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3.11.2005 ||> He lost his mind today, he left it back out on the highway
There's an interesing article in the March 7 edition of Newsweek. Fareed Zakaria writes about how it could be possible very soon to get cars that run 500 miles to a gallon of gas. That's right, 500 miles.
The current crop of hybrid cars get around 50 miles per gallon. Make it a plug-in and you can get 75 miles. Replace the conventional fuel tank with a flexible fuel tank that can run on a combination of 15% petroleum and 85% ethanol or methanol and you get between 400 to 500 miles per gallon of gasoline. (You don't get 500 miles per gallon of fuel, but... ethanol and methanol are much cheaper than gasoline so fuel prices would drop dramatically.)He also says that the cost of changing over our transportation system would cost $12 billion. But considering that we've spent hundreds of billions in Iraq... it doesn't come to very much.
Potentially this would also do lots for us, like make us less dependent on the Saudi royals, reduce our emissions far lower than even the Kyoto accords asked for and protect our national resources like the Alaskan wildlife refuge. Now if only the oil lobby could be forced out of the pockets of legislators so it could be reality...
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