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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 08:01 PM
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The BMW Hydrogen commercial - what a load of crap
BMW has this commercial touting a hydrogen vehicle claiming it will leave it's mark without leaving a mark.

Then they say ready for the world when the world is ready. Implying that the world isn't ready for an eco-friendly automobile?

When will the world be ready, when the ice caps are gone and the oil supply has been depleted?

What a load of bu$h shit. If they could build it, then sell it, don't tease us.
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Kutjara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 08:06 PM
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1. All those ads from automakers and oil companies...
Edited on Mon Oct-22-07 08:10 PM by Kutjara
...pretending to be at the forefront of environmentalism make me sick. Chevron is currently running a TV campaign crowing about how they're so tight with Mother Nature, they're practically living together. Chevy is using a bunch of kids to weave the fantasy that their new hydrogen SUV is practically Mother Theresa with wheels. Except that Chevy are only making a few of the vehicle "to test the market" and have no real plans to put them into production for years.

BP has been shoveling it's "Beyond Petroleum" shit for years, while simultaneously mismanaging its drilling and refining operations in the worst ways imaginable.

And then there's Shell with it's profiles of "radical environmentalists" who also just happen to be petroleum exploration engineers. Yeah, right. Do I look like I came down with the last shower of fucking rain?

Scum, the lot of 'em. I'd say they deserve everything they'll get if not for the fact the rest of us will be sharing their fate.
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Subdivisions Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 08:50 PM
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17. Posturing for a post-oil world or merely profitting from the
Edited on Mon Oct-22-07 08:52 PM by Texas Explorer
green revolution? I wonder why they are pushing the alternatives when they are OIL companies. If you're an OIL company, then SELL OIL! Unless, of course, you don't have any more to sell. In which case you begin posturing your OIL company to become and ALTERNATIVE ENERGY company.
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 09:11 PM
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18. Trying to make it appear they are doing the right thing
Jumping on the green evolution for the mere sake of appearance. NOTHING MORE.
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Snotcicles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 08:08 PM
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2. Here ya go
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 08:12 PM
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4. Will that be like the electric vehicle?
All destroyed after a tepid attempt at marketing?
Most of the attempts by these auto manufactures is nothing more than a front.

Hybrid SUV's? Let's see we can make an SUV get 28 miles per gallon, wow, now lets make a car get 4 times what it currently does.
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Snotcicles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 08:14 PM
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6. Nope, I own stock in a company that makes a solid state hydrogen canisters. nt
Edited on Mon Oct-22-07 08:23 PM by Snotcicles
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 08:17 PM
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7. I want a vehicle that I can drive across country with out paying ransom to the oil gods
The environment deserves it, Our economy screams it, My pocket book is in bad need.

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Snotcicles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 08:23 PM
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9. Me too. nt
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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 08:17 PM
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8. The current wave of fuel cell frenzy IMO
is a product of teh auto/oil industries acknowledging that the days of fossil fuel are numbered.

But instead of shifting to battery electrics, with minimal parts and zero fuel, let's substitute an extremely complex technology requiring extensive service/maintenance and extremely expensive fuel.

Yeah, that's the ticket.
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Snotcicles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 08:27 PM
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12. It's starting to happen. nt
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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 08:08 PM
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3. They can't build it,
you can't buy it, you can't drive it, you can't fuel it.

Classic chicken/egg. Carmakers won't make them until infrastructure is in place; infrastructure won't be built until cars are there use it.

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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 08:13 PM
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5. And no one is going to make the bold move to supply both
It's a wonder this nation ever transitioned from the horse to the internal combustion engine.
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burythehatchet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 08:25 PM
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10. fuel distribution infrastructure n/t
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 08:33 PM
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13. If they were serious about selling it they would build the infrastructure
Build fueling stations across the country, compete with Exxon=Mobil.
They are sitting around waiting for the oil companies to step up, it will never happen until they have sucked the ground of every drop of oil.
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burythehatchet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 08:39 PM
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15. cannot happen because the oil and gas interests will prevent it, by any means.
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 08:50 PM
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16. Exactly
We are prisoners to the oil regime and our government is controlled completely by this regime.

OIL!
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hatrack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 08:27 PM
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11. And the hydrogen EROEI is, what, -20%? -35%?
Pathetic.
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 08:34 PM
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14. That is the other thing, They push this like it is the answer
and that they are just waiting for the "world" to be read for it.

It is all a smoke screen
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CRF450 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 09:44 PM
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19. "Ready for the world when the world is ready"
Edited on Mon Oct-22-07 09:45 PM by CRF450
I think your taking it the wrong way. They could mean that when hydrogen pumps are readily available at most stations, the car is then practicle enough to use for daily use.

We're not ready for this car, because theirs hardly any hydrogen stations anywhere!
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