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Originally Posted by Boosted27606
Little known fact: Cars ( and trucks ) use less than 20 % of our country's oil consumption. Even if every car and truck in the US today would STOP, we would still use 80 % or more of what oil we use.
We use twice as much energy to heat and cool houses and buildings that we use for gasoline. Why dont we design better houses with passive solar features and hot water solar heaters ? It wont pollute and that could save millions of barrels of oil. We have the Technology, why dont we use it ?
How do I know ? I am a mechanical engineer who designed and built his own passive solar house 20 years ago. People were laughing at me then. I am the one laughing today when I get my cooling bill in the summer and my heating bill in the winter. Mine is usually about a third of my neighbors'.
I drive a small car around town every day but I will never give up my TUNDRA ! I need it to pull my trailer with my race car on it anyway.
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I too am a mechanical engineer who has designed and built my own house. I live in maine and this past winter I used 260 gallons of oil to heat keep it at 68 degrees. I don't even have AC (don't need it). I believe you are off on your oil consumption however. The latest data put out by the federal govt. puts transportation consuming about 2/3 of all oil used in the US, about 2/3 of that is in the form of gasoline. The rest being diesel, jet fuel, bunker fuel etc. I believe within 25 years no vehicle will be using petroleum oil to run on. What little there is left will be dedicated to other uses. None of us will be driving the trucks of today.