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Gold/Mining/Energy : PEAK OIL - The New Y2K or The Beginning of the Real End? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: gg cox who wrote (302)	4/12/2005 9:35:50 AM
From: Mahatmabenfoo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1183

> I did not suggest anyone buy a wind up alarm clock True, but you suggested not using electric clocks. > If many smaller cars are made rather than large ones there > has to be a net saving in oil cost. A lot of "obvious" things don't stand up to analysis. In the case of cars, the average car - including hybrids - consumes 90 barrels (or close to 4,000 gallons) of oil during its construction. I don't know if that includes the fossil fuels to refine the metal used in the car, or to transport it to where you can pick it up. Over time a more fuel efficent car will be a savings, but it may take awhile, especially since you won't be buying 4,000 oil gallons worth of gasoline as often as you used to. > energy star rating including water on demand hot water heater > and hi efficiency furnace and have watched monthly bills go into power dive Fab! So few people seem to care about that stuff anymore. > I just got off the "jewel of the fleet" and here it is here.. > cmhc-schl.gc.ca NYCity mandated toilets with smaller tanks about 5 or so years ago. ""In Europe hallways are dark, until a sensor detects a person there, and the light temporarily comes on. Those sensors have existed for AT LEAST 25 years. How much oil do they save?"" > I do not know,at least they have been doing the smart thing for "AT LEAST 25 years." Oh, yes! I think it's nuts the USA hasn't used the same system. A gallon of oil saved is oil to use later -- to change a 30 acre yield to a 130 acre yield of a futre crop. - Charles