... a Prius or Hybrid Civic and take delivery in a few months. This is no different than any other newly popular car. Even the dreadful Pontiac Fiero, its...
That's how I see it, although 8000/3 = 2667, not 1867. Curiousity drove me to call the local Toyota dealer. I asked him about the several month wait for the...
OK, so there's some agreement that hybrids aren't the answer to reducing fossil fuel consumption. Nor are hybrids or renewables or hydrogen fuel cells--the...
The magic wand has already been waved several times over the car fleet. New cars all have o2 sensors and computers, fuel injection, more aerodynamic bodies,...
... How so? Mandating a minimum of 33 mpg simply means automakers will sell more smaller, more efficient cars. These cars also happen to be cheaper. I don't ...
... sell more ... I don't ... number of ... You forget, this is America! We don't want small cars! Except for the mini cooper, the sub compact class of car has...
... mini cooper, the sub compact class of car has all but disapeared. Umm... Honda Civics? Toyota Corollas? Conventional Civics may be compact rather than...
One of the reasons people don't want small cars is other bigger cars are the road. Its a never ending cycle. Before suvs people didn't feel like they needed an...
... loopholes which ... Actually SUV's and light trucks are very defendable. There are lots of good reasons folks need to own a truck. Is it really reasonable...
There may be lots of good reasons to own a truck, but I'd bet about 85% of the truck-driving population doesn't have those reasons to defend their actions. ...
It was far worse than that. The government gave you a tax break if you bought a "business truck" over 5000 lbs. All the doctors claimed a 5000 lb suv was for...
Since scarcity causes high prices for everyone and not just the wasters here's an idea. Pay a per gallon gas tax based on the mileage your car gets. Low...
... keep on ... It was one very specific law which brought about SUV's in the first place, it is logical to believe that if that law were removed, along with a...
... A much simpler plan is to do nothing and let prices rise. Even at $3.00 per gallon, our current prices are not setting records. Two other times, gas has...
I really like GW Mobile's idea of a consumption tax. That's brilliant, I think--it allows people to have pickups for useful things like pulling trailers, but...
... shuttle bus ... aluminum+water+lye = hydrogen and aluminim oxides. With gas prices over $3.00 per gallon, it is cheaper to run a vehicle on hydrogen...
That's a very interesting stat. ... Bush's family and their Saudi partners make higher profits by preventing Saddam's huge Iraqi oil reserves from ever being...
Your doctor is one in a million in many good ways. Yes he should be able to deduct his truck. But not many do what he does. ... Bush's family and their Saudi...
There is no question having prices rise is effective in getting people to change vehicles over the long term. Unfortunately it also means in the short term...
Scrap is better than cra! :-) ... Bush's family and their Saudi partners make higher profits by preventing Saddam's huge Iraqi oil reserves from ever being...
... right? ... Water has plenty of hydrogen, all it takes is a little lye mixed in the water to get a large quantity of aluminum to oxidize in water. The ...
Put aluminum foil in a glass bottle with lye (drano crystals wrok) add tap water. Soon you will see the hydrogen oxygen separation. Put a balloon over the...
OK fred, here's numbers. If you can make Aluminum combine with water to get Hydrogen, 2H20 +Al =AL02 +2H2 Now this just doesn't happen at normal temperature...
Of course you would have to be able to turn off the hydrogenation or the tank would overpressurize. Alos it wouldn't be net energy efficient because it takes...
One very important aspect of the equasion you missed is automatic horsepower drop associated with a gasous fuel verses a liquid fuel. It is like dropping 2...
... is being able to convert a car which runs on gasoline to be able to run on electricity really a bad thing? Aluminum is the only way i see to run our...
Not a bad thing. Jsut limited by economics that make use of aluminum beyond waste an impossibility. If it is successful it spoils its economics. ... Bush's...
... to change vehicles over the long term. Unfortunately it also means in the short term many who can't afford to switch lose huge amounts of money.<<< Well,...
