Hey all you tree huggers ...

[kuulani]

Sign the Sierra Club petition (http://www.sierraclub.org/petition/arctic/) :D

[Leslie]

ooooooooooooooooooooooooh!!

I'd love to and definitely would...but it says Americans :hmm:

*hates the Alaskan Pipeline Project*

[unclehobart]

Ku'u,

Theres a surfing thread in the real world that you should have a peek at. We could do with your expert opinion on the subject at hand.

[Leslie]

I read the article again and this time I saw that the form provides for provinces and Postal Codes so I did it.

[Gonz]

Drill here & the need for imported Arabian oil diminishes.

[HeXp£Øi±]

Hey all you tree huggers

Hate to tell ya this but there aren't any trees in that part of the world. :D

[Inkara1]

Raising automobile fuel ECONOMY standards to 40 miles per gallon would save more oil than we import from the entire Persian Gulf
A few things here:
1) The US itself doesn't import much oil from the gulf. The bulk of it comes from thsi hemisphere. Yes, OPEC's decisions have an effect on prices here too, but if a few wells in the Gulf of Mexico stopped flowing, it would make prices go up in Asia and Europe too.
2) Ever try to get a vehicle large enough to carry a family of six or seven, with all their stuff, to accelerate fast enough to not be a road hazard with an engine that gets 40 miles to the gallon?

[chcr]

Thanks, Ink. Why do so many people think we get all our oil from the middle east?

Oh, and your second question; It is entirely possible to build such a car with current technology. All it takes is money and there is no evidence that it would be profitable. :shrug:

Oh, and Ku'u, the Sierra Club ties too much of the rest of their political agenda to their environmental activism for me to support them in any way. Sorry.

[freako104]

signed

[Inkara1]

Oh, and your second question; It is entirely possible to build such a car with current technology. All it takes is money and there is no evidence that it would be profitable. :shrug:
So if the automakers suddenly dropped their entire fleets and built the cars with this kind of technology, went bankrupt, and all had to get federal bailouts, would a lot of the same people who pissed and moaned to get the CAFE standards raised also bitch about corporate welfare?

[chcr]

So if the automakers suddenly dropped their entire fleets and built the cars with this kind of technology, went bankrupt, and all had to get federal bailouts, would a lot of the same people who pissed and moaned to get the CAFE standards raised also bitch about corporate welfare?

Why sure they would, Ink. It's the American way. :lol: