Re: Why Democrats don't want to lower gas prices


"nick c" <nchen711@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Jim Rusling wrote:
nick c <nchen711@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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Jim, airframe manufacturers, such as Boeing Aircraft, have been building
and testing hydrogen fueled piston and jet engines in airframes for
quite some time; applicable to commercial aircraft. The same has been
going on in the automotive industry. Future ground transportation
vehicles power needs appears not lay solely with electricity.

I think that we need to be exploring multiple alternatives. If people
will encourage nuclear power it will happen much sooner. Regardless
of the option(s) that work the best we will need a lot more
electricity to make it work. I think for POV's we will have electric
only vehicles for those people that don't need to drive long distances
and some type of hybrid for those that do or that need to carry heavy
loads. We need to look at wind, tidal, and solar power; but we have
to find a good way to store the power before it is going to do a lot
of good. Until we have a good workable situation we should be
drilling for our own resources. Even if all cars ran on electricity
we would still need quite a bit of oil to be able to get the other
chemicals that we need.

Much in what you say, Jim, I agree with. But I just can't bring myself to
favor flooding the country with nuclear plants. The waste from these
plants has to be dealt with in a manner that won't pose a threat to
populations for thousands of years. Besides that, there is only so many
places where the waste can be stored. An earthquake or volcanic eruption
can do heavy damage to unwisely chosen storage places.

Nuclear waste dumps are built into bedrock with no history of earthquake
risk for hundreds of millions of years. Volcanoes happen in places which can
easily be avoided. The important thing is that the high-level waste fuel be
accessible for later use if a method of using it develops in a few decades,
which it probably will as more countries come to depend on it.
-- Ernie


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