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Posted By: yukon254

Gas prices - 01/18/21 09:40 PM

So Biden is planning on cancelling the keystone pipline on day one. Wonder how badly this will effect us trappers. Gas prices are already going up here. Apparently Canada plans to sue over it so it could get ugly.
Posted By: 330-Trapper

Re: Gas prices - 01/18/21 09:44 PM

Hard to imagine. TRAPPING AND farming would be hard
Posted By: Jtrapper

Re: Gas prices - 01/18/21 09:44 PM

All drilling and fraking will cease, he told everyone he would do that, we have to save the climate!

Real problem is going to be all of these coal fired power plants that went to a natural gas because Trump had so much drilling going on was a steady supply of it. Gas wells get shut off no gas to the power plant thus no electricity to your house! I guess if we're going back to horse and buggy days we may as well live in darkness too.
Posted By: 330-Trapper

Re: Gas prices - 01/18/21 09:59 PM

Originally Posted by Jtrapper
All drilling and fraking will cease, he told everyone he would do that, we have to save the climate!

Real problem is going to be all of these coal fired power plants that went to a natural gas because Trump had so much drilling going on was a steady supply of it. Gas wells get shut off no gas to the power plant thus no electricity to your house! I guess if we're going back to horse and buggy days we may as well live in darkness too.

Insanity!
Posted By: Sprung & Rusty

Re: Gas prices - 01/18/21 10:08 PM

The electric age is just starting to grow. Soon gas will be used less.
Posted By: Bruce T

Re: Gas prices - 01/18/21 10:10 PM

Originally Posted by Sprung & Rusty
The electric age is just starting to grow. Soon gas will be used less.

Great in the cities.What good are they out in the country and small towns?
Posted By: Jtrapper

Re: Gas prices - 01/18/21 10:27 PM

Still going to need fossil fuels to generate enough electricity to charge your battery in your death trap 'green' car!
Posted By: Bob

Re: Gas prices - 01/18/21 10:29 PM

Originally Posted by Bruce T
Originally Posted by Sprung & Rusty
The electric age is just starting to grow. Soon gas will be used less.

Great in the cities.What good are they out in the country and small towns?


We already have a Tesla charging station here, town of about 7,000 people. The infrastructure for it is constantly being worked on, but we are a long way off from getting away from gas completely. The rural communities will continue to use gas and diesel for a long while yet. But the more people that switch to electric, the less demand there will be for gas, less demand =lower price.
Posted By: Sprung & Rusty

Re: Gas prices - 01/18/21 10:31 PM

Originally Posted by Jtrapper
Still going to need fossil fuels to generate enough electricity to charge your battery in your death trap 'green' car!

Green car? Trucks are going electric too.
Posted By: Bob

Re: Gas prices - 01/18/21 10:33 PM

Jtrapper, there was a time when a guy on a cart pulled by a team of horses would have called your gas pickup a kooky death trap. 150 years ago nobody ever would have imagined that everyone would own a vehicle capable of driving from Washington to New York in less than two days. Times change, technologies evolve, cling to the past if you want to buy the future is more exciting
Posted By: KenaiKid

Re: Gas prices - 01/18/21 10:40 PM

Bob, how is your electricity generated?
The majority of electric cars simply burn fossil fuels further away, because that's how most electricity is generated. Wind power is a fraud, and solar power is a long, long way from catching up, if there is even enough real estate harvest enough. And let's not forget how many hydroelectric damns were removed in the last 30 years in the name of the trending "environmentalism."

Electricity is fantastic, but it comes from somewhere. You're just using energy further away. If fossil fuel prices rise, electricity prices will rise. The only difference is that the Feds will probably subsidize electric rates to create the illusion of efficiency.
Posted By: yukon254

Re: Gas prices - 01/18/21 10:44 PM

All this talk of all these electric modes of transportation fail to consider where the power is going to come from to produce, maintain, and build them, and if you think its going to come from solar panels, you're naive. Without mining, you have none of it. That takes energy and lots of it. Whats going to supply the charging stations? Fossil fuels thats what.
Posted By: Jtrapper

Re: Gas prices - 01/18/21 11:00 PM

Can't wait to see junk yards with those toxic batterys in them also, sure that won't harm the environment a bit.
Posted By: Bruce T

Re: Gas prices - 01/18/21 11:06 PM

Originally Posted by Bob
We already have a Tesla charging station here, town of about 7,000 people. The infrastructure for it is constantly being worked on, but we are a long way off from getting away from gas completely. The rural communities will continue to use gas and diesel for a long while yet. But the more people that switch to electric, the less demand there will be for gas, less demand =lower price.

The nearest town that size is a hour away.
Posted By: Northof50

Re: Gas prices - 01/18/21 11:09 PM

$4 here we come//////????||||||\\\\\\ by Memorial Day
Posted By: Feedinggrounds

Re: Gas prices - 01/18/21 11:18 PM

Originally Posted by Bob
Jtrapper, there was a time when a guy on a cart pulled by a team of horses would have called your gas pickup a kooky death trap. 150 years ago nobody ever would have imagined that everyone would own a vehicle capable of driving from Washington to New York in less than two days. Times change, technologies evolve, cling to the past if you want to buy the future is more exciting

Yeah, exciting! Until the total carbon footprint per mile is less than fossil fuels it's just a big lie. Next thing you know they will be making fake fur....
Posted By: Feedinggrounds

Re: Gas prices - 01/18/21 11:24 PM

Shut down a clean coal power plant, and replace it with a green cogeneration power plant, burning garbage, ground tires and wood byproducts. Paris Climate Accord...Here we go footing the bill again.
Posted By: J Staton

Re: Gas prices - 01/19/21 12:02 AM

I predict $20 coat coon that only cost the trapper $19.50 to produce per pelt.
Posted By: Calvin

Re: Gas prices - 01/19/21 12:03 AM

Originally Posted by Northof50
$4 here we come//////????||||||\\\\\\ by Memorial Day


Yep....Couldn't see this coming could we?
Posted By: 330-Trapper

Re: Gas prices - 01/19/21 12:06 AM

Originally Posted by Jtrapper
Still going to need fossil fuels to generate enough electricity to charge your battery in your death trap 'green' car!

Yes
Posted By: stinkypete

Re: Gas prices - 01/19/21 12:11 AM

$4.00 gas is to kind. I look at 6.00 to 8.00. Might as well get on board with everyone else in the world. For gosh sakes. Go! Joe!!
Posted By: wy.wolfer

Re: Gas prices - 01/19/21 12:12 AM

Originally Posted by Sprung & Rusty
Originally Posted by Jtrapper
Still going to need fossil fuels to generate enough electricity to charge your battery in your death trap 'green' car!

Green car? Trucks are going electric too.

How well is that going to work on my 4x4 Superduty, I live at 7900' and plow tons of snow, haul hay on a trailer, haul a camper, etc. I don't think an electric truck will work for this. How about the 83% of America that lives in URBAN areas have to drive electric vehicles and the rest of us who need them can drive fossil fuel vehicles, that will make a big difference!!
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