Then the road is clear for serious scale mass production of competing alternative-fuel vehicles, preferably each with at least 2 possible fuel intakes.

Only costly battery technology like plugins need Government life support because they are folly and money wasting.

It cracks me up to see people get so angry talking about ethanol and alternative fuels who are against them. If you listen closely to them, usually you’ll also find they are bigoted, raciest and some of the most obtuse John Bircher’s you could ever meet.

Nat Gas, Coal, & Nuke.

To produce electricity the fuel must be trasported to a power plant burned/converted into electricity and then transported to the vehicle.

or you could just burn Nat Gas in your vehicle.

It’s so clean that many people cook with it in their homes, without any health hazards.

A Honda FCX fuel Cell in our cars with a baterry back up, Photo-voltaic (PV) power generated on major parking lots (for that battery back-up), Hidrogen made at home (PV/wind-and no big propellers either) and we store the gas on a solid state block; the entreprenour makes a buck (parking lots and home systems), the electric companies get the surplus juice they want to power indsutry and the consumer gets a credit for dumping excess electricity on to the grid, hidrogen to fill his (solid state) tank and maintain the charge on the back up battery. The common denominator? No dollars to industry to create any distribution networks. Maybe even the state gets my pennies from the parking meter next to an actual (electric power) recharging station.
(Of course we think centralized, if it does not meet our greed and thirst for power, who would we point to and blame). I can only hope I put this stuff out there first.

One area that needs further development is how to store energy from peak production of wind and solar to times when it is not windy or sunny.

Hybrid transportation is a logical first step towards electric vehicles. Battery and drive line technologies can be developed further using onboard engines to recharge until the infrastructure for electric cars is available.

Israel is taking the lead on establishing infrastructure for electric vehicles. The US should learn something from their lead, it takes a leader who makes a very good educated decision on where the future needs to go.

If you have not seen any discussion on this, go to: http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-9854591-54.html

Ethanol, flex-fuel etc, is nothing but a scam -and a dangerous one at that. America, the world for that mattter simply does not have the land, water or energy to spare on this ill-advised scheme. Don’t for one second think that small-town bible-thump’n pastoral farmers are growing crops for ethanol, there not. Agri-corp.’s love the subsides. 5 years from now, ethanol will still be as stupid an idea as it is today.

Fuel Cells, For the space program sure, niche applications, certain stationary power applications, fine. Your current science advisor is not an idiot, it would take him maybe 30-60 mins to explain to everyone concerned Hydrogen is well…another scam, albiet one that appears more ‘high-tech’, thus its glamor seems to out-shine the basic fact that it is 3-4 times more efficent to use the electricty it would take to make H2, to power (whatever) then waste it converting it to compressed or liquid H2. Why he has not advised in the strongest terms- H2 is probably one of the worst soultions you could possiblly imagine, I cant say. I understand why Bush and GM flogged this on the US public, they knew it was a bullshit idea right from minute one!

CNG, seeks to replace one non-renewable resource with a slightly cleaner non-renewable resource. What a great idea, throw money at too while ignoring the absurdities of the other reckless schemes were pursueing. I will tell you a story about another great Alt. fuel, Propane. The fuel was very inexpensive vs gasoline(at one time) where I lived and a large market for conversions developed. I was a fuel-retailer at the time and sold a very good volume of the gas. So what happened? Eventually the oil companies decided propane was getting ‘too popular’ and in a very short period of time, raised the retail price to parity with gas(they did the same to diesal around the same time as well). The end result, once it was no longer price-competitive, people ripped out there conversions whole-sale and Propane-as-motor-fuel became a shell of its former self. The lesson? There is absolutely nothing to prevent an oil company from takeing a cheap low cost gas, and setting the price to whatever they want, when they want. They basically sunk the market for PFV’s, i saw it first hand. Did propane suddenly cost more to refine than gas?-nope, a massive supply bottleneck?-Nope. Its riseing populariity and low cost vs gas was an irritant to them so they “fixed” the problem.

One can only conclude, that America loves the status quo, but does not seem to mind wasteing as much money as they can on ‘soultions’ that are really not soultions. I guess the illusion of appearing to be trying to address the problem is what is really matters to the US.

“Samie and all the other ostriches out there, “pull you head out of the sand” our future transport and energy problems are not going to go away.”

Ok energy problems yes but how do you help reduce them?

How is it that you get average consumers a good alternative that they don’t have to rely on going to a fuel station for?

Do you ignore not trying to diversify our grid system so that we don’t just use mostly coal?

Is creating another alt. fuel good say @ 20% consumption if it means taking up valuable land resources, water, & aid development of authoritarian governments eg maybe Russia in the future?

How do you fund Hydrogen or a mix of other things when funding is limited & long-term funding is need in the case of all interests. (Think of inflation & State/Federal Budgets Problems that are happening & will continue for a few more years.)

These are real questions, questions u should ask yourself not a rant so actually think of something to say it doesn’t matter what just actually have a real opinion on something….