THE Gas Rationing Thread (merged)

aflurry · **Joined:** Mon Mar 28, 2005 1:00 am **Posts:** 839

stupid_monkeys wrote:

Bicycles are the best invention ever.

So true.
I just saw a slide presentation by a guy who spent seven years travelling around the world by bicycle. Unbeliveable. That will be my peak-oil exit strategy. I have spent several months travelling around europe already. You can cover some serious ground with the right tailwinds.
I want to make a peak oil road warrior kind of movie but have it all be bicycle themed instead of with cars. And instead of fighting over a tanker of gas, it would be over.... ummmm. A tanker full of Clif Bars.

highlander · **Posted:** Mon Jun 20, 2005 11:50 am

Seems to me there isn't enough housing available in cities to take care of everybody who lives in suburbia so.....they will pay whatever it costs for gas as long as they can get it.
I'll continue cooking my own fuel as long as you bikers are eating cheeseburgers and a side of fries! remember to say supersize mine :razz:

pilferage · **Posted:** Mon Jun 20, 2005 12:28 pm

I've been pulling a 15-20mph average on ~10mile bicycle rides, I'm slowly but surely closing in on my automobile commute times for the same distance. I don't think I'll get there w/o fairing, but I can get pretty close...
I usually do a 80 mile trip once per week since my Camry isn't too shabby @ 55mph (~40mpg), so that's minimum forty bucks on gas a month.

Aaron · **Posted:** Mon Jun 20, 2005 12:44 pm

Yeah, Maybe the lines we should be worrying about will be at the induction centers.

Specop_007 · **Joined:** Thu Aug 12, 2004 12:00 am **Posts:** 6184

I drive a diesel.
I may be waiting in line, but mine wont be as long as yours.

DriveElectric · **Joined:** Sat Mar 12, 2005 1:00 am **Posts:** 633

Specop_007 wrote:

I drive a diesel. I may be waiting in line, but mine wont be as long as yours.

You could wait in the line at McDonalds asking for their used veggie oil from the fryer.

Cool Hand Linc · **Posted:** Mon Jun 20, 2005 7:33 pm

Depending on what form of rationing occurs. I would fill my car up. Park it in my yard so my dogs could keep others siphon hoses away. Then I would siphon off the gas to use in my bike.

BabyPeanut · **Posted:** Sat Jul 16, 2005 4:44 am

link excerpt:

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America ’s most recent experience with rationing goes back to World War II. You have to be nearly 70 to remember the little square “A”, “B”, and “C” stickers affixed to the windshields of ever car. These stickers, when accompanied by a sheet of rationing stamps, allowed one to buy gas. Everybody got an “A” sticker (a whole 4 gallons a month just for the asking). To get a “B” or “C” sticker, one had to appear before a rationing board and make the case their mobility was vital to the war effort or at least the well-being of their fellow citizens.

Forgetting about something, are we? link

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There were four rationing classifications. An "A" classification, which could be had by almost anyone, entitled the holder to four gallons a week. A "B" classification was worth about eight gallons a week. "C" was reserved for important folk, like doctors, and the magic "X" went to people whose very survival required that they be able to purchase gasoline in unlimited quantities--rich people and politicians, for example.

FCNP goes on

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A couple of weeks ago, the British press reported that Her Majesty’s cabinet is considering a plan to ration energy consumption. The immediate reason for implementing such a system is to reduce the UK ’s emission of greenhouse gases as required by the Kyoto Treaty. The plans authors, however, claim that if the proposal works, it will deal equally well with equitably allocating dwindling energy supplies caused by peak oil.

Good level of paranoia!

pstarr · **Posted:** Sat Jul 16, 2005 12:02 pm

So is the FCNP an "alternative" paper or a classified advertiser? or both? This is the second time you have quoted from it. It looks mainstream but sounds radical :wink:

pete

Sgs-Cruz · **Posted:** Sat Jul 16, 2005 1:13 pm

I've seen this same reference in a lot of anti-Kyoto right-wing publications: Kyoto is impossible! The British are considering rationing just to meet it, we don't want that in the USA do we?

I just say, considering a plan does not equal implementing a plan. I'll bet every government has considered some plans that would make your blood boil, but never implemented them.

Sunspot · **Posted:** Tue Jul 19, 2005 8:46 am

The plans are being cooked up for energy rationing: link
Ruppert's commentary is good, but for those of you "allergic" to anything remotely resembling "conspiracy", go to the original: link
This is a widely-read, mainstream, one-block-off-the-beltway newspaper.
I'll bet you'll be the first kid on your block to know that a gallon of gas = 9 Carbon Units. A simple fact that everyone may be paying attention to soon.

Aaron · **Posted:** Tue Jul 19, 2005 9:46 am

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It has to come sooner or later. As oil becomes scarcer and scarcer and price rises higher and higher, pressures will grow for a formal allocation system. Rationing will come, if only to calm the havoc at the gas lines and the social upheavals that are bound to occur as long as rationing is only by price

BabyPeanut · **Posted:** Tue Jul 19, 2005 9:58 am

*threads merged*

BabyPeanut · **Posted:** Tue Jul 19, 2005 10:01 am

pstarr wrote:

So is the FCNP an "alternative" paper or a classified advertiser? or both? This is the second time you have quoted from it. It looks mainstream but sounds radical :wink:

Heh, it looks mainstream but Rupert Murdock doesn't own it so it can't be true, right?
Useful tool "who owns what" for searching what media outlets are owned by what concerns. link
Fun movies to watch: link and link and link

pstarr · **Posted:** Tue Jul 19, 2005 11:35 pm

BabyPeanut wrote:

pstarr wrote:

So is the FCNP an "alternative" paper or a classified advertiser? or both? This is the second time you have quoted from it. It looks mainstream but sounds radical :wink:

Heh, it looks mainstream but Rupert Murdock doesn't own it so it can't be true, right?
Useful tool "who owns what" for searching what media outlets are owned by what concerns. link
Fun movies to watch: link and link and [url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114512/]link

Outfoxed was great. How do the other two compare? couldn't find the Falls Church paper at cjr.com.

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