180 MILES PER GALLON

Carey, John (2005) Giving hybrids a real jolt BUSINESS WEEK, 4/11 p. 70-72.

This is from a main stream source and is recent and not written by a conspiracy theorist.

A TOYOTA PRIUS, a hybrid car has been developed that can get between 100 and 180 miles a gallon.

Here is how it is done. The car is refueled at home by plugging into an electric socket. With this energy alone, one can get 30 miles to drive around the city. Each gallon costs 50 cents. Once, the electricity is used up the car shifts over to gasoline and batteries. As the car drives it also charges up the battery. The total depending how one drives is between 100 and 180 miles per gallon.

Besides this car, there is a fleet of cars that run on all the above, but the gas is gas plus biomass like ethanol.

The plug in energy draws from coal plants and alternative energy which the USA has plenty. There are other options such as advanced diesels and hydrogen cars.

At the moment, this unites enviros and fiscal hawks. Cheap at home energy would be great even if the four sisters keep the price up; the demand from the Middle East slowly goes downward. Further gas prices may not fall because in the same issue of this business magazine Brian Bremner indicates that China is using technology that waste energy and they will probably continue to want more energy and compete with the USA for middle east oil. (See p. 50-51 of this 4/11 issue)

The auto industry is not interested in this technology at this time. If you can, buy this issue of BUSINESS WEEK, because you can show your grandkids that something could be done to save oil and gas.

You can also ask the librarian to Xerox this article for you for a nominal fee.