As of 3/1, Beefcake will phase out all offroad headers. :(

[shogun32]

Excuse me!!!! There isn’t an infinite supply of oil so the question is not if oil will run out but rather when

we don't know HOW oil is made, actually. We've assumed dinasours and other quickie jumps to conclusions but to baldly assert oil is finite is not supported by evidence.

Are we using it faster than we're finding (easy deposits) it?
Yes.

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[HoosierDaddy]

Oil is made from decaying plant matter. Plant matter still decays, so I contend oil is still being made. Will we at some point use it faster than it is being made? Sure but we are not there yet.

Plus there is already a process to convert baby seals to oil when prices rise enough to justify doing it.

 

[luc]

we don't know HOW oil is made, actually. We've assumed dinasours and other quickie jumps to conclusions but to baldly assert oil is finite is not supported by evidence.

Are we using it faster than we're finding (easy deposits) it?
Yes.

Hold on here, asserting that oil is finite is nothing more than logic and common sense. Our planet itself is finite

 

[luc]

Plus there is already a process to convert baby seals to oil when prices rise enough to justify doing it.

The German during ww2, due to their lack of oil fields, were manufacturing synthetic fuel from coal ( syngas). My dad was forced to work in 1 of those factories as part of Albert Speer forced labor organization
A bit more efficient than using baby seals.....

 

[shogun32]

A bit more efficient than using baby seals.....

and we have a sh*t-ton of coal on hand and less likely to trigger 'seal hugging parties' or ramming of seal-ing boat on the arctic waters.

Hold on here, asserting that oil is finite is nothing more than logic and common sense. Our planet itself is finite

we aren't running out of water nor dirt/rock. Let alone O2. So a careless declarative statement has no merit. Just because your un/mis-/propaganda-educated elementary school teacher was spouting the pseudo-science "truth of the day" doesn't make it so.

 

[sigintel]

Whats an emission test?

Just see if the bed is wet in the morning. If so, you passed.

it could just be your brother pee'ing on you during the night, though (see. 2.5 men)

oh.. oh my...

 

[shogun32]

Just see if the bed is wet in the morning. If so, you passed.

it could just be your brother pee'ing on you during the night, though (see. 2.5 men)

 

[94Mustang302ci]

Yes, however politics can drive market forces. Its not a coincidence that gas prices are up almost .80c a gallon since Biden got elected due to his weakness on energy. Track the market prices of a barrel of oil from Nov. 3 until today.

Nothing will stop me from believing that had the administration not changed I'd still be paying 2.50 ish a gallon for 93.

It's only going to get worse since this administration has stated it wants to make oil go away. The easiest way to get rid of a thing it to cause it to be so expensive that only the very top 2% can afford it.

My brother in law is a pipe fitter, he voted like the union wanted. He is now out of work and is about to lose his house. Yea, I rib him.

U.S. Regular Conventional Retail Gasoline Prices (Dollars per Gallon)​

Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
1990								NA	1.258	1.335	1.324	NA
1991	NA	1.094	1.040	1.076	1.126	1.128	1.096	1.115	1.109	1.088	1.099	1.076
1992	1.022	1.006	1.013	1.052	1.107	1.145	1.137	1.122	1.122	1.114	1.111	1.078
1993	1.062	1.054	1.052	1.078	1.100	1.097	1.078	1.062	1.050	1.092	1.066	1.014
1994	0.998	1.009	1.008	1.027	1.047	1.078	1.106	1.155	1.144	1.114	1.110	1.060
1995	1.066	1.058	1.059	1.104	1.172	1.186	1.148	1.120	1.108	1.082	1.058	1.066
1996	1.084	1.082	1.129	1.220	1.263	1.243	1.215	1.199	1.200	1.204	1.235	1.233
1997	1.231	1.224	1.197	1.188	1.191	1.189	1.167	1.213	1.216	1.182	1.158	1.119
1998	1.075	1.042	1.014	1.024	1.049	1.048	1.039	1.011	0.994	1.006	0.979	0.923
1999	0.917	0.900	0.961	1.099	1.103	1.095	1.138	1.199	1.239	1.230	1.240	1.261
2000	1.279	1.371	1.498	1.437	1.456	1.612	1.529	1.439	1.525	1.508	1.495	1.418
2001	1.427	1.431	1.384	1.517	1.654	1.548	1.340	1.386	1.506	1.274	1.139	1.072
2002	1.094	1.090	1.221	1.362	1.353	1.341	1.364	1.358	1.363	1.427	1.385	1.348
2003	1.424	1.582	1.636	1.517	1.438	1.452	1.480	1.588	1.616	1.513	1.474	1.448
2004	1.555	1.615	1.689	1.756	1.945	1.910	1.863	1.842	1.841	1.954	1.932	1.800
2005	1.811	1.886	2.063	2.211	2.114	2.123	2.247	2.449	2.862	2.689	2.222	2.174
2006	2.300	2.249	2.413	2.719	2.831	2.808	2.923	2.910	2.501	2.214	2.211	2.284
2007	2.191	2.235	2.503	2.787	3.119	3.024	2.947	2.777	2.817	2.791	3.064	2.984
2008	3.018	3.016	3.215	3.421	3.735	3.989	4.002	3.740	3.709	3.010	2.099	1.669
2009	1.772	1.892	1.937	2.021	2.240	2.597	2.478	2.562	2.480	2.500	2.614	2.568
2010	2.678	2.603	2.742	2.818	2.795	2.684	2.679	2.683	2.678	2.766	2.815	2.951
2011	3.058	3.168	3.509	3.746	3.849	3.628	3.614	3.612	3.573	3.400	3.330	3.220
2012	3.330	3.517	3.774	3.837	3.643	3.465	3.379	3.668	3.801	3.653	3.380	3.256
2013	3.255	3.605	3.648	3.501	3.565	3.576	3.515	3.515	3.474	3.285	3.186	3.209
2014	3.252	3.305	3.474	3.590	3.601	3.626	3.539	3.425	3.354	3.120	2.875	2.488
2015	2.046	2.152	2.352	2.369	2.578	2.700	2.666	2.522	2.275	2.230	2.088	1.946
2016	1.843	1.681	1.895	2.027	2.199	2.303	2.157	2.119	2.161	2.186	2.105	2.192
2017	2.285	2.227	2.243	2.340	2.303	2.257	2.211	2.297	2.570	2.430	2.474	2.388
2018	2.467	2.488	2.488	2.652	2.808	2.802	2.770	2.768	2.769	2.785	2.561	2.263
2019	2.145	2.223	2.443	2.694	2.731	2.601	2.640	2.521	2.489	2.497	2.480	2.469
2020	2.459	2.348	2.126	1.721	1.769	1.998	2.099	2.093	2.095	2.073	2.015	2.105
2021	2.244	2.412

- = No Data Reported; -- = Not Applicable; NA = Not Available; W = Withheld to avoid disclosure of individual company data.

 

[shogun32]

https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=A103600001&f=M
https://aei.ag/2020/09/21/the-most-interesting-chart-in-2020-u-s-gasoline-consumption/

 

[Stage_3]

This video pretty much explains it from the person on the inside.
The auto/truck performance industry is under attack. Both software and hardware.

 

[ice445]

and we have a sh*t-ton of coal on hand and less likely to trigger 'seal hugging parties' or ramming of seal-ing boat on the arctic waters.


we aren't running out of water nor dirt/rock. Let alone O2. So a careless declarative statement has no merit. Just because your un/mis-/propaganda-educated elementary school teacher was spouting the pseudo-science "truth of the day" doesn't make it so.

Oil is limited by how much energy it takes to extract it. Once all the easy stuff is gone, it becomes pointless. If it took one barrel to produce one barrel the whole system falls apart. We will certainly reach that point sooner than later at current consumption levels. You can argue that we will just make synthetics and that's true, but it will only be for important things like plastic. Transportation as we know it would be priced to the moon.

 

[K4fxd]

Are you in the oil industry? You obviously do not know what you are talking about.

There is at least 200 years of easily to get oil at current rates. Some oil geologists think it is 500 years.

 

[ice445]

Are you in the oil industry? You obviously do not know what you are talking about.

There is at least 200 years of easily to get oil at current rates. Some oil geologists think it is 500 years.

You claim I dont know what I'm talking about, then pull a figure out of your ass. Love it. Truly comical at this point.

 

[K4fxd]

I spent the last 20 years in the fracking industry.

You?

 

[Stage_3]

Lund Jr. talked about this some more,.................

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