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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: KLP who wrote (256025)6/28/2008 8:21:00 PM
From: Bearcatbob  Read Replies (1) of 793838
 
Its four-year blueprint calls for the government to spend:

• • $2 billion to pay half the cost for automakers to make 40 million cars flexible-fuel capable, meaning they can burn alcohol, gasoline or any combination of the two. It costs $100 per vehicle to do this.

Why should the government pay for this. If is economically attractive $100 is nothing.

• • $1 billion to place alcohol fuel pumps in at least a quarter of the nation's gas stations.

What nonsense - we do not need mor alcohol fuel unless there is new technology to manufacture it.

• • $2 billion in tax breaks for consumers who buy hybrid autos.

If the cars are economically attractive $2 billion is not needed.

• • $4 billion for loan guarantees to help automakers develop for the marketplace fuel-cell battery technology and plug-in hybrid vehicles. The coalition says a combination flex-fuel/plug-in hybrid electric car running on an 80 percent alcohol, 20 percent gasoline fuel could get up to 500 miles per gallon of gas. Since plug-ins can be recharged overnight when electricity use is down, current power plants could support up to 30 percent of U.S. cars being plug-in hybrids.

Why loan guarantees?

• • $3 billion for public-private cost-sharing projects to build 25 commercial-scale demonstration plants to make non oil-based liquid fuels. It notes America has hundreds of years in supplies of coal, and a Department of Energy project showed "clean coal" technology can produce methanol alcohol for less than 50 cents a gallon.

$3 billion might buy one plant.

This guys does not know what he is talking about!
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