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Lancer
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Oregon Coast, USA! or Bohol, Philippines!
Apr 1999
time: 05:33
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A couple of people have told me that Dan Rather did a report on government estimates that gas will go to $3. If it does it will kill my little tourist town on the Oregon Coast, so I'm curious if anyone has the skinny on the matter? Thanks...
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Lancer
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Oregon Coast, USA! or Bohol, Philippines!
Apr 1999
time: 05:33
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"You're joking. I live in a large-ish town just 10 miles away from one of England's biggest cities and there's no train link. British trains are rare, unreliable, extortionately expensive and prone to crashing. It's a joke.
Bristol has no mass transit despite having about half a million inhabitants."
"Sounds similar to Hull in public transport, only the bus system. Most of the rail infrastructure throughout the city was ripped up in the 50s, along with the trams and have never been replaced. The traffic is becoming staggering, yet no moves have been made to address this major issue, despite the city council having made staggering amounts of money with the Kingston Communications flotation - at one point they were, in terms of assets, the richest city council in the country with assets of £2.5bn...alas the collapse of the telecoms finished that off...that kind of money could have paid for a pretty extensive mass transit system many times over for the city...but they squandered it on doing up council houses and corruption.
The regeneration going on here is extensive - they are spending hundreds upon hundreds of millions - probably over a billion all in all. Yet no changes to public transport, which are sadly lacking...it is what is holding this city back."
This sounds like the same mess we've gotten into in the US. Cars cars cars... if gas really goes up we're screwed.
che, oh ya I recall now. Let me know if you ever come back for a visit. We'll have us a Poly meet, drink, take some dumb drunk pics, post em to open ourselves to the dirision...  Looking forward to it, pup. 
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Albert Speer
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Puerile Polemic
Mar 1999
time: 00:33
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i thought we went to war to get oil? why would gas prices increase?
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Lancer
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Oregon Coast, USA! or Bohol, Philippines!
Apr 1999
time: 05:33
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I know it's early, but what do you think of you're new Gov Derek?
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DanS
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Kickball Capital of the World
Jan 1970
time: 00:33
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I doubt that it will be $3 any time soon. Currently, the price of oil is just above the range where marginal producers can profitably add capacity. This isn't in the big boys' interests (they want to be the only ones adding capacity), so they'll keep the spiggot open as much as possible. Iraq oil will be coming on line in a major way in the next couple of years too...
Edit: FYi for those outside the US, to get to $3/gallon, the price of gas would have to about double and the price of oil would have to more than double.
Regarding the public transportation, things like trams are back in fashion, apparently. They are probably going to be adding one in Washington DC, after tearing up a good, workable system in the '50s. The commuter train system has been reactivated in the last 10 years (7 lines). This is all in addition to the subway which was built in the late 70s, of course.
Last edited by DanS on 18-01-2004 at 04:42
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17-01-2004 21:37
dont know whay though...
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