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To: Triffin who wrote (1532)	3/6/2005 10:51:50 AM
From: gg cox	Respond to of 16955

Imagine: 500 Miles Per Gallon There have been many calls for programs to fund research. Beneath the din lies a little-noticed reality—the solution is already with usBy Fareed Zakaria NewsweekMarch 7 issue - The most important statement made last week came not from Vladimir Putin or George W. Bush but from Ali Naimi, Saudi Arabia's shrewd oil minister. Naimi predicted that crude prices would stay between $40 and $50 throughout 2005. For the last two years OPEC's official target price has been $25. Naimi's statement signals that Saudi Arabia now believes that current high prices are not a momentary thing. An Asian oil-industry executive told me that he expects oil to hit $75 this decade. advertisement We are actually very close to a solution to the petroleum problem. Tomorrow, President Bush could make the following speech: "We are all concerned that the industrialized world, and increasingly the developing world, draw too much of their energy from one product, petroleum, which comes disproportionately from one volatile region, the Middle East. This dependence has significant political and environmental dangers for all of us. But there is now a solution, one that the United States will pursue actively. MOST-POPULAR ARTICLES • Martha Stewart Breaks Out—> • Health: Why We Need to Get More Sleep • Tips to Help You Sleep • Hirsh: How Europe Beat Bush on Iran and China • Non-Native English-Speakers Are Changing the Way We Communicate "It is now possible to build cars that are powered by a combination of electricity and alcohol-based fuels, with petroleum as only one element among many. My administration is going to put in place a series of policies that will ensure that in four years, the average new American car will get 300 miles per gallon of petroleum. And I fully expect in this period to see cars in the United States that get 500 miles per gallon. This revolution in energy use will reduce dramatically our dependence on foreign oil and achieve pathbreaking reductions in carbon-dioxide emissions, far below the targets mentioned in the Kyoto accords." Ever since September 11, 2001, there have been many calls for Manhattan Projects and Marshall Plans for research on energy efficiency and alternate fuels. Beneath the din lies a little-noticed reality—the solution is already with us. Over the last five years, technology has matured in various fields, most importantly in semiconductors, to make possible cars that are as convenient and cheap as current ones, except that they run on a combination of electricity and fuel. Hybrid technology is the answer to the petroleum problem. FAREED ZAKARIA Current Column \| Archives • Zakaria: Imagine—500 Miles Per Gallon There have been many calls for programs to fund research. Beneath the din lies a little-noticed reality—the solution is already with us • Zakaria: Syrian Sanctions Won’t Do Any Good Unilateral economic sanctions will cost American companies, hurt ordinary Syrians and do virtually no damage to the regime You can already buy a hybrid car that runs on a battery and petroleum. The next step is "plug-in" hybrids, with powerful batteries that are recharged at night like laptops, cell phones and iPods. Ford, Honda and Toyota already make simple hybrids. Daimler Chrysler is introducing a plug-in version soon. In many states in the American Middle West you can buy a car that can use any petroleum, or ethanol, or methanol—in any combination. Ford, for example, makes a number of its models with "flexible-fuel tanks." (Forty percent of Brazil's new cars have flexible-fuel tanks.) Put all this technology together and you get the car of the future, a plug-in hybrid with a flexible-fuel tank. CONTINUED: The Current Crop of Hybrid Cars Get Around 50 Miles Per Gallon of Fuel msnbc.msn.com

To: Triffin who wrote (1532)	3/6/2005 11:07:15 AM
From: gg cox	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16955

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