09-09-2005, 04:08 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Originally Posted by gwinter
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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
Part of me is happy to see it happen though - there are WAY too many huge gas-guzzling vehicles on the road where I live, and hopefully this will push people towards smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles...and push the car makers for more hybrid vehicles.
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Sometimes I wonder about this. A friend of mine is so worked up, he said that the best thing that can happen is for oil supply to run out tomorrow. But while we focus on gas usage on vehicles, let us not forget that petroleum is also the raw material for many other things that we heavily depend on. Plastics, for example.
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Not an issue. Putting aside that we can create plastic from other materials, there will still be vast resources of oil that is unsuitable for refining into petrol but still usable for plastics and other applications. It's only the 'conventional' stocks that are going. Canada alone has billions of barrels worth of 'uncoventional' oil of this type - and since it won't be used at the same rate as petrol is, it will last us well into the 2200s at least.
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