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32 years of oil supply left
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14. June 2008 @ 17:24 |
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There are still very few hummers over here, they are being brought in as a novelty and are being used as a limo service, so they would be hired by a group of people celebrating on a night out maybe instead of a stretch limosene. I only know of one or two private ones and they belong to 'pop stars'.
A lot of so called yummy mummies are driving suv's the last ten years or so, ever since we've had the celtic tiger, which basically has been the rich people getting richer, the poor people getting told they're richer cos they can borrow cheap money and sky high property prices. You see a lot of it at the schools, driving half a mile or less in a three litre suv that's never been off road and never will, to pick up one child.
Anyway, it's all over now (celtic tiger), property prices are going bust and the banks won't give anyone any money unless they're 110% guaranteed to get their money back. So maybe the smaller cars might get more popular again.
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14. June 2008 @ 18:06 |
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Hopefully so. People are just plain stupid, and it's the people in the big cars that kill the people trying to be conservative in little cars.
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15. June 2008 @ 16:34 |
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They've started using wind farms here, and they're looking into harnessing wave energy to generate electricity, cos they're using a lot of fossil fuels at the moment to create electricity for heating, cooking etc. Will be interesting to see what happens. I do believe the oil companies have been supressing research into alternative methods of power for years e.g. brown's gas.
It's all messed up anyway, I mean I don't know if you ever hear of the hill of Tara, it's a really ancient site (thousands of years no-one's quite sure how old) going back to the ancient celts, druids, high kings of ireland used to have their seat there, and they want to build a motorway, actually are building a motorway through the valley it's located in. It's like the irish stonehenge (not quite the same). I mean what's the point if we're going to run out of oil anyway? Could they not knock down a few modern houses instead and pay people to relocate? Weird. It's like they have a hidden agenda or something and deliberately want to destroy the place.
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15. June 2008 @ 16:40 |
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Just several years back, Arabs in control of Egypt flooded a valley where lots of pharaohs were buried, and Islamic extremists in power destroyed some of the oldest and largest sculptures known to have ever existed. We lose more of our history every day.
We've got lots of problems that people in this world have blamed on cults and men smoking in secret, dark rooms who run the world. I don't really believe in that, but I will say it's rather obvious that wealthy people in power will really screw over the majority of the world to remain on top. It's human nature to be an asshole, I suppose...part of being human is to supposed to be rising above that.
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16. June 2008 @ 00:44 |
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In 30 years, alternatives will be figured out, if we dont destroy the planet first.
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16. June 2008 @ 09:42 |
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The problem is that is what scientists were saying 30 years ago.
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19. June 2008 @ 11:35 |
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Originally posted by Auslander:
The problem is that is what scientists were saying 30 years ago.
Yeah, but there's a lot more people interested in the environment now than there was then, back then it was a hippy minority thing. Now u have Al Gore in America and loads of people over the world. When enough people want to change, change will start to happen.
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19. June 2008 @ 13:18 |
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Al Gore is a idiot heres some fact about his home that guzzles more electricity in a month then most of us use in a year]
Energy Guzzled by Al Gore?s Home in Past Year Could Power 232 U.S. Homes for a Month
Gore?s personal electricity consumption up 10%, despite ?energy-efficient? home renovations
NASHVILLE - In the year since Al Gore took steps to make his home more energy-efficient, the former Vice President?s home energy use surged more than 10%, according to the Tennessee Center for Policy Research.
?A man?s commitment to his beliefs is best measured by what he does behind the closed doors of his own home,? said Drew Johnson, President of the Tennessee Center for Policy Research. ?Al Gore is a hypocrite and a fraud when it comes to his commitment to the environment, judging by his home energy consumption.?
In the past year, Gore?s home burned through 213,210 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity, enough to power 232 average American households for a month.
In February 2007, An Inconvenient Truth, a film based on a climate change speech developed by Gore, won an Academy Award for best documentary feature. The next day, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research uncovered that Gore?s Nashville home guzzled 20 times more electricity than the average American household.
After the Tennessee Center for Policy Research exposed Gore?s massive home energy use, the former Vice President scurried to make his home more energy-efficient. Despite adding solar panels, installing a geothermal system, replacing existing light bulbs with more efficient models, and overhauling the home?s windows and ductwork, Gore now consumes more electricity than before the ?green? overhaul.
Since taking steps to make his home more environmentally-friendly last June, Gore devours an average of 17,768 kWh per month ?1,638 kWh more energy per month than before the renovations ? at a cost of $16,533. By comparison, the average American household consumes 11,040 kWh in an entire year, according to the Energy Information Administration.
In the wake of becoming the most well-known global warming alarmist, Gore won an Oscar, a Grammy and the Nobel Peace Prize. In addition, Gore saw his personal wealth increase by an estimated $100 million thanks largely to speaking fees and investments related to global warming hysteria.
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19. June 2008 @ 14:13 |
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Ok, that's pretty interesting, didn't hear any of that over here. Well I didn't anyway, can't talk for the rest of Ireland!
See oil is getting more and more expensive. They're talking about $170 a barrel now! Do you think that'll make people use less, or will they just not care?
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