On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 07:05:07 GMT, Matt Ion <soundy106@gmail.com>
wrote:

>NET winner, perhaps (IN THEORY)... still, the point is, it's not a
>"ZERO-emissions" solutions; it's a shifted-emissions setup.

Nobody rides for free.


>> Y'know, I don't get it, if you asked anybody five years ago what would
>> make sense for vehicles when oil reached $100/barrel, they'd have said
>> all sorts of alternatives could come online at those prices. Maybe
>> even hydrogen.
>
>Don't get me wrong, I think it would be great to see some VIABLE
>alternatives to this petroleum-fueled society... it just, I dunno,
>amuses me, I guess, to see people tripping over themselves to jump on
>various "clean energy" pie-in-the-sky bandwagons, only to ask a dozen
>years later, "What ever happened to that idea" because they didn't stop
>to think about ALL the implications, requirements, disadvantages, etc.

How about horses? Or do you think a careful scientific study would
find that they have emissions, too?

/hah