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The Bailouts Are Doomed - All of Them

Superb article. Us not forget that Phil ' americans are whiners ' Gramm had a lot to do with the situation we are in today. Sorry SOB.

Compressed Natural Gas: Key to American Energy Independence?

I think there are to many 'na-sayers ' running loose to get much of anything done to solve the transport energy problem .Rigimortis has already set in in the USA and will be in full effect before we wade thru all the bureaucratic morass that has developed over the years.
No one now can just take the best methods available and go with it.

Little old Thailand already has over 300 CNG stations . Most taxis, about 20% of large trucks , about half the buses and many private vehicles operate on CNG .
What is the problem in USA ? Hard to say , na ,no way could it be government jackasses .

New Electric Vehicles Coming Soon

It's all well and good we get partially off oil and from under the thumb of several countries .

The laws of physics still pertain to the energy used to move x amount of weight a given distance whether it's on corn stalks , electricity ,wind ,wave power ,donkey power or what have you .

I am tired of hearing the mantra ; i'm greener than thou because i drive electric or what have you . Well,somewhere something is producing that energy and as of now and the forseable future it is about 60% chance that dirty ol coal is making the turbines turn.

I have heard you could cover the USA with solar panels and wind mills and not equal the amount of oil energy .

Yes , i am in agreement to reduce oil usage . The best way is to reduce driving which by my own experience i am sure every private vehicle in America could be driven 200 miles a month less with very little inconvenience . The price of oil i am sure has already reduced the marginal income persons driving . Now , if we could get the well off retired assholes ,such as i , from dragging most of a lifetimes collection of crap down the road to the next "paradise " in their 5 mile to gallon rec -vehicle all will be ok.

Another item ; i estimate 10% of commercial trucking is unecessary . Example ,you have lumber going southeast to northwest and viseversa, cheese every direction ,meat same . Packages passing each other in the middle of the night in the air and on ground ,a large portion overnight when in real fact 10 days wouldn't make a crap ,and there are others .

We are our own enemy.