Holy Smokes!!! Them gas prices!!

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[Namhias]

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I tend to go with the dictionary definition, which is considerably wider: "Fuel: Something consumed to produce energy."

Pedantic quibbles aside, I'm rather fond of hydrogen for cars, especially if its production is linked to a renewable source of energy such as wind, solar or wave power.

Similarly, electric cars are also of interest. One of the things I was going to look into when I have some time was to see how lightweight solar panels could be, as an electric vehicle with a solar panel seems to be a no-brainer, unless the extra weight is enough to produce problems. There was talk of being able to charge such a vehicle off of the home electric grid, and I know there are solar panels which can produce enough energy to meet that demand, so the only major remaining issues are weight and size.
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I'm in favor of the hydrogen car too, it's way more efficient then an internal combustion car can ever be. It has great potential: You can create hydrogen from regular tap water, or almost any water that's not to badly polluted for that matter, and store it somewhere convenient. People wouldn't have to go to a gas station anymore. Since you only need electricity to produce hydrogen, you can use a wide variety of power sources, like solar panels on the top of your roof for instance. The technology is already available, there just aren't enough people buying the stuff yet, so prices are still sky high. If the oil companies are smart, they would invest in hydrogen, I truly think that's the future of transport.
Also, it would decrease CO2 emissions a lot if most people who got a car would install a hydrogen fuel cell.
I can keep on going about the benefits here, but I'll restrain myself.

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in a 4 years it's gonna be $8 per gallon, then all hell will break lose >.=.<
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[Hyraxylos]

Actually a while back we (United States) were just about to start looking for an alternate source of fuel because oil was getting expensive. Unfortunately the Saudis caught on and lowered the price of oil so we threw a ton of research to the wind and forgot the whole thing.

*considers* At this point I should probably say something contemptible about my own government, but I can't think of anything nasty that hasn't been said dozens of times already. I'll just add in that we really ought to start looking into solar power; that huge nuclear plant in the sky is important to the Earth for a very obvious reason and why we shouldn't leap at the chance to use it for more while we've got plenty of sunlight is beyond me. -_-
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