No more petrol?

**Antallica** · 23rd March 2005, 06:51

It seems we're going to run out of oil in the next few years. Dunno about you, but I think I'll start riding more

http://www.oilcrash.com/

Thoughts anyone?

**Dr Bob** · 23rd March 2005, 07:15

The problem is that natural oil reserves are disappearing and it is costing much more money to find oil. There will become diminishing marginal returns in the amount of energy that goes into finding new oil fields. Couple this with climate change and global warming and you have a problem. Alternatives are being researched. One good source in the future is 'grown' oil, using a type of algae that they are growing in ponds in a desert somewhere. Fossil fuels came from plant life, so it may be able to be recreated sustainably using the same. However, we may have to change to diesel bikes and spend our time on this forum discussing the merits of canola 35 over generic vegetable oil 31 at the pump.

**muzz** · 23rd March 2005, 08:34

Just get the still going and brew your own alcohol/methenol.

**Ixion** · 23rd March 2005, 08:53

Originally Posted by Antallica

It seems we're going to run out of oil in the next few years. Dunno about you, but I think I'll start riding more

http://www.oilcrash.com/

Thoughts anyone?

Yeah yeah. I've been hearing this for half a century now. There's enough oil in shale to last the world about a million years. And it can be synthesised from scratch . The Nazis did it in WWII and I imagine we've advanced a bit since then.

Only question is how much it costs , which comes doen to how much to we want to protect the profits of the oil companies.

**Hitcher** · 23rd March 2005, 09:15

Don't believe everything you read on the Interweb -- including this...

**bugjuice** · 23rd March 2005, 09:51

had wondered what would happen to bikes when all this crap kicks in.. or kicks out, depends how you look at it!

You hear all the car manufacturers designing hybrids, but what about bikes?!?! Can just imagine it being like I, Robot, where Will Smith gets out the Agusta (is it..??) after being stored away for years.. and it still started first time! good on it..

anyway, what would happen to us?!?!

**Motu** · 23rd March 2005, 10:32

It's hopless,we are doomed,there won't be any motorcycles to ride...it's the end.

For those who realise the uselessness of continueing to ride motorcycles - at considerable cost to myself I will undertake the disposal of unwanted useless bikes,I will pick them up from your place for no charge...anywhere in the country.So don't hang yourself with your Nike shoelaces,help is at hand and I will remove the source of your desperation.

I am sitting at my phone,rubbing my hands in anticipation of your replies....

**Motoracer** · 23rd March 2005, 10:43

Originally Posted by Hitcher

Don't believe everything you read on the Interweb -- including this...

I second that!

**Skunk** · 23rd March 2005, 10:58

Originally Posted by bugjuice

You hear all the car manufacturers designing hybrids, but what about bikes?

Help is at hand! Read this
Attached is a 1.18meg PDF of it.

**James Deuce** · 23rd March 2005, 11:21

Originally Posted by Skunk

Help is at hand! Read this
Attached is a 1.18meg PDF of it.

It's crap, and I sincerely hope that they aren't going to market that POS to bikers. That would result in the mass storming of their corporate HQ, with some well deserved maimings dished out.

There's something ingenuous (and I mean naive) about a company proclaiming how marvelous a bike is that can only be refuelled at one service station in the UK, that has a top speed that probably takes a couple of years to reach some 20mph slower than the speed limit on a UK motorway.

Any alternatively fuelled motorcycle I am forced to buy will need to perform BETTER than my current motorcycle, otherwise what's the point? And if some pointy headed eco-freak tries to point out that I shouldn't be emotionally attached to "transport" he will need to install double glazing in his belly button so he can see where he's going after I stick the aforementioned streamlined cranium up his rectum.

**Mr Skid** · 23rd March 2005, 11:23

Originally Posted by Motu

For those who realise the uselessness of continueing to ride motorcycles - at considerable cost to myself I will undertake the disposal of unwanted useless bikes,I will pick them up from your place for no charge...anywhere in the country.So don't hang yourself with your Nike shoelaces,help is at hand and I will remove the source of your desperation.

...even sprotBikes? :spudwhat: