years it’s jumped more than two dollars. I remember when 87 octane was .99 a gallon back in my hometown back in 2000.
For all you consipracy buffs out there. Like many commodities, Crude Oil is sold short, meaning that interested parties obtain rights to crude oil by purchasing are contracts called futures made to puchase a certain amount of a certain product for a set price in the future, lets say 5 years. This is a fact. The price of crude oil being 117 UDS per gallon now has NO bearing on the price that said buyers pay. As is well known, crude oil prices have gone up approximately 300% since 2001.
The price of futures is based on future value on money which is a fairly simple equation. Thus if the calculated price of crude (calculated YEARS in advance) is LOWER than the actual price of crude (based on current events) anyone invested in crude has the potential to gain a lot of money.
Scarcity of a commodity increases cost of that commodity as a result of the very high price elasticity of the product (meaning because oil is a unique and non-renewable item, there are limited options for alternatives so prices can change eratically, but tend NOT to go down due to its scarcity). For example if future value says today oils SHOULD cost 90 USD per gallon, and the actual price is 120USD per gallon, the difference of 30 dollars creates a NET (not gross as stocks are traded shares and not taxable income) growth of 30% of the share value.
Though this does NOT translate to profit directly, due to the price elasticity of oil, if prices for oil products like, ooooh, GAS were to remain current (based on current costs of crude), the growth in share value will translate to GROSS income, that is money that the company can potentially gain before things like taxes and operational cost are taken into effect.
What doesn’t surprise me is that Bush is sending out those “economic stimulus” checks right at the peak of gas season, which will most likely be applied towards purchasing more fuel…oh, did I mention that he’s an oil tycoon? Sounds about right.
As for my situation, I work downtown, and don’t necessarily live too far from it. Now, I wouldn’t mind taking the bus to work everyday, but we’re looking at 2+ hour bus routes (*so * many stops for just one bus, and we still don’t have any h.o.v. lanes) vs. just driving there in 20-30 minutes. Fuck that noise.
I would have to spend about 4+ hours commuting both ways. So, with 9 hours of work + 8 hours of sleep + 4 hours of commute time = does not compute. I would only have 3 hours (about 1/8 of a day) in order to get ready/eat breakfast/unwind/eat dinner… I don’t know about you, but SRK eats out about an hour or two of my life. Gas prices got me doing math now…
