Reply #11: It is bait and switch game [View All]

the reason for bio fuels is to keep the people buying the internal combustion engine as a source for there transportation.
But there are some mistaken notions about electric cars;
One is that they are expensive to produce and that is not the case. With the electric motors in the wheels there is no drive train of transmission which eliminates a lot of weight as well as expense in building the car.
And next is that it burns coal to charge the batteries. The ultimate goal should be to have solar panels on your roof and during the sunny times it would power a fuel cell that stored the energy as hydrogen to be used when needed, to charge your car or to run the washing machine when you need too. And in fact it could put your whole house off the grid completely.
Another misconception is that fuel cells are new. they are not and were developed in the 60s for use on the space craft, but strangely never made the jump to use in the country. Oil was easier and more profitable.
And lastly Mas transportation is all but forgotten even though a mas transit system was purposed by National Geographic Magazine that would have made the auto obsolete and reduced the cost of transportation dramatical. Now no one is even talking about it or even remembers it.