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China is probably the biggest reason that prices will keep increasing. Their new found wealth will translate to more cars on their roads. Meaning more gas will be needed (ontop of whatever else oil is required for) for that country alone.pax said:China alone consumed 400 000 barrels a day more in 2003 over 2002 with consumption set to skyrocket. The illusion of opec quotas is to keep the west at bay about oil production issues as long as possible. To delay a switchover to alternative fuels as long as possible.
epicstruggle said:China is probably the biggest reason that prices will keep increasing. Their new found wealth will translate to more cars on their roads. Meaning more gas will be needed (ontop of whatever else oil is required for) for that country alone.pax said:China alone consumed 400 000 barrels a day more in 2003 over 2002 with consumption set to skyrocket. The illusion of opec quotas is to keep the west at bay about oil production issues as long as possible. To delay a switchover to alternative fuels as long as possible.
I would be infavor of increasing mpg only if we lower the darn barriers to building safer nuclear power plants.
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epic
Natoma said:Unfortunately the politics of increasing our mpg standards, for instance, in order to reduce our foreign oil requirements doesn't seem to be in place to make this "fear" palpable.
Yeah, forgot about india. Those 2 countries will account for a major chunk of where oil goes too in the future. Does either country produce major quantities of oil??Druga Runda said:don't forget India... which is OK for about 200 mill ppl, but better for their 800 million poor.
so that is about 2 bn people whose standard will go up and whose energy consumption will go up as well. That's probably as many people as in all of the developed world (so far) put together.
epicstruggle said:Yeah, forgot about india. Those 2 countries will account for a major chunk of where oil goes too in the future. Does either country produce major quantities of oil??Druga Runda said:don't forget India... which is OK for about 200 mill ppl, but better for their 800 million poor.
so that is about 2 bn people whose standard will go up and whose energy consumption will go up as well. That's probably as many people as in all of the developed world (so far) put together.
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epic
according to cia.govDruga Runda said:I have no idea, India is and importer and I just heard about some oil discovery there but I am sure if they are an importer now, I doubt that they can increase production substantially and not be relying heavily on imports. China even more so.
DemoCoder said:Natoma said:Unfortunately the politics of increasing our mpg standards, for instance, in order to reduce our foreign oil requirements doesn't seem to be in place to make this "fear" palpable.
I think increasing mpg is a technological issue, not a political issue. You can by high mpg vehicles today, they exist, e.g. Prius. Wasn't the US government that legislated their creation, and it won't be the US government that enforces their adoption.
They will be adopted en masse when oil prices go up. Just like compact cars after the first OPEC embargo.
pax said:Its about mandating informing the public demo not mandating hybrid cars.