Global Warming...New Report...and it ain't happy news

Except for the fact that we seem to be heavily lobbied to install LNG facility terminals at many coastal areas. The LNG is just another way of delivering foreign oil.

Okie-John Stossel wrote:("Myths, Lies and Downright Stupidity")

"It's true that the more you drive, the more you pollute BUT it's really just old, badly maintained cars that do most of the polluting. Because emission technology has improved so much , TODAY'S NEW CARS ARE 98% cleaner than the cars built in the 1960"s. Joe Norbeck, a U.C.Riverside Environmental researcher, says emissions from dozens of current models are 'ALMOST BELOW DETECTION LEVELS".
The EPA has found that after charting air pollution for more than 30 years, miles driven have increased by 170% but air pollution decreased by 54%."

Okie, people will not buy cars in which they do not feel safe. They will buy cars with emission controls which are built to withstand a crash. I would never want to see my grandchildren being transported in a tinny electric model. Their lives and well being are worth far more than a miniscule difference in air pollution.

But wouldn't you see that as a good thing?

When a private monopoly is the most efficient/effective means of delivering essential services, it only makes sense that the governing entity authorizing the monopoly provide oversight and regulation in the people's interest for the purpose of ensuring economy, competence, and environmental protection. As with everything, some do a better job of that than others.

Watch it, my company does a lot of the environmental permitting support for several of the planned terminals

We are currently in the process of re-calculating nat gas reserves in the US (and the planet) . Weve found that, with new technology, we can have significant gas production from formations that were originally considered only as source rocks or reervoir barrier rock. We can fracture and lance drill and slant drill and locate our points of search down to the nearest centimeter from surface M3 methods . Weve found out that there is significantly way more gas than we know. Right now, with JUST the reserves in the Texas and LA fields and the new plays in the MArcellus and Chatanooga and Salinas, we naow have enough gas to run EVERYTHING for the next (narly) 75 years. And this estimate is growing. Ibelieve we will experience a great gas glut and to use gas for power plants and cars is an excellent idea because we are learning more and more about Tropsching the earth to create more methane and this can be polymerized into propanes and heavier stuff. We , fortunately can live off the planetary flatulence.

As a By The Bye, back to climate change,(I dont recall seeing anyone mention this) remember that S. Fred SInger (who is a great global warming skeptic) SHARED the 2007 Nobel Prize with AL Gore. We dont seem to give ole S Fred the due he deserves .

George - is it true that GM has the Volt ready to roll, with factory planning and logistics down to the last detail, but for marketing reasons doesn't want to release it until 2011? It doesn't make sense to me, if true, seeing as they hope to operate on the taxpayers' dime between now and then.

High Seas wrote:

George - is it true that GM has the Volt ready to roll, with factory planning and logistics down to the last detail, but for marketing reasons doesn't want to release it until 2011? It doesn't make sense to me, if true, seeing as they hope to operate on the taxpayers' dime between now and then.

This could be - I don't know for sure. The decision to invest heavily in production is an economic bet with very high consequences. However timely and desirable the introduction of this vehicle might be, the willingness of consumers to spend their own (or borrowed) money on them is a variable that GM can't control and can predict at best with uncertain reliability.

Same question to you, Farmerman: why can't we just use the gas (until we can build more nuclear plants, is my hope) to operate power plants, home heating, other power requirements, and just drive electric cars?

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