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Well I was wondering what you thought of rising gas prices they seem to be steady but rising and falling some as well. The price is putting a strain on a lot of people that must drive a considerable distance to even get to get work and this can't last much longer for truckers as well. Opinions on type of cars we could see and your ideas on them.

well I would drive a car that runs on corn oil theres nothign wrong with that just cheaper and healthier for the envirorment.

ouh and the envoirment. I'll just say that there is a lot of hippy trippy green parties in the world, and they are saying that we souldn't drive fast, long, off road, what we want. And that sound just little like some comunist talk. If the nature goes to hell, she will judge me, not some guy who had too menu joints.

OOooh, don't get me started about that Global Warming and stronger Hurricane crap! I've lived on the Florida panhandle for 12 years, and it annoys me everytime I see someone talking this nonsense...

Anyways, my take on things:

Hybrid cars are a fad. Granted that people tend to buy them for different reasons, many like to flaunt that they have a hybrid. Hybrids are really only effective in cityscapes like New York, but really fail in areas like the state of Florida.

I laugh everytime I see a hybrid, because I know that I can find a new car that is more powerful, more fuel efficent, better build quality, and costs less. Not to mention, if the world ever did run out of oil, it could still be powered. What miracle car is it? It's a diesel (more specific the diesel VW's). Unfortunately there are many stereotypes and false connotations attacted to diesels in the US, but there have been many advances made.

Diesels will make a comeback starting the end of this year, when low-sulfur diesel becomes the standard at the pump. Mercedes-Benz is already talking about bringing it's diesels state side. I hope other manufacturers follow suit.


As for high gas prices, the liberals on Capitol Hill keep crying to Bush to lower gas prices, make the US less dependant on foreign oil. However, whenever there's a plan to drill oil somewhere (like ANWAR or the Gulf of Mexico), it's always shot down by the enviromentalists (who are supported by the libs). Of course, democrats seize the opertunity to say that Bush is helping his big oil ties or some such BS like that, and want to tax the oil companies for "excess profits" which will only cause the price of gas to rise.

I could go on untill I turn blue in the face (or get carpel tunnel...), but I'll leave it for now.

Cars are not destroying the earth, cows put out more green house gasses than all the cars in the world, and corn oil is not the way to go, it would cause farms to haft to double at the least to keep up with demand, and ultamitly cause more destuction than cows. but i have one word, hydrogen
most cars only need a simple upgrade to make hydrogen, its like the butane theroy, but it has even MORE power than a combution engine, similer to injecting NOS. hydrogen can be made out of simple household items, i agree that gas prices are going up, but they are not the highest theyve ever been, in the 80s gas prices were about 2.50 a gal, today that is a bit over 5 bucks a gal, so we dont even got it that bad. but we should get hydrogen as soon as possible, im 15, and i will have to start paying soon, and with a decent car, like my camrey 50 bucks will get you about 500 mi easy, but it pisses me off that people in SUVs and HUMMERS complain about high gas prices, and blame it on our cars, like its our fault they HAD to get that hummer, we dont need to make cars more efficient but make SUV drivers stop buying oversized cars to drive to work. if your gonna get a car that gets only 5 mi to the gal, use it for what its intended, long huals or off road, not to take your poodle to the vet. and finaly in my rant, GLOBAL WARMING DID NOT START THE HURRICANES!!!, the earth has a cycle like this every 100 years, and i live in florida, my house is still here, if your gonna put a house in HURRICANES paths then please, make it out of something other than wood put up over night, ~cough~ devoloupers ~cough~ this concludes my rant on gas.

that is very good though, I see that when they do start coming out it will be very expensive so in time it will go down and more places to get hydrogen.

I just want to say, Toyota Prius is an ugly car. So no matter how effectiv or envoirment frendly it is, i dont want it. Until they make it look like Ford GT (for example), and run like it, i'll pass.

i never thought about that. i thought all muscle cars would be history and i'd have to store like a pool full of gas. but yeah they would definatly put the new age parts in the old bodies to keep the cars alive.