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Originally Posted by ratbastid
It sounds good for the plebes, and it fits the macho GOP "solve everything with a tool that is vaguely phallic" approach to world problems...
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Awesome.
The alternative thing is really quite funny. We've had the biofuel and hydrogen option for decades, they're nothing new. There's a youtube video from 1978 where Jack Nicholson is driving a car that runs on hydrogen (which is separated from oxygen by solar power) and exhausts water (
). It's virtually the same crap we're getting in "concept cars" today. Biofuels can be traced back
tens of thousands of years. We're not getting them as real options because we're ignorant to the ease of their production and use. Sure, there could be a safer and more efficient way to store hydrogen, but the hydrogen cars now, like the Honda HFX Clarity, are just as safe as gas cars. Shoot, the jalopy Jack Nicholson was in in 1978 has worked for decades without exploding.
I'm sure most people have seen "Who Killed the Electric Car?", and are aware that the electric car effort in the 90s was all show and was designed to fail. In addition, the government and corporations are championing crap like ethanol, which is also destined to fail.
This is what we're up against: they think we're stupid. They're lining us up to fail by lining up alternatives to fail.