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I just read in the newspaper, a test drive article of a car that gets up to
99 mpg. I've forgotten,but the author of the article may have gotten about
65 mpg in city traffic. It's an advanced type of diesel. It's a small
car, but not some untenable prototype, although he did say you'd wish for
more accel on a short city entrance ramp to a freeway. I think it's on sale
in Europe.
We could probably increase the efficiency of *any* type of car with the
regenerative brake systems now found on just a couple cars. People could
still have their SUVs if they must, but they could be tens of percent more
efficient.
Things would be better if people drove the smallest vehicle that would
service 95% of their needs and rented a larger one for the other 5%. As an
example, my former boss has a van bec. he like to drive it loaded with stuff
2 times per year to NC from IN. The rest of the time he drove it to work by
himself (and often home and back for lunch). What if he owned a Metro, and
rented the van twice a year.
In the US, the market does not accurately reflect some costs such as the
portion of national defense that goes to (indirectly) securing our sources
of oil Should a portion of the defense budget be paid from a gas/energy
tax?
Conrad
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> hey, i love sci-fi as much as the next guy, but to overthrow oil as the
dominant energy source on this planet will require something huge that blows
everyone's socks off. and that can be independently verified and
duplicated...no more 100+ mpg carburator or auto engines that run on h2o
urban myths :)
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