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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (22580)	7/31/2008 8:53:13 AM
From: neolib	Respond to of 36921

True, diesel engines are more efficient than petrol, but not 45% in small car engines You can buy cars today with 44% efficiency. Trucks hit 50%. My point was a simple one and a correct one, which was that with crude oil at $130 a barrel, the economic pressure is towards central electricity generation and all-electric vehicles, not hybrids. True, if the source of power is something other than oil. Not true if you are simply looking at efficiency. One thing some people overlook is that oil going up makes any watt of power more valuable. All sorts of market affirming individuals seem to forget this and think that if X is cheaper than oil, the increased price of oil will not make X more valuable, but X will instead take over from oil and decrease the price of oil. I would suspect that the producers of X would instead try to make a higher profit off of X too. Details are critical. Adding them all up correctly is vital. That's what vehicle buyers do when they pick their wheels. Which is why I don't like hybrids. I'm much better off with a lighter weight, simpler vehicle which gets almost as good mileage and costs much less, like my old Honda Civic.