Economic rebound - Page 2

Shotgun! · 04-01-2005

Would you like to use a life line(tm)? AT&T can do that for us. Is that your final answer?

**Kracka** · 04-01-2005

After a BoostMobile textmessage poll, Ryan Seacrest said its ok for me to love that. It might possibly become the new fad since I heard Petey Pablo is already doing it too.

bigbrothajake · 04-01-2005

Back when I was in college, my favorite professor stated that world oil production will peak in 2006. He's was a smart man and described to me the variables involved. Oil has mainly been mined for the last 100 years. Rockefeller's Standard Oil was the first company to drill for oil in huge volumes. So if (and bare with me, they're a few variables) you take all the production numbers in volume of all the oil ever drilled by all the oil companies in the world for all the years that it was massed produced; and taking the average thickness of the crust of the Earth (with that value and taking the Earth to be an ellipsoid, you could determine the volume). So you have two volumes, the volume of produced oil and the volume of the Earth's crust. You look up the probability of oil being located in finite local piece of the crust in a geophysist's handbook or whereever (this value will be a dimensional coefficient). Multiply that coefficient by the Earth's crust's volume and subtract that from the Oil that's already been produced. There you have it, the remaining amount of Earth's oil. Assumptions used: no new oil has naturally been made. I predict that in my lifetime, I will drive a car that runs on something other than gasoline. Regards, Jake

PS that was some good thought for food on my lunch break.

**Kracka** · 04-01-2005

I'd be more than willing to give a hybrid vehicle a try as my DD once it becomes more reasonably priced in comparison to gasoline powered vehicles. I love the fact that the hybrid Accord is quicker than the V-6 model!

bigbrothajake · 04-01-2005

If you have a hybrid that is converted to run on biodiesil. Obviously there's still oil used in the production but you're getting wonderful mileage, and you're running on farm waste.

Onefast99gsx · 04-01-2005

.... and the cost of crude hit yet another record high today, Well over $57.

**JET** · 04-01-2005

Yep, and my company has the exclusive rights to a new procedure to make biodiesel. We developed it with the U of M. It actually comes out a crude that can even be refined into a gas alternative that is better than ethanol. There are 2 working units right now and we will be seeing a lot more of this in about 6 months if everything goes right.