Re: Who do U BLAME
All the usual suspects. Yep, "Big Oil and the automakers". A well known perpetrator of gas guzzlers and the dependance conspiracy without one shred of evidence. I guess the propeller mfg'rs have a conspiracy against the sailmakers too.
There are subsidies for alternative vehicles, and money available for research from the government. But the politicians are all in the bag with the conspiracy. Then there is the magic technology that the "rich" (whoever that is) know about but won't share with the mass's. Then there is hydrogen. Does anyone know what gas is the greatest contributor to the so called global warming effect? Water Vapor! So let's just add a billion or so water vapor generators to the highways and watch AlGore smirk.
There is no magic bullet. There is a mix of technologies, that will contribute. We need to stop wasting our energy on fixing the blame and start addressing the problem. Start with building more refineries. Standardize on one mixture for fuel so that what few refineries we have can produce a single product instead of boutique fuels for those who think they are "smarter" than the rest. See MBTE. As I said from day one, Ethanol isn't, never was, and is a political boondoggle for politicians to say they are doing something, while sucking up to the farm lobby. We don't need something, we need something that works. We are working on wind in a big way, I was encouraged by the step towards tital generators, Nuclear (but there are some who won't ever admit they were wrong), Bio-diesel, geothermic, solar. The absolute most difficult to change with regards to infrastructure, portability, efficiency, effectiveness, is the auto. Start by taking this class warfare target off the front burner and placing it on the back, not off, as it will benefit from the advancements in the other fields as they are integrated. Cities can utilized current technolgy in their mass transit, municipal vehicles, portable equipment as they typically have a fixed range of usage. The auto maker who makes a vehicle that gets 100mpg will own the market. Period.
As said earlier, this is not a quantity issue, it is a distribution and refining issue. I also think that the speculators are profiting on this as well. Politicians while not actually dirty, are sending us down dead ends with their santa claus mentality. But hey, its their money, right Hillary. Todays issues will be different from tommorrows issues and addressing them in an educated and scientific way will pay off in spades. One building off another.
