On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 07:08:58 -0800 (PST), you wrote: >Hello all, >I found this website with lots of information. I'm >not promoting the site, just passing on some info. >Cheers, >BG > >Alternative Fuel Data Center >http://www.afdc.doe.gov/afvehicles.html
There is a lot of terrific research that the average person can do at the DOE websites. www.eia.doe.gov, www.energy.gov, www.nrel.gov, etc. As to this particular one, afdc, I think that one also has a lot of good stuff. I don't recall how I rated them on some of the problems typical to such sites, such as keeping track of which alt-fuel vehicles are *really* available to consumers (never mind casual manufacturer claims which are often half-truths). I also think that some of the harder-to-answer alt-fuel questions remain so even after a visit to that site, but you can't have everything. I always thought of the DOE websites in general as sort of a fairly good expenditure of my taxpayer dollars. We pay for them, and some researchers whose salaries we pay apparently thought it would be interesting to organize some decent information and put it up there in more or less useable form. However, I haven't spent much time at those sites during the Bush Administration, and it is not clear to me whether his tenure would have led to any change in the truthfulness of the information. During the Clinton Administration I spent several hours trying to study the info that was there about ANWR, for example, and whether one liked it or not, it seemed fairly scientific and cut and dry. I mean, at least it seemed so to me. We are all dependent, at least in part, on our own private baloney-detection-systems. Now, since the political nature of the issue has been heightened, I'd be wary of what I'd find there, but I have no reason as yet to say anything as to any decline in those sites. Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
