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**Pharmaciest2007** · 09-16-2010, 03:32 PM

Colin,

I swear to you that nothing would give me more joy than to get rid of gas-powered cars. Ain't happening. They have been trying for 120 years to make a car better than what we got now and all they have come up with is fringe cars loved by fringe people who have the luxury of being "fringey".

The question isn't will hydrogen replace gasoline? The questions are:

Will the conditions that led to gasoline be a reliable fuel source continue as they have i the past?

On this point that seems high unlikely. The oil companies don't control oil producing countries and the US is probably going to be more gun shy about sending it's Army to the Middle East in the future.

Will gasoline be clean to use in the cars in the future?

No. Auto manufacturers have nearly reached what science can get from trying to design a cleaner gas powered combustion engine. The growing number of cars on the road have out weighed advances in cleaner engine technology to create pollution problems which had been initially abated anti-pollution devices.

Gasoline will be apart of our transportation picture for the next 100 years but we, or the world at large, will probably diversify our energy sources. Chief, Adam, I'm not a pie in the sky proponent of hydrogen, but the whole situation has to be looked at in terms of economics, politics in this country and other countries. Then history and economics and politics have been at the mercy of one crazy man or woman with a match, gun, bomb, airliner, etc.

09-16-2010, 03:32 PM	#12
Pharmaciest2007 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 407 Senior Member	Colin, I swear to you that nothing would give me more joy than to get rid of gas-powered cars. Ain't happening. They have been trying for 120 years to make a car better than what we got now and all they have come up with is fringe cars loved by fringe people who have the luxury of being "fringey". The question isn't will hydrogen replace gasoline? The questions are: Will the conditions that led to gasoline be a reliable fuel source continue as they have i the past? On this point that seems high unlikely. The oil companies don't control oil producing countries and the US is probably going to be more gun shy about sending it's Army to the Middle East in the future. Will gasoline be clean to use in the cars in the future? No. Auto manufacturers have nearly reached what science can get from trying to design a cleaner gas powered combustion engine. The growing number of cars on the road have out weighed advances in cleaner engine technology to create pollution problems which had been initially abated anti-pollution devices. Gasoline will be apart of our transportation picture for the next 100 years but we, or the world at large, will probably diversify our energy sources. Chief, Adam, I'm not a pie in the sky proponent of hydrogen, but the whole situation has to be looked at in terms of economics, politics in this country and other countries. Then history and economics and politics have been at the mercy of one crazy man or woman with a match, gun, bomb, airliner, etc.
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