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Automotive News & Views How does gas at $4 and higher impact you?
2175 messages, Last post on Nov 05, 2009 at 3:05 PM
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Replying to: kdhspyder (Sep 24, 2008 12:00 pm) " Noted... $25 donation to the charity of your choice. " Noted and duly accepted. May I now congratulate you on your upcoming birthday as well as your choice of vehicle. It's a rough road ahead, I see the stock market doing well as all the other asset classes are busted and the sideline cash is too much after the election. Later when the rates start to rise..... Goldman is calling for a market bottom in October and 1070 spx . Though I feel we had a market bottom last Wednesday, vix at 42, t-bills negative it does not meet Goldman's schedule so we must revisit. Their oil analyst ( my saying, never forget what the first 4 letters spell) is a peak oil advocate and stated $200 oil first. They were the first to say fnma/fre were insolvent scaring the foreign central banks who held trillions of their short term debt and threatened to dump leading to all US guaranteed debt being a pariah., the real reason fnm/ fre failed, their capitaliztion ratio's were fine as they stated. Anyway, the price of oil peaked China stockpiling pre- olympics and tanked there after. No man is an island. So what the hell do they use on their sandwiches there ? Bad mayo/Ireland joke, please excuse. Regardless, we go down they go down, oil gets extreme. All is better later but the world has a corrective mechanism against $200 oil. It's good to be Warren Buffet.Hell it's good to be Jimmy Buffet. pop top and lost shaker of salt.
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Replying to: gagrice (Sep 24, 2008 4:47 pm) Do you feel that all state governments are equally bad, so why not live near the ocean? I am for any law that protects and encourages investment in alt power generation, especially solar which has had such a hard time getting off the ground (so to speak!  ). And for the record I think you have to agree that the shade from the trees might save the shaded homeowner 10% of his/her daily cooling costs, but the solar array can provide ONE HUNDRED PERCENT of that homeowner's electricity, day in and day out. Much bigger savings preserving the operation of the solar array. There's news today that Toyota will show a natural gas powered hybrid at the LA show this fall. How do these CNG-powered cars get their gas? Is there a way to get it from your house supply, or is it only from special refueling stations? I would think that being a regular hybrid the thing would have a large range, 500 miles or more, and would be a great way to save half of one's gasoline costs.
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Replying to: duke23 (Sep 24, 2008 6:13 pm) I'd rather be Jimmy Buffett. More fun and $50 million a year ain't bad for a guy that had his last big hit 35 years ago. You know that Warren is his Uncle? |
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Replying to: gagrice (Sep 24, 2008 8:24 pm) In the news, U.S. gasoline inventories lowest since 1967.
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Replying to: nippononly (Sep 24, 2008 7:45 pm) Solar still has a ways to go. It has applications. If it was subsidized at a reasonable percentage for home owners I would consider. I have a large roof area that faces South. Though my neighbor has huge pine trees. Not sure how they would affect solar. The last thing I would consider is suing a neighbor under any circumstances. I think that is a big part of what is wrong with America. CNG can be produced at home with PHILL. I believe that Honda just sold their interest in FuelMaker the company that MFG PHILL. Your Natural Gas service has to be able to handle the heavier demand. It takes about 6 hours to fill a Civic GX with a home unit like PHILL. The Current GX is selling for about $26k. Kind of expensive for a Civic. Maximum range is about 280 miles. I think that it is still a commuter only vehicle. You can get a lot of used CNG Crown Vics at State auctions. A friend buys them all the time for his parking lot cleaning service.
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Replying to: steve_ (Sep 24, 2008 8:32 pm) Better get those gulf refineries up and running. Could be intentional, nah.....
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Replying to: gagrice (Sep 24, 2008 8:43 pm) |
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Replying to: andre1969 (Sep 24, 2008 3:45 pm) I'm guessing these neighbors will not be inviting each other to their Christmas parties. |
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Replying to: gagrice (Sep 24, 2008 8:40 pm) One of the early designers of the WCI was, yep you guessed it, your good buds at CARB. Beginning in 2012, they will include automotive fuel emissions in the system. Until then, it is just power generators and large emitters like that.
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