"...considering our country's largest energy and carbon footprints come from the predominantly coal-burning grid....Can somebody explain to me how using electricity to fuel our over-abundant needs to drive absolutely EVERYWHERE in our culture is an environmentally sound idea? " Yes I can, thanks for your question.   more »

So lighten your front wheel drive economy car by 300 to 500 pounds (replace most of the metal body with fiberglass?), add these batteries and one used golf cart motor for each rear wheel, and you got yourself a plugin hybrid. For about 3000 dollars in parts, and a lot of screwing around.   more »

I'm skeptical, this food crisis, complete with riots and mass starvation in the poorest regions, they are literally eating dirt cakes in Haiti, seems to be caused by corn ethanol gas guzzling. "In one report by an industry group, oil has a greater impact on food prices -- by a factor of 2 to 1 -- than ethanol." Was that an ethanol industry group or an agribizz industry group?   more »