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To: aculeus
What is needed is government action to break the vertical monopoly on the automobile fuel supply currently held by the petroleum cartel.

And this guy accuses others of being charlatans? LOL. What a crock. Yes, there's a petroleum cartel, but it's not a virtical monoply. The only thing that has been cartelized has been crude production (OPEC). The refining and distribution businesses are highly competitive. This guy needs to study some economics.

This could most efficiently be done simply by mandating that all new cars—whether of foreign or domestic manufacture—sold in the United States be “flex-fueled.”

This idiot is pushing ethanol? Obviously his skills for identifying hoaxes aren't very good.

13 posted on 02/08/2007 1:17:36 PM PST by curiosity
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To: curiosity

Ethanol is a great fuel. It's current downfall is how it is made.

No matter how it is made, hydrogen is a bugger to store and transport.


24 posted on 02/08/2007 1:24:34 PM PST by dangerdoc (dangerdoc (not actually dangerous any more))
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To: curiosity

He states that a kilogram of hydrogen has as much energy as a gallon of gasoline. So he should say that two and a half pounds of hydrogen has as much energy as seven pounds of gasoline. Let's compare lbs. to lbs. --not kilograms to gallons.

I would not rush out and buy GM stock based on all the money they've poured down the hydrogen hole but this article is awfully jumpy and not so well-argued.


33 posted on 02/08/2007 1:40:15 PM PST by Monterrosa-24 ( ...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
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