HDTV's vrs. oil consumption....

[Tractor Tom]

Here's another 'puzzler' for you folks. The US government has committed to having HDTV as the new standard for television broadcast within seven years, but has set our move to hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in at a 20 year distant window. As we as a nation get geared up to go into another small 'fuel war' in the middle east under the guise of a war on terrorism, doesn't seem that we have our priorities kind of skewed here?

Give me a fuel cell powered vehicle that is fired with hydrogen first (Honda and Toyota have them available today, but there is no place to buy fuel) and let me watch the goings on in the Middle East on my old TV. Thanks! With a lessened dependance on the Middle East for crude oil, perhaps we would be a bit less likely to go out there and stomp around...

Just my opinion...

 

[O-ring]

Priorities around here are definitely FUBAR..

 

[Dectek]

because there is not an economical way of manufacturing and distributing it yet. The 20 year time frame is to include the R&D period. You go buy the car and I will provide the fuel for your new oil saving baby. How does $2.25 per mile sound to you? Did you know that you could convert the car you drive now to run on wood chips? Follow the power company around when they cut the tree limbs from around the wires and there is your free fuel without putting a dent in our natural resources. These chips are heated (not burned) to produce gases which one of them is Hydrogen and Carbin monoxide and can be used as a fuel for your car. The problem is that you would need something like 4 lbs of wood per mile. Maybe in 5 years that number could be reversed and in 20 quadrupled.


Damn...I just blew off all that steam and did not bottle it.

 

[O-ring]

....to do with the exact technology (shoot, there are enough geeks on here to debate that for a millennium) than with the idea that alternative energy sources are a lot more important than we have historically thought. Joe American getting to drive his 5 MPG Canyonero SUV to the grocery store and back is still our perceived "right".

 

[diveaustin]

COME ON MAN...

I JUST GOT BACK FROM BEST BUY IN MY CANYONERO AND IM TRYING TO HOOK UP MY NEW 70INCH HDTV.

OH YEA...I GET 7 MPG.

I WOULD PREFER NO WAR!!!!!

 

[Tractor Tom]

in the Canyonaro....headed to the mall.

What is it about HUGE 4x4 like the Ford Expedition that calls to five foot tall, 110 pound soccer moms?

They should have named that thing the Ford Mallexcursion!!!!

Especially up here in the white north, when the roads get a little slippery, they go blasting past on I-75 at 80 mph and 6 mpg, not understanding that four wheel drive doesn't help you stop on slippery roads, it only helps you go.

 

[Bob3]

EZ answer why TVs are more important than alternates to gas guzzlers. TV throws ya into that hypnotic trance, make you more easily influenced by the corporate media.
They've done such a good job "brain numbing" folks that a lot of them can be spoon fed silly ideas, like trashing our Constitution is OK as long as it's done for Homeland Security.
Heck, some folks don't think OIL has anything to do with what's going on in the Middle East right now !!!

I'm going to pull down my 7' screen & watch some wrestling. at least THAT's real.:bonk: