>>>>>>>Imagine life/economy in US where you had to pay 11$ / gallon.
>>>>>>>( While I am trying to imagine life/economy of Europe on 3.63$ galon. )
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>>>>>>Someone only pays 3.63/gallon for gas? Where???? Must be in the rural Alabama or Kansas...
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>>>>>It was from one of the links. Average price.
>>>>>Ok make it 4.50$ and you should be still lucky paying it comparing to us in Europe ;)
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>>>>Doe Cyprus have a good mass transit system? Could you ride a bus or train to work if you chose to? Are there a lot of bike riders?
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>>>Cyprys practice US habbits in this respect. People prefer 'driving into shops' (where applicable) rather then 'going shipping' {g}
>>>There is no public transporation system as in the rest of the Europe, instead bus and shuttle lines are franchised to private sector which due to above habbits barely runs it... I drive chilldren to school every day. Even if they were enough school and public buses I don;t believe much would change. People would still do the same. We are in already in that critic 2.5 cars/family stage.
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>>>Just wander how traffic would look wih all those windmills attached to the back of the cars {lol}
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>>I have to admit that with all the land this country has, there should be windmills on it and solar panels too :o) Of course, they only work if there is wind and sun...
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>Agree 100%
>Here we have both of those. Wind and sun all year round. 300 sunny and 365 windy days. They started putting windmills for electricity
>few years ago but then for some reason this process is very slow. With all that happening with oil, we should be having solar pannels
>and windmills everywhere. If you ask me, every wall, roof, and deserted area should have them.
>If we don't, there will be for sure more and more candidate (deserted) areas in the future {g}


We have a problem here in that solar panels don't survive hurricanes very well :( Other than that, they really should be everywhere because I'm sure they can come up with some type of metal shutter protection for them during storms. Costly true, but over time the cost would go down and they would help provide us with energy independence and could allow us to start getting rid of the polution causing plants...

Same with the other sources of energy: nuclear, hydrokinetic, hydroelectric, geothermal, biomass, natural gas (temporary), clean-coal (temporary), etc...