Reply #17: True. But, soon cars will be powered in more environmentally [View All]

[ladjf]

friendly sources. My guess is that they will be pluggable electric vehicles, charged by massive numbers of solar panels, i.e. roofs, yards, parking lots, open fields and on the auto itself. Park you car in the company lot while at work as it is charged up there in the parking space. Arrays of batteries at home, charged during the day, charge car batteries at night. Smaller cars, possibly equipped with small diesel powered generators for emergency power.

The human race hasn't begun to take a serious look at alternative energy sources. (1) oil, gas and coal of relatively inexpensive , (2) current renewable energies producers are generally more expensive than conventional methods and (3) the oil, gas,nuclear and coal companies have done everything in their power to discourage the use of renewable energy sources. Yet, all over the industrialized world, except for the U.S. and Great Britain, great progress is being made, particularly in Germany, Sweden, Finland, Spain, Portugal and Japan.

Is there something in Americans' environment that is making the dumb? fluoride, mercury, lead?