Re: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-25 Thread Eli Allen
A few minor changes I'd make. First, I'm assuming the drugs are actually very cheap to make. So I say tax them very highly and they should still be cheaper then drugs are now and so prevent a black market, These taxes are what should be used to pay for all the regulation and treatment

RE: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-25 Thread 007
PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eli Allen Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 11:24 AM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: Re: [H] Gas prices A few minor changes I'd make. First, I'm assuming the drugs are actually very cheap to make. So I say tax them very highly and they should still be cheaper then drugs

RE: Re: RE: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-24 Thread gibney
List Subject: Re: Re: RE: Re: [H] Gas prices I am all about Ethanol. Unfortunately in the US the corn farmers are pushing for it. Making Ethanol from Corn is the most inefficient way of doing it, and supposedly yeilds less energy than what was spent in producing it. Making Ethanol from

Re: RE: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-18 Thread jeff.lane
My next door neighbor just moved up there. Small world - Original Message - From: Julian Hale [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 10:37 PM Subject: Re: RE: Re: [H] Gas prices Hey, no shit... I just live a little north

RE: RE: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-18 Thread Mark Dodge
Crap, I'm moving to Seattle Mark Dodge MD Computers 602-421-0329 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jeff.lane Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 4:57 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: RE: Re: [H] Gas prices Spokane - Original

Re: RE: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-18 Thread jeff.lane
much like everyone else. Way too much!!! Jeff - Original Message - From: Mark Dodge [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'The Hardware List' hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 11:51 PM Subject: RE: RE: Re: [H] Gas prices Crap, I'm moving to Seattle Mark Dodge MD

Re: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-18 Thread Greg Sevart
...but given that we produce something like ~40% of our oil DOMESTICALLY, and the majority of the remainder comes from Canada, Mexico, and Venezuela, we wouldn't need to replace 100% of our oil consumption with oil from the ANWR. Even if we only replaced 50% of are imported oil, that would

Re: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-18 Thread chuck
- Original Message - From: Wayne Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 10:16 PM Subject: Re: Re: [H] Gas prices There was a James Bond movie where they put some drug into gasoline then distilled the gasoline

RE: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-18 Thread 007
PM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: Re: [H] Gas prices Like cold fusion? There were a couple of scientists, in Utah, several years ago that claimed they had made cold fusion work. That is clean, safe, perpetual, fusion .I don't recall their names but they had the scientific world standing on it's

Re: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-18 Thread chuck
- Original Message - From: Greg Sevart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 8:04 AM Subject: Re: Re: [H] Gas prices lately, but even they aren't as bad the middle east. Hoping to get completely away from oil imports

Re: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-18 Thread Hayes Elkins
/canadasoilsandsmaysparkfrenzy+canada+oil+sandhl=en From: FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: Re: [H] Gas prices Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:03:59 -0700 hope so, especially since Canada is drilling

Re: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-18 Thread Eli Allen
. - Original Message - From: Greg Sevart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 8:04 AM Subject: Re: Re: [H] Gas prices ...but given that we produce something like ~40% of our oil DOMESTICALLY, and the majority of the remainder comes from

Re: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-18 Thread j m g
Foreign Affairs magazine from a couple of years ago theorized that if the fed's had kept up the level of energy conservation RD funding as was spent from the early 70s to the early 80s we wouldn't have to worry about foreign at all by the late 90s, unfortunately by late 80s most of the big federal

Re: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-18 Thread Greg Sevart
Going by: http://www.doi.gov/news/030312.htm ANWR can only produce 1,400,000 barrels a day, otherwise known as way less then our middle east imports. I very strongly suspect that the 1.4mbpd figure is an economically viable figure. Given that oil prices have more than doubled since the

Re: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-18 Thread Greg Sevart
Hoping to get away from high prices for fuel is unrealistic, also, no matter where the energy comes from. Prices are supply and demand driven. Any decrease in price caused by an increase in supply is offset by an increase in demand. In the case of oil, prices have recently been driven

Re: RE: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-18 Thread j m g
:44 To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: RE: Re: [H] Gas prices Hell, we can grow ethanol. Read the stars, guys, we are getting screwed! The oil companies have been crying for years that oil prices are way behind inflation. I say, so what! I thought the idea was to keep inflation down

Re: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-18 Thread Analyst
On 18 Aug 2005 at 7:04, Greg Sevart wrote: It wouldn't be near $80/barrel. I had seen testimony from oil drilling firms who stated that because of the difficulty of drilling through permafrost, only having seasonal access (because they can't drive the big rigs over it during the thaw

Re: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-18 Thread Greg Sevart
PROTECTED] To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 1:14 PM Subject: Re: Re: [H] Gas prices On 18 Aug 2005 at 7:04, Greg Sevart wrote: It wouldn't be near $80/barrel. I had seen testimony from oil drilling firms who stated that because

Re: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-18 Thread Analyst
On 18 Aug 2005 at 8:20, Greg Sevart wrote: In the case of oil, prices have recently been driven NOT by supply and demand, but by the fears of supply and demand. Easily 50% of the cost of oil today is a premium built not on actual supply or demand, but mere speculation and the fear of supply

Re: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-18 Thread Ben Ruset
Additionally, the less load on their system, the more customers they can service with their existing infrastructure. From: Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu Aug 18 13:14:24 CDT 2005 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Gas prices On 18 Aug 2005 at 13:06, Hayes Elkins wrote: Why

Re: RE: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-18 Thread Ben Ruset
It's been pretty good for Exxon, Getty, Shell, etc. From: Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu Aug 18 13:29:59 CDT 2005 To: 'The Hardware List' hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: RE: [H] Gas prices On 19 Aug 2005 at 0:12, Tony Antoniou wrote: Bush made the BS oil inflation happen with his War

Re: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-18 Thread FORC5
until the hole is drilled nobody can predict anything, only guess. What's Canada getting out of there. besides there is still the Gulf once we can deep drill, larger reserves than middle east. At 06:17 AM 8/18/2005, Eli Allen Poked the stick with: Going by: http://www.doi.gov/news/030312.htm

Re: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Ben Ruset
I paid $2.55/gal for Regular today. I just wonder if we'll ever get back to the $1.50/gal days again. As harsh as it sounds, low gas prices are a lot more important to me that supporing anybody's agenda or liberating other countries. It's funny, though, that the gas companies are posting

Re: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Ben Ruset wrote: It's funny, though, that the gas companies are posting record profits. So I really wonder how much of this is an increase in oil price, and how much is just an excuse to charge more for gasoline. I look at it this way, assuming that a gas company wants

RE: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Bobby Heid
I hope you meant $30/barrel! LOL. Bobby -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 2:15 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: Re: [H] Gas prices snip There was a study in Canada that found

RE: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread 007
The most fuel efficient cars use heavy water. 007. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Christopher Fisk Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 2:16 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: Re: [H] Gas prices On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Ben Ruset wrote: It's

Re: RE: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Ben Ruset
: RE: Re: [H] Gas prices The most fuel efficient cars use heavy water. 007. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Christopher Fisk Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 2:16 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: Re: [H] Gas prices On Wed, 17 Aug 2005

Re: RE: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Ben Ruset wrote: A few years ago BMW showed off a 5 series that ran off water. It cracked the water into hydrogen within the car itself. Of course that tech won't ever see the light of day. :( This doesn't make sense. It takes energy to split water into Oxygen and

Re: Re: RE: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Ben Ruset
To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: RE: Re: [H] Gas prices On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Ben Ruset wrote: A few years ago BMW showed off a 5 series that ran off water. It cracked the water into hydrogen within the car itself. Of course that tech won't ever see the light of day

RE: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread 007
I was referring to fission technology (U235). Since fusion is years away. 007. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of 007 Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 2:26 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: RE: Re: [H] Gas prices The most fuel efficient cars

Re: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Gary VanderMolen
Ben Ruset wrote: A few years ago BMW showed off a 5 series that ran off water. It cracked the water into hydrogen within the car itself. Of course that tech won't ever see the light of day. :( Did someone repeal the laws of physics and chemistry? It takes more energy to crack water than

Re: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 03:52 PM 17/08/2005, Gary VanderMolen wrote: Did someone repeal the laws of physics and chemistry? It takes more energy to crack water than you get back when recombining the hydrogen and oxygen. I think that report was a misunderstanding of the technology. The idea is to use solar

Re: Re: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Ben Ruset
If you're cracking hydrogen in your car why would you need to fill up at a station? From: Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed Aug 17 13:56:41 CDT 2005 To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: Re: [H] Gas prices At 03:52 PM 17/08/2005, Gary VanderMolen wrote: Did

Re: Re: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 04:51 PM 17/08/2005, Ben Ruset wrote: If you're cracking hydrogen in your car why would you need to fill up at a station? Because cracking hydrogen requires more power than you can generate on current solar panels small enough to fit on a car roof. IIRC, there's a company here that sells

Re: Re: Re: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Ben Ruset
: Re: Re: Re: [H] Gas prices At 04:51 PM 17/08/2005, Ben Ruset wrote: If you're cracking hydrogen in your car why would you need to fill up at a station? Because cracking hydrogen requires more power than you can generate on current solar panels small enough to fit on a car roof. IIRC, there's

Re: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Ben Ruset
Further proof that the oil companies are gouging customers outside the mideast. You can't tell me that there is a ~$1.60/gal charge that goes to only pay transport and taxes. From: Zulfiqar Naushad [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed Aug 17 15:17:29 CDT 2005 To: The Hardware List

Re: RE: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread jeff.lane
Jeff From: Ben Ruset [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RE: Re: [H] Gas prices A few years ago BMW showed off a 5 series that ran off water. It cracked the water into hydrogen within the car itself. Of course that tech won't ever see the light of day. :( From: 007 [EMAIL

Re: RE: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread jeff.lane
Fuel cells are a very good alternative and should be practically available in the near future. Jeff - Original Message - From: Christopher Fisk [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 11:39 AM Subject: Re: RE: Re: [H] Gas

Re: Re: RE: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Ben Ruset
than what was spent in producing it, and has limited Brazil's dependance on foreign oil. From: jeff.lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed Aug 17 15:43:42 CDT 2005 To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: RE: Re: [H] Gas prices Hell, we can grow ethanol. Read the stars, guys, we

Re: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread jeff.lane
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: RE: Re: [H] Gas prices I was referring to fission technology (U235). Since fusion is years away. 007. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of 007 Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 2:26 PM

Re: Re: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Ben Ruset
tinfoil The oil companies probably had them killed or paid off. /tinfoil From: jeff.lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed Aug 17 16:00:17 CDT 2005 To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: Re: [H] Gas prices Like cold fusion? There were a couple of scientists, in Utah, several

Re: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread FORC5
hope so, especially since Canada is drilling not far from where we want to drill. but that is only a beginning, lot more to do. I suspect the Caribou population may double. fp At 01:58 PM 8/17/2005, Ben Ruset Poked the stick with: Didn't drilling in Alaska just pass? I consider myself an

RE: RE: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Mark Dodge
You don't live in Washington do you? Mark Dodge MD Computers 602-421-0329 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jeff.lane Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 1:44 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: RE: Re: [H] Gas prices Hell, we can

Re: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Analyst
On 17 Aug 2005 at 15:26, Ben Ruset wrote: Further proof that the oil companies are gouging customers outside the mideast. You can't tell me that there is a ~$1.60/gal charge that goes to only pay transport and taxes. From: Zulfiqar Naushad [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed Aug 17 15:17:29 CDT

Re: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Analyst
On 17 Aug 2005 at 15:58, Ben Ruset wrote: Didn't drilling in Alaska just pass? No, it is supposed to be jammed into the upcoming budget bill. I consider myself an environmentalist and I support drilling in Alaska. You'll likely be disappointed. Spence Abraham, who was this

Re: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Greg Sevart
and that: the roughly 10 billion barrels of oil expected to be found there would be the equivalent of JUST SIX MONTHS OF U.S. CONSUMPTION http://www.sacbee.com/news/special/power/032001abraham.html Vince ...but given that we produce something like ~40% of our oil DOMESTICALLY, and

Re: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread FORC5
drug cartel ought to be looking here :{) new black market At 05:00 PM 8/17/2005, Analyst Poked the stick with: To really get your blood boiling, gasoline in Venezuela is only 25 cents a gallon. Anybody want to captain a tanker full of gasoline back to the U.S. ? (Talk about ridin' a rocket)

RE: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Michael Decker
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 4:59 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: Re: [H] Gas prices Didn't drilling in Alaska just pass? I consider myself an environmentalist and I support drilling in Alaska.

Re: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Analyst
On 17 Aug 2005 at 18:29, Greg Sevart wrote: ...but given that we produce something like ~40% of our oil DOMESTICALLY, and the majority of the remainder comes from Canada, Mexico, and Venezuela, we wouldn't need to replace 100% of our oil consumption with oil from the ANWR. Even if we only

Re: RE: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-17 Thread Julian Hale
: Re: [H] Gas prices You don't live in Washington do you?