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What me worry. If you own a performance car the last thing you should think about is gas prices. My view is oil is a limited resourse, I want to use my fair share before we run out. Since I'll be dead in about 20 years I'm not really worried. Call me a selfish eco-disaster, but I'm getting 450-550 hp with 18mpg. When I grew up you'd be lucky to get 9mpg with this kind of horsepower. But when I can I do my share to save the planet. Solar panels power my all of my house, tankless water heaters save both natural gas and water, solar heating for the pool, drought tolerant landscaping with drip irrigation (I wanted to install a greywater system but the city wouldn't let me), triple pane windows. low VOC paint (no more getting stoned while painting), insulation as thick as several thousand minks (opps PETA is gunna kill me), and my wife gets to car pool. We are living in the last golden age of the internal combustion engine automobile. Enjoy it while you can.
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Great topic! It depresses me to think that the hot rod could be endangered. It seems like all things fun are being taxed or regulated out of existence. I say smoke em if you got them and gas prices be dammed. Anyhow, I think peak oil is a garbage theory. We are finding more oil everyday. Anybody from North Dakota?
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Hello Duane63. I own an Oil and Natural gas brokerage firm and this is a subject that comes up often.
Yes, Oil and Natural gas are limited resources. They are renewable but it takes thousands if not millions of years so we are definitely using these two resources at a rate much greater than it is renewing itself.
But, I rest assure you that we are not running out of these two resources anytime soon. We are still finding new Oil/Natural gas fields all the time. In fact, there are not even enough drilling rigs in the world at the moment to satisfy the demand for drilling.
Point being, the human species has a huge head start on creating readily renewable and environmentally friendly energy possibly centuries before we run out of our current nonrenewable and environmentally unfriendly energy sources. Natural gas is very environmentally friendly in terms of its use but its extraction method is mildly controversial because of all the poisonous chemicals that need to be disposed of after the frac-ing process.
Yes, Oil and Natural gas are limited resources. They are renewable but it takes thousands if not millions of years so we are definitely using these two resources at a rate much greater than it is renewing itself.
But, I rest assure you that we are not running out of these two resources anytime soon. We are still finding new Oil/Natural gas fields all the time. In fact, there are not even enough drilling rigs in the world at the moment to satisfy the demand for drilling.
Point being, the human species has a huge head start on creating readily renewable and environmentally friendly energy possibly centuries before we run out of our current nonrenewable and environmentally unfriendly energy sources. Natural gas is very environmentally friendly in terms of its use but its extraction method is mildly controversial because of all the poisonous chemicals that need to be disposed of after the frac-ing process.
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Thanks for so much for you kind words and observations. I didn’t say I had a great house, I said I had an energy efficient house. However as you’ve so graciously requested pictures I attach the following of my humble 5,000 sf abode. You’ll notice the two cars on my signature sitting in the garage. My apologies for other members for turning this tread into Home and Garden.
Pool
Pool and Cabana
Tankless waterheater
Part of Solar Pool Heating
Part of Photovotaic electrical panel
As Thanksgiving nears, I might suggest you forgo the tradition turkey and feast on another delight the Corvus brachyrhynchos.
Pool
Pool and Cabana
Tankless waterheater
Part of Solar Pool Heating
Part of Photovotaic electrical panel
As Thanksgiving nears, I might suggest you forgo the tradition turkey and feast on another delight the Corvus brachyrhynchos.
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Hello Duane63. I own an Oil and Natural gas brokerage firm and this is a subject that comes up often.
Yes, Oil and Natural gas are limited resources. They are renewable but it takes thousands if not millions of years so we are definitely using these two resources at a rate much greater than it is renewing itself.
But, I rest assure you that we are not running out of these two resources anytime soon. We are still finding new Oil/Natural gas fields all the time. In fact, there are not even enough drilling rigs in the world at the moment to satisfy the demand for drilling.
Point being, the human species has a huge head start on creating readily renewable and environmentally friendly energy possibly centuries before we run out of our current nonrenewable and environmentally unfriendly energy sources. Natural gas is very environmentally friendly in terms of its use but its extraction method is mildly controversial because of all the poisonous chemicals that need to be disposed of after the frac-ing process.
Yes, Oil and Natural gas are limited resources. They are renewable but it takes thousands if not millions of years so we are definitely using these two resources at a rate much greater than it is renewing itself.
But, I rest assure you that we are not running out of these two resources anytime soon. We are still finding new Oil/Natural gas fields all the time. In fact, there are not even enough drilling rigs in the world at the moment to satisfy the demand for drilling.
Point being, the human species has a huge head start on creating readily renewable and environmentally friendly energy possibly centuries before we run out of our current nonrenewable and environmentally unfriendly energy sources. Natural gas is very environmentally friendly in terms of its use but its extraction method is mildly controversial because of all the poisonous chemicals that need to be disposed of after the frac-ing process.
Good to know. I 'll might keep driving for 30 more years. BTW thanks for making me soo much money in oil futures. It's been a great ride.
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Thanks for so much for you kind words and observations. I didn’t say I had a great house, I said I had an energy efficient house. However as you’ve so graciously requested pictures I attach the following of my humble 5,000 sf abode. You’ll notice the two cars on my signature sitting in the garage. My apologies for other members for turning this tread into Home and Garden.
As Thanksgiving nears, I might suggest you forgo the tradition turkey and feast on another delight the Corvus brachyrhynchos.
As Thanksgiving nears, I might suggest you forgo the tradition turkey and feast on another delight the Corvus brachyrhynchos.
And it truely is! A house of that size with those ammenities would be north of 3 Mil in my nick of the woods.Thanks for actually posting pix though, I did not expect that!
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Duane.... I hate you.. I really do.. not because of the cars, or even the house.. but because I want that damn pool :P
It is however an awesome house.. and something like that in my neck of the woods, the DC area.. would easily cost 3 to 5 million or more in the right parts of DC, and around 1 to 2 in the DC burbs..
It is however an awesome house.. and something like that in my neck of the woods, the DC area.. would easily cost 3 to 5 million or more in the right parts of DC, and around 1 to 2 in the DC burbs..
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Duane.... I hate you.. I really do.. not because of the cars, or even the house.. but because I want that damn pool :P
It is however an awesome house.. and something like that in my neck of the woods, the DC area.. would easily cost 3 to 5 million or more in the right parts of DC, and around 1 to 2 in the DC burbs..
It is however an awesome house.. and something like that in my neck of the woods, the DC area.. would easily cost 3 to 5 million or more in the right parts of DC, and around 1 to 2 in the DC burbs..
It looks even better with scantily clad women around and in it, but they throw my camera in the pool when I try to take pics.
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Yep.. actually.. I have 2 Tivos.. I record most of the crap during the week and watch it on Sundays or Friday nights (The rest of the week, I spend the evenings either working.. yay </sarcasm>, going to the Gym, or Mountain biking/Cyclecross/training for 2 100mile races within a month of each other, 1 mountain, 1 road)
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