Frank and Ernest by Thaves for July 26, 2011
July 25, 2011
July 27, 2011
Transcript:
Man: "Of course it's sustainable! It's not like we're going to run out of sticks!"
Man: "Of course it's sustainable! It's not like we're going to run out of sticks!"
gjsjr41 over 13 years ago
The same with cars getting better gas mileage. Oil companies don’t want us getting 50 miles per gallon. So any new ideas gets bought off and trashed.
Justice22 over 13 years ago
I saw a few days ago that Speaker Boehner was calling for an end to wasteful spending on wind and solar energy.
zerotsm over 13 years ago
If you want to go 65 MPH, in a car of reasonable size, you can’t get much better than 50 mpg due to the laws of physics. Yes, I know that there are hypermilers that get 100 mpg out of a hybrid, but they do that by driving at 45 MPH
Tuner38 over 13 years ago
Or run out of other people’s money to spend.
angelfiredragon over 13 years ago
Maybe cars need to be made to run off sticks, I got so many falling off my trees I’d probably never run out.
hippogriff over 13 years ago
Back when I had my bookstore, I heated it for a year using only curbside brush picked up on the less than a mile from house to store and back. Most of the rest of the time, I used wood the highway department pullled from under bridges. I used a Jøtul stove for space 15% larger than the stove’s rated capacity.
Also, I currently have 53.1 mpg showing on my Prius dashboard. Back in 1976, there were three different systems which would get 75 mpg at highway speeds, two of which were installed in large (and heavy) cars.
rrogers0723 over 13 years ago
The reason oil is still king is because it is (relatively speaking) cheap, reliable and plentiful. Develop an alternative energy source that is cost competitive, plentiful and reliable and people will flock to it in droves Until then oil will continue to be the dominant energy source. It’s a matter of simple economics and supply and demand.