Re: Rival Technologies Vie for 'Green' Car of Tomorrow

From: dan (dan_at_dontspamme.com)
Date: 09/26/04 

Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 20:47:23 -0600

On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 11:36:00 -0400, "Steve Spence"
<sspence@beavercreekconsulting.com> wrote:

>hydrogen is dead at the starting gate, so biofuels like ethanol and
>biodiesel are the only real contenders for "Green Cars of Tomorrow".
>
>
Biofuel cars will never amount to more than a few dumpster-diving
hippies behind the Denny's pilfering french-fry grease.
The supply of used cooking oil is insignificant, and the EROI of
growing transport fuels is very poor. All available land will be
needed for food to compensate for the plummeting agricultural yields
when hydrocarbon based fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides are
abandoned.
This is the last, or optimistically the next to the last decade of the
personal automobile. The age of the "automobile for everybody" started
with the model T in 1908, and won't last much more than a century.