Can't you tell?? LOL!

John

Berlett, Edward wrote:
> So you're thrilled with the Bush presidency's energy policy to wean us off foreign oil.
>
> Thanks
> Ed
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf Of John Rodgers
> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 12:33 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: 500 miles per gallon
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> I agree about the drop in oil prices. I hate these prices today, but I
> would rather they stay high to provide the drive and incentive to get
> off of dependency on foreign oil and develop our own resources whatever
> they are - electric, coal, atomic, natural gas( we have some of the
> worlds biggest reserves on this). It's going to take some time, and it
> will be painful, but we had better get it done. We cannot afford to back
> slide the way we did when Reagan came into office and subsequent
> presidential leadership did not help. We need a new president who would
> be Kennedy-like in regard to energy and say we will do it. - get off of
> foreign oil.
>
> John Rodgers
> 88 GL Driver
>
> Ken Wilford wrote:
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>> Probably a plug in hybrid concept.  100 mpg would be fine with me.  At
>> that point even at $5 per gallon you are looking at a per mile cost of
>> around $0.04 per mile which puts us back to gas being cheap again.  Not
>> sure what the cost of plugging in your car overnight would be but from
>> what I have read it is supposed to be "pennies".  The new battery I have
>> been whining about for the last couple of years is finally in the
>> pipeline as well.  I recently read an article about a guy at MIT (I
>> believe) who has figured out a way to make the Li-ion batteries last 10
>> times longer!  It has something to do with nano-tubes of graphite but
>> the short of it is that this could actually make the electric car viable
>> and the plug in hybrid a car that could go even farther on a tank of
>> gas.  Necessity is the mother of invention as they say.  I just hope all
>> of this tech starts to mature before they figure out a way to drop a
>> gallon of gas back down to $2 per gallon or it will all evaporate again.
>>
>> Ken Wilford
>> John 3:16
>> www.vanagain.com
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>> John Rodgers wrote:
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>>> Was watching a congressional energy hearing on C-Span Saturday and in
>>> the discussion came this whopper of an announcement. - "Friday, Toyota
>>> announced a new car is in design that will be capable of 500 miles per
>>> gallon of fuel". There was no discussion about this, it was just
>>> mentioned in passing as part of the conversation on another issue, but
>>> it sure caught my attention.
>>>
>>> John Rodgers
>>> 88 GL Driver
>>>
>>>
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