Such technology would probably cost about $1000.00 per vehicle and could be mass produced by 2011. The technology would also enable vehicles to use smaller engines.
Consequently, some are calling the technology a hybrid challenger. Why?
By
2011, Toyota for example,
believes its hybrid technology
will not only be more
sophisticated and half as
heavy - making it
significantly more fuel
efficient - but half as
expensive. Thus, by 2011 you
can have a hybrid vehicle that
increases fuel efficiency by
30 percent to 40 percent - at
least - for $1500 more per
vehicle, or you can have an
ethanol vehicle that achieves
20 percent to 30 percent
better fuel efficiency for
$1000 more per vehicle (Of
course, will ethanol be
cost-effective versus gasoline
and available?)
Or, why not have vision? Why
not offer a flex-fuel hybrid
vehicle that increases fuel
efficiency by 50 percent to 60
percent for just $2500 more
per vehicle? Geez, why not
make it a flex-fuel plug-in
hybrid vehicle and be 70
percent to 80 percent more
fuel efficient.
But why shoot for the moon?
Why dream the big dream when
we can settle for complacency?
Instead we can stick with a 20
percent gain with ethanol and
all of America can drive
super-Hummers because they
will be so damn fuel
efficient. Suddenly, we'll
realize we need just as much
foreign oil as ever, plus as
much as ethanol as we can
find!! Then, not only will
America be beholden to big oil
and foreign governments, but
big agri-business as well - a
capitalist's dream!
