Coastal Drilling - For or Against?

[Beach Runner]

Just today I received two emails regarding people getting hurt using motorcycles/ scooters for alternative transportation. One was a colleague who got hit by a deer riding his scooter from work and was thrown 100 feet down the road. Another was an alumnus who was killed in a motorcycle accident today.

Last month another colleague was hit by a pickup truck while using her bicycle to go to work. She had the right-of-way. Thankfully she only suffered a broken leg.

I think we'll be hearing about more incidents like this as people try to ease the pain at the pump. Oh, and oil is trading at about $140 a barrel today.

 

[scooterbug44]

I'm sorry your friends are hurt, but hitting a deer w/ a scooter is rather impressive from an odds of 2 small things colliding standpoint.

I've been seeing more scooters on 30-A - seem to work well here and I haven't seen an issue w/ their driving yet.

 

[Beach Runner]

I'm sorry your friends are hurt, but hitting a deer w/ a scooter is rather impressive from an odds of 2 small things colliding standpoint.

I've been seeing more scooters on 30-A - seem to work well here and I haven't seen an issue w/ their driving yet.

I know you think hitting a deer is improbable, but you can't imagine how many deer are near where I work and live. There are 4000 contiguous acres of undeveloped property nearby. I know several people who have had cars totaled by deer on many occasions. A deer charged our car while we were going up our driveway after attending church, and thankfully we avoided it.

Deer or no deer, if someone has an accident on a scooter or motorcycle, they have less protection than if s/he is in an enclosed vehicle.

Heard on CNN about a Georgia Tech student who has a diesel car. He purchases vegetable oil discarded from Atlanta restaurants, filters it, and rigged up a contraption to heat the oil under the hood prior to injection. His fuel costs are 12 cents per gallon.

I'll admit I was oblivious to the oil crisis until recently -- just not on my radar screen. But surely someone had to have had a clue of the dire straights in which we now find ourselves. You would have thought that all auto manufacturers would have been ready with the right technology to create lithium batteries or whatever to power our vehicles. Maybe we were just ostriches with our heads hidden in the sand. I, for one, was. And not all of us live in areas with public transportation.

What's really scary is that I have seen several new SUVs in SoWal today with dealers' temporary tags. Everything I've read lately says that the SUV is today's dinosaur. I'll be glad to take a offer on ours.

 

[Matt J]

Spoke to someone today who has a hybrid, he said he gets right at about 100 mpg on 30A. Probably due to all of the stopping and starting, and lack of using the gas portion he said it rarely kicks on the engine.

 

[elgordoboy]

Spoke to someone today who has a hybrid, he said he gets right at about 100 mpg on 30A. Probably due to all of the stopping and starting, and lack of using the gas portion he said it rarely kicks on the engine.

This is how I roll..total renewable:

Yabbadabba' an' all that blabba'

 

[Bob]

Are you against a financial incentive for solutions posed? Or just for men who are already in the business? Serious question.

This thought is elegant. Innovation 6thGen, not confrontation.

 

[henryford]

JUST PUT THE WORD OUT THAT WE ARE GOING TO START TO BUILD MORE REFINERIES AND DRILLING ON OUR OWN AND IN A SHORT TIME WE WILL SEE THE PRICE AT THE PUMPS START TO DECLINE. WE HAVE A LARGE SUPPLY OF OIL AVAILABLE IF WE WILL JUST GET IT. THE TREE HUGGERS NEED TO GET A REAL LIFE AND MOVE ON. JUST THE THREAT TO DRILL DRILL DRILL- MAY TELL THEM SOON WE DO NOT NEED IT AND LET THEM JUST DRINK THEIR OIL. IF WE HAD STATED TO DO THIS YEARS AGO - WE WOULD NOT BE WHERE WE ARE TODAY -TREE HUGGERS GET A LIFE - FROM THE REAL WORLD - LETS MOVE FORWARD -

 

[LuciferSam]

JUST PUT THE WORD OUT THAT WE ARE GOING TO START TO BUILD MORE REFINERIES AND DRILLING ON OUR OWN AND IN A SHORT TIME WE WILL SEE THE PRICE AT THE PUMPS START TO DECLINE. WE HAVE A LARGE SUPPLY OF OIL AVAILABLE IF WE WILL JUST GET IT. THE TREE HUGGERS NEED TO GET A REAL LIFE AND MOVE ON. JUST THE THREAT TO DRILL DRILL DRILL- MAY TELL THEM SOON WE DO NOT NEED IT AND LET THEM JUST DRINK THEIR OIL. IF WE HAD STATED TO DO THIS YEARS AGO - WE WOULD NOT BE WHERE WE ARE TODAY -TREE HUGGERS GET A LIFE - FROM THE REAL WORLD - LETS MOVE FORWARD -

Couldn't you have bolded everything, you know, for emphasis?

 

[Matt J]

JUST PUT THE WORD OUT THAT WE ARE GOING TO START TO BUILD MORE REFINERIES AND DRILLING ON OUR OWN AND IN A SHORT TIME WE WILL SEE THE PRICE AT THE PUMPS START TO DECLINE. WE HAVE A LARGE SUPPLY OF OIL AVAILABLE IF WE WILL JUST GET IT. THE TREE HUGGERS NEED TO GET A REAL LIFE AND MOVE ON. JUST THE THREAT TO DRILL DRILL DRILL- MAY TELL THEM SOON WE DO NOT NEED IT AND LET THEM JUST DRINK THEIR OIL. IF WE HAD STATED TO DO THIS YEARS AGO - WE WOULD NOT BE WHERE WE ARE TODAY -TREE HUGGERS GET A LIFE - FROM THE REAL WORLD - LETS MOVE FORWARD -

So your pro drilling?

I guess tomorrow doesn't matter as long as you can do what you want today? Tell your kids their future isn't your problem.

 

[Teresa]

Just today I received two emails regarding people getting hurt using motorcycles/ scooters for alternative transportation. One was a colleague who got hit by a deer riding his scooter from work and was thrown 100 feet down the road. Another was an alumnus who was killed in a motorcycle accident today.

Last month another colleague was hit by a pickup truck while using her bicycle to go to work. She had the right-of-way. Thankfully she only suffered a broken leg.

I think we'll be hearing about more incidents like this as people try to ease the pain at the pump. Oh, and oil is trading at about $140 a barrel today.

riding a motorcycle or scooter is very dangerous, and people who do so should be really well prepared or educated in doing so. ride a bike. don't ride a scooter or motorcycle unless its something you are very, very well prepared to do. pleeeseeeeeeeeese.

riding a bike on 30A bike path is a load of funn, good for you, and saves gas. but, riding a scooter on 30A is truly a danger to yourself and others, unless it is something you have truly learned to do in the most safe manner. we do not need a bunch of a-holes riding on 30A on their scooters, whether they are local aholes or visiting aholes. the end.

and that's all I am going to say on that matter!