HK wrote:
BAR wrote:
thunder wrote:
On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:32:32 -0500, Frog Britches wrote:


Of course their ultimate goal is to
force everyone to ride bikes.

Great idea! With the improved air quality, the exercise will improve
our cardio-vascular systems and fight the nation's obesity problem,
with the added advantage of cutting the cost of our new national
health care system. Damn, Obama is truly a forward thinking President.

Too bad you can't see the real reason. It is about control.
Controlling the ability of the population to freely move about the
country.


snerk What an idiot you are.
The gas mileage thing is another incidence of the east and west coastal
cities dictating the policy for 85% of the country. While you may be
able to ride a bicycle in the coastal cities, have you ever tried to
ride a bicycle when it is below zero, a ten mph wind, and there is six
inches of snow on the ground.

The gasoline engines in cars today are working at their peak energy
output, there is only so much energy available in the carbon hydrogen
bond that is oxidized when fuel is burned. (If you don't understand the
above sentence you have no right to discuss gas mileage. It is a basic
natural property. It is as basic as a windmill needs wind.)

The only way to reduce our dependence on gasoline is to move the
transportation and energy industries to nuclear power. We have NO other
options.

Corn and wind are dependent on the whims of nature. Both can be
completely destroyed and removed from the system for years by one ice
storm, such as the one that went through the Midwest recently. If they
are not gotten by an ice storm there are floods, hurricanes, and earth
quakes any of which could cause havoc in the energy industry using them
to generate energy.