Inevitably, gas/diesel will be $5/gallon in a few years..what then... - Page 3 - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

Hatterasguy · #31 05-02-2006, 11:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Carrameow

Sure hide the thread, life will go on like usual, this is just a dream and tomorrow, Gas will be $2.00 a gallon like back in 2002.
Sometimes I think this is Bad Dream and I will wake up and everything will be the same again.
This is Diesel Discussion related. I plan to be still working on Cars, specifically my 300D, because I think I would be goofy to buy a new car right now.

Because this thread has zero to do with diesel cars, and its my job. It won't be hiding it will be over in OD, two simple mouse clicks away.

Pete Burton · #32 05-02-2006, 11:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy

Because this thread has zero to do with diesel cars, and its my job. It won't be hiding it will be over in OD, two simple mouse clicks away.

diesel, prechamber, flex disc, oil cooler!

Hatterasguy · #33 05-02-2006, 11:52 AM

My car won't start! Does it have glow plugs??

Pete Burton · #34 05-02-2006, 11:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy

Because this thread has zero to do with diesel cars, and its my job. It won't be hiding it will be over in OD, two simple mouse clicks away.

monovalve, fuel strainer, block heater, cetane!

Pete Burton · #35 05-02-2006, 11:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy

Because this thread has zero to do with diesel cars, and its my job. It won't be hiding it will be over in OD, two simple mouse clicks away.

delivery valve, timing chain, blowby, resonator!

michael cole · #36 05-02-2006, 11:57 AM

"Basically, the one-world global economy is all about making the serfs of the world all function at the same level. So China/India serfs need to be pulled up a bit and the American/European serfs reduced in lifestyle."

funny how the capitalist barons of the world all studied Karl marx

Ken300D[/QUOTE]

Hatterasguy · #37 05-02-2006, 11:59 AM

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Originally Posted by michael cole

Basically, the one-world global economy is all about making the serfs of the world all function at the same level. So China/India serfs need to be pulled up a bit and the American/European serfs reduced in lifestyle.

funny how the capitalist barons of the world all studied Karl marx

Ken300D

Yep the old 90/10 rule.

Pete Burton · #38 05-02-2006, 11:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy

Because this thread has zero to do with diesel cars, and its my job. It won't be hiding it will be over in OD, two simple mouse clicks away.

glow plug relay, torque converter, impeller, euro headlights!

Pete Burton · #39 05-02-2006, 12:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy

Because this thread has zero to do with diesel cars, and its my job. It won't be hiding it will be over in OD, two simple mouse clicks away.

vacuum modulator, chain guide rails, hirschmann antenna, fuel price....OOPS!

F18 · #40 05-02-2006, 12:23 PM

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Originally Posted by aklim

England's situation is different too. They have other things that make up for it while we don't and vice versa. It would be difficult to compare apples to apples when you are comparing europe unless you are taking the whole thing into account and not just one aspect. They probably have certain things that are way cheaper than we do here and vice versa. In Nam, gas is feared to be smuggled out of country because their prices are lower than the neighbouring countries from subsidies. They are an oil producing country with no refining facilities so they buy refined product and sell it at a discount to the people. Wanna still compare with Nam or Europe?

http://www.thanhniennews.com/business/?catid=2&newsid=14845

The only barometer we have is to look at other developed countries with mature economies that are bidding and barturing for the same crude oil on the world market. NAM is an emerging country in the world market with an economy just this side of 3rd world...it can not be used for a measure of anything. Some of my accounts have just moved production on goods from China to Vietnam because labor is cheaper... penny's n hour....
The one thing we have had going for us was our vast amount of natural petrol resources that the other developed countries did not. Those countries always had to import crude. That just prolonged the inevitable for us.....

aklim · #41 05-02-2006, 12:33 PM

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Originally Posted by F18

The only barometer we have is to look at other developed countries with mature economies that are bidding and barturing for the same crude oil on the world market. NAM is an emerging country in the world market with an economy just this side of 3rd world...it can not be used for a measure of anything. Some of my accounts have just moved production on goods from China to Vietnam because labor is cheaper... penny's n hour....
The one thing we have had going for us was the vast amount of natural petrol resources that the other developed countries did not. Those countries always had to import crude. That just prolonged the inevitable for us.....

Only difference is a barometer is accurate gauge of the atmospheric pressure going up or down indicating fair or foul weather. Looking at europe isn't really half as accurate. As far as I am concerned, looking at europe is little more than a SWAG. Their way of operations are very different. For instance, they have cheaper medical services. So they pay more for gas while we pay more for medical. There may be a lot of other things involved. That is why I think it isn't more than an SWAG when we use them with certain aspects only.

pawoSD · #42 05-02-2006, 12:51 PM

I saw a mint yellow 300d yesterday go past me driven by a guy that looked just like conan o'brien.

Very interesting!

aklim · #43 05-02-2006, 12:53 PM

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Originally Posted by pawoSD

I saw a mint yellow 300d yesterday go past me driven by a guy that looked just like conan o'brien.

Very interesting!

Was Elvis with him too?

Ken300D · #44 05-03-2006, 09:31 AM

I distinctly remember in the 1973-1974 time frame that Dan Rather on the CBS Evening News announced that all known crude oil reserves in the world would be fully used up by 1993.

This was during the OPEC oil embargo times.

I guess his source was wrong.

Same thing today - we are not half-finished with the world's oil in my opinion.

How long does it take to stoke a steam car to prepare it for the commute to work? If you have a traffic accident what is the chance of someone being badly scalded?

Ken300D

aklim · #45 05-03-2006, 09:44 AM

Predictions of imminent catastrophic depletion are almost as old as the oil industry. An 1855 advertisement for Kier’s Rock Oil, a patent medicine whose key ingredient was petroleum bubbling up from salt wells near Pittsburgh, urged customers to buy soon before “this wonderful product is depleted from Nature’s laboratory.” The ad appeared four years before Pennsylvania’s first oil well was drilled. In 1919 David White of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) predicted that world oil production would peak in nine years. And in 1943 the Standard Oil geologist Wallace Pratt calculated that the world would ultimately produce 600 billion barrels of oil. (In fact, more than 1 trillion barrels of oil had been pumped by 2006.)

During the 1970s, the Club of Rome report The Limits to Growth projected that, assuming consumption remained flat, all known oil reserves would be entirely consumed in just 31 years. With exponential growth in consumption, it added, all the known oil reserves would be consumed in 20 years. These dour predictions gained credibility when the Arab oil crisis of 1973 quadrupled prices from $3 to $12 per barrel (from $16 to $48 in 2006 dollars) and when the Iranian oil crisis more than doubled oil prices from $14 per barrel in 1978 to $35 per barrel by 1981 (from $45 to $98 in 2006 dollars).

http://www.reason.com/0605/fe.rb.peak.shtml