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Re: Exxon reports $9.9B in NET profits
[ QUOTE ] What makes me mad, is the people who won't get a bicycle and use it for at least when they can. You live 30 miles from work? I'd argue that's still cycle able, and you'd be in great shape, or you should/could move closer. At the very least you can bicycle to the market with a backpack, use it when returning… -
Re: Exxon reports $9.9B in NET profits
Where do you think they get that electricity from? Not purely from oil (and even the parts that come from oil can be heavy oil that is useless for fuel or plastics or such). At least part of it comes from coal, nuclear energy, wind and water. The exact distribution varies, for example France has ~80% nuclear power. Since… -
Re: Exxon reports $9.9B in NET profits
[ QUOTE ] Well, you have to understand that in a capitalistic society, that companies like Exxon answer to their stockholders. [/ QUOTE ] It has fuck all to do with stockholders. The market determines the price; dividends come out of profits and do not influence the price of a good. -
Re: Exxon reports $9.9B in NET profits
I'm sure some UK'er will snub it, but didn't Top Gear recently report that riding the bus / train wastes more fuel per person than if each individual rode in a car?... and that numerous diesel cars in the UK were more fuel efficient than the Prius... -
Re: Exxon reports $9.9B in NET profits
I beleive the efficiency thing was that a fully loaded car was slightly more efficient than a fully loaded train over a long distance - 400 miles or so. when it comes to urban areas the fule efficiency of the car drops considerably. As for buses, no idea, but in my OWN UNIFORMED opinion, I'll state with no proof, simply… -
Re: Exxon reports $9.9B in NET profits
I'm sure some UK'er will snub it, but didn't Top Gear recently report that riding the bus / train wastes more fuel per person than if each individual rode in a car? I have trouble believing that as most trains run on electicity these days. Until you can fuel your car with plutonium (cue the Back To The Future references),… -
Re: Exxon reports $9.9B in NET profits
I plan to get a used car (hopefully within the next week). But I will always do my damndest to live right by wherever I work. The commute times in this state are ridiculous, and the cost for filling a tank once a week like what I used to do these days would be horrendous. Plus those hours spent on the road every day saps… -
Re: Exxon reports $9.9B in NET profits
Yeah I'm definitely looking into getting a motorcycle as well as a diesel pickup to run the potato chip oil. It's a snowball effect though. Most of our energy comes from oil. Prices for everything have increased dramatically as a result. I was just looking at a stack of groceries I bought yesterday and realized that the… -
Re: Exxon reports $9.9B in NET profits
[ QUOTE ] I have trouble believing that as most trains run on electicity these days. [/ QUOTE ] Where do you think they get that electricity from? [ QUOTE ] I still dont understand the SUV thing. [/ QUOTE ] What's not to get? Noone wants to drive a minivan, and the station wagon is just barely coming back in style (dressed… -
Re: Exxon reports $9.9B in NET profits
we dont need oil or coal to give us power, we just do it because thats what were told needs to keep hapening or the market will crash. Solar power, wind and water get less than a million each WHEN they even get funding, and thats not often. Nuclear power doesnt really get much funding any more after we were all told that…
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