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I really wonder what discussions all of us will be having 10 years from now relative to our love of the automobile? I bet they are very different from the ones we are having today.



Don, you asked what we may be talking about in the next ten years. I will go out on a limb and say rickshaws. It could be Club Hot Rod Rickshaws Brent could add one more R. If by then we could all move to Florida. Nice weather we could race year around.

Richard

Originally Posted by ford2custom

I really wonder what discussions all of us will be having 10 years from now relative to our love of the automobile? I bet they are very different from the ones we are having today.



Don, you asked what we may be talking about in the next ten years. I will go out on a limb and say rickshaws. It could be Club Hot Rod Rickshaws Brent could add one more R. If by then we could all move to Florida. Nice weather we could race year around.

Richard

Well, not me!!!! If I'm even alive then, I'll still be out in the shop building a go fast machine or two!!!! Might be powered by something other then one of my trusty Big Blocks, but it'll still be low, kewl, shiny, and fast....

Improvise, adapt, overcome.

When Henry Ford built his first car, it would run on anything flammable. Cuba has been running cars for years without parts and making there own. I wonder if they make their own fuel too.

I wonder how much fuel we export and what they charge foreign customers. I know that government entities pay a much lower rate. During the first fuel shortage, which was artificial, and gas went to .65 a gal, the local PD was paying .18 a gal.

We're just a touch over $4. USD for 87 octane here in Kingman, Arizona.

If I remember the figures from tonights newscast correctly, taxes on one gallon of gasoline are just under a dollar.

Fwiw - my little brother used to work in the oil industry and about 15 years ago they were saying within the industry that at the present rate of use, the US had a 2000 year supply of natural gas.
Plus, it runs cleaner and creates less smog.

Have to talk to one of those multi-million dollar pay oil co. CEOs to find out why we're not running natural gas in our cars.

And, there are some scientists who think that the earth has more oil than is said.
It tends to replenish itself albeit slowly, but there are some oil fields that were considered dry or economically unviable that are pumping oil once again.

The Abotic Oil theory if I remember correcty.

Don, you asked what we may be talking about in the next ten years. I will go out on a limb and say rickshaws. It could be Club Hot Rod Rickshaws Brent could add one more R. If by then we could all move to Florida. Nice weather we could race year around.

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Richard, we here in Florida have taken to the streets to protest all of this and do all we can to help!!!!


Don

Originally Posted by ford2custom

I really wonder what discussions all of us will be having 10 years from now relative to our love of the automobile? I bet they are very different from the ones we are having today.

We'll be doing the same thing we are now, driving our hot rods but paying a higher price for fuel. Remember, Europe is paying close to $10 a gallon && the hot rodders over there are still driving thier cars/trucks. They might not be doing it as much as they did 5yrs ago, but they are still cruz'n around in "Old US Iron".....joe