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To: Dave who wrote (2015)	3/20/2001 2:24:19 PM
From: Second_Titan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23153

Perhaps it is a conspiracy. But I enjoy high horsepower street cars and would be willing to pay more for gasoline than I do for drinking water or other beverages. But the shift will come, hopefully not before it is too late. I have travelled over large parts of the globe, and mass transportation is more limited here in the USA than in many other "advanced" countries. This is a result of big $ influence.

To: Dave who wrote (2015)	3/20/2001 7:39:05 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 23153

Now Dave, Just because of that lopsided 5-4 victory last December, I don't see why you see an oilman in every high public office. Really, it's only about 75% of 'em. I think that the wisdom of our age is that electric vehicles are moribund. They don't work in cold climates and as others have pointed out, they are potentially a huge burden on the grid. Battery technology has simply not matured to the point of practicality for vehicular traffic. Not for lack of investment, research and development, IMHO, but for lack of physical laws co-operating with our wishes. The new hybrid vehicles, OTOH, seem to me to be an exceptionally elegant* engineering solution. Just hellishly complicated and user-unfriendly. [[*At least as far as the laws of thermodynamics are concerned, not in an Occam's Razor sort of sense. ]] Best, Ray :)