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Originally Posted by FNKNSTN
So you think that people who live out in the boonies should be able to drive their gross polluters that get 3mpg because their states have a lower poulation?
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15 guys driving old trucks through the woods vs. 150,000 people stuck in traffic...totally different. The trees literally clean the air, which is why the air is fresher in rural states despite the nasty polluters that don't have any emissions standards.
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It sucks having to live by all these strict rules in California.... but we do it just fine, so why can't you?
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That's the "All of the US should become The People's Republik Of Kalifornia" attitude, and there's 49 states that have a different idea. What's the point of having states if they're all going to be ruled by one? IMO the federal government is too big and powerful already, and we resent having a second federal-like government that's not even supposed to have any power over us.
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Originally Posted by Scotsman
On another note I'm pissed we(the govt)aren't investing more in alternative fuels but instead are putting the pressure on automakers to pick up the slack they should not be responsible for. The EV isn't the panacea for the pollutant free automobile. A variety of alternative fuel options is.
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The manufacturers are very good at that job, just not always willing. The government is not good at a lot of things, including that job.
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Originally Posted by Rodrunner
Hydrogen appears to be far too dangerous, although natural gas/methane may be be a possibility.
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The big problem with hydrogen is not the danger, but the fact that it's not an energy source; it's merely an energy storage medium. You can't mine hydrogen, you can't capture it; you have to make it by using more energy than it will deliver. There's nothing inherently wrong with that, but if you're going to do that anyway you might as well make something more like the fuels we currently use, without any special handling requirements (now the danger issue comes into play). If you're going to make all the energy some other way and store it in the car fuel you might as well make ethanol and biodiesel from non-food materials.