|
Don't want to pour more "fuel" on this fire, but the business pages of the two newspapers I read today are promising $100/barrel for oil by 2008! Gasoline/diesel prices will continue to rise because of the increasing demand from India and China and the US. As mentioned in this thread, fuel price increases are going to drag other prices for nearly everything higher. This needs to be considered in everyone's planning for the future and it is only around the corner--sorry!
Regarding the comment about ethanol being brought to you by "the global warming crowd", it was brought to you in its current form by previous Republican/Farm State congressmen/women. It is driving up the cost of nearly all food products since anything remotely related to corn and there is a lot of those items is going higher and there is then less competition for the rest of the food products. IMHO we need to be putting more research in biodiesel which can be produced from nearly anything that is organic. It has more energy than ethanol and from what I understand, uses way less energy to make and the diesel engines love it. Any yes, we might have to take a chapter from the Europeans and run smaller RVs to make it affordable for us.
Whatever happens fuelwise is only going to go one direct. We're currently in Canada and the last fillup was at $3.90/gal. Milk is the same price for a half a gallon! Don't give up on the lifestyle, just figure out a way to do it besides winning the lottery and then tell us all.
|