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Every election cycle, people claim "But gas prices were less under "John Doe"! The POTUS nor his policies do very little, if anything, to affect the price gasoline and anyone that claims as such is either a liar uninformed. |
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11-23-2012, 04:53 PM | #2 | |
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Why are you bringing up politics? I was referring to there relatively suddenly being a new flow of oil coming into the global market. One of the items that is very closely watched is the global spare capacity. If we start putting millions more barrels of crude into the market, it eases the space capacity concerns. That has nothing to do with politics.
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I must admit, you are confusing the hell out of me right now, Dane. I wasn't being political at all if that is what you are saying.
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If public lands were to be opened up to oil companies and production were increased, there is absolutely no guarantee that prices at the pump would be considerably reduced, nor are there any guarantees that the oil extracted from public land would be available exclusively to Americans. That's the dirty secret. Cold fusion is the answer. Until then, nuclear fission plants should be everywhere. |
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11-24-2012, 05:31 PM | #6 | |
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Whether the oil was consumed domestically isn't very relevant.
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There is no way you can guarantee that prices would fall and it's most particularly relevant that it would be used state side.
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Magnetized Liner Inertial Fusion is currently the most exciting. We'll know by this time next year if the theories regarding it are viable. In theory, a MagLIF reactor could produce a 1000x return on energy expended. Combine this with the massive tech leaps we are starting to make in energy storage and you really WILL have a new golden age. It's criminal how little we spend on this research. I can't imagine any single thing that is more important to our national security. |
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You're talking Fusion. Fusion is this close? If Fusion were to be realized, not only would the world's energy problems be solved in less than a decade after implementation, all transportation would almost immediately be converted to electric and for the most part, the world would be free of human pollution. Also, that energy source would be used to power starships and the push toward the speed of light could begin. It's seriously that close? I've never heard that before. |
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Nuclear power works for me, but even then, it would be a massive and costly conversion from fossil fuel vehicle power to EV.
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