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big2dabank -> RE: Will rising gas prices change your driving plans? (4/28/2008 5:29:06 AM)
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Here is the deal.....we as amercians are spoiled to cheap gas. The rest of the world pays way way more than we do, and people rely on mass transit, carpooling, etc and typically buy cars that are more fuel efficient. Here in america, hardly anyone carpools or takes the mass transit system and we buy cars for the status, features, horsepower, and on and on and on, and somewhere down the line fuel efficiecy might be on the list. That is starting to change for alot of people, but until gas gets to be 5 and 6 dollars a gallon, I think most americans are going to keep doing what we do and just suck it up.. Would you realy change your lifetsyle for the price of gas, I know I wouldn't right now, but at 5 or 6 a gallon, I would certainly think twice about things and maybe plan a trip to the store instead of running to get milk and then two days later go run back to the store to get bread, beer or whatever... SO thats my thoughts, we are our own worst enemy when it comes to gas prices and at the rate biofuels are coming along it may be quite sometime before we see any real relief. I heard EPA has still not approved any E85 or flex fuel conversion kit for use in the US, there are lots on the market in other countires, but EPA is slow to approve any here. I know E10 is atarting to pop up all over the counrty, but it has not changed the price of gas at all in the areas I have seen it. SO until E85 becomes more prevelent and we stop depleting our corn supplies to produce an inefficient ethynol fuel and switch to more yielding crops like sugar cane, pond alage blooms have even become intereting and the best is an ecoli bacteria that poops hydrocrabon that can be refined to diesel or gas.... We are getting there, but we need to be prepared to suck it up for quite some time... [8D]
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