Originally posted by: Rogodin2
Of course I am referring to the OP here, what does "Since all of you are are producing 3+tons of carbondioxide." have to do with gas prices?
Those individual's producing low amounts of carbon dioxide do so by not driving often (if at all), not flying, and generally conserving energy when and whereever they can.
From what I've seen posted, in this thread, the majority of you grasp that oil is a finite resource, but you're either unwilling or unable to curtail your usage. Some of you are outright foolish and buy 4x4 trucks, SUVs and massive homes-and then brag about it. I do wish that we could cut our dependency on oil but the American public (as demonstrated by most of the posters in this thread) has their head's so far up their butts that they believe we can just 'poke more holes in the Alaskan tundra' LOL!
Rogo
If its going to run out its going to run out, then what? I don't see it running out right now, I've yet to see one pump go dry in fact. It's been running out since the 70s.
What are we going to do, pretend that using 10% less is going to make it last a year longer so we can postpone the inevitable while making great changes to our lifestyles to avoid something that you say is going to happen eventually anyway?
If I'm at a party and there is a box of pizza with three slices in it and there are 100 people there, I'm going to grab me a slice if there is one for me to grab. It's there for our consumption, and it is going to get used. If not by me, by someone else. It's not just going to sit there and not be utilized and exploited simply because there are only 3. Oh it's a finite resource so we'll just let it sit there and not ever use it at all... (which as I understand may not necessarily be true with oil, but still the rate we use is faster than we regenerate it apparently, and who knows maybe global warming will cause more heat and pressure in the earth and accelerate the process of making oil faster )
If it's finite and it's going to run out, then lets all buy 500 HP V8 cars now, use up all the remaining oil in record time and have our fun while we can and get it over with and end all this doom and gloom speculation once and for all. I think that would be a fun world, it would shake up the status quo of life on this planet and make my lifetime occur during a pivotal time period in the human race. A Mad Max/First of the North Star style post oil depletion world would be fun and put into perspective how trivial the majority of the rest of our daily problems are
Fussing about it is like missing out on all the fun things in life because you might get cancer, you might get hurt, etc. You just end up wasting your whole life just to live two years longer in the end. *wank wank* The same thing as people waiting in the gas lines in the 70s burning gas to get gas, knowing that when they use up that tank, they will be right back at square one; seriously wtf is the point of waiting in line for one last gallon of gas going to achieve?
Aside from reproducing, eating, shitting, and dieing, we really serve no purpose here and everything else we do is purely optional and for our own intangible enjoyment. I'm not really worried about things we have no control over in the long term. The universe, the Earth, oil, it was all here before I was and I'm pretty sure it won't care when I'm gone.
I'm going to do what I can afford to do, and that means I'll be driving my V8 Cobra until there isn't a drop of gasoline left in the world.
After that I will just have to cope, now won't I :laugh:
As for global warming I don't buy it. There was warming before to end the Ice Age. There is warming now, and it is also occurring in other parts of the solar system that are not under human influence. And no global warming model that predicts the future based on todays activity is capable of accurately predicting todays environment based on the past, so it's all nonsense to me. Where were the global warming experts when there was 9 feet of snow in New York in Feb/March? Or when Tucson Arizona saw snow again in the middle of the desert for an entire day for the first time in like 20 years?
And again, if I'm wrong, we will be in for some fun times. Living in the desert all my life, seeing other seasons and snow would be nice. Who cares. The Earth is going to be destroyed by the Sun in 5 billion years anyway, our existence here is meaningless.
I swear, do you people conserve, wash, reuse, share, and hang on to your last square of toilet paper for 5 months before giving in and buying more when it finally falls apart or what? Lighten up, enjoy your short life while it lasts, and quit being so paranoid all the time. As far as the universe is concerned, what you do or don't do doesn't mean squat.