“While greenies and their media flunkies continue to savage the gasoline-powered internal-combustion engine and rhapsodize about hybrids, hydrogen, electrics, natural gas, propane, nuclear, and God-knows-what-other panaceas, perhaps including bovine urine, there are no realistic, economically viable alternatives. None. Zero. Like it or not, as long as we remain dependent on the private automobile for transportation (roughly 80 percent of all movement in the nation is by car), we are harnessed to the IC gas engine.” KnowsLongNationsNaturalMediaCarMovementPercentIncludingNuclearAlternativesDependentGasInternalsZeroRealisticEnginesSavagesGod KnowsAutomobileTransportationHybridGasolineHydrogenNatural GasCombustionPanaceaBovinePropane Author:Brock Yates
“Most automobiles spend about 80 percent of their time sitting around doing nothing. They're gasoline powered; they go to very high speeds, which in fact, under urban conditions, you don't need. These high speeds generate enormous safety requirements and so on and so forth. Now you can incrementally tweak the automobile. You can make the power train more efficient and you can enhance safety and all of these sorts of things that are very worthwhile.” NeedsFactsConditionsPercentSittingSafetyTrainSpeedEnormousWorthwhileEfficientUrbanRequirementsDoing NothingAutomobileSitting AroundGasolineHigh SpeedTweak Author:William J. Mitchell
“I'm sure the gasoline companies would love to keep their 100 percent monopoly on transportation fuel.” CompanyPercentFuelMonopolyTransportationGasoline Author:Chris Paine
“A Prius is not a true hybrid, really. The current Prius is, like, 2 percent electric. It's a gasoline car with slightly better mileage.” CarPercentCurrentsElectricHybridGasolineMileagePrius Author:Elon Musk
“Natural gas is the best transportation fuel. It's better than gasoline or diesel. It's cleaner, it's cheaper, and it's domestic. Natural gas is 97 percent domestic fuel, North America.” AmericaNaturalPercentFuelGasTransportationCheaperCleanersNorth AmericaGasolineDieselNatural Gas Author:T. Boone Pickens