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To: AK2004 who wrote (275381)	2/18/2006 10:23:45 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (3) of 1571926

AK. Imagine this. A plug-in hybrid with a flex-fuel engine. * The Toyota Prius gets 50 mpg. That twice as much as the average new car sold today. * A plug-in hybrid converted Prius, can get as much as 30-35 miles on battery recharged from your outlet, before it switches back to the regular hybrid function. Most people drive less than that on any given day. Estimates are that increases avg mpg to anywhere from 75 to 100 mpg. * Flex-fuel engines are no more expensive to produce than regular engines and can run on any mixture of ethanol or gas. Ethanol can be distilled from all manner of plant life and is just as cheap as gas or cheaper, if produced at scale. This alone could dramatically reduce our oil dependency. We could make ethanol in quantities large enough and cheap enough to replace all 5 million barrels a day we import from the Middle East easily. Within 10-15 years, we could replace 15 million barrels a day with cars that get 100% to 200% more mpg than the average car gets today. We use 20 million barrels a day. If our country had the willpower to do it, we could spend $200 billion over the next 10-15 years to help consumers buy these new cars through tax incentives and help manufacturers make these cars through tax incentives. In fact, it would be cheaper than the Iraq war has already cost us (about $300 billion). Think on it. It's completely doable, but it means we can NOT have an oilman in the White House. Bush's idea of an Energy Bill was to give $3 billion in tax incentives to oil companies to increase offshore drilling. As if the oil companies didn't have enough incentive from $60 oil or from the hundreds of billions they have in cash. Bush is a moron. BTW, I always identified myself as a Republican before this Bush came to power. This isn't my Republican party.

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