[Leica] Further adventures of a completely screwed up guy: longand occasionally on topic

[Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com (Frank Dernie)]

I am sure you are tongue in cheek there Jim :-)
The biggest problem with wasting oil on cars is that whilst there may  
be an alternative to oil driven cars there is no viable alternative  
to the many other uses we put oil to in manufacturing directly and  
indirectly. When the oil is gone cars won't be any sort of problem  
compared to the others.
Never mind, we can keep in pissing it away and its our grand children  
who will have problems not us.
Gung Ho!
Frank
PS I bought a Prius, technically interesting but no sportscar (I have  
that for fun)
A friend just sold his M6 (M5 motor in 2 door 6-series) because he  
was bored with always having to fill it up, not the cash - the time,  
it did around 8 mpg.

On 29 Jan, 2006, at 19:39, Jim Laurel wrote:

> You're absolutely right, Don.  And no of the alternative energy  
> sources will be "cost effective" or "economically viable" until all  
> the oil is gone.  So I say burn as much now as you like.  the  
> sooner the oil is gone, the sooner we'll get alternative energy.
>
> If you ever wanted a real fire-breathing car that runs on gasoline,  
> now is the time.  The new BMW M5 has a 507hp V10, sequential manual  
> gearbox with paddle shifters, goes to 60 in 4.1 seconds (per Road  
> and Track's recent review) and with the limiter removed, hits 204mph.
>
> Burn it up now because between the time when the oil gets scarce  
> and when battery technology really improves, we are headed for a  
> period of extremely boring cars.  (think Toyota Prius)  The light  
> at the end of the tunnel is that pure electric cars have much  
> greater performance potential than combustion-engined cars.  But  
> the energy storage problems have to be solved first.
>
> --Jim