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Why should we be interested in Alternative Energy?
To protect the world from oil dominance, their wars and environmental destruction.
The BMW Hydrogen 7 is the world's first production-ready hydrogen vehicle. Will it go the way of the electric car that was killed by Detroit on the 70's? The answer lies with politicians, oil companies and other world leaders. At the Boston Tea Party the political answer was in the hands of the people throwing barrels of tea overboard (would now that they be barrels of oil).
If democracy were a little more virile the answer might lie in the hands of the people - and if the American people were less polarized into so-called left 'pro-government' and right 'free market' mindsets, we might stop political bickering, band together and find political solutions squarely in the middle, understanding that absolute power in either direction corrupts 'absolutely'. A totally free market without regulations (we are dangerously close to this now) gives unlimited power for corporations to monopolize an industry (oil), buy off the government, defeat alternatives or competition and endanger the consumer.
A government controlled system crushes initiative and innovation, and oppresses the people for the sake of the state. We have seen the abysmal failures of Marxism and other totalitarianism. Somewhere between the elements of socialism and free enterprise, both of which exist in our society, there needs to be a strengthening of the checks and balance or some cognitive recognition when the direction of the dollar is 'to hell in a handbasket' that we need an alternative route out now, not when we run out of oil. Unfortunately, that would be too late, and we will be inextricably bound in that hot unfortunate place.
We need a hybrid car which uses hydrogen fuel cells instead of gasoline. Since both technologies are currently being used in commercial cars, I just don't get why they aren't being combined. There is also a car in production right now that is 100% electric,
goes 225 miles on one charge and from 0-60 in 3.8 seconds. It's called the Tesla, but it costs $100,000 dollars.
The auto industry could mass produce something like this for a fraction of the cost, but we need to insist that the next administration in Washington have the independence from oil lobbyists to push oil companies out of the way for this to happen. This way we could get some energy independence without a heavy cost to the environment.
The largest threat to our national security is oil; it has infiltrated our country by thwarting other technologies, empowering rogue oil nations and attracting their terrorists, and by corrupting Washington's proclaimed goal of representing the American people.
Exxon-Mobil, Shell, and BP have been waiting over 30 years to take the oil in Iraq, which has the second largest store of underground oil in the world alongside along with Iran.
The oil fields are now being drilled, so in that sense it is 'mission accomplished'.
If we spent 200 billion$ (many would call that 1/10 of what the Iraq war has actually cost the US) on fuel cells they'd be out there, and we wouldn't need to deal with these guys at all.
Steve Mento