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To: Road Walker who wrote (3951)	1/6/2009 4:54:45 PM
From: Bearcatbob	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 86356

"The United States is essentially facing a terrible choice between a financial meltdown and a metastasizing sovereignty loss, political decline and eventual enslavement to OPEC and its whims. It’s past time for Congress to recognize that the solution to our economic predicament lies in our garage." Absolutely brilliant identification of the problem. What we need is a realistic solution. I once worked in an organization where the boss cheered one of his managers as the best problem finder he had ever hired - unfortunately he said he had hired the guy to solve problems. We have some great problem finders on this board. This one is even better: "To make a car flex-fuel so it can run on any combination of gasoline and alcohol would cost an automaker an extra $100 -- the cost of one barrel of oil. If each passenger car and truck sold in America were flex fuel, the cost to automakers would be less than the $30 billion the Fed forked over last weekend to salvage Bear Stearns’ riskiest assets." Absolutely brilliant - except - where does the fuel come from? Have we not yet recognized the idiocy of ethanol?

To: Road Walker who wrote (3951)	1/6/2009 5:02:00 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86356

Sure I did.. The author only spoke about the requirement to be independent of imported oil. I provided the solution.. unleash our own domestic natural gas and petroleum exploration efforts. With NG alone, we can be free of imported oil for at least 50 years, if not longer. By that time, certainly PHEV, FC, or electrical car technology will have advanced sufficiently to readily compete against fossil fuels and replace them. But for some god-awful reason, no one wants to permit our domestic oil/gas companies to drill here at home, or offshore. Hawk