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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
as far as running a vehicle on anything, if it comes to a consumer cheaper than the current product, you can bet that people (the consumer market) will buy and use it.
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How would oil companies (the world's single largest political group, measured by dollars in campaign contributions) feel about that?
Why you haven't seen a "french fry-mobile" on the market isn't because the public doesn't want it or it wouldn't sell. It's because anyone who tries it is crushed and silenced and turned into a fringe eco-loony wacko.
I can hear Ustwo playing his conspiracy nutjob violin about this, but it's not a big leap in logic to see that new technologies--new GREEN, recycling-oriented technologies that would hugely benefit the driving public, largely by allowing them to keep their gas money in their pocket--directly threaten those who have a lot of power to prevent it.