Qwitcherbellakin
https://money.cnn.com/pf/features/lists/global_gasprices/
Edit: Oops.?ÿ Old data.?ÿ But it shows current prices are not extreme compared to historical values around the world.
Sign me up for 10,000 gallons of that Venezuelan gas.
That list was year 2005, when the world was very different, including, at a glance, that South Africa was the only country in the southern hemi that had gas.
Very recent data (different units of measure) showing USA in the middle of the pack.
We need to stop burning petroleum and start leaving it in the ground. The sooner the better.
@dave-karoly in the modern world, not burning petrolium is virtually impossible.
@chris-bouffard people thought writing without typewriters is impossible.
@dave-karoly we can have the great petrolium debate forever but the fact remains, most sources of greem energy, especially electric vehicles and solar power, will rely on production by means of fosile fuels and strip mining for precious metals.?ÿ The compnents like batteries and solar cells have a relatively short shelf life and will have to be replaced, again, relying on burning fosile fuels and more strip mining.?ÿ We can move on to discussing that the infracture in place right now would melt down is everybody was driving electric vehicles because charging them would overload the system and green energy would not be sufficient to supply the demand.
As it relates to the type writer, some form of type setting has been around since Guetenberg invented the movable type printing press in 1568.?ÿ Type writers were never common in most homes and many people still do not type everything.
Very recent data (different units of measure) showing USA in the middle of the pack.
?ÿTrue on average but US gas prices vary by State due to taxation schemes.?ÿ I'm paying $4.60/gal for regular in Cali. while the folks in Texas are paying 3 bucks.
The only real long-term solution is to have fewer people. It would best be a gradual decline, but that is unlikely to happen because of human nature and few personal incentives to not reproduce.
Nature tried to correct us with Covid, but we have managed to get by with a hardly significant trimming (in the sense of load on resources and environment) and some disruption of lifestyle.
@dave-karoly we can have the great petrolium debate forever but the fact remains, most sources of greem energy, especially electric vehicles and solar power, will rely on production by means of fosile fuels and strip mining for precious metals.?ÿ The compnents like batteries and solar cells have a relatively short shelf life and will have to be replaced, again, relying on burning fosile fuels and more strip mining.?ÿ We can move on to discussing that the infracture in place right now would melt down is everybody was driving electric vehicles because charging them would overload the system and green energy would not be sufficient to supply the demand.
So little time and so much to cover .?ÿ .?ÿ .
Yes, EVs & solar manufacturing consumes resources but the break even point is achieved within a few years concerning emissions.
Currently, EVs only account for?ÿ2.6% of global car sales?ÿand about 1% of the global car stock in 2019. Until?ÿ15% of the vehicles on the road go electric, there won??t be any real impact on the grid. That level of uptake isn??t predicted to happen until 2035.?ÿ ?ÿBy then, grid upgrades (solar/nuclear/wind/tida/hydro/NG peakers/massive storage) will keep up with loads no problem.?ÿ
Maybe you meant "fissile" instead of "fosile" which implies nuclear power plants.?ÿ Most US plants were designed/built in the 1950s and produce problematic waste and are ageing but modern designs produce almost no waste (recycling).?ÿ Witness France to see how it's done right.?ÿ BTW nuclear power is 24/7, produces massive GW reliably and not a drop of C02 emissions.?ÿ Sounds kinda green doesn't it?
Batteries and solar cells have a relatively short shelf life and will have to be replaced??ÿ Obviously you don't mean shelf life; you mean in service life.?ÿ Solar PV panels have a 30+ year record of performance.?ÿ EV cars are similar, 10+ years of performance with only a 15% degradation, similar to combustion engines.
I may suffer from Wendell's ire but you sir are woefully misinformed, a bad speller, and should research stuff before bloviating.
@chris-bouffard Here's some words of Wisdom. Buy battery stock young man, buy Battery Stock..
and DWAC (nasdaq) if you haven??t. ???? (dislike immediate goal, favor failure in short, long term)
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DWAC (nasdaq)
You will either gain or lose a huge percentage. It won't be boring.
It's either gonna flat line or be the newest financial roller coaster in a while. ?????ÿ
We live in a unique period of history which won??t last much longer, everybody driving by themselves in a 3000lb vehicle. I don??t think it??s sustainable and there??s no amount of battery technology that will change that.
Magnesium could be hot:
If I hadn't worked in minerals exploration geophysics, I'd be more inclined to buy in, but the research and development of mines is so far out in front of this type of shortage, I'm suspicious that it's more yellow journalism than true crisis.
Planned scarcity for the sake of driving the price up?
Effectively it would have to limit the entire workflow for their own country too.
I'm just "speculating"?ÿ
Just my $0.02 US
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