Oil inflation 47% since January.

[braeutigamp]

What's so bad about high petrol prices?
High oil and petrol prices will greatly accelerate the development of alternative energies. There's wind, water, bio mass, nuclear and sun energy. All of them won't influence our ecosphere in the long run. Especially US citizens from the southern US should now know how important it is not to change the climate too much.
Unfortunately the change of climate doesn't affect only those who haven't signed the Kyoto protocol yet.

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[ZacOz]

Well doing my bit here for the supply vs demand problem. 50cc scooter to work each day and a $4.50 weekly fuel bill (less than a gallon a week if I remember my conversions correctly).

[Livewire]

Now only if you could get around with a scooter during the cold winter months when the roads are icy and the temperature freezes exposed skin in under 10 seconds.
No wonder Canadians use so much energy. But, it might help if industry had better building standards such that buildings had better insulating properties.

Solar doesn't work where the sun doesn't shine. Bio only works as long as you have somthing bio to use and wind only works when the wind blows. Maybe in 25 years from now when Carbon Nanotubes are refined will we have an opportunity to create re-generative Mega-Capacity batteries to store intermittent energies and use it for transportation and housing. In any event, you can only burn so much bio matter before you run into trouble with the pollution. Gas prices up north have been going down for some strange reason.

[blutach]

LMAO Livewire. You aren't to know, but Zac comes from Northern Australia, where the coldest it gets is about 25 deg C. He goes around in winter in shorts and a Tee.

Regards

[Chewy]

Livewire,
Doesn't Canada have a wealth of hydroelectric power?
"Oh yes Canada's also sells America a huge amount of electricity. Whether from the James Bay project in Quebec keeping New York State alight, British Columbia sending excess power down the West Coast to try to keep California from browning out of existence, or Ontario being hooked into a power-sharing grid that stretches down to Ohio, Canada's hydroelectric power runs through wires across the union."
hybrid cars????