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To: Ilaine who wrote (6249)	12/6/2005 1:30:11 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542241

The car and oil companies have to have an incentive to produce the new materials....Just making the products is huge. Sometimes, I really wonder why anyone would want to be in anything to do with energy. All they do is get grief. And for what.

To: Ilaine who wrote (6249)	12/10/2005 4:05:41 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 542241

Look at the resistance of Detroit auto makers to hybrid cars. The resistance isn't ideological, or a matter of some horrible antipathy to hybrids, but rather a belief that they won't make money. The extra cost to make a vehicle in to a hybrid is probably more than the energy costs it can save. Tax credits can cover the costs (so that neither the consumer or the automaker directly pays it) but they don't make it go away they just transfer it. The handful of hybrid models currently available may sell ok but they are not the highest sale models, and they have the advantage that people who want a hybrid have to get one of those models. If everything was a hybrid that advantage would go away. I think hybrid vehicles do make a lot of sense and I think things should start moving in this direction. But I also think moving slowly is very reasonable. Tim