How About A Blog-Drive?
June 19th 2008 06:33
Has there been any thought to joining together different bloggers to write about one topic? This would be a group effort to get a particular message out to all readers and encouraging them to take action.
I would like to suggest a topic: Flex Fuel Vehicles (FFVs). There are cars that are capable of using gasoline, ethanol or methanol based on what is easier to locate or least expensive. Any gasoline car can be made FFV for about US$100 extra in manufacturing costs.
Brazil now has millions of FFVs and that has been the key to moving from an oil importing nation to being energy independent over the last 20 years.
In the US and other countries, FFVs are hung up in political discussions about environmental issues, special interests, tax incentive plans, etc., etc., etc. If the public insisted that every car made - worldwide - be FFV the market for alternative fuels would be huge. That market (potential demand) would encourage investors to find ways to meet the demand. Investors would look for inventors who could improve technology used to make those alternative fuels. And as the alternatives came online, the public could choose to reward the technologies that were most appealing. Market-driven success is always more efficient than government mandated solutions.
I've just posted that Bill O'Reilly is on-board with the FFV concept. If you want to link to my post, post your own thoughts, etc., let's make this happen. We can show our readers that they can make a difference!
Opher
I would like to suggest a topic: Flex Fuel Vehicles (FFVs). There are cars that are capable of using gasoline, ethanol or methanol based on what is easier to locate or least expensive. Any gasoline car can be made FFV for about US$100 extra in manufacturing costs.
Brazil now has millions of FFVs and that has been the key to moving from an oil importing nation to being energy independent over the last 20 years.
In the US and other countries, FFVs are hung up in political discussions about environmental issues, special interests, tax incentive plans, etc., etc., etc. If the public insisted that every car made - worldwide - be FFV the market for alternative fuels would be huge. That market (potential demand) would encourage investors to find ways to meet the demand. Investors would look for inventors who could improve technology used to make those alternative fuels. And as the alternatives came online, the public could choose to reward the technologies that were most appealing. Market-driven success is always more efficient than government mandated solutions.
I've just posted that Bill O'Reilly is on-board with the FFV concept. If you want to link to my post, post your own thoughts, etc., let's make this happen. We can show our readers that they can make a difference!
Opher
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