The new fuel economy standards congress passed

[RedGoober4Life]

@Rx3

If these regs are for new car manufacturs only, then I don’t have a problem with it. We need to start depending less on foreign oil there is no question about that.

Good point, I thought I had heard that too. Besides Hawaii and possibly Florida, are there any states with the year round climate that could consistently produce sugar cane? There will obviously be some incentive to push ethanol since corn is a major resource here, we would be able to put to use all the corn that gets wasted/not exported and farmers would be allowed to grow more (and make more money), and if ethanol were to be used worldwide the USA would have more demand for that export.

Speaking of ethanol, there was an article in today’s Buffalo News that said a judge gave the go-ahead for the site with the grain towers on the waterfront to be used for a new ethanol processing plant.

EDIT: Buffalo News Story here.

What I would like to see is more research into other methods. It just seems like they keep pushing ethanol like it’s the only answer.

For instance, what about hydro power, or HHO? I know BMW was working on a hydro powered car, what ever became of that?

Check this out:

This is Schiba

That seems like it has a lot of potential.

Honda has the FCX, but hydrogen is really inefficient as a medium to “store” energy.

Also, good luck with the research hopes and dreams. Research spending growth is stagnant for 2008.