Jesse,
There is already a big biofuel lobby in the USA, namely the agribusinesses such as Archer Daniels Midland who favor ethanol production from corn. However, it is more expensive to make than oil, so it is not a cost-attractive alternative. Yet they receive big subsidies from the public treasury. There was a web site listed here on the air car: http://www.theaircar.com. They claim that it works. I was mistaken though, in that they claim to be able to refill it with compressed air at an air station in 3 minutes. The 4 hour figure referred to charging it at home. The main problem with fossil fuels appears to be the political instability of the sources. They burn producing carbon dioxide and water vapor, both of which are absorbed by plants. If we are concerned about CO2, plant forests, or if you don't have land, pay other countries to keep their forests, as we are benefited from their CO2 absorption and oxygen production. The reason the English were giving people a hard time over the use of biofuel was that they were not paying fuel tax, which evidently supports the road and highway infrastructure. They did not mind if you paid the tax. Damian On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, studio53 wrote: >Regarding the air car, I don't even know why we are talking about a car that >doesn't even exist and in my opinion will not exist in our future. Might as >well be using the bandwidth to talk about a vehicle that runs on MGP. >(Magnetic Gravity Pulse). Very, very far into the future. > >Bio-diesel and SVO are here NOW and vehicles by the hundreds are being >converted all over the planet as we speak everyday because it fits into our >cultural interplay with government bureaucracy. Veg-oil plays a vital part >in the reduction of fossil fuel usage NOW, and people with no mechanical >background are forging ahead and retrofitting their vehicles without >research centers, government grants and patent-locked technology owned by a >few whose interest is primarily capitalism. The reason why Bush didn't >mention bio-diesel technology in his State of the Union address is because >automakers and big oil haven't found a way to monopolize it enough yet to >make it a political issue. Auto manufacturers get HUGH subsidies from the >government to "develop" hydrogen cell technology. It's a cash cow and they >are no going to change that anytime soon. > >Germany has an excellent government consciousness about bio-diesel, yet go >across over to England, and you are back in the stone age. The English >police are actually arresting people and charging fines for innovative and >creative alternatives to fossil fuel. >That alone tells you how far the English government is up Big Oil's a$$. > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Jesse Parris | studio53 | 53 maitland rd | stamford, ct 06906 >203.324.4371 www.jesseparris.com/ >----- Original Message ----- > > >From: "Damian J. Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <biofuel@yahoogroups.com> >Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 11:26 AM >Subject: Re: [biofuel] Taxed To DEATH > > >> >> How practical is that if I want to drive from Washington DC to Miami? It >> takes 4 hours to refuel. I can see that it might make sense for commuting >> in a city, but then you would need another car anyway to take the wife and >> 4 kids anywhere. >> >> Damian Anderson -- Damian J. Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.unification.net Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
