No Gas on May 15th!!!!

[The Figment]

I Love Cars....I Hate Big Oil....I Wanna Drive THIS!!!!

Tesla Motors

[Fengzi]

I think ive finally figured it out. We are so close to switching to an alternate feul source and these companies want to rob us as much as they can, and make as much free money as possible before they go out of business. Within the next 10 years we will have an alternate feul source. Brazil has already completley switched over to Ethanol. And our cars can already run on 30% Ethanol.

I really dont get how our government can be so stupid. By switching to Ethanol we would not only get ourselfs off of fossil fuels but we would be supporting our own economy. Not the Arab economys. They wouldnt have to depend on War to make money. They would be able to grow everything we need for ethanol right here in the good ol' USA.

Ethanol isn't the savior of the world that people make it out to be. Yes, it is an alternative to oil but the reality is that it's a pretty inefficient alternative. First, some evidence shows that ethanol produces more smog than gasoline. Also, depending on who you ask, ethanol has a negative net energy balance. Meaning that it untimately takes more energy to make it, than you get from it.

Probably the biggest concern with ethanol is it's impact on food prices. Farmers switch to corn and grow less of other crops. The price of soybean futures (kind of like buying soybean stock) is up nearly 50% from last year, largely due to the fact that farmers are growing corn instead. Also, as more corn is needed prices of corn will go up. This won't just effect your summer corn on the cob though. Corn products such as corn syrup, corn starch, etc are used in a huge percentage of the food we eat. Also, corn is a major source of animal feed. So, the price of that burger your eating along with that ear of corn will go up too.

Don't get me wrong, I live in the Silicon Valley where gas prices are high ($3.57 a gallon for the cheap stuff at Arco) and my daily commute uses about 3 gallons a day. I 'd love to see a cheap alternative to oil dependence. It's just that ethanol isn't it.

That being said, I won't pump on the 15th. Sure, people will just fill up on the 15th or the 16th but it does make a statement. And anytime you can get a large enough portion of the population to make the same statement at the same time, people listen.

[typoerror]

why don't we protest our government that taxes gas $0.50 or more per gallon, which is more profit per gallon then big oil makes. that adds to the price and they do nothing with the product except collect taxes from it. people not going to the pump will not make the prices go down. countries such as China that are buying astronomical amounts of oil are driving prices higher.


ethanol is another joke, did you realize they BURN GASOLINE to make ethanol. poor mexicans cant afford tortilla's now because the demand for corn is so high. Fengzi brilliantly touched on this subject.(see above comment)

[suhl]

Ethanol isn't the savior of the world that people make it out to be. Yes, it is an alternative to oil but the reality is that it's a pretty inefficient alternative. First, some evidence shows that ethanol produces more smog than gasoline. Also, depending on who you ask, ethanol has a negative net energy balance. Meaning that it untimately takes more energy to make it, than you get from it.

Probably the biggest concern with ethanol is it's impact on food prices. Farmers switch to corn and grow less of other crops. The price of soybean futures (kind of like buying soybean stock) is up nearly 50% from last year, largely due to the fact that farmers are growing corn instead. Also, as more corn is needed prices of corn will go up. This won't just effect your summer corn on the cob though. Corn products such as corn syrup, corn starch, etc are used in a huge percentage of the food we eat. Also, corn is a major source of animal feed. So, the price of that burger your eating along with that ear of corn will go up too.

Don't get me wrong, I live in the Silicon Valley where gas prices are high ($3.57 a gallon for the cheap stuff at Arco) and my daily commute uses about 3 gallons a day. I 'd love to see a cheap alternative to oil dependence. It's just that ethanol isn't it.

That being said, I won't pump on the 15th. Sure, people will just fill up on the 15th or the 16th but it does make a statement. And anytime you can get a large enough portion of the population to make the same statement at the same time, people listen.

also here in illinois where corn is a huge crop farmers dont like ethanol so much because they make less money off of it than they do selling corn as food and i believe are forced to sell so much of their corn for making ethanol, though i could be wrong on th at. you may have said as much, now that i am actually reading the whole post. oh well

[typoerror]

ain't that some shit, i just so happened to filled up 3 cars today.

[slipknotpsycho]

hmmm..... doesn't seem like anyone really 'protested' now how did i know that was coming....?

[halfassedjediknight]

i didnt get gas today but only because i couldnt afford it.

ill get some thursday. payday. yeah.

[onequickmove]

somehow i don't see this happening again (maybe the first was a fluke) but i'll just wait by and see... alot more people have cars and have reason to have to use them then in 1997...

how long ago do you think that was???? lol

[slipknotpsycho]

how long ago do you think that was???? lol

not that long ago, but with cars becoming cheaper and more mass produced and population steadily growing, there's a good percentage higher of cars on the road... it' snot about how long ago it was, it's about the ever increasing growth of population, demand and production...

[Dr.Chiefer]

hey i heard the gas prices dropped 50 cents


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