<p>Homer</p>
<p>Learn to use the BB Code. Otherwise, I can’t take you seriously. :rolleyes:</p>
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<p>@ jwxie</p>
<p>Crash already answered your question.</p>
<p>“They make what is the equivalent to $10k USD at the 75th percentile”</p>
<p>USD means United States Dollars.</p>
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Sure you will make money for a minute, but the US is trying to bail on oil as fast as possible.
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<p>Petro engineering will be around for a VERY long time. Oil company lobbyists are some very powerful people and I woudl strong advise against betting agaisnt them. They killed cap and trade so without that there is no threat to the oil industry. </p>
<p>Look outside right now or take a walk through your neighborhood. Do you see solar panels? Do you see wind turbines? Or do you see gas stations? Do you think people are going to give up their SUVs for a little Chevy Volt/ Nissan Leaf? Absolutely not.</p>
<p>Stop telling people to go to India and Pakistan. It’s insane. They are dangerous places. Before anyone does that, I would recommend officer training school or teaching English in South Korea.</p>
<p>Homer why can’t you contain your response in one post? Everywhere you post you tend to double or even triple-post within minutes of each other.</p>
<p>Just sit down, get your thoughts out at once, then submit.</p>
<p>last room mate was indian. i didn’t really know much about that part of the world but from everything he told me india’s a cool place.</p>
<p>@ alchem
thanks. i didn’t notice he was referring to my question.</p>
<p>India is a dreadful, dreadful place.</p>
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<p>If I had to go to India, I wouldn’t go to the bathroom the entire trip.</p>
<p>I had collaborated with students at a university in India for a research project during grad school. It would always be so hard to communicate with them because the power at their dorm gets shut off at 11pm nightly. </p>
<p>When I visited India, the traffic was horrible at times. I was being warned constantly about malaria and drinking only bottled water. Wild monkeys would go through my garbage outside during the night (and I would be able to hear them). I had sealed boxes of snacks in my luggage, but when I opened it, ants had already made its way inside. It was an interesting time, but I wouldn’t be able to live there long term.</p>
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We have solar panels all over the place, and there is a major wind farm up the road - I’ve counted over a hundred turbines, quite attractive IMO. I do of course see plenty of gas stations, but I also do see hybrids - electrics haven’t really made it out here yet. There are a ton of Priuses on the roads, but hardly ever any available for sale, because they’re gone within a few days of hitting the lots - I know, because I was thinking of getting one and started to check around. I see a lot of the Escape Hybrids, too - easy to tell with the little green insignia on the back. This is corn country, so we have a ton of ethanol stations, usually around 40-80c cheaper per gallon than gas, but not all cars can use it.</p>
<p>Exactly, the only people clinging to fossil fuels are the company’s themselves.</p>
<p>Not true^^</p>
<p>Society is clinging to fossil fuels just as much as oil companies are.</p>
<p>Society is clinging on to it because it is currently cheaper.</p>
<p>^This.</p>
<p>Society, above all else, clings to their money. If “green” energy and transportation were cheaper, they would flock that direction in droves.</p>
<p>Hybrid cars(and buses) and Chevy Volt sales say otherwise.</p>
<p>^^</p>
<p>The Chevy volt isn’t even out yet and electric/hybrid buses/cars make up an insignificant percentage of the automobile market. Automobiles barely produce 1% of the total CO2 pollution released so even if we completely converted all automobiles to hybrids we would still barely be putting a dent into the fossil fuels industry and the goal of decreasing atmospheric pollution.</p>
<p>People forget that most electric powered automobiles are almost as dirty as petroleum powered automobiles because that electricity more than likely came from a coal plant and coal burns much dirtier than petroleum.</p>
<p>Hydrogen powered vehicles are just as bad because it takes more energy to create than what you get out and most of the hydrogen comes from hydrocarbons anyways.</p>
<p>As much as I wish our society has progressed beyond fossil fuels the truth is we still have a very long way to go.</p>
<p>How many water bottles have you drank from once and then thrown out?</p>
<p>btw the Chevy Volt is expected to retail at $41,000. Most people can not afford that. You could by a BMW with that price tag.</p>
<p>alchemist007, stop advertising India and Pakistan as the land of milk and honey. Pakistan is about to fall to the Taliban and India is only moving at baby steps compared to China. If there’s any developing country engineers should move to, it’s China. </p>
<p>The way I see America getting off it’s oil addiction is if more people move to cities. Everything is within walking distance so you don’t need to drive like in the suburbs. Hopefully that will mean more building/infrastructure projects and more need for civil engineers!</p>
<p>But lots of cities are in decay and nobody wants to live in them (Detroit, East St. Louis, Camden, NJ, etc.) </p>
<p>The best way to get off of oil is to go NUCLEAR. And until that is done, we could use natural gas.</p>