WayneS

Prospects for Electric Cars

"Why drill, when there is oil (and natural gas) filling every available storage facility on the planet, with wells being shut down (and refineries soon to follow) in order to keep retail prices high."

David. Actually, retail prices are extremely low. If it weren't for taxes....
This glut is just a temporary thing. Just wait, people love to waste money on their vehicles. It is an extension of their "wannabe" psyche. Electric cars are not intimidating and will be a hard sell to the vast majority. I hope electric cars do become economically feasible. I plan on my next vehicle to be electric.

Getting Fired Up on Cleaner Internal Combustion Technologies

On Jan 31 01:03 AM a. palmer jr. wrote:

> I think higher mpg would be fairly easy to attain...it's just getting
> the people to buy and drive them.

You are right on. Chevy had a car in the 80's that got 40-60 mpg.
There were numerous cars in the 60's that got over 30 mpg.
There were propane, butane and methane-fueled vehicles in the 60-70's.

If the car makers are forced to quickly make higher mpg vehicles, people would spend whatever it takes to rebuilt "old classics" and not buy new.

As stated, higher gasoline taxes would work. $4 gasoline saved 1700 lives last year. We could outlaw racing and tractor pulls. We have the technology to enforce zero-tolerance speed limits, atleast on freeways and many highways. The average driver wastes 25-40% of the fuel they purchase.