Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:28:36 -0400
Reply-To: "Berlett, Edward" <eberlett@TOWSON.EDU>
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From: "Berlett, Edward" <eberlett@TOWSON.EDU>
Subject: Re: 500 miles per gallon
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So you're thrilled with the Bush presidency's energy policy to wean us off foreign oil.
Thanks
Ed
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From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf Of John Rodgers
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 12:33 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: 500 miles per gallon
I agree about the drop in oil prices. I hate these prices today, but I
would rather they stay high to provide the drive and incentive to get
off of dependency on foreign oil and develop our own resources whatever
they are - electric, coal, atomic, natural gas( we have some of the
worlds biggest reserves on this). It's going to take some time, and it
will be painful, but we had better get it done. We cannot afford to back
slide the way we did when Reagan came into office and subsequent
presidential leadership did not help. We need a new president who would
be Kennedy-like in regard to energy and say we will do it. - get off of
foreign oil.
John Rodgers
88 GL Driver
Ken Wilford wrote:
> Probably a plug in hybrid concept. 100 mpg would be fine with me. At
> that point even at $5 per gallon you are looking at a per mile cost of
> around $0.04 per mile which puts us back to gas being cheap again. Not
> sure what the cost of plugging in your car overnight would be but from
> what I have read it is supposed to be "pennies". The new battery I have
> been whining about for the last couple of years is finally in the
> pipeline as well. I recently read an article about a guy at MIT (I
> believe) who has figured out a way to make the Li-ion batteries last 10
> times longer! It has something to do with nano-tubes of graphite but
> the short of it is that this could actually make the electric car viable
> and the plug in hybrid a car that could go even farther on a tank of
> gas. Necessity is the mother of invention as they say. I just hope all
> of this tech starts to mature before they figure out a way to drop a
> gallon of gas back down to $2 per gallon or it will all evaporate again.
>
> Ken Wilford
> John 3:16
> www.vanagain.com
>
> John Rodgers wrote:
>> Was watching a congressional energy hearing on C-Span Saturday and in
>> the discussion came this whopper of an announcement. - "Friday, Toyota
>> announced a new car is in design that will be capable of 500 miles per
>> gallon of fuel". There was no discussion about this, it was just
>> mentioned in passing as part of the conversation on another issue, but
>> it sure caught my attention.
>>
>> John Rodgers
>> 88 GL Driver
>>
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