Comments for Thompson: Solutions for the fuel crisis at http://lakeconews.com , comment 1 to 13 out of 13 comments http://lakeconews.com Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:40:24 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/4793/925/#comment-5914 Donna, I have to agree the price of alternative vehicles is out of this world, if I could afford to drive a 50K + vehicle I probably would not care about $5/gallon fuel or how many MPG it gets. Have you noticed all the solar panels companies are now owned by Big Oil companies, seems odd? If they can\'t squeeze the $$ out of you one way they will do it another. :evil: - kd006 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:15:00 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/4793/925/#comment-5913 All said before by other persons. Nothing done from the bureaucrats then so we get the same old 1970 song today. Haw I\'m only a old dude what would I know. Happy fourth. - James Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:55:07 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/4793/925/#comment-5902 All of Mr Thompson\'s proposals sound reasonable and appropriate. My one quibble is with the release of 50 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The world market for oil is 85 million barrels per day. It is hard to see how this would have an impact that lasted more than 2 or 3 months, and once you touch the Strategic Petroleum Reserve the next touch gets easier. - jjackson Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:52:26 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/4793/925/#comment-5900 Oil Leases were given to private corporations because it was believed that they could more efficiently and quickly bring the oil to the market. It now appears that the outcome of these leases is to keep oil off the market. Don\'t add ANWR and the coastal shelf to this lease portfolio. It is time to have these unproductive leases revert to the US government. They could then be leased to someone interested in drilling. - jjackson Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:37:11 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/4793/925/#comment-5891 how much does an EV-1 cost out the door? One can only get out of a \"slow pace\" according to ones\' bank account in some instances. I\'d install solar on my roof in a heart beat but I\'m not sittin\' in high cotton. And that is a big part of the equation - getting any alternative to a scale of production that creates affordability to the masses. I hope to see a day when only a pump or two at the station delivers gasoline, the rest a myriad of choices. - Donna Christopher Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:09:50 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/4793/925/#comment-5885 I just want folks to know if you have not seen this documentary, you can see it in its entirety by going to Youtube.com and doing a search. You have to play 11 little video clips. But, I do believe it is time well spent. I wonder if Saturn of Santa Rosa could put an EV-1 on order for me? Who knows, maybe I could convince the management at the local Hidden Valley Foodmart to install a battery charging station for EV-1\'s? Perhaps we could start a clean air trend in California\'s cleanest air county by populating this area with EV-1\'s. On the other hand, maybe folks in Lake County prefer to do things the way they have always have done them - at a slow pace. - lamar Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:52:53 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/4793/925/#comment-5888 last week that they are working on getting a more user friendly schedule for the Transit system. Your right, it shouldn\'t be an all day trip to get to Lakeport (or Clearlake) and back. They are aware of the problem and are working to fix it. As far as the big pictures goes - how the hell did our parents fire up the Manhattan project, muster a large force (ships, planes, tanks etc) to fight a war, ration gas, grow victory gardens, ladies took off their nylon hose and donated them to the cause and picked up a riveting gun? And we can\'t find our behinds with both hands now. If we lose this country and our identity we have no one to blame but ourselves. Sure, we have piss poor leadership but that is NO EXCUSE!! We have what we deserve cause we\'ve gotten lazy and \'entitled\'. Our fearless leader says \"go shopping\" instead of \'we\'re at war - time to sacrifice\'. Course if he had acted like a leader the corporations would not have been able to siphon off what made the middle class the middle class in this country. Mission Accomplished. - Donna Christopher Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:20:48 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/4793/925/#comment-5887 [color=blue]Who are these \"experts\" that are saying speculation causes oil price rises?? My experts say there is no such thing. This is purely a demand driven supply problem manifesting in higher prices. Don\'t pass the buck, Mike, do something about either supplying more oil or an alternative.[/color] - edward24 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:11:02 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/4793/925/#comment-5880 public transportation! Ever tried taking it in Lake County, Mike? There aren\'t enough serviceable buses, there aren\'t enough drivers & the schedules really suck. - Rhyschenda Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:59:35 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/4793/925/#comment-5879 [color=olive]It\'s that philosophy that keeps prices up. Even bio-diesel is kept artificially inflated in order to keep oil \"competitive\", because big business doesn\'t want us to run on bio-fuels. After all we wouldn\'t want to go back to dependency on [i]farming[/i]![/color] - Rhyschenda Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:56:19 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/4793/925/#comment-5878 The sad part is that there ARE alternatives. The technology DOES exist. We just have been kept in the dark for so long that we can\'t see past our own backyard sometimes. Just watch \"Who Killed The Electric Car\", and take note of when they killed it, if you have any doubts. There is the air car, developed by the French which will be on the market by next year, there is also the hydrogen car built by Honda (a Japanese company) which has obviously been in development for awhile. So, the technology IS out there. It has BEEN out there. We just need to wean the U.S. off their oil dependency and open their eyes to this new technology and new ideas. And we need to quite catering to the oil companies. - purplegirl Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:46:33 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/4793/925/#comment-5874 You tell us everything except \"HOW\" Mr Mike Thompson!!! And Why!! Why would it take 8 or 10 years for oil drilled off the coast of California to get to the consumers?? Gummint Red Tape maybe??? And the speculators - it should be criminal what they\'re doing to us... CRIMINAL!!! :evil: And Morgan Stanley = Bank of America - right!!! :twisted: We know HOW it\'s all working but HOW do we stop it! Somebody - many somebodies - need to quit flapping their jaws and tell us HOW - we\'ll follow, like we\'ve always done.... :cry: - helenemw Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:31:58 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/4793/925/#comment-5869 security issue. Independent for profit oil companies have been as good for America as independent military contractors. They end up costing twice as much and don\'t play by the rules of an even somewhat civilized society. We are selling out our country to the lowest bidder. Agree with most of this article except the release from the SPR - the speculators would only use it as a way to make more money. We cannot simply drill our way out of this one, the more oil produced the higher the demand. Sorry petro-junkies (self included), time to kick the habit. This is a national security issue, not a free market issue. And certainly not a problem that can be solved by a \"drowned in a bathtub\" strategy. The cost of gas in Baghdad quadrupled in one day after the announcement of the opening up for bidding for the oil in Iraq that had been previously nationalized. And that folks, is the real reason for the war in Iraq. The Texas oil man who couldn\'t find oil in Texas sure hit a gusher in Iraq. OK, two gushers, but I don\'t think he wants to count the blood/treasure gusher on his resume. - Donna Christopher Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:31:12 +0100