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To: William Peavey who wrote (3530)	12/26/1998 3:34:00 AM
From: Sleeperz	Read Replies (1) of 5827

Just like the last oil embargo if there is a fuel shortage the auto makers will make more fuel efficient vehicles. The first Generation Hybrids get 60 MPG. The third generation will probably get 120 MPG. The depletion of petroleum does not mean the end of the ICE. What is good for the goose is good for the gander. An ICE can also burn hydrogen too! The horse was a temporary solution to transporation too. So will the Hybrid and the Fuel Cell as a source of power for transportation. Nothing is 100% non poluting, even you pollute the air. That is called supply and demand, so far there is more supply than demand. Hybrid vehicles will stretch the petroleum resources even more. One is that petroleum as a fuel source is finite, and we will gradually deplete this resource. As this becomes apparent to those blinded by "the lowest price-at-the-pump-in-one-hundred-years", or whatever the oiled shorts are touting today, the price will rise as the supply diminishes. Second is that the hybrid car is a temporary solution. It will truly be 100% non-polluting when there is no gasoline. Water is far more important resource than petroleum. The goverments might insist on alternate fuel sources other than hydrogen to prevent the worlds population from dying. Third, petroleum provides western society far more useful products than mere heat and transportation. The need for the plastics, paints, drugs etc that are created from petroleum might cause governments to insist on alternate power sources to prevent oil from all going up in smoke. CL

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