MD wrote:I am planning motoring trips this summer. I suppose it is profoundly selfish.
My excuse is in having my children see and experience some of what I have seen and experienced while growing up through the peak of the easy motoring lifestyle.
MD wrote:I am planning motoring trips this summer. I suppose it is profoundly selfish.
My excuse is in having my children see and experience some of what I have seen and experienced while growing up through the peak of the easy motoring lifestyle.
God, no. I didn't mean that any and all driving is selfish when I said I had reconsidered my ways. I simply look down on people now who think driving is a fundamental right that deserves to be protected over many other things (like governmental finances, health, and oh yeah, peak oil). I commute to work but still (necessarily) drive to do errands on occasion (I can bike to Canadian Tire to get some plumbing supplies, but I can't easily haul a week's worth of groceries in a backpack...) With the way our society is laid out right now it's extremely annoying to get by totally without a car.MD wrote:I am planning motoring trips this summer. I suppose it is profoundly selfish.
My excuse is in having my children see and experience some of what I have seen and experienced while growing up through the peak of the easy motoring lifestyle.
Wildwell wrote:Yep, that's right - we have so much carbon fuel really there's doubt whether we will ever use it up. Plus climate change is total garbage.
When you've stopped laughing click on the link below to the association of British drivers…
http://www.abd.org.uk/carbon_reserves.htm
I've written a bit on my Blog about these Buffoons mainly because couldn’t believe what I was reading…Mind you is it any surprise?
Total up the other carbon sources and you will get something like 500 years.
rogersavage wrote:Hi
Why does the topic of depleted oil reserves necessarily mean that we need to give up our cars?
Vehicles can be made to run on virtually anything - renewables included - so why does this debate on oil running out appear to resemble more a back-slapping exercise for those who want to stop people using their cars?
Regards
Roger
rogersavage wrote:Hi
Why does the topic of depleted oil reserves necessarily mean that we need to give up our cars?
Vehicles can be made to run on virtually anything - renewables included - so why does this debate on oil running out appear to resemble more a back-slapping exercise for those who want to stop people using their cars?
Regards
Roger
smallpoxgirl wrote:Total up the other carbon sources and you will get something like 500 years.
I'm just wondering if those "other carbon sources" include the members of the association of british drivers?
The short answer to why cars don’t fit very well with energy depletion is there is no combination of fuels that can run what were running now, at least at the time of writing. I write some pretty ‘anti-car’ stuff, not because I dislike them, far from it, it’s because the sort of way we are using them now is unsustainable. The more we base society around cars, the worse the end result is going to be.
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