audioguru

Performance?
I have a medium size car (Canadian cars are much bigger than toy cars in other countries).
It has a 2.2 liter engine.
I pull up beside a kid in his Honda at a stoplight.
You know kid's Honda cars. They are lowered so much that they spark as they drag along and bounce 10 times for each little bump because the shock absorbers are ruined.
Sometimes all the windows are black.
Either the kid is tiny or he sits on the floor.

The light turns green and the kid's engine is smoking like crazy because it has been over-reved too many times.
We are neck and neck until he changes gears (mine is an automatic transmission) which takes him all day then I am way ahead of him.

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mneary

And petroleum prices won't increase that much until it's actually in short supply.

Right now they are carefully controlling prices so we (1) give as much as possible to suppliers and (2) don't develop alternatives. If a viable alternative energy source appears, petroleum prices will fall just enough to remove the viability.

Solar is now about 150-200% the cost of most petroleum based alternatives. When solar gets cheaper, we will suddenly have an 'oversupply' of petroleum. It will last long enough to slow down solar research, then mysteriously back to 'shortages'.

On topic: I just paid $us3.749 per gallon of 87 (R+M/2) fuel in Hawthorne, CA, USA. I'll also get 3% cashback on the credit card for a net cost of about $3.637.

audioguru

Can the government tax solar power??

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rjvh

They do already by taxing the equipment if you buy it and at the end of life if you want to dispose it

Robert-Jan

3v0

The good news is that carbon fiber construction is very strong. The tests on the car showed it to be (hope I got this right) the stiffest they had ever tested.

We may start seeing carbon fiber more often. A company in Colorado has developed a method of making the carbon fiber panels in a press. The resulting panel is stronger then the hand laid ones and requires less labor to manufacture.

I am not sure that it will ever truly be in short supply during my lifetime.

There has to be some sort of moving target above which the oil companies would make less money. Although the supply of oil is limited it seems that the oil available for drilling seems to be increasing. Mostly due to new finds and improved drilling methods.

One has to wonder if the price has more to do with supply and demand or price fixing. As the price of fuel goes up and the fuel efficiency increases the oil companies can make the same (more) profit with less product. Neat racket.

My fear is that the drag caused by the price increases will do major damage to the world economy.

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