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Li-ion Batteries: A Speculative Field of Dreams

I was holding ENER stock back when Texaco bought in. I was excited because I thought they were serious about being an energy company, not an oil company. I thought my stock would skyrocket. Duh. Boy did I get burned. And I'm still pissed. Little did I know at the time that the oil companies would succeed at suppressing NIMH battery technology for a decade. The entire world should be pissed. I am beginning to believe that they can't keep the genie in the bottle much longer. But I am extremely suspicious when breakthrough technologies like EEStor and PWTC mysteriously disappear or simply stay hidden. I don't know anything about battery technology, but I do know that oil companies (the greatest concentration of wealth in the world) don't want to lose market share. Don't think the free market will ever bring battery powered cars to consumers because oil money can always trump small start ups. It has to be done with legislation. As California has repeatedly proven, if you have the legislation, the technology will follow.

Cashing In on the Electric Transport Boom

It just goes to show how completely Big Oil can manipulate information. This article is fifty percent wrong. Half the posters have studied enough to know which half is wrong, and half the posters believe what the oil companies are telling them. Yes electric cars may get here eventually, that much is right. But it will only happen because the Japanese are oil customers, not oil merchants. EV1 was a great car, the NIMH battery worked just fine. Chevron controls the NIMH battery and the longer they keep it on a shelf, the more gas they can sell. The Mcain/Palin ticket is accepting gargantuan contributions from oil companies, their employees and their stock holders. Palin comes from a state where citizens don't pay taxes, but instead get kick backs from oil companies each year just for living there. Obama (supposedly) is not an oil puppet. We'll see what happens if he gets elected. Or if he gets assasinated? By the way read Barr McClellans book "Blood, Power and Money" about how Big Oil has manipulated politics in Texas since the 1950's (and how they paid for the Kennedy assasination.) If you think I am paranoid, you must think the Iraq war is about truth, justice and the American way. You must not know about the millions of dollars Cheney and Bush have made in Haliburton stock, and you probably think global warming is a leftwing conspiracy. Those nerdy weather scientists living in Antartica must be acceppting huge amounts of payola to scare us all into voting for Obama.