tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12986851.post116050738928061728..comments2024-01-09T22:22:16.952-08:00Comments on charge: the future of energy: HUPPERT'S PEAK?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12986851.post-43256264706721417222010-07-30T23:20:33.262-07:002010-07-30T23:20:33.262-07:00I think we can approach all the natual resources l...I think we can approach all the natual resources like solar energy or win energy. But never waste all this good alternative that we have. Actually i visited a site called <a href="http://www.costaricaindex.com/costa-rica-investment/investment-costa-rica.html" title="costa rica investment opportunities" rel="nofollow">costa rica investment opportunities</a> result very interesting most of all their natural resources this country presents.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01813240290829967874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12986851.post-11114729917005080312008-08-05T18:04:00.000-07:002008-08-05T18:04:00.000-07:00Please read-Americans need to know!!!!!!!! NHTSA H...Please read-Americans need to know!!!!!!!!<BR/> <BR/>NHTSA Hearings 8/4/08<BR/> <BR/>I just returned from the NHTSA hearings held on August 4, 2008 in Washington D.C., regarding the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for NEW Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards (CAFÉ) for years 2011-2015. <BR/> <BR/>IMPORTANT FACTS: You will not believe what you are reading. <BR/> <BR/>1) The 414 pages DEIS analysis was based on an average gasoline price of USD $2.16/gallon for 2011-2020. A calculation approved by the NHTSA administrators/managers. Would you believe it??????????? <BR/> <BR/>2) The new CAFÉ rules were also established, negotiated and pre-approved by the NHTSA’s management and clearly with the influence of domestic automotive companies and their lobbyists. We have now established fuel standards for 2011-2020 that are presently and already met throughout the rest of the Western world today (see below). <BR/> <BR/>As one guest speaker said today “are they on another planet?”<BR/> <BR/>NHTSA “NEW Fuel Standards” (2011-2015) decision: <BR/> <BR/>Automobiles are to achieve 31.2 mpg by 2011 and 35.7 mpg by 2015. Light trucks are to achieve 25 mpg by 2011, and 28.6 mpg by 2015. <BR/> <BR/>The NTHSA is also setting a goal of 35 mpg on average for 2020.<BR/> <BR/>America needs to know:<BR/> <BR/>The European Union is currently establishing standards, with a goal of reaching 48.9 miles per gallon for new passenger vehicles as early as 2012. The current EU standard already requires more than 40 miles per gallon about 15% higher than the U.S. goal set for 12 years from now. <BR/> <BR/>Japan currently has a standard of about 40 miles per gallon. Japan aims to further improve fuel efficiency by 17% by 2015, reaching 46.9 miles per gallon.<BR/> <BR/>China has a current average of slightly under 35 miles per gallon. Chinese fuel standards are on target to reach the government’s goal of 35.8 miles per gallon by 2009. China will not only meet, but exceed, the goal just established by the United States for 2020 — more than a full decade earlier. <BR/> <BR/>Australia is targeting 34.4 miles per gallon by 2010.<BR/> <BR/>Canada is targeting 34.1 miles per gallon by 2010. <BR/> <BR/>Under the current administration, purchasing an electric vehicle is becoming more of a necessity rather than an alternative. <BR/>BG Automotive Group, Ltd.<BR/>http://www.bgelectriccars.com/BG Automotive Grouphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05090332322988048198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12986851.post-32269172321533919342007-01-08T18:49:00.000-08:002007-01-08T18:49:00.000-08:00What if Huppert's peak thesis and the Russian/Ukra...What if Huppert's peak thesis and the Russian/Ukranian notion <br />a non-biological of petroleum are both true? Will<br />we be lacking affordable fuel and the atmospheric oxygen for its combustion?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12986851.post-34021439244870101792006-10-25T15:59:00.000-07:002006-10-25T15:59:00.000-07:00btw, was your mispelling of Hubbert's name in your...btw, was your mispelling of Hubbert's name in your post's title intentional or unintentional? If it was intentional, I'm missing the joke...Jesse Jenkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00297127385884430247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12986851.post-90088645336197020072006-10-25T15:58:00.000-07:002006-10-25T15:58:00.000-07:00"What an irony it would be if oil prices briefly d..."What an irony it would be if oil prices briefly declined to say $20 per barrel and stayed there for a couple of years and then shot up to $100 and did not decline thereafter."<br /><br />One way to avoid such a sad and probably catostrophic irony would be to enact an oil tax that was pegged to the price per barrel of oil and was designed to guarantee that prices per barrel did not fall below a certain floor - say $40/barrel. That would provide the alt fuels industry with enough certainty to invest in expanded production and could offer a source of funding for alt fuels/renewable energy research and development if/when prices did fall below the floor. <br /><br />Of course, that's going to be a hard sell in Washington...Jesse Jenkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00297127385884430247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12986851.post-75280255550674465652006-10-11T17:00:00.000-07:002006-10-11T17:00:00.000-07:00"and consumer’s would have no choice but to pay as..."and consumer’s would have no choice but to pay as much as the market demanded" - I suspect you would see consumers embrace high mpg hybrids (diesel?) with much more vigor when that occured. Maybe by then, 70 mpg models could be commonly available. Regarding global warming, however, I think that even cheap oil won't displace the interest in adopting practices that put less CO2 into the air (ex: renewables, nuclear), if it can be done at minimal cost increase. I have been surprised before. I never would have guessed that sustainably produced food with no pesticides would ever catch on. Yet today it is the largest and most profitable part of our food industry.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com