Gasoline??

Question

Do you think it could ever be a possibility that we could mine a couple of planets and either get oil or find some other substance we could use to make our cars work instead of fighting for oil??

Answer 1

I dont think we could do that because that would cost millions of dollars that we dont have.

Answer 2

Just use a different fuel. My cars run on natural gas (methane). I don't need to buy gasoline anymore! It's cheap, clean, and already here in the USA. What could be better?

Answer 3

Earth may have enough fossil fuels already to consume all the available oxygen on earth.

Now in theory we could get plants to regenerate the oxygen. Right now we are offering the plants lots of CO2 and they are not converting it to oxygen fast enough to restrict growth of CO2.

So if we can get endless oil or endless methane, how will we get enough plants to consume all the CO2 and give us oxygen to breathe?

Note well, that getting our plants to consume all the CO2 we produce is a major challenge for earth as it pertains to global warming.

Answer 4

The oil is already being recycled by plants. Plants take in CO2 and give us back the O2 but the plant keeps the C which breaks down into oil & gas. As long as plants have CO2 we will have oil & gas.

Answer 5

I think in the case of America, they could use less oil. As for the planets, we've mined ours out already.

Companies like Ford and GM are still producing cars which have truck engines in them. 80% of the price of fuel in the UK is tax and fuel duty. I believe tax in the US is 20 or so cents a gallon? Hence the UK and Europe have smaller cars and most cars sold are desel powered, which of course means they do a good 30% more to the gallon than the same petrol version.

In the UK, we pay about US$ 2.50 a litre for unleaded petrol (gas) and around US$ 2.70 a litre for diesel: US prices are less than half that.

This morning my local filling station was charging £1.33 a litre for diesel and £1.19 a litre for unleaded.

The only way to reduce US consumption is high prices....the only thing that works there.

I leave you with something to think about: the US has 5% of the world population, but consumes 40% of the worlds petrol.

Answer 6

Paying for the amount of fuel to complete such a "mission" would pay for alot of renewable fuel power plants and desalinisation plants. We have alternative ways of producing electricity, the money and development would be Billions to mine for fossil fuels, which could take a large chunk out of our dependancy on fossil fuels.

It's also highly unlikely that was ever any trees on the other planets, the decomposition and sedimentation of which leads to the formation of oil deep underground -  it millions of  years to complete this process.

Answer 7

highly doubt it

Answer 8

I think the best solution is to go with air cars, seriously there practical, cheap, no pollution, self sustaining, good mileage, fast enough for the average person

check out ConvertToAir.com they got some good videos that show everything about air cars