American oil

Subject: Re: American oil Sat Jul 05, 2008 12:37 am

By the way, turns out HDTV's have a gas in them that's about 100 times worse than CO2 for the ozone and environment.

And sooner or later, they're going to end up crushed in land fills.
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Subject: Re: American oil Sat Jul 05, 2008 1:05 am

What kind of HDTVs contain the nasty gas? There are many differnt types, LCD, Plasma, DLP, Cathode Tube, ect. Of course, I don't really understand what's so bad about standard definition. I don't get why people think they need to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on a new TV just becaus it's got a somewhat sharper picture or a bigger screen. I guess I'm out of date, I still watch a standard definition cathode tube TV that's over 10 years old, but it still works so why buy a new one? Besides, there usually isn't anything worth watching on.

Subject: Re: American oil Sat Jul 05, 2008 5:20 am

Some alarming facts about petrolium:
-Since the first oil well was drilled in the 1800's the volume of oil used worldwide is equal to 30 times the volume of Lake Erie!
-Currently every year, the world consumes 30 billion barrles of oil. That's 1,260,000,000,000 gallons!
-A 42 gallon barrel of oil will yield only 14 gallons of gasoline, but the remainder is used to make everything from diesel fuel to plastics.
-Americans consume 25% of the world's oil currently.
-Recently, the price of oil exceeded $140 a barrel, but back in 1995, only 13 years ago, oil cost only $17 per barrel. That's an increase of more than 823% in just 13 years!

Subject: Re: American oil Sat Jul 05, 2008 7:27 am

It's even more depressing. We will hit the peak and start to decline in the next five years...as demand accelerates upward.

The current world production of 85 million barrels a day is about all that can really happen, we'll probably never hit 100.

The last really big deposit was discovered in the forties. Tapping smaller fields will be more expensive. The ride is over. Yet the biggest mass of the world's population is just starting to buy automobiles.
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Subject: Re: American oil Sat Jul 05, 2008 7:28 am

And we've pretty well demonstrated that we will kill to get our hands on it.
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Subject: Re: American oil Sun Jul 06, 2008 12:29 am

And unfortunately, a great many people would probably be willing to kill to keep their big SUVs and Hummers and all their other gas guzzling toys. Unfortunately, there is a large percentage of the population that just doesn't want to change. Evil or Very Mad