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How about the(admittedly manipulated) buying public?<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
I think you can blame the public too. But you can't legislate the public being inane (or not being inane, I suppose). You can legislate that the California emissions laws become federal laws. You can legislate the EPA's mandate about Electric/ZEV cars being X% of the sold cars in the US. You can legislate funding for methanol/ethanol/biodiesel (not just subsidize the damn farmers, which is another debate).
People... Well, people will be stupid. However, they're generally very malleable, and if you give them a choice between biodiesel and methanol, they are bound to pick something greener than petroleum.
I'd happily pay a few thousand dollars to convert my car to propane or methanol. But there's just no way for me to do that. Maybe if the government subsidized a program to convert vehicles, we could get there. It isn't even a seriously difficult conversion. Many race cars can run on methanol or gasoline. In fact, Ford sells these "FFV" vehicles which can run on Methanol or gasoline. But when was the last time you saw a gas station selling methanol? |