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bad idea ... unsustainable ... the math doesn't quite work out ... in the long term I guess ... nuclear is the only option ... we just have to bat the stupid greenies aside .....Originally posted by jetta:Let's hope that the rest of the world can learn from Brazil where cars run on sugarcane fuel. Cheaper, renewable and cleaner.
and ... perhaps outlaw monster SUVs too ...
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Eh, hello.........a freshly squeezed sugarcane juice here costs me C$8 a bottle. A litre bottle.Originally posted by jetta:Let's hope that the rest of the world can learn from Brazil where cars run on sugarcane fuel. Cheaper, renewable and cleaner.
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Originally posted by littlestream:Eh, hello.........a freshly squeezed sugarcane juice here costs me C$8 a bottle. A litre bottle.
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Are you talking about nuclear-powered automobiles?Originally posted by Fatum:bad idea ... unsustainable ... the math doesn't quite work out ... in the long term I guess ... nuclear is the only option ... we just have to bat the stupid greenies aside .....
and ... perhaps outlaw monster SUVs too ... 
I think it should work... at least until the first minor fender-bender breaches the reactor containment vessel in one of these vehicles and spews enough radioactive material into the air to render a few hundred square miles of land downwind of the accident site uninhabitable for several decades.
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Originally posted by Meia Gisborn:Are you talking about nuclear-powered automobiles?
I think it should work... at least until the first minor fender-bender breaches the reactor containment vessel in one of these vehicles and spews enough radioactive material into the air to render a few hundred square miles of land downwind of the accident site uninhabitable. 
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hell no ... vehicles can go electric .... or hydrogen, with the energy for seperation from water coming from power plants ...
combustion engines are an anarchronism from two centuries ago and are inefficient anyways ... even if we don't go nuclear, converting all vehicles on earth to run on electricity or hydrogen would add another couple of centuries of life to the global petrol supply I reckon ...
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Not quite. Converting entirely to electric vehicles merely shifts the pollution problem elsewhere. The electricity to charge the batteries in these electric vehicles has to be generated somewhere--in this case, by power stations using traditional fossil fuels or nuclear energy.Originally posted by Fatum: ....
hell no ... vehicles can go electric .... or hydrogen, with the energy for seperation from water coming from power plants ...
combustion engines are an anarchronism from two centuries ago and are inefficient anyways ... even if we don't go nuclear, converting all vehicles on earth to run on electricity or hydrogen would add another couple of centuries of life to the global petrol supply I reckon ... -
yeps ... but the turbines at the power stations are more efficient than the combustion engine below the hood of the average car ... or so I was told by an electrical engineer ... so the math still works out in favour of alternative automobile power sources .... which speaks a lot about detriots' engineering eh ? ...Originally posted by Meia Gisborn:Not quite. Converting entirely to electric vehicles merely shifts the pollution problem elsewhere. The electricity to charge the batteries in these electric vehicles has to be generated somewhere--in this case, by power stations using traditional fossil fuels or nuclear energy. -
I wouldn't touch a Detroit-made vehicle with a ten-foot pole, period!Originally posted by Fatum:yeps ... but the turbines at the power stations are more efficient than the combustion engine below the hood of the average car ... or so I was told by an electrical engineer ... so the math still works out in favour of alternative automobile power sources .... which speaks a lot about detriots' engineering eh ? ...
You have a point about the power generation source. If the electricity used to charge a ZEV were generated from, say, a hydro-electric power station, then there would essentially be no pollution all the way from generation to consumption.
Electricity generated by a nuclear power plant would be equally clean, but there's the sticky problem of what to do with the spent uranium. I say we just toss the spent rods into the ocean above the deepest submarine trench and let the future generations deal with the consequences. -
Holding pattern here for a week now. US$3.25 a gallon.
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I saw it at 89 cents this morning
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Originally posted by littlestream:I saw it at 89 cents this morning !!! ............. smuggled Iraqi oil ah ? ....
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Where? Where? Can tah pao or not?Originally posted by littlestream:I saw it at 89 cents this morning -
It was 86 cents last nite.
Usually around 10pm, the price comes down. So, living it up to kiasuism, we drove to the gas station down our street to fill up. Wah piang eh, got other MORE kiasu Canadians in line already.
We ended up going for a car ride. No, we didn't fill up. Never mind lah. Pak tor with ah lau, eh, not banana ah, my ah lau ah....... -
Originally posted by littlestream:It was 86 cents last nite.
Usually around 10pm, the price comes down. So, living it up to kiasuism, we drove to the gas station down our street to fill up. Wah piang eh, got other MORE kiasu Canadians in line already.
We ended up going for a car ride. No, we didn't fill up. Never mind lah. Pak tor with ah lau, eh, not banana ah, my ah lau ah....... -
Kiasuism™. Don't leave Singapore without it!Originally posted by littlestream:It was 86 cents last nite.
Usually around 10pm, the price comes down. So, living it up to kiasuism, we drove to the gas station down our street to fill up. Wah piang eh, got other MORE kiasu Canadians in line already.
We ended up going for a car ride. No, we didn't fill up. Never mind lah. Pak tor with ah lau, eh, not banana ah, my ah lau ah....... -
US$2.90/gal. this morning, up from around US$2.75/gal. yesterday.
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Can you play "cat and mouse" game with the gas stations?
In the day, it's usually C$1.05 then about 10pm, it drops to 98 cents. Then, "chiong ah".
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You guys fill up at Costco?
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Huh? costco also into gas?Originally posted by jetta:You guys fill up at Costco?
no haf here. me fill up at esso only. got point for free car wash -
These days must go where the deals are at right Streamie? I do the same. Yah, Costco also into gas. Longer than Sam's. Their gas prices very competitive. Sometimes they beat our base gas prices.Originally posted by littlestream:Huh? costco also into gas?
no haf here. me fill up at esso only. got point for free car wash -
wah, u lucky. got military discount. i got to play cat and mouse.Originally posted by jetta:These days must go where the deals are at right Streamie? I do the same. Yah, Costco also into gas. Longer than Sam's. Their gas prices very competitive. Sometimes they beat our base gas prices.
and then collect all these points.......redeem, redeem, redeem......... -
Ooooo........yoooohoooo...........MG.................
last nite, it went down to 95 cents. -
Wow!!! That's sooooooooo cheap!!!! US$3.19 here.Originally posted by littlestream:Ooooo........yoooohoooo...........MG.................
last nite, it went down to 95 cents. 
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Aiyoh............bu yau ku, bu yau ku..........Originally posted by jetta:Wow!!! That's sooooooooo cheap!!!! US$3.19 here.
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That's what I want to know too.Originally posted by littlestream:Aiyoh............bu yau ku, bu yau ku..........
but why things are more expensive out west? My guess is because there are more people out here? More people chasing after the same limited supply?