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Originally Posted by fastball
All this alternative engergy stuff is just increasing research costs. Cars like the Volt are a good idea as an experiment, but you gonna try to put that kind of logic into a semi truck to pull 10 tons 3,000 miles in a week? Efficienctly? With the ability to run a million miles before you have to do major work on the system? Just wasted time researching it.
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I'm sure if you went back to the 12th century with a semi trailer, they'd ask, "How do you expect my horses to pull that?"
Yankee ingenuity led us more to where we are than the versatility of oil. Oil is a great resource; don't get me wrong. I'd love to see some lab synthesize it so that we could use combustion engines forever, assuming that we do someday run out—apparently a big assumption in some people's perspective. I'd rather be innovative than predictably reliant on the system in place before me. Do I want a V8? Of course I do. Do I want a powerful electric car? That would be sick. I don't care what kind of power I have. If it drives fast and well, I want it in my garage. I'm a power enthusiast. You can call electrics anything you want, but if someone can innovate a powerful battery car that beats whatever is beside me on the track, I'm pretty happy.
The issue isn't oil. The issue is innovation. You can't tell me that investing in a new idea is a waste. That's how we all got computers to visit this site and how cars got built in the first place. I like new ideas that guide us in new directions.
And if someone can build a car that runs on puppy smiles, I want to try it out, not because I'm some hippie out to save the world with hemp and conservationism but because it's efficient and less costly to operate. Then I can spend my remaining resources on whatever else I want, including my muscle car.