Will higher gas prices save us from Global Warming?

Question

Are higher gas prices now helping our planets future? Now with people now turning to hybrid cars and away from SUV's

Answer 1

They are selling more gas than ever before mate... How is that working for you?

Answer 2

Why don't we just OUTLAW the production, sale, drilling, or exploration of all fossil fuels--------- as some of you propose.

You would not like what would happen--- virtually everything you have in your home from medicine- to the computer you are using right now -- could not be produced without a steady, stable supply of petroleum products-   aka: FOSSIL FUELS

Answer 3

Actually if you are ignorant enough to believe in global warming high prices are the worst thing that can happen. First as most people believe global warmist and sane people alike is that there is an infinite amount of fossil fuel left in this world. High prices make the consumption go down but not enough to really mean anything other than the fact that the supply will now last several more years past when it would otherwise have dried. To get to the point a true global warmist should be encouraging the use of fossil fuels at an accelerated pace in order to hasten the end of this fuel.

Answer 4

Surely it will. At least it will decrease the rate of increase. You need to do just two things

#1 Read this article

http://janatanews.com/2008/june/how_to_m...

#2 Swithch to a fuel efficient car. Calculate your saving using

http://hestecrv.com/car.php

Answer 5

I doubt higher gas prices will make the sun stop radiating heat toward the Earth.

Answer 6

no, but it is a start!

Answer 7

No it will just make it very hard on those who really can not afford the higher price.It will slow down some types of driving,but it alone can not solve the problem it will cause more probably.The climate is changing we can not stop it.It has happened before and now you are lucky enough to actually see history.For some it will be better for others it will be worse but it is climate change,not global warming.

Answer 8

Maybe it will help... we can hope, right?

Answer 9

The damage probably has been done since carbon emissions linger in the air for up to a century.

Answer 10

Gas prices and automobiles have no effect upon solar activity (the driving force of climate change).  Global warming will end when the Sun exits the Modern Maximum.

Answer 11

Hey thats a good question. I never noticed this, but yeah it actually could.

Answer 12

The only ehing likely to have any significant effect on combustion of fossil fuels would be a mandated reduction in the amount of those fuels being extracted or imported. If it is on the market it will drive the price down untill it will be burned.

There may be sufficient fossil fuels in the earth to use up all the available oxygen. We do see that in the oceans many areas are almost completely oxygen depleted,,, no residual oxygen to keep animal life going.

Well, we will use up our atmospheric oxygen to an extent that we start to see its danger signs, when all of a sudden we will have a major wildfire depriving all life around it of a viable level of oxygen. Nobody will go close to it to fight it, so it slowly spreads, goes continental.

We get a similar effect in ocean dead zones when vegetation starts to decompose in the water, with too litte oxygen dissolved in the sea.

Global warming will not be our main problem if we really do have an almost endless supply of fossil fuels available to use up our oxygen.

Some people of course will insist on using up our last litre of oxygen. still convinced that the worlds' plants will convert it right back into oxygen.  (Plants will only do that if they have enough water and plant nutrients).

Answer 13

It is certainly having an effect people are switching to public transport, carpooling and cycling. I know here (Australia) sales of scooters (like vespers) have gone up more than 300% in the last 2 years.

Answer 14

no solar powered cars are.