We stupid, lazy Americans ignored the gasoline shortage warning signs in each of the last 3 decades and now in this one. OPEC has ratcheted up the price of oil and I read that they may be lowering it JUST enough to put us back to sleep so we abandon the search for alternate energy sources and that we come to accept $4 a gallon gas as a good thing. I love the internal combustion engine as much as anyone, but we need alternative sources as well.
You always hear the stories of 100 mpg carburetors mysteriously disappearing, etc., most often attributed to the oil companies.
Here's a real one for you. Had we only listened - note the age of the central figure in the attached. Note the date - 30 years ago. By the way, listen carefully for his off-handed comment about world politics. He was right.
It will be interesting to see how far the hydrogen car will go. I can't help envision something that may well happen in the colder states. How will this car play when billowing clouds of steam fog the following drivers' vision? And what happens when all that steam (water) freezes on the pavement in the really cold states?
