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Will you buy a new gas or diesel powered vehicle in the future?
Oil is headed to $200 a barrel and gas will be $10 a gallon and diesel will be $15 a gallon, The electric cars are coming and it will cost the equivalent of 6 cents a gallon to charge them up, Nissan, Chevy, Toyota and many more car builders have plans to start selling them in 2010, thats a year and a half from now. Subaru has developed a car that charges in a few hours and will go 150 miles per charge. Why buy a gas burner?
I’m holding out for electric car just like http://pluginamerica.org advocates. Fossil fuel cars are going to get to expensive to operate. The bio fuels can’t be made in enough quantity to keep us going without sacrificing food production. Hydrogen requires an all new infrastructure that is going to be expensive making the price of the fuel on par with gas today.
As for me I could live with a mere 60 MPC electric car for the every day driving. The one 82 mile trip I need to make once a month can be done in the company gas burner. As for driving the 325 miles to my dad’s house for Christmas I’d go down to Rent A Wreck, rent a prius with the dollars I didn’t spend on gas the rest of the year and still have a fatter wallet.
The big if, “range” is thought about incorrectly. You don’t need a 300 MPC electric car. When you get home after a hard days work, you plug in the car, eat dinner go to bed. In the morning you get up, get dressed, unplug the car and leave every day with a full load of “fuel”. Two minor additions to the usual routine and you’ve made the world a little better. A gas car doesn’t self fill at night an since you don’t want to visit the gas station on a daily basis 300 miles is a light range requirement.
I’ve been saying this for quite a while. Everybody is running around acting like it has to be a binary situation, ALL cars have to be electric or ALL cars have to run on petroleum. Just as no one car design will fit everybody’s needs no one power source will either. There is room on the road for all drive types gas, diesel, electric, hydrogen, ethanol, etc. Electric cars just wont cut it in rural South Dakota where the distance to the nearest town is considerable. One the other hand having 500,000 gas powered cars on the road in downtown LA creates a large pollution problem.
There are compromises that will please everybody. You can keep your 6000 pound SUV, dress it up and drive it as much as you want, providing you can afford the fuel. I just want the option to go electric and solve 2 major problems at once, oil dependence and global warming. But the old cronies in power are resisting the change and in the pursuit of profit would rather live on a scorched planet than provide viable solutions.
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