Respect is due to a company that underwrites in order to make available the NPR programs I love. But when I hear the touting of ?X prize to make a car that can get 100 miles per gallon? it seems to be targeting a nonetheless limited scope of perspective. The presumption is made that petroleum is wh…

I feel that “the powers that be” (and they are not the government) are not going to allow us to power our personal transportation vehicles with products other than ones derived from crude oil. We are locked very firmly by economics and small powerful groups into using crude oil. And there is a lot o…

It gotta be petroleum there pardner!

Despite the ideology some corporations wish to foster, petroleum is not energy itself so much as it is one way in which solar energy has been accumulated. In this way as fuel, energy can be applied to produce work - getting from point A to point B, or, giving the impression of doing something. The …

Wah c’mon; I can quit any time pardner!

Knowing that it is not the way you want it is, I would venture, productive; for it could be analyzed that “They” is an ultimately conceptual reality. They might be we, and we is really you.

Whatever powers a car has to run cleanly, reliably, and dependably day after day after day regardless of the temperature and regardless of the weather. It has to be able to be driven across the country and back without inconvenience as well as to the corner store every day. It has to accelerate well…

There is some discussion among scientists over whether gasoline is a product of solar energy. It’s looking more and more that oil is the product by geo-thermal biomass … that is, oil is the product of micro-organisms that live in the earths mantel using the heat from the earth for energy. If this is…

Gary-- it is not a big mystery how petroleum forms and any argument about whether it is a product of solar energy would be entirely one of schematics. Basically, it is formed by organic matter being heated and compressed by burial at depths of tens of kilometers. Microorganisms (or anything else) do…

Micro-organisms have been found in quantity miles below the surface of the earth. While it’s true that prehistoric forests could be compressed into coal beds, no satisfactory answer has been provided for the quantity and location of oil deposits. Oil deposits are located far below the remains any fo…

It sounds like he was a smart guy, but he was definitely wrong about this. And his ideas are definitely not being accepted by an increasing number of scientists-- to the contrary his idea of a generally static universe and Earth has been largely rejected in the face of a mountain of evidence for a v…

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Harough June 9, 2009, 12:57am 23

http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/106040/Air-Cars:-A-New-Wind-for-America’s-Roads
A link suggested by Lewis Taishoff on the CarTalk links page. Article says car could get 106 MPG on gasoline, and can use many other combustible liquids.

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