If you noticed
If you noticed the plane first, you probably don’t buy your own gas.
(Southwest Airlines Flight 1455)
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this picture is less funny due to the fact a little kid was killed by that plane going off the runway.
opps, never mind, this is a different southwest plane that skidded off the runway than i was thinking of.
i’m sure everyone would like gas to be that cheap again.
Here is one of the shortest, clearest explanations of PEAK OIL I’ve found.
http://transitionculture.org/essential-info/what-is-peak-oil/
It’s by Rob Hopkins, the lovely man pioneeering Transition Culture. This is the truth people! if you want to be informed, read it!
interesting article, i do believe in local economies and becoming more self reliant, but don’t believe capitalism is a failed system…
Ooh you read it!
For many people in the West, capitalism is great. But I think he means in global terms, if you consider the effect a materialistic society has on the whole world and it’s people. Plus obviously what we’ve done to the planet.
I think this explains what he means:
http://www.storyofstuff.com/
(It’s a 20 minute vid but it’s fun, and definitely worth it!) Changed my whole view of the world.
It’s weird how everyone seems to want to blame someone for the rising prices in oil….When will people start realising that
WE ARE JUST RUNNING OUT OF OIL?? The prices will get higher and higher, and then the oil will be gone.
If the governments of the world actually put some effort into renewable energy (solar/wind/wave – NOT evil biofuels) things would be alot better for everyone.
Actually we have TONS of oil yet that could last us MANY years. It’s just that enviromentalists won’t let us drill for it. Congress sides with them just cause they hate Bush and don’t care one wit about the rest of us. And Bill Clinton refused to sign a bill when he was president that would’ve allowed for more drilling even though he was told “If you don’t, in 5 to ten years gas will be $5 a gallon.” His reply, “I don’t care.”
So there you have it. The ones who TRULY deserve the blame. Enviromentalists, congress, and Bill Clinton.
Those rat bastards, saving the environment like that?!
Yes, let everyone else ruin the environment while we sit around paying $10/gallon for gas and our economy fails. Cuba is drilling off the coast of florida now, Russia is drilling too. If anyone can drill with the care necessary to guarantee the least amount of harm to the land, it would be the US.
Oh yes, because Russia and Cuba have great environmental track records, not to mention they really like to listen to what their citizens have to say.
what part of “our economy fails” do you not understand?
If the economy is dependant on oil, it’s going to fail sooner or later. Maybe this generation could selfishly ignore everything, but then the next generation will have to deal with it 10 times worse. That means, our kids.
There’s nothing to worry about. We can solve fuel shortages by inflating our tires, as the Messiah said.
Jeez, you pretty stupid, you know that?
There are many ways to make cars more fuel efficient..
Properly inflated tires is one of them.
An oil-based economy is going to fail..
Maybe we should stop relying on a source that won’t be around forever..
And try a renewable resource!!
But wait!!
Right-wing oil buddies won’t like that!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Killed_the_Electric_Car%3F
Ahahahah, you selfish American rednecks FAIL at life. You care more about the price of oil than you care for the next generations.
Right, $5-10/gallon is nothing to the likes of millionaires like Nancy Pelosi, she doesn’t want any oil rigs ruining the view from her beachfront mansions. Let the peasants eat cake!
Don’t forget Teddy Kennedy getting those nasty ol wind turbines halted since it would ruin his view of the ocean while sailing.
You ARE kidding? Even if we did drill for oil in the Arctic, sodomising the Earth in the process, the oil would still be stupidly expensive because of the cost of getting it from there. Yes there may be a fair bit of oil left in a few places, but we are fast running out of CHEAP oil – the stuff that is left is low-grade and impractical and expensive. And if I can be slightly ethical for a second… please ask yourself this question ‘What has the Earth given you?’ Pretty much EVERYTHING. So why not try to care about the environment and the Earth just a little bit? You are living on it. When the Earth is f*cked, WE are f*cked.
This is just a random newspaper article.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/world-oil-supplies-are-set-to-run-out-faster-than-expected-warn-scientists-453068.html
From one of the most left-wing newspapers in the UK … FAIL.
It’s not left-wing actually. Just because something’s not right-wing, doesn’t make it left wing. It’s one of the best newpapers in the UK.
Ok, number one, the earth has not given me anything. The earth did not create itself, it was created and is not a being. That being said I think we should definitely care for the earth and our resources to the best of our abilities. But, right now businesses are failing, people are losing their jobs and food prices are soaring. Gas is still under $4/gallon but has the potential to go much higher. Who will suffer? The very poorest among us that’s who. I believe we can drill and do it carefully to help lower the price by increasing the supply. I do believe in searching out other methods and I hope things are being done. I hear we are 10 years away from having batteries that will power our cars for better hybrids and increased mileage. I drive an old beat up 98 Nissan Sentra, and my tires are already inflated! I think we are all doing the best we can to save and conserve, what more can the average folk do?!
WHERE are you getting gas for less than $4?!?!?
Southern Arizona, I paid $3.65 yesterday.
That emoticon does not look like I’m sticking my tongue out at you, but believe me I am! What with you rubbing your $3.65 in our faces and all.
Who would have ever thought anyone would be jealous of $3.65 gas
I have to say I was excited when I saw it I even drove a little out of my way!
I know, I was on a trip to Cedar Point with some friends and I saw gas for $3.95 and I was like “Ooooooh cheap gas let’s stop!” Then I was like, but it’s NOT cheap gas, I just think it is. Damn you OPEC!
I just got back from vacationing in Southern Missouri and paid $3.50 a gallon. I was quite pleased.
I live in a suburb of Kansas City, MO and we’ve gotten to $4.10 a couple times, but we’re around $3.80 now.
Will you all stop complaining. In Europe we’ve been paying more than 1 dollar per liter (that’s 0.2 of a gallon) since the bloody ’90s.
The problem is that drilling for oil today does not reduce the price tomorrow. You still have to get the oil to the refineries, then you have to refine it. Say you do all that and it gives us a little bit more oil to work with. Do you think the American people are going to continue to support research and development into alternative fuel sources? The sad answer is, probably not. Five years ago no one but environmentalists were thinking about alternative fuel sources and anyone who was trying to spread the word that we were running out of oil and gas prices were going to rise was viewed as Chicken Little screaming that the sky was falling. If the price of gas comes down people are going to go about their daily lives and forget that there is a crisis on their hands. They are not going to want to put money into looking for an energy source that is clean, safe, and usuable by our grandchildren and their grandchildren. It’s sad that this is human nature but it’s true. Now is the time to be looking into alternative fuel sources, when the people are fed up enough that they will support it.
Well, I do believe we should be doing all of it and we should put the screws to our politicians until it is done… I don’t think anything should be off the table right now.
True. Although nothing is ever going to be as easy and cheap as oil. Everyone’s lifestyle’s are going to have to change alot. Become alot more basic, and far less materialistic. But maybe it’s a good thing in some ways? As long as we have food, shelter, medicine. I can imagine people in 50 or 100 years going ‘You paid HOW MUCH for a handbag? Why?’
And books. I have to have books or I will die. Seriously.
Yeah me too.
” I can imagine people in 50 or 100 years going ‘You paid HOW MUCH for a handbag? Why?’”
Hey, I’m saying that now! Can’t understand that… But, I will fork over for old silver jewelry.
Yeah i know the Earth isn’t a sentient being, and it hasn’t wrapped anything up for us in gift wrap! I just mean philosophically speaking, it has given us everything we have, and in the case of everyone reading this probably MORE than we even need. I think we can still be grateful and protective of it, without believing in fairies!
are you sure about that?
Well you can believe in fairies if you want, but gratitude to the Earth (metaphorically if you will) is not fairies.
Actually, I was just yanking your metaphysical chain…
So you’d be willing to kill off several species on animals, destroy delicate ecosystems, and generally mess up the planet even more just so we can delay the inevitable for another 20 or so years? Why not conserve what we already have access to and work to make alternative energies a primary source of power? Or iis it too much to ask for people not to buy a 15 mpg SUV and not live 20 miles from where they work, and maybe take a bus or ride a bike once in a while?
No species or delicate ecosystmes will be destroyed – we need the time to get off oil now people may die. I don’t drive an SUV, do you? I work at home.
Basically i think governements and most people are just going to ignore the situation till they are forcede to deal with it. If we keep draining every last drop of oil all we are doing is passing the buck.
Eco-systems are a lot more stable than you think they are. It is not too much to ask for people to not buy a 15 mpg car. But I will say it’s not always possible to live close to work. My dad works 25 miles away and my mom works a mile away, she makes minimum wage while my dad makes much more, so it makes sense for them to work near her job. Or another example is being able to afford an area to live, it may be 1000 dollars or more a month in one area and 500 15 miles out. Hmm or say if you live close to work you are in serious danger everyday, such as my boyfriend who teaches in inner city schools. I love the bus/train idea but for certain people it may not be possible, buffalo has weird public transport and it’s not really useable for many people i know.
I meant for my parents to live near my mothers job. Everything in our world is based on saving money really.
I think we’ve destroyed enough of them already to prove that statement is wrong.
Isn’t that who we should blame for everything?
I’ve heard there’s enough oil under America to last 40 YEARS and it will NEVER be 40 years from now so I don’t understand what the problem is!!! WAKE UP AMERICA!!!! etc
Also, there’s always a constant supply, surplus even, of earwax. Im sure that could be refined in the future. The next generation can figure that out I’m sure.
Meh, I remember the seventies. We had the same oil panic then.
The only difference was that scientists were predicting a new Ice Age, nowadays it’s Global Warmening.
Man…I miss prices like that.
Brix were shat.
oh man. i wish that was what gas cost right now.
I actually did look at the gas sign first. Fail. D:
It is probably an old picture or from Canada or Europe where they sell gas by the Liter..
Wow your stupid. Canada doesn’t pay close to that a liter. Hell our premium gas is still under the $1.60 a liter mark.
this happened on March 5 2000
lol I’m Dutch, see my comment later on.
srsly we lol at news of your strikes on tv.
Exactly. Those aren’t your old gas prices, dear neighbours. Those are Canadian gas prices, per litre. Multiply by 4, and you get what WE’RE paying per gallon.
In BURBANK?????
the picture is from Chicago in late 2005 (November or December). it happened at Midway Airport and a little kid was killed. Not really something that should have been posted IMO.
About all your arguments about oil. Last time I heard, commodity traders were the ones who speculated on the price of oil and in turn, raised the price. We aren’t running out of cheap oil or any other kind of oil. Stupid speculators are just making the price higher. Luckily, now someone is doing something so the price is going down.
There could be something to this, the price of oil per barrel came down when the talk of drilling in the US started.
Yeah- it’s called “an upcoming presidential election” and “oil companies trying to protect their record profits”. The only reason prices are going down right now is the same reason they started dropping before November 2004. Watch what they do if St. BBQ McSame does win…. And to all you “Drill more!” idiots- explain to me why the oil companies aren’t drilling on the millions of acres they DO have right now, please.
Well from what I have heard it’s that there is no oil on those leases, if there was how would you explain they aren’t drilling? Why wouldn’t they?
To keep supply short and prices high- feeds into the speculator’s market. Also, current leases are either “so hard to get to” or on property where companies have to pay royalties to individuals instead of the pittance they get to pay the government, and the companies would rather use their profits to buyback stock than invest in actual exploration. They mainly want drilling rights in ANWR and the continental shelf to secure the land rights for the future. Simple act of corporate self-preservation (which is also why they lobby so hard to help kill serious funding of alternative energy…)
if that’s the plane crashing I’m thinking of, someone died in that plane crash, where the plane skidded off of the run way. A child died in a car. that was caught underneath it. It happened in Chicago.
Not something I would use for a humor piece.
Caretrolls on punditkitchen?
Guess what? People die everyday. Kids die everyday. The caption doesnt say “LOL KID DIED, I LAUGHED.” Get over it. The person who made this caption probably didn’t even find it themselves, the same exact picture has been used a few times before.
Seriously no one can be expected to know the broad context of every picture on here.
LOL ‘caretrolls’.
New favorite word.
And every time that photo is used, we get the same US Geography FAIL Caretrolls insisting that we not laugh, OMG, because that’s OBVIOUSLY Chicago, where a kid died. Apparently the world can only have had one and only one incident where a plane skidded off a runway. or maybe nothing is allowed to have ever happened west of Illinois.
And that’s obviously snow and ice, PROVING that it’s Chicago, because it would be illogical for anyone to have put fire retardant under a plane that just skidded through a wall. Never mind that there isn’t any “snow” on the tree or the grass or anywhere else, it MUST be blizzard conditions. Err… yeah.
And now, not only is the Burbank airport located in Chicago, it’s also in Canada. Riiight.
It’s a very smiler looking scene to what happened in Chicago. Same airline, same plan skidding off a runway and onto a street, and as I recall, there was a Chevon station right there. Just say’n.
it was in burbank california. no kid died.
Unless it was added after your comment, the flight info is listed under the photo. Easy enough to determine that no one died, kid or not.
yea, seriously, notice the gas prices…
like literally ten times cheaper than over here omg
so you guys say its 4 bucks there right now?
in portugal its at arround $9.45 per gallon…
4 dollars a gallon? could you like put it in a container and mail it over please?
Yes gas is higher in Europe and it always has been. Most of what you pay is tax from your individual governments. Not to mention that most places in Europe has a much better public transportation system then the U.S. Over here only the big cities have access to that, and not even all of them. Where I live in Indiana there is NO way to get to either of my two jobs without driving. I am thankful I had the foresight to buy a Civic, I wanted a hybrid but at the time the prices hadn’t come down on them enough to make it worth while. I sometimes wish I’d splurged. My brother has a Prius, the rat bastard.
Can I add a few more barrels of gas with this order? lol!!
Seriously, people in Europe are mostly laughing at the whining that is coming from you Americans these days. Well, not always, it can be crying too when we compare our prices with yours but to see you guys crying about it is just hilarious.
We currently pay 10-12 USD a gallon where I live, so yeah, we wish we had a price of 4 dollar per gallon.
You know whats even funnier… you can say we got better public transportation and that may be but do you also know that people here, while living on welfare, still can have cars and drive them, even with our 12 dollar a gallon? When I read the news, so many Americans stop driving and try to sell their cars.. why?? Probably because a lot of you still have gas guzzlers.
Seriously, stop whining and start dealing with it.. this is the way its going to be and no way it will the prices will go back to what they were… You know whats worse? The whole world is suffering the same, and mostly it is thanks to the choices you guys made in politics in the past.
It has to do with increased demand.
Actually, I haven’t got a car, I haven’t even got a driver’s license. I don’t want one, don’t need one. Living in a big city, I can go everywhere by bus, underground, tram, or train.
Me too. So much crap I dont have to worry about. So much money saved, by just not having a car.
Funny picture. Next post about the environment is gay. And a dendrophiliac.
I actually did check the gas prices first. the world is a sad expensive place
Isn’t that the truth!
http://www.wannasmile.com
Actually, that looks pretty expensive to me; but here it’s measured in litres, so it’s probably cheaper.
I’ve pumped a few thousand gallons of Jet A into that plane. He would have to wreck a nice -600 and not one of the crappy -200s
To date, this is the only plane that SWA has “lost”. The crash broke it’s back.
jet A was about $2.39 a gallon retail at that time.
Hello..Southwest Airlines.
all epic fails ‘cept for the europeans commenting up on this! simply watch (i’ll admit, somewhat long) the youtube video entitled “The Energy Non-Crisis”…here I’ll even link ya’ll sillys!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3340274697167011147
So there you have it. Largest oil field in the world not being fully utilized, I’ll let him explain why (oh yeah, he’s written a book w/all the facts and figures, BAM!). Yeah, but this could provide economic stimulus UNlike the silly “Economic Stimulus Package” that anyone w/common sense will understand it was complete and utter nonsense. So, future generations get their cheap oil and better economy if only we had an honest government. Lastly, LEGALIZE IT! Remember prohibition? IT STILL DOESN’T WORK. Marijuana is the number one cash crop in America…where does all the money go? The black market….hmmm…what’s wrong here? Deaths per year from tobacco+alcohol=thousands, if not hundreds of thousands. Deaths per year from marijuana=ZERO, BIG FAT ZERO, ZIP, NADA. WAKE up America!
LET’S START THE REVOLUTION
Scary thing is, I didn`t notice the plane first. O.o
LMAO
I can’t lie the first thing I thought was “Wow those gas prices”