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Posted over 4 years ago Why is OPEC allowed to cut production of oil prices in order to drive the price of oil up? This is ridiculous. People are supposedly struggling, and they can just capriciously decide that they need more money?! Why is this possible? This is why we need to gey away from this evil dependance on foreign oil. They basically control us when it comes to gas prices. We need to find other resources even if it means looking in our own backyard. Claire Kruszka |
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| Posted over 4 years ago For lack of a better way of putting it....They do it because they can! They know that they have us (the US) by the short hairs and we are going to pay whatever they charge! Hopefully some genius will come up with another way of powering our vehicles, heating our homes and making other petrolium based products and we will then be able to have more control of the prices. You know, supply and demand. We won't demand it, so they will have too much supply! |
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| Posted about 4 years ago I agree with Shan4691 sort of. OPEC will do whatever they want since there is that wonderful economic term supply and demand. Now if only America had a automotive company that had something in the works for a E85/Electric Hybrid or a Hydrogen Fuel Cell.....Oh wait we do! GM has: Chevrolet Volt (E85/Electric Hybrid [Lithium Battery] that will get 40miles one way without the use any gas; not to mention its not bad on the eyes!): http://www.chevrolet.com/electriccar/ Gm also has: Chevrolet Equinox Fuel Cell (Hydrogen Fuel Cell/Electric [Lithium Battery] that emits no carbon "foot print" and only water out of the exhaust pipe): http://www.chevrolet.com/fuelcell/ Chrysler has: Chrysler Ecovoyager concept (Hydrogen Fuel Cell/Electric [Lithium Battery] that emits no carbon “foot print” for 300 miles and only water out of the exhaust pipe): http://www.chrysler.com/en/autoshow/concept_vehicles/ecovoyager/ Ford has: Ford Edge w/ HySeries Drive (Hydrogen Fuel Cell/Electric [Lithium Battery] for the first 25 miles runs on pure electricity and 200 more miles on a hydrogen fuel cell that recharges the Lithium Batteries): http://www.ford.com/innovation/environmentally-friendly/hydrogen/ford-edge-hyseries/edge-fuel-cell-hybrid-346p Now before people start harping on me about how the foreign cars are more dependable check the new JD Power and Associates 2009 Dependability: http://www.jdpower.com/autos/ratings/dependability-ratings-by-brand/sortcolumn-1/ascending/page-#page-anchor Buick (5), Lincoln (4), Cadillac (4), Ford (3), Chrysler (3), GMC (3), Chevrolet (3), & Volvo (3) (Yes, I know they aren’t primarily built in America but guess what they are owned by Ford) rank above Nissan (2), MINI (2), Kia (2), Scion (2), Land Rover (2), Volkswagon (2), & Suzuki (2). Let me put it this way: what you put in is what you get out. Keep up with your scheduled maintenance and your car should last no less than 200,000 miles. Oh and I forgot the reason why I mentioned Lithium Batteries so much...They will be built in America not over seas -Gerard |
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| Posted about 4 years ago The only problem is that the Automotive Industry has ben in Cahoots with the Petroleum Industry forever and it's difficult for them to want to produce something that they don't want. Remember that Jimmy Carter tried to get us away from oil back in the 70's, but he met with all kinds of resistance even though we had the technology back then to work with. |
