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Give me a 150mph car any day... if gas get too hard to come buy... I'll grow some corn and make some gas!
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And while you're doing it, you'll
drive up food prices,
use as much fossil fuels to grow your corn as you get out of it,
cause the deforestation of enormous tracts of forest elsewhere (because of higher food prices, it becomes economically viable to clear sub-par agricultural land). Not that I'm a car-hating hippie (I'm actually entering the 24 hours of LeMons this summer), but us petrolheads are in a poor situation. At the very least, ethanol from corn doesn't seem to be the answer, no matter how much the farming lobby and first state in the primary process want it to be.
The Volt needs to arrive in a hurry, do everything it promises, and
Nanosolar needs to coat every roof on the planet in cheap-like-paper solar cells so that cars like the Volt can get their energy from a clean source. Also, having
ITER happen on-time, on-schedule, and above break-even wouldn't hurt either.