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Old 06-03-2010, 12:23 PM
 
Location: planet octupulous is nearing earths atmosphere
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I own and daily drive a 1 ton diesel powered 4 door pickup truck that I run on 100% bio-diesel made from peanut oil. I get 20 - 22 mpg when I'm not carrying a lot of weight but I do haul lots of tools and supplies on a regular basis with the truck which is my main reason for having it. I use NO fossil fuel to run my truck and I even burn the conventional motor oil that comes out of it when I change it.

I don't need anyone to tell me how to live my life or what I should use less of, you should worry about your own life and let other people live theirs.

You should also consider using less oxygen.
well i was talking about people that buy big gas guzzlers to drive 1 or 2 persons not people that have to carry loads of tools or other things..
you are an exception..
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Old 06-06-2010, 03:37 PM
 
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the toyota truck i have can legally seat 2 persons with seat belts no more.!! strict seatbelt laws here.
nearest place to get on a bus is 2 miles away, they won't let you carry 1500 pounds of tools on a bus, even if they did how would i get then to the bus, get real i have to carry tools to job sites.. so you expect people to carry 1500 pounds of tools to job sites on there backs get real buddy..

you can defend driving 8 cylinder gas guzzlers all you want..!! just to drive one or two person, should be criminal..
No one can stop you from using up all that gas to move your 3 thousand pound vehicle around as of now. Phyiological realities will catch up though when peak oil hits in a few years and oil because an increasingly scarce, expensive resource. You will have to learn to live in a sustainable way, the "American lifestyle" is temporary and only possible due to the abundant supply of practically free energy. One barrel of oil contains the energy equivalent of 23 thousand hours of human labor. It is what made the vast increases in standard of living over the past century possible.
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Old 06-06-2010, 04:34 PM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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They think this will go on through fall with the relief wells not ready til August.
They still don't know how much they are capturing and how much is escaping..it's still estimates.

1 step forward, 1 step back: spill may go til fall - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100606/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill - broken link)

http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100606/capt.83e940d6f56640a598c7d3e838348a61-83e940d6f56640a598c7d3e838348a61-0.jpg?x=213&y=320&xc=1&yc=1&wc=273&hc=410&q=85&sig =SLeRGhy5x1tu64oejGJkNQ-- (broken link)
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Old 06-06-2010, 05:04 PM
 
Location: planet octupulous is nearing earths atmosphere
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They think this will go on through fall with the relief wells not ready til August.
They still don't know how much they are capturing and how much is escaping..it's still estimates.

1 step forward, 1 step back: spill may go til fall - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100606/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill - broken link)

http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100606/capt.83e940d6f56640a598c7d3e838348a61-83e940d6f56640a598c7d3e838348a61-0.jpg?x=213&y=320&xc=1&yc=1&wc=273&hc=410&q=85&sig =SLeRGhy5x1tu64oejGJkNQ-- (broken link)

bp claims they are capturing 10 thousand barrels a day, well thats a fraction of the oil escaping from the bop..

they need to connect a valve to the outside of the flange and weld it in place.. and shut that sucker off.

look at these two angles... live links, bp claims that lmrp is working remarkably wellliers

WKRG.com Live Oil Spill Cam - live streaming video powered by Livestream

Watch Live Streaming Video Of The Oil Leak : NPR
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Old 06-06-2010, 05:22 PM
 
Location: Arizona High Desert
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set some people of wal mart on top of that puppy !
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