Gas prices for high test is $4 to $5 per gallon

Augustus

Unless, of course, you own stock in oil companies or are a commodities trader.

vividracing

Hybrids are worse for the environment than gas engines. It does help get us away from oil, but in the end, we need to find an alternative fuel source. Electricity in the United States primarily comes from burning fossil fuels.

Or maybe Saudi Arabia is running out of oil... Supply and demand

I agree, to an extent.


I think you guys should take a look at this documentary with Michael Ruppert. It's called Collapse and it's available for rent on Amazon.

Amazon.com: Collapse: Michael Ruppert, Chris Smith, Kate Noble, N/A: Amazon Instant Video



I'm not saying to take everything in that film as truth, but just being aware of the things mentioned in that film is a good start. Do your own research.

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Cmike2780

The problem is that there isn't a clear alternative & renewable enery source. Even doubling our Nuclear plants wouldn't really take that huge of a dent from our dependence on petroleum. Not only that, we keep using more energy, not less.

How are hybrids worst for the environment than a gas engine? It's still technically a gas engine.

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b1adesofcha0s

This. Also for electric cars, they may not be as clean as most people think because the electricity comes from dirty sources FOR NOW. That doesn't mean that this will always be the case. There's obviously a push to move towards renewable sources of energy for electricity production. As time passes and there are more technological innovations as well as cost reductions, renewable sources will become a much larger portion of where we get our electricity from. Whenever that does happen, electric cars will be far cleaner the gas powered cars.

The other thing you have to realize is that by the time electricity sources become more clean, we will need the technology for electric cars and a whole new infrastructure to adapt to them to be ready to go. If we start working on all of that now, it will save a lot of time later. You can't just wait 25, 50, 100, or how ever many years it takes for electricity to become more "green" and then be like "ok now that we took care of that let's start thinking about how we can use electric cars now."

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Speedy

Exactly my point. It's not like this is some product that people can live without. These types of products shouldn't be traded on a market that influences the prices folks have to pay. Let real supply and demand dictate that.

Also those batteries in electric cars are toxic to make, and toxic to dispose of when they're belly up after 5 years. Expensive to replace too.