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Old 10-29-2007, 07:02 PM
Moseley Moseley is offline
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Default Re: Alternative energy and the Automobile Industry

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You need not worry about "harming" the automobile or oil industries. There are over 100 kinds of autos (available throughout the world) that get over 40 MPG on the highway, and only two are available in the U.S., and they are the expensive ones.

The Kia Rio gets 38MPG under perfect conditions and its base price is 10.5K

Does that give you an indication of who is running the show?

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why doesn't detroit put out loads of these types of cars then?

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Have you been to detroit lately? It's almost a ghost town.

Did you see the documentary on HBO about the electric car they tried to push in L.A.? According to the sales reps they interviewed, they had long waiting lists for the cars.
They were, however, using a poor design of battery, and not using the battery invented by ....I forget his name, but bought his company. Later an oil company bought the battery company and the cars were taken back from the customers who were leasing them ( you could only lease them) and crushed, so that any memory of them would be forgotten.

Those cars were expensive, however, they were not being mass produced, as GM was testing the waters. In the documentary, they interviewed a guy who had a cute sports car, that he claims runs like a sports car and gets 300 miles to a charge.

Why has there been no federal raise in the required MPG on cars in over 25 years?

It's like I've been saying for years, just as Eisenhower warned us of the Military Industrial Complex, I have been advocating that the U.S. is run by the Big Business Machine.

Bottom line: There is a lot of oil left. It's there and it has a value and the oil companies are all setup to profit from it. They don't want to retool until they have no other choice.

Have you notice how last year, when oil went from $55 a barrel to $65 a barrel, gas prices shot up, but this year, they are pushing $100 a barrel and I still get gas at the price I was paying when it was $65 a barrel.

Whazzup with that?.... Because they know a corresponding price increase at the pump will have deflationary effects on the economy, which will have a more negative effect than them making X more dimes per gallon. In addition, with the subprime market and the Bush Deficit screaming : U.S. economy in trouble! They don't want to add fuel to the fire.

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American people own the companies you refer to. You can too, buy their stocks if you think they control the world.

If you think the electric car can be produced profitably raise the money from all the Liberal conspiracy kooks and do it yourself. Moveon.org would be a good start, Soros has billions.

Why do liberal conspiracy kooks think "The Man" is holding them down? This is a land of enormous capital and opportunity, go do something yourself and don't wait for people you think are crooks to do it for you.

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I give...........I'll start my own Enron II.
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