Who can we blame when Avgas runs out?
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No apologies required at all, Creampuff......
Peak Oil is forecast to be reached anywhere from 2005 to 2012. From that point demand will exceed production in by an ever-increasing margin.
Since oil derivatives include avtur and diesel as well as avgas, we can expect all sectors to be affected not just GA. Who the hell really cares about avgas when we'll all be starving and fending off our neighbours with our hunting rifles (oops, I forgot, fcuking Howard made us give them up...) when they come looking to raid our stash of baked beans......
We won't ever quite run out? Yeah that's true, there'll always be some dregs at the bottom of the barrel but really, tin of piss, does this matter? By then it will be that fcuking expensive it may as well have run dry because it will be out of reach of all of us.
Why are you being so peurile about the concept?
As to who we should blame, I'd point the finger at the yanks whose need for 12-lane freeways dominated by single-occupant V8 SUVs sucks the world of dino-juice dry.
Add to that the hordes of well over TWO BILLION chinese and indians, all climbing over each other in droves to CONSUME.... and more every single minute of every single day, and you have a recipe for a rapid decline in fossil fuel reserves.
Why haven't there been any new refineries built in recent years?
Why are we seeing clapped-out old tankers cruising around instead of brand-newies?
Could it be because the rate of discovery of new oil reserves has slid down the back side of the bell-curve????????
No one particularly cares about avgas because they can't think past the impact of paying $1.26 AUD per litre just to run their Toorak Tractor down to the kindy twice a day.
Why should you?
Peak Oil is forecast to be reached anywhere from 2005 to 2012. From that point demand will exceed production in by an ever-increasing margin.
Since oil derivatives include avtur and diesel as well as avgas, we can expect all sectors to be affected not just GA. Who the hell really cares about avgas when we'll all be starving and fending off our neighbours with our hunting rifles (oops, I forgot, fcuking Howard made us give them up...) when they come looking to raid our stash of baked beans......
We won't ever quite run out? Yeah that's true, there'll always be some dregs at the bottom of the barrel but really, tin of piss, does this matter? By then it will be that fcuking expensive it may as well have run dry because it will be out of reach of all of us.
Why are you being so peurile about the concept?
As to who we should blame, I'd point the finger at the yanks whose need for 12-lane freeways dominated by single-occupant V8 SUVs sucks the world of dino-juice dry.
Add to that the hordes of well over TWO BILLION chinese and indians, all climbing over each other in droves to CONSUME.... and more every single minute of every single day, and you have a recipe for a rapid decline in fossil fuel reserves.
Why haven't there been any new refineries built in recent years?
Why are we seeing clapped-out old tankers cruising around instead of brand-newies?
Could it be because the rate of discovery of new oil reserves has slid down the back side of the bell-curve????????
No one particularly cares about avgas because they can't think past the impact of paying $1.26 AUD per litre just to run their Toorak Tractor down to the kindy twice a day.
Why should you?
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tinny mate.
The US diesel standard is waay dirtier than the Euros which is ultra clean, low sulfur and waaay kinder on the environment.
The euro cars wont run, at least without choking up on it.
Oz is on the way to it but I suspect that the US dominated manufacturers in Oz aren't all that keen given the investment they have in petrol and size.
BMW have the first of the new diesels here already but we need to have the entire fllet in Oz on it.
Prejudice will be the hardest take to shift.
Mate of mine runs and oilex company in South America, there's heaps of stuff there they know about and as much again they haven't even found yet.
The US diesel standard is waay dirtier than the Euros which is ultra clean, low sulfur and waaay kinder on the environment.
The euro cars wont run, at least without choking up on it.
Oz is on the way to it but I suspect that the US dominated manufacturers in Oz aren't all that keen given the investment they have in petrol and size.
BMW have the first of the new diesels here already but we need to have the entire fllet in Oz on it.
Prejudice will be the hardest take to shift.
Mate of mine runs and oilex company in South America, there's heaps of stuff there they know about and as much again they haven't even found yet.
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Can't wait till they start running aircraft on ethanol..two fingers out of the fuel drain with my orange juice would be a free head start on the way to the aeroclub bar
