Your Thoughts On Vehicles Using Alternative Fuels In 5 Years?

Question

General Motors announced that in 5 years 50% of all GM cars will be using alternative fuels in the drive to get away from fossil fuels. Are you ready for the big ride to Alternative Energy Growth both in vehicles and homes?

Answer 1

big words from a company that lead the campaign to kill the electric car so many years ago, and tried to convince Americans the best car is a SUV.

Maybe we will have alternative fuels, but the most used fuel in cars, especially in the US, will be made from crude oil.

Answer 2

If we make E-85 without corn, I'm all for it.

Answer 3

Electric cars have been viable alternatives for 10 years, but all have been withdrawn despite sucessfull technology & customer demand - GM made sure all theirs were crushed, not even donated to MIT or anyone http://www.whokilledtheelectriccar.com

If we all went electric for personal transport it would actually improve the efficiency of the national grid http://www.acpropulsion.com/technology/v... ie a car that has a range of 200 miles, but only does the average 20 a day, means a lot of distributed stored energy.

The problem is it is prohibitivly dificult for a new entrant to the mass produced car market. So despite electric cars being quieter, smoother, higher torque/performance, smell-free, simple to make & cheap to maintain and run and recycle

no major manufacture will bother to change while they don't have to take the risk of upsetting their global corp friends & political allies.

Answer 4

I want an HX.

http://www.leftlanenews.com/toyota-hybri...

Doodad

Answer 5

YES FINALLY GOING THE RIGHT WAY

Answer 6

Look back thirty years and then slowly move forward, every time gas prices climb, the big auto makers pull out the same old song and dance and as you can see, thirty years later nothing has changed.

Now Bush is over in Saudi Arabia telling the Arabs to INCREASE OIL production so the US can waste more...wasn't this the guy that said we need to get off of foreign oil about a year ago?

The entire solution rests with the people not the governments because the governments are in the pockets of big oil and the governments ARE the problem!

Answer 7

It's a complete lie!

GM couldn't care less about efficiency or environment.

It was just a statement to make them look good.

If they cared they would be making ELECTRIC cars charged with Solar Energy.

Instead they just plan to make ANOTHER car that runs on exhaustible fuel.

It's a pathetic attempt, and I do not give them credit for TRYING at all.

They could do much better if they wished.

Answer 8

I don't that GM wants to do this. I don't doubt that they are telling us this, but it is only because Toyota is actually making a true attempt to run on alternative fuels, mainly hybrids.

I think the only effective form is hybrid, but I doubt that that is even possible in the next 5 years because American power plants can't support that.

The only way anything like this could possibly happen is with the help of the federal, not state, government. But with our gov, i doubt that it will happen anytime in our lifetime.