Most of us have seen the Sony film, Who
killed the electric car?, but there is a new concept car which does not use gasoline or even electricity--but runs on air. It is being used in countries like India, but the US has put up roadblocks for its introduction.
The vehicle costs $7,000 - 15,000, has a top speed of 68 mph if using air only, or 150 mph if using its dual engine which allows for both compressed air and a wide variety of fuels. It can go approximately 150 miles with each fill up which costs two bucks.
If concept cars like this already exist, then why are we fighting for oil and chanting "drill baby drill," when we could turn our fight toward a technology which would ultimately solve all of the problems these oil companies seem hellbent on creating? Furthermore, why exactly do we have to fight for the right to use such innovative products at all?
In the Electric Car movie, "eco-pioneer" S. David Freeman said, "The oil industry and the automobile companies are resistant to change. [And the winner of the understatement of the year goes to...] The American people need to be reminded that it took a law to get seatbelts in the cars. It took a law to get airbags in the cars. It took a law to get the mileage up from 12 to 20 miles per gallon. It took a law to get catalytic converters to control the pollution. And I think clean cars are too important to be left to the automobile industry."
Obviously, to politicians such as Kyl and Roberts, propping up oil companies like BP and Halliburton is far more important than such progress, and the interests of these oil companies are only slightly more important than helping out their friends in the automotive industry...who of course donated 224.3 K to Senator Roberts 388.3 K to Senator Kyl. While these figures seem exorbident, the truth is, they are the only two legislators whose donations I bothered to look up!
Maybe we should just call ourselves Ben Dover and keep quiet about some of the new technologies until "our" corporate rulers altruistically offer an alternative to our "modern cars"--which after a century of "innovation" get worse gas mileage than the Model T.*
Or...maybe we should tell the all the oil companies and American automakers to "Stick it up your tailpipe!"
*Car Mileage: 1908 Ford Model T - 25 MPG
EPA Average All
Cars in 2008 - 21 MPG
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