Do you think the oil companys already have an alternative fuel for cars?

Question

but are not prepared to tell us till they bleed us dry....

Answer 1

Yes

Answer 2

of course

Answer 3

the oil companies buy out anybodies invention or whatever else they come up with to save fuel,so that they dont market them

Answer 4

Yeah, right.  The moon landing was a hoax too.

Don't you think that the learned professors who have detailed the cause and effects of global warming accurate to 11 decimal places could develop the alternative and publish it themselves?

Wouldn't some foreign country somewhere  produce it?

Try thinking.  Are you really that ignorant to believe that kind of cwap?

Answer 5

If they did, they would sell it.  Think about it, if they had developed an alternative fuel, it would have cost them money to do so and they would want to recover this cost as soon as possible (this is what companies do, develop products and then sell them to make money).  There is no reason, and no logic behind the assumption that anyone who discovered a product that could be sold at a profit would not do so.  

Of course, there may be products that have been developed that cannot be produced profitably, either because the cost raw materials and/or production is too high compared to what they can be sold for.  In this case, a company would be foolish to bring the product to market, as they would loose money on every barrel produced.  This on top of the money already spent in development.  No one (except for governments spending your taxes) is going to send good money after bad.

Answer 6

The oil Co. loves the scam of GW. Just follow the money ,the oil co are making Billions.

Answer 7

Yep Hydrogen Fuel cells

Answer 8

Of course they do !!!

I did hear a story about a car that could be run on water, but when the oil people found out about it they 'moved in' and ruined the guy concerned.

Answer 9

Not the Oil companies, the Car Companies, and they proved it in the 1990's in California, then quickly destroyed the evidence.  Research the EV-1, a General Motors car.  California passed a law that to sell cars in California a certain percentage of them had to be electric.  They figured they could raise the percentage over time and phase out the gas burners.  All the car companies directed their engineers to come up with an electric car they could make available in California while they worked on getting the law overturned.  GM forgot to tell the engineers they did not want the car be practical.  They came up with a fantastic car, one that outperformed the gas burners on the road while giving the equivalent of 60 cent a gallon mileage.  They would not allow people to buy them, only lease, so they could claim there was no demand.  With the help of some key people in California's energy board and lots of money from Chevron they got the law overturned.  They then recalled all the cars, refusing all offers to purchase, regardless of price.  They hauled to cars out to the desert and crushed them.  Then they shredded the crushed cars so they could never be copied.  One still exists in a car collection, minus the power train.

GM came up with commercials that would scare off even the most determined buyer.  George Bush stepped into the fray near the end, announcing an initiative on hydrogen fuel, and dropping support of electric vehicles entirely.  Even it's advocates will tell you hydrogen is decades away from even a practical prototype.

I'm not a conspiracy theory type, but this is all true and you can check it.  We don't use internal combustion gasoline engines because we don't have anything better.  We use them because of political decisions made a hundred years ago that the industries and the politicians have stuck with.  It is entirely the fault of us, the cirtizenry, for tolerating leadership so corrupt as to let this go on to the point it has.

It was originally marketed with a defective battery, known to be defective, but when that was replaced with a modern battery it exceeded all expectations.  The guy who made the batteries was the tops in his field and claimed he could make the EV-1 affordable, practical, and to outperform anything on the road.  Chevron bought his company and shut it down.  Anyway, if you see stories knocking it because of the battery, that's the deal.  There are other similar stories of "problems" all denied by the people who have actually been involved with the cars.  These cars are still made, not as great as the early ones, and not for sale to the public, but still made.

Answer 10

I think so most definitely. Or other companies have alternative fuel sources and have been payed to keep quiet.

Answer 11

It's unlikely, as the first person to come up with a viable alternative to petrol and diesel would be minted.

Unless they have all really got together and managed to agree that they'd keep selling oil until it runs out and they have to release the new technology.

Answer 12

The BIG THREE as most call it have been suppressing the cheap and simple alternative for over 100 years yet most people do not believe in the process until they do it themselves.

It is called hydrogen-on demand. Safe, Simple and cheap to convert any internal combustion engine today to run on water(hydrogen) and gas. Saving are up to 50% or more. I was skeptical at first but took the plunge and spent $49. on plans and $67. on the conversion and one weekend to complete it and gained over 50% in MPG! I went from 23 to 47MPG in a '94 Dodge Dakota with a V6! Quit denying yourself this amazing Hybrid Technology and go to:

http://www.water-hybrid-cars.info   NOW! Go Green!

Answer 13

yes but NONE work as good or r as cheap as gas

Answer 14

Oh absolutely! the idea is to use up every last drop of oil, THEN switch over to the alternatives. People are coming up with new technology all the time, but are are paid off or silenced. Big oil companies have even been implicated for murder in years past.

think about it. These oil companies make BILLIONS of dollars a year on oil. it's cheap and easy to produce and every car runs on it. They're not gonna uproot everything for the sake of a new fuel, even if they can profit more

It's actually naive to think that they'd welcome alternative fuels or just kick their heels and say "aww shucks, I guess we won't be selling oil anymore"

These people aren't upstanding, moralistic, good guys. they're greedy criminals. just look at how they handled the Exxon Valdez spill, or how they buy our leaders' votes

Answer 15

'who killed the electric car'

http://www.sonyclassics.com/whokilledthe...

Answer 16

There are alternatives.  Hydrogen, electricity, and probably others.  They aren't practical with current technology.  

The problem is nobody wants to pay for the development of something that not going to be trouble free for years.  

Hydrogen is nice but there is no distribution system.  It would cost billions and take decades to cover the entire country similar to our current gas station system.  I think this will someday be the direction we go but it is decades away from being comparable to our current gas system.

Electricity is OK but the battery technology isn't good enough yet.  The batteries are huge and heavy.  The range is only 50-100 miles without needing to stop of 5-8 hours to charge the battery.  The batteries cost almost as much as the car in some cases.  Many places already struggle to get enough electricity to power their cities in the hot summer.  Hooking 300 million cars to the system would completely kill it unless someone builds hundreds or thousands of new power plants which need coal, oil, or gas to make power anyways.

Tuba - Honda, Ford, and Toyota also made electric cars at the same time.  GM was the 1st to make one and the last to stop.  All of them destroyed their cars too.  Only a few Fords are left.  Those cars were huge money losers and were sold at huge discounts.  People still refused to buy them because the prices were still so high.  In case you didn't notice the point of a business is to make money.

Answer 17

I don't think they even care at this point.  Oil is big tax revenue.  Releasing a new fuel would hurt the domestic revenue of all the fat pigs both democratic and republican alike.

Answer 18

Marks got it right, either they've been paid out, not likely or it's just not there yet.

To be fair it would take a nasty real piece of work to hold back something that was majorly (nsw) for the good of man just for profit.  Wouldn't put it past some ppl thou!