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They know it's serious ! Thanks Dazz.... Just demonstrates how seriously the US is taking this problem ( of oil dependency ) at the highest level !! LL

Yep. They're fair dinkum about it !! http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-june-16-2010/an-energy-independent-future It's all going to be OK .... the US is determined to "kick the oil habit". Take 5 and have a laugh !! :D LL

Here you go !! http://cars.uk.msn.com/features/green-motoring/articles.aspx?cp-documentid=147863533 Buy one of these if you're that concerned. In "olden day" terminology they're all giving better than 70 mpg . The best one is almost 100 mpg. Phew ! LL

Life will go on... And why wouldn't we assume transportation business as usual ? Oil or peak oil or gas or hybrid or electric etc...people will still need to "get around" so society can function. Oil has been "running out" since the 70s. Alternatives abound ! Goodness, small new cars...

...and give some credit to your WA State government ... the stuff they have legislated ( I understand) that a "certain percentage" of the NW shelf has to be allocated to the local market. Sounds like good thinking to me. LL

The Natural Gas (CNG) Ford For all interested here's a link to the new CNG Ford vehicle... Made in Oz ! You beauty:). http://www.autoweb.com.au/cms/A_50121/title_Natural%20Gas%20Falcon%20Production%20Starts/newsarticle.html Car-nuts may note the engine mod's (mainly higher...

Hi Peter 14.7 ... I also read about the bloke who converts the Hyundai. I just don't know where he get's his $$ numbers from. They are quite staggering as you describe. Here's a youtube link to a really neat ( I think..) pick-up conversion in the US. At the end of the vid the guy...

300 mpg hybrid.... Roam around youtube and search on "300 mpg hybrid". Plus they're modifying existing hybrids in the US and claiming 150 mpg (looks to me like they're adding plug-in battery packs) . A few million of these hitting the streets plus some full electric vehicles using no oil at...

Give me strength !! Who allows these guys to go out without their nanny. So ....we're going to magically turn our cities from sprawling single storey houses on "quarter acre" blocks into buildings of three stories (with stairs but no lifts) and with bathrooms of each two square metres...

Hi Ace... For the purpose of this exercise , the world has MUCH larger stocks of both NG and coal ( in it's many forms) than oil ( particularly the "light sweet crude" that is so easy to refine etc etc.) NG > hundreds of years. COAL > thousands of years. The attraction of CNG is we can use...

Global oil demand vs production .. the numbers. Very interesting article ... http://business.theage.com.au/bad-oil-on-new-crisis-this-is-only-round-one-20080524-2hv0.html?page=2 speed readers ..go straight to point 10 on page 2 ... "Scary numbers..". Scary indeed ...and it's just...

WW ..all accurate observations. The truth is no one technology suits everybody. The "plug-in" still has long re-charge times ..doesn't suit everybody, but certainly would suit most city commuters. The lithium ion batteries are expensive (...and do we have enough lithium??) CNG presently does...

Hi HK ... maybe , but maybe not as much as would first appear. As oil goes up, the Boeings etc work out how to get more bums in planes. The engine guys also get more fuel efficient. Also, the "oil guys" won't give up that easy. As alternatives come along, ( next 10 years) I think they will...

HG ...phew..you cover a lot of ground in one post ! Let me try a curve ball. FOOD . As all this unfolds and energy costs drive up the cost of food I'm predicting the "return of the vege patch". ( It's also about the most environmentally friendly, low energy, low emmission thing you can do...

Hi Bill, They are actually doing it already in Oz, but only for large commercial operations ( delivery fleets etc ) but it's not widely talked about. The "go" for taxis and consumers has been LPG which is a by-product of the oil refining process..( the oil refiners actually get LPG "for FREE"...

The good 'ol internal combustion engine will run on almost anything that can be ignited either by a spark or the heat of compression... that includes ( as far as I am aware all of the gaseous hydro-carbons methane, propane etc etc). But some work better than others. No ....it doesn't get...

Sorry to repeat myself but you're getting side tracked....... the gas doesn't have to come from the NW shelf. The main point is we don't have to import it. We don't have to "play" the import parity game. Whoever ALREADY owns the gas you ALREADY get in Sydney is just fine. They ALREADY...

The CNG doesn't have to come from the NW shelf. If you're in Sydney or Melbourne etc AND you use gas for your HWS or stove or heating ...then you're already ON the gas main. It's the SAME "hydrocarbon stuff" . Wherever Sydney is sourcing it's gas from now is just fine !! You probably...