>It seems to be part of a concerted and, as you say, efficient effort >not just to steer more profit to the auto companies (and perhaps save >them development costs), or not even primarily that, but to burn the >maximum possible amount of fossil fuel to swell the coffers of the >oil companies, and to hell with everything and everyone else.
This isn't precisely how I"d put it, but yes, I have a hypothesis here along these lines. I've had it for at least five years now, and I've fought it, but it does seem to help explan things. It is that when I'm trying to understand why Detroit and perhaps some others won't look into a certain type of fuel-conserving or alt-fuel technology, or when they'll make a sham of looking into it and waste the time of alt-fuel fans and their own engineers and managers for 10 or 20 years, I have to remind myself that virtually every action they take historically has been geared toward keeping us dependent on fossil fuels. Period. There are other fuels. One could synthesize fuel from air, water, what-have-you. One could make it from biomass. One could make electric fuel from all manner of sources. But for decades now, no consumer has been allowed to buy any mass-production genuinely-widely-available vehicle in the U.S. that uses anything other than fossil fuels. The sole exception to this has been biofuels, and if I'm not mistaken in reading this forum, there have been times when U.S. consumers have been impeded in trying to get and use more biofuels and biofuel-capable vehicles. Only very slowly has this changed (been allowed to change is how I sometimes see it). Of course, any vehicle can use some mixture of biofuel, but diesels can use biodiesel. What a surprise then how few of them there are for consumer purchase in the States. As to ethanol and mixtures of ethanol, we have seen some progress, I guess. But it has not been what it could have been. There are a lot of E-85 capable vehicles out there, for example, but up until recently not many E-85 dispensing points. It's never been the least bit surprising to me. I see it as the Oil industry simply not *allowing* it, for obvious competitive reasons. Then you just give up, which is the wrong reaction though, because in a better world fuel dispensing and distribution could be more competitive across different types of fuel. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get A Free Psychic Reading! Your Online Answer To Life's Important Questions. http://us.click.yahoo.com/Lj3uPC/Me7FAA/uetFAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/
