Out of oil in 50 odd years

"M-Powwerr Drives a Ford" (straight6fun) 07/10/2014 at 10:33 • Filed to: None

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I guess I can't save a Red Barchetta for my nephew because there will be no oil left. But seriously, I don't think we will run out of oil in my lifetime but we need to find alternatives...I think this: !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! is the solution for me and you and all other gear heads in the world.

I can only hope I'm not damned to drive a soulless electric car in my future, and that I will never get to have my 911 and M3

We can only hope for an alternative, compatible fuel if cars as we know it can survive.

505Turbeaux > M-Powwerr Drives a Ford 07/10/2014 at 10:36

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I am surprised biomass gasification hasn't been improved all that much in like 80 years

DipodomysDeserti > M-Powwerr Drives a Ford 07/10/2014 at 10:40

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You still need oil to make electric cars. You need oil just to make plastic. Running out of oil with our current technology would mean more than driving electric cars.

bob and john > M-Powwerr Drives a Ford 07/10/2014 at 10:49

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look, the best thing for cars is hydrogen. pure and simple.

M-Powwerr Drives a Ford > DipodomysDeserti 07/10/2014 at 10:49

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This is true, our entire infrastructure depends on oil, we are royally boned if we don't do anything about it

M-Powwerr Drives a Ford > 505Turbeaux 07/10/2014 at 10:50

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The oil COs probably have something to do with it

KnowsAboutCars > 505Turbeaux 07/10/2014 at 10:51

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Your comment brought this wood burning El Camino back into my mind. The builder is the current leader of Finnish Centre Party .

M-Powwerr Drives a Ford > bob and john 07/10/2014 at 10:51

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I thought that too, but if you get rear ended you get the Ford Pinto II

RotaryLover > M-Powwerr Drives a Ford 07/10/2014 at 10:57

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We need a Mr Fusion.

Trunk Impaired 318 > M-Powwerr Drives a Ford 07/10/2014 at 10:58

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Biodiesel is up there in my mind

M-Powwerr Drives a Ford > RotaryLover 07/10/2014 at 10:58

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I'll order one

BKRM3 > M-Powwerr Drives a Ford 07/10/2014 at 11:08

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Hey. How'd you get a picture of my shift lever? =P

The Gray Adder > DipodomysDeserti 07/10/2014 at 11:11

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But 1) you're not burning the stuff to make the plastic, and 2) plastic is recyclable.

Bad Idea Hat > M-Powwerr Drives a Ford 07/10/2014 at 11:15

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The Red Barchetta reference is a good reference.

All, look upon thee and see for thineself, this is how you make a Rush reference.

bob and john > M-Powwerr Drives a Ford 07/10/2014 at 11:22

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rather that then driving around in a leaf.

HammerheadFistpunch > M-Powwerr Drives a Ford 07/10/2014 at 11:46

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That fuel looks promising, We need a good way to synthesis fuel and reduce co2...seems like a win/win, so long as its energy positive.

Stupidru > M-Powwerr Drives a Ford 07/10/2014 at 12:11

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I'll say this without trying to sound like too much of a tree-hugger. Aside from driving a car, I try to be as green as possible. I use a reel mower and mow my lawn with human power. I shovel my driveway instead of snowblowing it. I try to bike to the grocery store if I'm only going for things I can throw in a backpack. Our A/C is turned off in favor of fans unless it's unbearable. We'll be insulating our attic and converting all of our lightbulbs to LEDs to lessen our electric bills and soon enough I want to run my garage off of solar power.

But when it comes to cars, all logic is out the window. I would prefer to drive something that gets 15mpg but has me grinning like an idiot the entire way of my 45 mile round-trip commute

Whenever I have kids, I will make sure to get them in the garage, turning wrenches on my ICE (internal combustion engine) cars before everything turns electric and that nostalgia is gone for good

stuttgartobsessed > M-Powwerr Drives a Ford 07/10/2014 at 12:15

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The biggest help would be to stop butting so much damned plastic in cars, and everything else. Or make less new cars and engineer the ones you do make to last for a lot longer so that there are less base resources being used and keep the junk yards less full.

M-Powwerr Drives a Ford > Stupidru 07/11/2014 at 01:33

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we'll said, I'm I he green school at my school but you can pry my ICE and stick shift from my cold dead hands

M-Powwerr Drives a Ford > Bad Idea Hat 07/11/2014 at 01:33

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I will be the white haired uncle...

M-Powwerr Drives a Ford > BKRM3 07/11/2014 at 01:35

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There's more then one e90 M3??

(I'm not sure if the M got its ow chassis code)

M-Powwerr Drives a Ford > bob and john 07/11/2014 at 02:00

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As long as we are burning hydrogen in an engine I'll agree

BKRM3 > M-Powwerr Drives a Ford 07/11/2014 at 06:59

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Lol it did not. The codes were the usual E90 (sedan), E92 (coupe) and E93 (convertible). Good guess though, mine is an E90!