The End of the Oil Age

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Posted by michael on Friday October 24, 2003 @02:07AM from the glug-glug dept.

geekstreak quotes "'The Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil.' Ways to break the tyranny of oil are coming into view. Governments need to promote them."

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So it goes... by Joe+the+Lesser · 2003-10-24 02:10 · Score: 4, Funny

Governments need to promote them.

And Oil Industries need to subdue them.

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End Of Oil Age??? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-24 02:11 · Score: 3, Funny

...Then what will KFC fry their chicken in?
1. Re:End Of Oil Age??? by MooCows · 2003-10-24 02:16 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  ...Then what will KFC fry their chicken in?
  
  Hydrogen of course! It's the future!
  
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  The path I walk alone is endlessly long.
  30 minutes by bike, 15 by bus.
I, fooor one... (hic)... by southpolesammy · 2003-10-24 02:14 · Score: 2, Funny

weellcome our (hic) neww bio (hic) bio (hic) bioethanol supplying overlawrds... (burp)...

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Re:My car by bcolflesh · 2003-10-24 02:14 · Score: 3, Funny

They'll pry my steering wheel from my cold, dead hands!

- National Oil Association
Ten ways to defeat the oil industry. by dolo666 · 2003-10-24 02:14 · Score: 2, Funny

1. Wait.
2. Buy stuff from only your home town.
3. Eat less.
4. Shop less.
5. Buy an electric car.
6. Walk.
7. Run.
8. Bike.
9. Have lots of sex. (ok these aren't in order)
10. Make fun of people who drive or buy things from far away or shop too much or don't have much sex.
As Mr Burns once said: by ellem · 2003-10-24 02:21 · Score: 5, Funny

Oooh, so Mother Nature needs a favor?! Well maybe she should have thought of that when she was besetting us with droughts and floods and poison monkeys! Nature started the fight for survival, and now she wants to quit because she's losing. Well I say, hard cheese.

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KFC by t4b00 · 2003-10-24 02:34 · Score: 2, Funny

Using Nuclear Power they could steam cook chickens and produce electricity at the same time. "Welcome to nuK-FC can I take your order?"
1. Re:KFC by frank_adrian314159 · 2003-10-24 04:48 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Using Nuclear Power they could steam cook chickens and produce electricity at the same time.
  And they can grow chickens the size of Cleveland with three drumsticks! Where do I invest!?!
  
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Re:Err.. King Bush II is an Oilman by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-24 02:37 · Score: 1, Funny

Sorry, most of us assumed you'd switched over to a monarchy at the last election, when you decided you weren't going to count votes any more because doing so may "harm" [(c) Justice Scalia] the legitimacy of the head of state they wanted.
But if you want to call him a President, that's fine. I think Iraq called its head of state one too.
Re:You'll keep wasting gas until you can't afford by Guipo · 2003-10-24 03:23 · Score: 2, Funny

you know what, me being a right wing person, I feel just like you. I wish i could get better than 26MPG on my 4cyl. I want to get better and have more advanced technologies just so I can hurt those bastards. I dont really care about what I drive other than that fact. oh, and I'm a cheapskate!
Guipo

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Re:My car by reboot246 · 2003-10-24 03:33 · Score: 2, Funny

My car is a hollowed-out log with holes in the bottom to stick my feet through.

Yabba dabba doo!
Re:My car by BlackBolt · 2003-10-24 03:58 · Score: 1, Funny

They'll pry my steering wheel from my cold, dead hands!
**I died in a car accident, you insensitive clod!!**
Which would explain my pathetic lack of a posting history...
Re:My car by fenix+down · 2003-10-24 05:42 · Score: 2, Funny

My Car

Blah Blah Blah...
I am going to drive my car,
Until the pump won't pump no more.
Or the goverment pay's me $$,
To drive something different.
And i think that view,
Is very very common.

-Didi Pickles, 2003

*sniff* Beautiful.