Comments on: Make Cars in Cities Oil-Free by 2025 http://priceofoil.org/2006/12/12/make-cars-in-cities-oil-free-by-2025/ Oil Change International campaigns to expose the true costs of oil and facilitate the coming transition towards clean energy. We are dedicated to identifying and overcoming political barriers to that transition. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:39:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: adrianne http://priceofoil.org/2006/12/12/make-cars-in-cities-oil-free-by-2025/comment-page-1/#comment-6514 adrianne Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:36:20 +0000 http://priceofoil.org/2006/12/12/make-cars-in-cities-oil-free-by-2025/#comment-6514 Simon is right. We should check weather our solutions don't do more harm to the situation. And we must remember that it's us that lead climate to change. We disconsidered nature and we are now paying the price. Look at the past 150 and the stages that the climate went through. Look at the wars we fought. I think is great that more and more scientist, journalists, even just readers are into looking for the causes of climate change. I recommend reading some parts of the Booklet on Naval War changes Climate, written by Arnd Bernaerts, at http://www.1ocean-1climate.com. Simon is right. We should check weather our solutions don’t do more harm to the situation. And we must remember that it’s us that lead climate to change. We disconsidered nature and we are now paying the price.

Look at the past 150 and the stages that the climate went through. Look at the wars we fought.

I think is great that more and more scientist, journalists, even just readers are into looking for the causes of climate change. I recommend reading some parts of the Booklet on Naval War changes Climate, written by Arnd Bernaerts, at http://www.1ocean-1climate.com.

]]> By: Biofuelsimon http://priceofoil.org/2006/12/12/make-cars-in-cities-oil-free-by-2025/comment-page-1/#comment-6505 Biofuelsimon Tue, 12 Dec 2006 10:48:31 +0000 http://priceofoil.org/2006/12/12/make-cars-in-cities-oil-free-by-2025/#comment-6505 In my other life as a chemicals journalist, I would applaud the idea that precious oil should be conserved for more useful things than transportation. Only about 10% of the total world oil use goes to make the fibres, plastics, paints, detergents and other useful things. 90% is used to produce gasoline and diesel and in those products. By using precious oil for other chemicals and products we get much better value from the scarce resource than we do by simply burning it to move around. But I think that we would have to be sure that the environmental damage caused by the change to non-oil fuels was no worse than using oil. I have worries that such a policy shift could have environmental impacts that would also be undesirable. You can see some of this thinking at: http://www.icis.com/blogs/biofuels/archives/environment/ In my other life as a chemicals journalist, I would applaud the idea that precious oil should be conserved for more useful things than transportation. Only about 10% of the total world oil use goes to make the fibres, plastics, paints, detergents and other useful things. 90% is used to produce gasoline and diesel and in those products.

By using precious oil for other chemicals and products we get much better value from the scarce resource than we do by simply burning it to move around.

But I think that we would have to be sure that the environmental damage caused by the change to non-oil fuels was no worse than using oil.

I have worries that such a policy shift could have environmental impacts that would also be undesirable. You can see some of this thinking at:
http://www.icis.com/blogs/biofuels/archives/environment/

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