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If you want "green energy," fine.  Congressmen should be legally-required to buy and maintain those electric cars (with their own money), live in a trailer park instead of a mansion (smaller carbon footprint), and become vegetarians.  (Cow gas contributes to "global warming," you know.) 
Feb 14, 2013 11:52AM
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why not make the volt so that if the gasoline engine kicks in, it will recharge the batteries while you drive.. once fully recharged the batteries kick back in.. just a thought... no idea if this is even possible.
Feb 22, 2013 2:31PM
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Ok, time for a lesson in physics.

Liquid gasoline does not burn. The vapor lingering around a particle of gasoline is what burns. Why is it that modern combustion engines run on liquid gasoline sprayed into the pistons?

Now for a lesson in history. In 1935 a man by the name of 'Charles Nelson Pogue' devised a carburetor around this knowlege of gasoline that vaporized the fuel BEFORE injecting it into a cylinder. The result was an engine that racked in a staggering ~120 miles per gallon. The technology has since been improved to 463 miles per gallon with modern materials and unable to be patented as the patents have already been taken and are restricted, making only 'backyard projects' legal.


My question is WHY is our nation so uninformed of such technology? Its not a conspiracy, it is a simple lack of intrest put forth by the population of the world.
Feb 22, 2013 1:49PM
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What about showing how much it costs the owners electric bill to charge their cars at home.

MPG is suppose to tell owners what it costs to drive a certain distance. If you don't include the

charging costs then you are comparing apples to oranges. Or is the electric car makers afraid

to show the real costs. Don't forget to add the costs of replacing those expensive battery packs

in the electric cars. Then you will have a real comparison.

 

Feb 22, 2013 1:13PM
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What about Hydrogen cars? HHO you can still have a large car with all the performance, no carbon footprint. the fuel is water, They haven't found a way to tax water yet
Feb 22, 2013 2:47PM
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No one wants these little electirc cars in America untill one can be made in a full size Hummer and can be charge only once a month or so and doesn't cost more than $12,000.00, Walmart cheap !

 

China is buying up all the so called Green Energy companies that have failed with our Tax Dollars subsidising them, then they go bankrupt.  Thank-you BHO.  China only buying  them for a dime on the dollar with OUR money and stealing all the Technology and Interlectural Rights.

 

If BHO and D.C. get out of the Business of Business and let the Private Sector work on it, it may happen in the next 25 years.

Feb 22, 2013 2:43PM
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 Ummm, I don't know the price of electric in other states, but with a.c. here in the summer it's very high...so how come no one is estimating what the rise in your elec. bill is going to be with all this car charging???

A 220 volt charger sucks a lot of juice!

Feb 22, 2013 2:59PM
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you would think the cars now would be powered by plutonium.
Feb 22, 2013 1:46PM
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I don't buy the electric car hype, I mean if you charge a vehicle each day using a 220 volt unit, imagine what a persons home electrical bill will come to, probably off the charts. No one has discussed that side of the equation, wonder why? Low gas bill, unbearable electric bill...high gas bill, bearable electric bill......do the math. There really is no cost savings, only a little cleaner air to breathe.
Feb 22, 2013 2:35PM
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Lets see under obozo you either paiy a heck of a price at the pump or you go home and plug in your car and the electric bill goes thourgh the roof because of the green bills being passed, he's got you going and coming, so just mail the idiots in DC all your money, get a sign that says you'll work for fuel and you'll be alright.
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