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Technology Stocks : The Electric Car, or MPG "what me worry?" -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tadsamillionaire who wrote (18)	9/8/2006 1:21:45 AM
From: sageyrain	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 17518

Been thinkin some about PHEV's. Pluginpartners.org talks about having the ICE component of the PHEV as a flex-fuel gasoline motor that could use ethanol. It looks to me that corn-based ethanol is largely a boondoggle, needing about as much energy input to produce it as you get out of it. Some studies show more, some less, but in a world still full of much starvation, gotta wonder about the ethics of this push. I would rather see a diesel, perhaps turbocharged, as the ICE component: one that could alternatively burn biodiesel, such as used fry oil, hemp oil, etc. Mileage would be better than gasoline/ethanol and I think they have come up with really clean burning diesels now in use in Europe. I don't know if there are any technological barriers to using diesels in PHEV's.