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| Bush Pushing Hydrogen Fuel As Alternative | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: May 25 2005, 11:25 PM (394 Views) | |
| 24thcenstfan | May 25 2005, 11:25 PM Post #1 |
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Bush Pushing Hydrogen Fuel As Alternative
Testing, Testing...Is this thing on?
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| 24thcenstfan | May 25 2005, 11:26 PM Post #2 |
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Yeah right. At this rate, maybe in 30-35 years. |
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| Hoss | May 26 2005, 07:26 AM Post #3 |
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Are you in favor of fuel cells or not? |
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| gvok | May 26 2005, 07:31 AM Post #4 |
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I'm in favor of them and hopefully this is a sign of greater government involvement in the future. |
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| who | May 26 2005, 07:37 AM Post #5 |
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I think that the most could be done with conservation. I think gas taxes should be increased to encourage conservation with the additional money going into a national energy policy on the level of the NASA race to the moon. |
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| Hoss | May 26 2005, 07:37 AM Post #6 |
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Yeah, I was wondering if 24 was for or against. I couldn't tell if 24 was ridiculing the fuel cells or President Bush or both. |
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| Hoss | May 26 2005, 07:39 AM Post #7 |
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Increasing gas taxes will increase govt. dependency on gas. It'll be just like cigarettes: they're terrible, a health risk, big evil tobacco companies and all that,... but, but we can ban them we are funding everything with their tax revenue. Who is addicted to cigarettes? |
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| gvok | May 26 2005, 07:40 AM Post #8 |
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Thomas Freidman had a similar idea. |
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| ds9074 | May 26 2005, 07:51 AM Post #9 |
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Why not put taxes on petrol to increase its cost and by doing so make hydrogen and other alternatives more economically viable and at the same time increase incentives to conserve energy and use more efficient cars? Over night demand for inefficient cars would be down and demand for already avaliable alternatives such as LPG and hybrids would be up. Any revenue generated could be ring fenced for renewable energy development with the goal that eventually the renewables will become self funding and the income from taxing petrol will fall to zero. Alternatively if you worry that an extra tax will harm economic growth then why not 'switch' some of the tax burden onto fuel instead of adding a new tax. Government increases tax on petrol but cuts income tax by a corrisponding amount for example. |
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| gvok | May 26 2005, 07:56 AM Post #10 |
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It's twice as expensive but the car also goes twice as far (according to the article above). |
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| Hoss | May 26 2005, 08:01 AM Post #11 |
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Wow, it's that simple!?!? |
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| Fesarius | May 26 2005, 08:06 AM Post #12 |
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^^^ Be nice, or I will confiscate your LZ albums.... |
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| Hoss | May 26 2005, 08:11 AM Post #13 |
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You win. |
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| 24thcenstfan | May 26 2005, 08:15 AM Post #14 |
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Does it matter?
However, I will answer your question anyway. I was ridiculing the current system that is designed against the promotion of alternative fuels such as hydrogen. I do not think our government or the private sector will do enough to promote the mass marketing of fuel cell cars run on hydrogen by 15 years from now. Most people are still stuck in the petroleum mindset. I do think promoting and supporting alternative fuels is a commendable undertaking. In that respect, I appreciate that Bush is making some kind of effort. However, I was joking a little at Bush with the linked picture. Is that okay with you? |
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| Dwayne | May 26 2005, 08:17 AM Post #15 |
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Yes, it is style of doing things typical with a tax and regulate, socialistic mindset. |
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