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deebrown · 06-08-2007, 09:24 PM

well, another interesting/humorous aspect is the report also goes on to say that hydrogen fueled cars need to be developed now (1988) because development will take 20 or so years before we would see that technology in vehicles on the road - 20 years later (2008) the government/car companies say the same thing: "we need to start developing hydrogen technology now so we have 20 years from now" - however, as long as gas is relatively cheap, the masses are appeased and no one develops crap...

the report also indicates that the ethanol e-85 cars (which GM and Ford are banking on) will never really be a solution as there is just not enough corn to grow to fill our demand for fuel (and that was back in 1988, from since demand has grown much greater).

06-08-2007, 09:24 PM	#32
deebrown Drives: Sedan Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 37	well, another interesting/humorous aspect is the report also goes on to say that hydrogen fueled cars need to be developed now (1988) because development will take 20 or so years before we would see that technology in vehicles on the road - 20 years later (2008) the government/car companies say the same thing: "we need to start developing hydrogen technology now so we have 20 years from now" - however, as long as gas is relatively cheap, the masses are appeased and no one develops crap... the report also indicates that the ethanol e-85 cars (which GM and Ford are banking on) will never really be a solution as there is just not enough corn to grow to fill our demand for fuel (and that was back in 1988, from since demand has grown much greater).