Red Raider

Plug-In Natural Gas Hybrid Vehicles: A Game Changer

Keep up the good work Fitz Man!!

The case for NG vehicles is so obvious to the informed, that it tells us something about our politicians and the political industry.

The rest of the world is already using NG fueled vehicles by the millions. And we can't even get our president and our politicians to talk about it. We'll spent many millions on alternative energy R&D for the Hell ov-it, while the interim mid term solution is ignored by everyone save Boone Pickens. And he has been taken in by the wind mill subsidy that we can't afford.

How about applying a little engineering and economics to all these alternatives? Does anyone actually consider the amount of energy we need?
The wind solution is too costly and too feeble, solar is the same. Doesn't work very well in vehicles either. Nor will we never grow enough biofuel. Hydrogen fuel comes from nat gas. How in the world can we prefer hydrogen to nat gas, unless we go to nuclear FUSION to make the stuff?

Plug in electric will come from coal fired electric power plants, because they haven't (and maybe won't) let us build nukes. That is until we decide the weather is too warm. So we have to generate power from nat gas, which seems to work damned well! In fact it always has worked damned well.

Fitz You are a brilliant ray of sunshine in this dark environment. I hope you are never silenced!

If I can help I will.