Possibly some good news for future oil prices
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caliginousface
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Chris_Ford said:
Ah, you got me, but their mindset is different than ours.
kellwolf
Piece of Trash
I'm down with mass transit, actually. I tend to use it when I travel to other cities, mainly b/c it's often cheaper than renting a car. The problem with America is we're too dependant on convenience. Having your own car makes it convenient, which feeds into the generationally fostered laziness of our society. Whatdya' mean I have to get up two hours early to take the bus to work? Ah, screw it. I'll buy my own car and b*tch about the price of gas until someone else fixes it.
It's not just rural areas (which traditionally have never really had transportation issues since they tend to be self-sustaining). It's the urban sprawls like Dallas, Orlando, Miami, Memphis, Baltimore, etc. If you want to get from one side of town to the other, tough. You're driving. There is no other option. Orlando has the bus system, which if you're staying in your little corner of town isn't too bad. I used to take it to work a lot. But, once again if you wanna go from one side to the other, tough. It'll take all day. Orlando was even trying to get some sort of rail system going, but once it came down that people commuting to and from work might use it, funding was cut. They were only interested in getting tourists from the airport to Disney, not cutting down on traffic or pollution. JT, what's the latest on that? Is it still dead or is it just in the ICU?
We do have a lot of nice freedoms here in America, but the minute someone suggests it might be done better in another country, we get people all up in arms. Fact is, mass transit works in metropolitan areas. There are tons of examples proving it, but people just don't want to let go of their cars and let someone else do the driving/depend on someone else's schedule. Europe and Tokyo have made it work, why the heck can't we?
As far as nuclear goes, Chernobyl proves one thing: don't cut corners on your containment buildings and training. People like to point to Three Mile Island and Chernobyl as examples of why nuclear power is unsafe. That's like pointing to Sioux City and 9/11 and saying that flying is unsafe. There are hundreds of reactors all over the country that operate safely on a daily basis. We've had two major incidents in almost 30 years and that makes it unsafe? Heck, believe it or not technology has actually made it SAFER since then. It's all the weirdo hippies in their Tevas that normally point to the catastrophies and say nuclear is unsafe. If you get the waste problem solved, it's one of the cleanist, safest energies out there.
Problem with solar is storing the energy. Most of the energy that can be collected is normally lost in the process or slowly bleeds off during the storage. Problems that if solved would open up another avenue. Same with windpower. We've got all this space here to build windfarms in the Midwest, yet they're unpopular. Even some European countries have more wind power than us, and we've already touched on how they have to "take turns standing up."
It's not just rural areas (which traditionally have never really had transportation issues since they tend to be self-sustaining). It's the urban sprawls like Dallas, Orlando, Miami, Memphis, Baltimore, etc. If you want to get from one side of town to the other, tough. You're driving. There is no other option. Orlando has the bus system, which if you're staying in your little corner of town isn't too bad. I used to take it to work a lot. But, once again if you wanna go from one side to the other, tough. It'll take all day. Orlando was even trying to get some sort of rail system going, but once it came down that people commuting to and from work might use it, funding was cut. They were only interested in getting tourists from the airport to Disney, not cutting down on traffic or pollution. JT, what's the latest on that? Is it still dead or is it just in the ICU?
We do have a lot of nice freedoms here in America, but the minute someone suggests it might be done better in another country, we get people all up in arms. Fact is, mass transit works in metropolitan areas. There are tons of examples proving it, but people just don't want to let go of their cars and let someone else do the driving/depend on someone else's schedule. Europe and Tokyo have made it work, why the heck can't we?
As far as nuclear goes, Chernobyl proves one thing: don't cut corners on your containment buildings and training. People like to point to Three Mile Island and Chernobyl as examples of why nuclear power is unsafe. That's like pointing to Sioux City and 9/11 and saying that flying is unsafe. There are hundreds of reactors all over the country that operate safely on a daily basis. We've had two major incidents in almost 30 years and that makes it unsafe? Heck, believe it or not technology has actually made it SAFER since then. It's all the weirdo hippies in their Tevas that normally point to the catastrophies and say nuclear is unsafe. If you get the waste problem solved, it's one of the cleanist, safest energies out there.
Problem with solar is storing the energy. Most of the energy that can be collected is normally lost in the process or slowly bleeds off during the storage. Problems that if solved would open up another avenue. Same with windpower. We've got all this space here to build windfarms in the Midwest, yet they're unpopular. Even some European countries have more wind power than us, and we've already touched on how they have to "take turns standing up."