Re: Doing something!
Re: Doing something!
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7303607#post7303607 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by simon.007
IThey could vote to repeal the tax exceptions for the oil giants!
Sorry I think all that will do is drive up costs. Do you honestly think the oil companies will take that type of taxation and not pass it on to the consumer?
If this does not work then they could incentives us with larger rebates for Biodiesel, E85, Hydrogen, fuelcell and electric vehicles.
This still isn't economical I agree it should be done, but even with the incentives that exist, people still buy other cars. People will not be moved to buy these cars until it is economical and convenient to do so. That means purchasing the car, maintenance, and ease of refueiling. Hybrid cars have that going for it since it still uses the same fuel. Biodiesel vehicles also have it going for it since they can usualyl run regular diesel if people are in a bind. E85 has other issues including a negative return on energy, at least from corn. It take more energy to toil, plant, grow, harvest, and refine than is created using E85. Add to that it will eat through rubber gaskets in cars built even into the 90s. Electric cars are just a bad idea all around, as anyone in california know, electricity is at a premium, and electric vehicles would only put more of a drain on the system. In addition to that, the majority of electricity is generated from coal and natural gas. Both of which polute the environment and are still finite resources. There are natrual gas cars, but until they become better for long trips, IE the refilling infrastructer, there is still a cap to the number of people who will purchase them with or without government incentives.
If you want to move to those types of fuel than don't write government agencies to do something. THey will do something that will be short term, and any push to alternative fuels will be haulted again. As long as oil prices are high alternative fuels will get more respect, if gas prices go down again, it will be the fuel of choice until the next rise in price. Henry Ford's original vehicle was designed to run on biofuel produced from corn, but he abandoned that because gasoline and oil were so much cheaper. The rules of economics then are the same as they are today.
The price of oil in Europe and Asia has been high for quite a while now but still they have not invented a new energy plan.
They may not have an alternative energy plan, but they use small diesel cars which get better mileage and polute less, instead of big trucks and SUVs. even their delivery vans and trucks are smaller. France has 58 nuclear plants that meets 80 percent of its total electricity needs -- and allow it to export power to Britain, Germany and Italy. So to say that they are just as bad as we are or not doing anything to break their dependence on oil is just a fallacy.
