Minyak... minyak...

Ikut kata Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organization (CSIRO), pada tahun 2018, minyak akan naik sampai jadi $8 (RM24) seliter. Ikut kata media yang melaporkan, ini adalah satu nightmare.

Tapi pada masa yang sama, kontra kepada itu ialah makin berkembangnya alternatif kepada pengguna minyak, iaitu, bahanapi alternatif, kereta elektrik, penggunaan gas dan sebagainya.

Pendapat aku, dalam hal 'keduniaan' ni, insyaAllah manusia akan survive.

THE price of petrol could soar to a crippling $8 a litre over the coming decade, according to CSIRO-sponsored research to be released today.

The nightmare scenario says the weekly family fuel bill for a medium-sized passenger vehicle could rise to $220 by 2018 - taking $12,000 a year out of family budgets.

Australians would be forced to radically change their lives and seek alternative forms of fuel and transport.

A rise in fuel prices of this dimension would also rock the nation's tourism and mining industries.

Petrol costs will impact most on low-income earners and people in the outer suburbs and the regions, according to the report.

"Modelling undertaken for the Future Fuels Forum projected prices in the range of $2 to as high as $8 a litre by 2018 for petroleum-based products in Australia," says the CSIRO-led forum.

This compares with the painful $1.69 a litre motorists were paying at most petrol stations in Melbourne yesterday.

The predictions are based on claims of a global peak in international oil production resulting in dwindling future oil supplies.

The rise in fuel prices will occur without the impost of an emissions trading scheme, which is likely to add just 25 cents a litre to the cost of fuel, according to the report.

The good news is that the high oil prices will eventually drop to current levels or even below current levels by 2025 as alternative fuels and new technology replace today's petrol guzzling vehicles.

CSIRO's Dr John Wright said a serious rise in the price of fuel would eventually see a take-up of hybrid and full electric cars, and greater use of gas and alternative fuels.

"The rise in the price of fuel so far has not changed people's behaviour, every time it goes up another notch there is an outcry, then it settles down again," he said.

Dr Wright, who is the director of the CSIRO's Energy Transformed Flagship, said eventually there would be a huge public reaction to rising petrol costs.

The CSIRO's fuel price modelling was conducted over nine months along with a group of 18 leading oil companies, motoring and environmental organisations including Holden, Caltex, NRMA, Woolworths, the Australian Automobile Association, the Victorian and South Australian governments, and the Australian Conservation Foundation.

Lumrah hidup ni ada ups and downs. Most of the time kita boleh plan. Tapi plan tu belum tentu hasilnya ikut apa kehendak kita. So, dalam kita plan tu, kena ada juga anggapan yang anything can happen. Antaranya, belum sempat tahun 2018, kita dah takde kat mukabumi ni. Hilang masalah minyak dari kepala hehehe... Tu alternatif jugak le tu. Alternatif senario.

Kat ostolia ni depa risau minyak dok naik tapi pikir camana nak survive (alternatif resources, electric cars etc) yang kita tak risau pun. Kita (aku la tu), risau minyak naik tapi tak pikir camana nak survive, sampai terlupa kehidupan yang lebih baik lepas masuk kubur nanti huhuhu... (aku pun cuba memahami apa yang aku tulis ni, paham ke tak)

Eh, apa daa entry camni. Tapi orang semua sibuk bicara pasal minyak kan?

Semalam kat TV9 pun ada debat pasal minyak. Pada mereka yang tak dapat atau tertinggal, boleh tengok KAT SINI.

Sebagai mengakhiri entry, gambar di bawah ni pebende? (aku tau, mungkin kamu pun tau... tapi saje nak refresh) Kalau ada kesempatan boleh tulis future entry mengenai makhluk di bawah ini.