Re: Alternate fuels.

John A. Weeks III wrote:
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The problem is, these alternates will not power my RV in any
forseeable manner. In fact, the fuels they want to reduce can in no
way be replaced by either wind OR solar.

Then why not run on gasoline or diesel with a percentage of alcohol
or biodiesel mixed in? The idea is to go for the low hanging fruit
first. Trucks and large vehicles are not good candidates for
True enough. Part of the problem is that the bio-fuels don't have as much
energy/gal as their petro-chemical cohorts.

electric power. If you read T. Boone Pickens plan, he advocates
using wind to produce power to supplement the grid, use off peak
energy (which is very low cost) to recharge electric cars at
night, and have that buy time to develop more alternates like
ramping up the oil sands, coal gasification, and perhaps even
unlocking oil from shale.
True enough as well. It's just that it's probably only me, but I'm pretty
certain that the wind doesn't blow 24/7 nor does the sun shine in its
stead. That means that a fully staffed, fueled, maintained, insured, fees
and taxes paid "regular" powerplant will need to be on standby by at all
times. If you think electrical energy is expensive when they get to
amortize those expenses over a 24/7 period...you should see how much it'll
cost when you only get to charge for it a few hours/day.

The cheapest power we have today is nuclear, followed by hydro. And in
both cases stupid, leftist environmental twits seem to be standing squarely
in the war to success. Sad, that...

I totally support a conversion to alternative fuels for transport but
don't you think it would make sense to define these alternates first,
before cutting off the current methods?
That's what anybody with a brain would do. Given the ignorant,
herd-mentality leftist culture infesting our political leadership, that
ain't gonna happen anytime soon.

No one is suggesting that other than some fringe groups who
are out there trying to scare people. Don't listen to the
truck stop conspiracy talk. Education yourself.
Spot on! Get away from the gloom & doom of the dumbest of the dumb in the
socialist environmental movement. Free yourself of their ignorance and
stupidity, and life may begin to start making more sense...

Demcrats are just sooooo STUPID!

Really? Having a viable action plan is stupid, while the
No. Having an "action plan" is smart. Unfortunately, having a stupid one
isn't much help. And 'stoopit' is what we have at the moment...

neo-con Republican action of sticking their head in the sand
and attacking the wrong country after 9/11 is somehow smart?
The right country was attacked. That you think it's wrong simply shows us
all the ignorance you labor under. Sad, that...


Dusty


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