Gas prices. What can we do?

[Bobilly]

I know I'm not the only one on here(or in America for that matter) that's sick of these gas prices. It seems like as soon as the oil companies get an excuse like war or natural disaster bam the prices go up when there's no real connection. Of course the government doesn't do a thing cause they get a cut well I'm sick of it. We as Americans need to stand up and say no. Not just to gas but all the stupid things 'our' government is doing to us. We have rights and there is strength in numbers. So what can we do?

[TurboMic]

We can stop driving and using gas until we cripple the oil companies, or we can just keep going foreword and drive bad a** gas guzzling hot rods and chase wild women and drink all the Grey Goose and jager our bodies can handle and just keep living the American dream..... I know what I'm going to do...

[Bobilly]

Haha ya. More jäger always solves everything lol

[kerrige]

If every truck in the states got a CAI and a good tune I bet the oil demand drops a lot hahaha

[Bobilly]

We could trade our trucks in for Honda insights but how lame would that be. I'm drivin a cavalier right now while I fix my trans and I hate it.

[zebra]

we could all buy Chevy Volts... and then file for bankruptsy

[RedHeartbeat]

If you are a multi billionaire and successfully fail at making a profit on an endeavor that is in direct competition with what made you a billionaire, others may believe that wind doesn't work and will not attempt to set it up. All the while TBoone is raking in the profits from oil sales.

[pl4yboy]

If you are a multi billionaire and successfully fail at making a profit on an endeavor that is in direct competition with what made you a billionaire, others may believe that wind doesn't work and will not attempt to set it up. All the while TBoone is raking in the profits from oil sales.

I would agree if he hadn't been so adamant about alternatives in the past few years. He's been preaching natural gas and wind power fairly hard.

Sorry, my information was incorrect. The wind farm was supposed to be in the Texas panhandle. He does still have 200,000 acres leased there though for future plans.

[Frenchy]

I live right smack dab in the middle of hundreds of wind turbines. Annoying as hell, and all the power they make gets routed to Michigan.

[bartjo06]

While I'm an advocate of alternative energy there are a lot of misconceptions. Maine has a lot of wind generation and probably 75% of the power to the grid is being sent to Canada. We should be bringing the pipeline (nat gas) into the more rural parts of the state to make the paper mills more cost effective, and clean power producers. For every MW of generation made from a renewable, there needs to be enough rolling reserve (from base loaded plants i.e. combined cycle, coal fired, or nuclear) to cover the power made. No way there is going to be enough wind mills put up to cover our growing demand, we need more nuclear, gas, and coal (IGCC) plants, wind just doesn't have the power density needed.

For all you guys that like numbers, a wind farm with 30 windmills will produce about 45-60 MW PEAK while a single GE Frame 7FA with an attached HRSG will produce about 300 MW BASE...

The unfortunate catch 22 with nuclear is that while it's a great clean source of power, the naysayers are going to be fighting every step of the way now that they have the Japan incident to use against it. It'll be interesting to see what happens to the nuke plants that are already underway in the U.S. by companies like Progress (now Duke).

We have an abundance of coal and nat gas and we should be using it.


And to get back on topic, I don't mind paying high prices for gas, it's nice to have the creature comforts of a truck and the power too. I'll support the oil field guys any day rather than drive a Prius.