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April 24th, 2006, 03:11 AM
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Re: OT: Gas Prices
He's not joking; remember how you posted....
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...I was reading about a 'new' type of reactor that will actually utilize the waste materials from conventional nuclear reactors...
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Well, if that becomes quite successfull, and we've tossed all our nuclear waste into the sun, we can't get it back to power the new plants.....
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April 24th, 2006, 09:05 PM
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Actually, I wasn't talking about some theoretical nuclear waste tossed into the the sun, but about the glassified waste that we're currently producing as a storage solution.
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April 25th, 2006, 05:21 AM
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You want lower fuel bills? Get one of these: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4930794.stm
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April 25th, 2006, 02:31 PM
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I wouldn't fit very well in the front seat and I'm not sure I can beleive anybody but a midget could fit in the back.
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April 26th, 2006, 01:21 AM
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Re: OT: Gas Prices
I heard something interesting and something worrying too.
An analyst on CNN attributed rising gas prices to demand from China as well as the oil industry gouging. At first I thought that was harmless, but then the what-if, paranoid thought entered my mind that maybe China is forcing gas prices up intentionally. They don't have to worry about loosing money on paying higher gas prices since most of the US's merchandise and goods are currently being produced in china meaning china gets the money to pay higher prices.
Just a paranoid thought.
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April 26th, 2006, 01:36 AM
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There's a lot of people in china.
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April 26th, 2006, 01:46 PM
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I heard something interesting and something worrying too.
An analyst on CNN attributed rising gas prices to demand from China as well as the oil industry gouging. At first I thought that was harmless, but then the what-if, paranoid thought entered my mind that maybe China is forcing gas prices up intentionally. They don't have to worry about loosing money on paying higher gas prices since most of the US's merchandise and goods are currently being produced in china meaning china gets the money to pay higher prices.
Just a paranoid thought.
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China is #2 in petroluem usage, having recently passed Japan, but that doesn't tell the whole story. The US is still way out ahead of China in total usage at over 20 million barrels a day while China 'only' uses about 6.5 millions barrels a day. Incredibly, the increase in USA oil usage over the last decade has been about as much as China's total usage today! Looks like the lessons of the 1970s oil shocks have not been learned. Americans just cannot seem to learn the meaning of 'conserve'... 
Interesting statistics and info: http://www.gravmag.com/oil.html
http://www.energybulletin.net/15185.html
How's this for nerve? The leader of a country that consumes more than 20 million barrels of oil a day is warning the leader of a country that consumes some 6.5 million barrels not to try to lock up world oil resources. When President Bush welcomes the Chinese president, Hu Jintao, to the White House today, the American complaint will be that China's appetite for oil affects its stance on Iran, Sudan and other trouble spots.
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April 26th, 2006, 04:23 PM
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I think it's even more sad when you consider that China also has more than 4x the population of the US...
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May 8th, 2006, 02:16 AM
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And we all have to blame the oil companies for gouging everyone.
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Re: OT: Gas Prices
There are already cries to increase both state and federal gas taxes because they are loosing money since people are cutting back do to the high prices. This is the same BS that the electric companies love too pull on us.
"We need you to conserve 20%" - we do and they sell that extra 20% to some other state and make [censored] loads of $$$$ off of it, then cry that domestic sales are down by 20% and raise rates by 20%. So now your not only using 20% less, but your now paying 20% more for using less.
It would be a criminal act, and should be viewed as one, to impose a new tax, or raise any gas taxes in an effort to exploit the current situation.
Any politican that thinks raising the gas tax will improve our economy is not worth voting for.
My $0.02 worth.
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