Originally Posted by kurtisberry
This crisis is permanent, unlike the 70's. We, those of us in the US, use too much oil. If you saw Krammer on the Today show this morning you know we have to change. We use 25 barrels per capita. India and China use 2 and are trying to move up to 4. We use 25% of the worlds oil for 5% of the population.
I'm looking at a scooter, and parking the Crossfire for the summer.
My son-in-law bought a Yamaha R6, which will smoke a Crossfire in any category, yet gets 56 MPG.
In the first place, I don't want to live like most people in India. High rates of poverty and disease and little opportunity to be better than the caste you were born to.
Secondly, how's the heater in your son-in-law's Yamaha? the AC? And where does he put kids and groceries?
I'm not embarrassed or ashamed about how well we live. My Grandfather used very little energy other than his own back untill the 50's. Not on the grid until 1948. Had a small tractor in '46. Cut firewood all summer to heat the house and hand carried water from the well every day. We used an outhouse until 1964 and were able to farm all of 180 acres. He worked his *ss off.
Now one man can do ten to twenty times that. This thanks to the productivity provided by technologies than use non human energy. It is why we are the most productive society on the planet despite having so many of our citizens retired or on welfare.
Better than 20% of our citizens don't work for one reason or another and yet they live in comfort and eat well. They don't have to cut 20 cords of firewood to stay warm thru the winter or milk cows for cream in their morning coffee.
I suspect, neither do you.
roadster with a stick