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>Gasoline will never exceed $10/gallon. The consequences and repercussions of global warming and climate change plus Nixon era doctrine of interventionalist po
by nimbius 9y ago
>Gasoline will never exceed $10/gallon.
The consequences and repercussions of global warming and climate change plus Nixon era doctrine of interventionalist policy in the interest of maintaining global US oil hegemony have easily put real barrel cost easily above this. Iraq didnt pay for itself twice, after all.
- ben_w 9y agoAlgae derived oil, if it could be made to work at scale, has none of those problems. It is a not unreasonable upper limit for a totally renewable source of petrochemical fuel.
- mseebach 9y agoThere's plenty, like a lot, of shale oil available at $80-100/bbl, which allows for significantly less than $10/g gas. The only meaningful challenge to $10/g gas is policy (ie taxation).
- lafar6502 9y agoWhy everyone talks about switching to electric cars while nobody ever mentions electric heating of buildings as environmentally friendly alternative? Because it isn’t? Why bother with electricity-saving lightbulbs while EV owners burn the current like there’s no tomorrow...