View Single Post
      07-13-2008, 07:45 PM   #17
Palbay
Captain
Palbay's Avatar
United_States
586
Rep
728
Posts

Drives: 2007 BMW X3
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Upstate,SC

iTrader: (0)

Quote:
Originally Posted by chuck92103 View Post
China is buying a lot of diesel fuel as they expand. They are using coal for electric generation, but need diesel for trucking, equipment, etc.

Also, here in the U.S. the new diesel formulation to remove suphur costs more to produce.

Oil is in demand so diesel and gas are going up.

As more folks by hybrids, nickel and lithium is going up.

If we build all electric cars, they will go up in general.

We cannot rely on any one source of energy as there is not one that can fuel the world. It has to be a combination of many energy sources. Coal, natural gas, oil, nuclear, etc.

Quote:
Batteries are not an energy source. They are simply storage containers
.
Very good point! PalBay
__________________
Appreciate 0