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Now Is The Time For A New Energy Revolution

It is time for an energy revolution, and we must work together to change the world now. There is a crisis at hand that will effect the entire planet, in short order, it will endanger our very survival and the future of our children. It endangers our economy right now. We send our children overseas to protect oil reserves in foreign lands so those lands can hold us hostage for a gallon of gas. It is not right. We have the ability to become self sufficient, we must become self sufficient NOW!

It is time to take a stand, we don’t have 25 years for our automakers to catch up to China’s auto emission standards, that’s a joke! China does it today, we need to do it today. We need to start now, we need to change now, solar, wind, and hydro power are all clean and renewable and hydrogen is the most common element in the universe, we will never run out. Hydrogen powered fuel cells… great idea! Those are the answers, fossil fuel is going the way of the dinosaur and we will follow if we don’t wake up today. Nuclear… well if the plant doesn’t blow up, you still have all those barrels of waste to deal with. Burying the barrels to create another terrorist target, honestly is that really an answer we can live with? Ethanol, just another joke, either our farmlands are over taxed producing corn ethanol or we strip our topsoil everywhere by creating a market for cellulosic ethanol, either way, we loose. The biggest joke is the ethanol vehicles get roughly 27% less gas mileage than their all gas counterparts. I challenge the world to work together to develop cold fusion without toxic waste. I challenge the world to put solar panels on every building with a sunny exposure. I challenge the world to develop safe hydrogen power systems and I challenge the governments to actually do the right thing! I challenge everyone, everywhere to do one thing each day, spend some time alone and come up with a plan, a plan that may seem inconsequential, however when combined with everyone else, the tide will turn.

Things have to turn and it won’t happen by itself, we have to make it change now! Does anyone remember the 1984 Honda civic coupe, it got 67 miles to the gallon without a hybrid engine. It wasn’t rocket science, the cars were simply lighter. Gas is approaching five dollars a gallon and Detroit is re-launching their old line of heavy muscle cars, frankly they deserve to go bankrupt. The Prius is the flagship of the energy revolution and the Ford Escape hybrid is an SUV that gets 36 miles to the gallon. Why do we only have two, shame on us, for not screaming from the roof tops, “we want energy efficient vehicles and homes without oil tanks”! MY QUESTION IS WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO, AND HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE FOR YOU TO GET OFF YOU’RE A$$ AND GET STARTED?

Frustrated? Worried it just doesn’t matter? It does matter and the only thing that has ever changed the world started with a small group of thoughtful committed people. People that understand that the only way you ever receive anything worth having, is by giving of yourself first. Don’t stand there holding your hand out, lend a hand, believe in yourself, believe in the cause, believe you can make a difference and tell one other person. There really are only two valid choices left, step up and be the change you want to see, or just get out of the way. Standing still with business as usual is no longer an option. I am stepping up as a leader in this new energy revolution, and I am looking for a few good, committed people to help.

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Get your tinfoil hats out......


Chuck this in the trash(if you want my opinion)


30MPG is something to brag about, I would brag if my 78 Eldorado got 30 mpg, though it only gets 11 or so...


This post makes me want to out in the driveway and let it idle for a few hours...


I be right back.....
 

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Dude, this is spam.
 

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a buddy of mine owns a 1988 cavalier and get around 47.
 

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I put Spam in my Armada's gas tank and I got 38 mpg! What a timely thread!



I mean seriously, what does a real estate company have to do with alternative fuels? Who else puts a link to their workplace? Hopefully only the GM dealers....
 

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Now Is The Time For A New Energy Revolution

Does anyone remember the 1984 Honda civic coupe, it got 67 miles to the gallon without a hybrid engine. It wasn’t rocket science, the cars were simply lighter.

I do. Prefer the Honda 600 myself.

67 mpg? - not even close, more like 40 mph. only a 150cc scooter motercyle get 67 mpg.

The smallest Kei car will get you 45 mph tops.



Gas is approaching five dollars a gallon and Detroit is re-launching their old line of heavy muscle cars, frankly they deserve to go bankrupt.
agreed.


MY QUESTION IS WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO, AND HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE FOR YOU TO GET OFF YOU’RE A$$ AND GET STARTED?


I bought a Yaris. would have bought smaller - but no maker offers microcars here in Dinosaur land.



Frustrated?
Yes very.

The solution is not a namby pampy wishlist of exotic alternative fuels (most of which don't exist yet). No the solution is to offer the pragmatic solution.

make small microcars.

offer them here!! now!!

Hydrid smibrid....
 

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People should understand that the Civic (which in no way got 67 MPG.. Unless it had no engine or doors while the cabin was filled with soaking wet fat people rolling downhill...) only was fuel efficient because the Crash test laws weren't as strict as they are now, so they could use lighter materials, that's why most early model civics that get in a fender bender are morphed into a tin can. The engine was anemic with the horsepower not even reaching 70. They were tiny and weren't refined at all. That won't do anything these days. What we need is safe, fuel efficient, decently-powered, decently-sized vehicles that will get the job done at a reasonable pace, at a reasonable price.
 
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