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In a previous article, drsoran@ni.cba.csuohio.edu (drsoran) says:

>From: drsoran@ni.cba.csuohio.edu (drsoran)
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>Subject: Re: Environmentalism & E-Check
>Date: 18 Sep 1996 14:32:47 GMT
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>	Actually I don't consider myself an environmentalist, but I think 
>research into hydrogen powered vehicles is a good idea... not only do thy 
>supposedly just give off water, but they run on hydrogen.. the most 
>plentiful element in the universe.. hmm.. It'll probably be another 
>century before the petroleum companies allow us to even consider removing 
>our mouths from their tit.
>
>	We've got plenty of desert space to erect these solar powered 
>water splitting mills too.. ;)  Instead of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, etc, 
>etc, controlling the price of the precious black crude, we'd finally be 
>able to supply our own fuel.. Oh well.. I guess that's forward 
>thinking though.. though who knows, Columbia Gas seems to use natural gas 
>in most (all?) of their trucks.. 
>

	The problem is market structure.  There is no competition in
automotive propulsion.  It will all be dreaming until one of several
conditions occur:

	1.  The government breaks up the automobile cartel (more dreaming) as
suggested in a fascinating report   
Bradford C. Snell,  American Ground Transport: A Proposal for Restructuring
the Automobile, Truck, Bus, and Rail Industries, as printed for the 
Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly on the Judiciary, U. S. Senate
(Industrial Reorganization Act, Appendix to Part 4) S522-15, 1974.

	B.  Another corporation or wealthy individual decides to take as
stab at it.

	III.  The cycle of extreme wet, extreme dry; extreme hot, extreme
cold; etc from global warming (global atmospheric energy increase) makes
farming so difficult that food shortages occur.
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