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October 11, 2002

Alternative Fuels

Just read this article on new Fuel Cell cars.

I covered some of my feelings on this in a prior entry (Oil For Algernon).

I obviously think this is a good thing, though it has some time to go before its adopted. What irks me is how late this is coming. 30 years ago when we started having Oil shortages we had two choices. Go out and plunder the planet for more oil (even if it meant repeated military action), or put money into researching alternative fuel sources. Of course you know what we did. can you imagine what we'd be driving today if the government put 1/10 the money they've put into foreign, oil driven, wars into researching alternative fuel sources? But the world, and this country in particular, is run by money. He who has it, decides. In this case, the oil cartel has so much money, they practically own the government. Case closed?

Well now that we are running out of oil and wars are getting old, even the oil companies and car companies that drove us to use so much oil in the first place are beginning to research alternative fuel methods, and how they can profit greatly from it. No, Exxon/Mobile won't go out of business if they run out of oil, they'll just leverage their way into related industries.

We'll see.

Here's another article on another company thats making batteries that run of food.

Posted by wonko at October 11, 2002 07:11 PM

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