Comments on: Get 120 MPG Out of Your Prius (Plug It In) http://gas2.org/2008/03/11/get-120-mpg-out-of-your-prius-plug-it-in/ What is the future of fuel? What's new? What's next? Since 2007, Gas 2 has covered a rapidly changing world coming to terms with its oil addiction. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:34:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Affordable Electric Cars Coming to US in 2009 : Gas 2.0 http://gas2.org/2008/03/11/get-120-mpg-out-of-your-prius-plug-it-in/#comment-695 Affordable Electric Cars Coming to US in 2009 : Gas 2.0 Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:06:54 +0000 http://gas2.org/2008/03/11/get-120-mpg-out-of-your-prius-plug-it-in/#comment-695 [...] Get 120 MPG Out of Your Prius (Plug It In) [...] [...] Get 120 MPG Out of Your Prius (Plug It In) [...]

]]> By: Careless http://gas2.org/2008/03/11/get-120-mpg-out-of-your-prius-plug-it-in/#comment-694 Careless Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:04:36 +0000 http://gas2.org/2008/03/11/get-120-mpg-out-of-your-prius-plug-it-in/#comment-694 With $30,000 you could buy gas to drive a normal Prius 300,000 miles. Drive 300,000 miles with a 120 mpg car and you've spent $10,000 at $4/g. This is completely stupid even if it is real. But hey, it's got to be more real than "gasalternative@yahoo.com" With $30,000 you could buy gas to drive a normal Prius 300,000 miles. Drive 300,000 miles with a 120 mpg car and you’ve spent $10,000 at $4/g.

This is completely stupid even if it is real. But hey, it’s got to be more real than “gasalternative@yahoo.com”

]]> By: Careless http://gas2.org/2008/03/11/get-120-mpg-out-of-your-prius-plug-it-in/#comment-22166 Careless Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:04:00 +0000 http://gas2.org/2008/03/11/get-120-mpg-out-of-your-prius-plug-it-in/#comment-22166 With $30,000 you could buy gas to drive a normal Prius 300,000 miles. Drive 300,000 miles with a 120 mpg car and you've spent $10,000 at $4/g. This is completely stupid even if it is real. But hey, it's got to be more real than "gasalternative@yahoo.com" With $30,000 you could buy gas to drive a normal Prius 300,000 miles. Drive 300,000 miles with a 120 mpg car and you’ve spent $10,000 at $4/g.

This is completely stupid even if it is real. But hey, it’s got to be more real than “gasalternative@yahoo.com”

]]> By: Careless http://gas2.org/2008/03/11/get-120-mpg-out-of-your-prius-plug-it-in/#comment-22167 Careless Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:04:00 +0000 http://gas2.org/2008/03/11/get-120-mpg-out-of-your-prius-plug-it-in/#comment-22167 With $30,000 you could buy gas to drive a normal Prius 300,000 miles. Drive 300,000 miles with a 120 mpg car and you've spent $10,000 at $4/g. This is completely stupid even if it is real. But hey, it's got to be more real than "gasalternative@yahoo.com" With $30,000 you could buy gas to drive a normal Prius 300,000 miles. Drive 300,000 miles with a 120 mpg car and you’ve spent $10,000 at $4/g.

This is completely stupid even if it is real. But hey, it’s got to be more real than “gasalternative@yahoo.com”

]]> By: Harry Freeman http://gas2.org/2008/03/11/get-120-mpg-out-of-your-prius-plug-it-in/#comment-693 Harry Freeman Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:24:07 +0000 http://gas2.org/2008/03/11/get-120-mpg-out-of-your-prius-plug-it-in/#comment-693 While we should all be concerned that the energy needed to provide electric cars with their needed charge for their batteries, let me say this, all electric power plants are designed to get the most energy (electricity) from the sources that they use i.e. natural gas, coal, hydro, wind, nuclear, based upon the rules delineated by the rulers. This is Capitalism to its finest and the economic engine for the American economy. This is not political. Our sources of electric power, have to meet known limitations of their process and meet increasingly demanding regulation involving environmental protection (pollution including green house gases) and worker safety (OSHA). While we would all like to receive free energy, nothing is free. The internal combustion engine by contrast are a compromise of power, environment, and efficiency. From my education as a mechanical engineer (with an electrical engineer minor) I understand that the conversion from stored electrical power (batteries) to actual work is usually more efficient than most combustion engines. What we as a society need to decide is whether the state of engineering, capitalism, and politics, is a compromise. In general, if the state of the art (engineering) is viable to motivate the acceptance of the technology, then it will succeed. For most consumers, this means, will it save me money. As of yet, I haven't decided. This is where we need our political leaders to LEAD. They have the resources to decide what is best for our Country and the world to provide the appropriate incentives to the industrial industries to move us in the right direction if they choose to lead. While we should all be concerned that the energy needed to provide electric cars with their needed charge for their batteries, let me say this, all electric power plants are designed to get the most energy (electricity) from the sources that they use i.e. natural gas, coal, hydro, wind, nuclear, based upon the rules delineated by the rulers. This is Capitalism to its finest and the economic engine for the American economy. This is not political. Our sources of electric power, have to meet known limitations of their process and meet increasingly demanding regulation involving environmental protection (pollution including green house gases) and worker safety (OSHA). While we would all like to receive free energy, nothing is free.

The internal combustion engine by contrast are a compromise of power, environment, and efficiency. From my education as a mechanical engineer (with an electrical engineer minor) I understand that the conversion from stored electrical power (batteries) to actual work is usually more efficient than most combustion engines. What we as a society need to decide is whether the state of engineering, capitalism, and politics, is a compromise. In general, if the state of the art (engineering) is viable to motivate the acceptance of the technology, then it will succeed. For most consumers, this means, will it save me money. As of yet, I haven’t decided. This is where we need our political leaders to LEAD. They have the resources to decide what is best for our Country and the world to provide the appropriate incentives to the industrial industries to move us in the right direction if they choose to lead.

]]> By: Harry Freeman http://gas2.org/2008/03/11/get-120-mpg-out-of-your-prius-plug-it-in/#comment-22164 Harry Freeman Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:24:00 +0000 http://gas2.org/2008/03/11/get-120-mpg-out-of-your-prius-plug-it-in/#comment-22164 While we should all be concerned that the energy needed to provide electric cars with their needed charge for their batteries, let me say this, all electric power plants are designed to get the most energy (electricity) from the sources that they use i.e. natural gas, coal, hydro, wind, nuclear, based upon the rules delineated by the rulers. This is Capitalism to its finest and the economic engine for the American economy. This is not political. Our sources of electric power, have to meet known limitations of their process and meet increasingly demanding regulation involving environmental protection (pollution including green house gases) and worker safety (OSHA). While we would all like to receive free energy, nothing is free. The internal combustion engine by contrast are a compromise of power, environment, and efficiency. From my education as a mechanical engineer (with an electrical engineer minor) I understand that the conversion from stored electrical power (batteries) to actual work is usually more efficient than most combustion engines. What we as a society need to decide is whether the state of engineering, capitalism, and politics, is a compromise. In general, if the state of the art (engineering) is viable to motivate the acceptance of the technology, then it will succeed. For most consumers, this means, will it save me money. As of yet, I haven't decided. This is where we need our political leaders to LEAD. They have the resources to decide what is best for our Country and the world to provide the appropriate incentives to the industrial industries to move us in the right direction if they choose to lead. While we should all be concerned that the energy needed to provide electric cars with their needed charge for their batteries, let me say this, all electric power plants are designed to get the most energy (electricity) from the sources that they use i.e. natural gas, coal, hydro, wind, nuclear, based upon the rules delineated by the rulers. This is Capitalism to its finest and the economic engine for the American economy. This is not political. Our sources of electric power, have to meet known limitations of their process and meet increasingly demanding regulation involving environmental protection (pollution including green house gases) and worker safety (OSHA). While we would all like to receive free energy, nothing is free.

The internal combustion engine by contrast are a compromise of power, environment, and efficiency. From my education as a mechanical engineer (with an electrical engineer minor) I understand that the conversion from stored electrical power (batteries) to actual work is usually more efficient than most combustion engines. What we as a society need to decide is whether the state of engineering, capitalism, and politics, is a compromise. In general, if the state of the art (engineering) is viable to motivate the acceptance of the technology, then it will succeed. For most consumers, this means, will it save me money. As of yet, I haven’t decided. This is where we need our political leaders to LEAD. They have the resources to decide what is best for our Country and the world to provide the appropriate incentives to the industrial industries to move us in the right direction if they choose to lead.

]]> By: Harry Freeman http://gas2.org/2008/03/11/get-120-mpg-out-of-your-prius-plug-it-in/#comment-22165 Harry Freeman Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:24:00 +0000 http://gas2.org/2008/03/11/get-120-mpg-out-of-your-prius-plug-it-in/#comment-22165 While we should all be concerned that the energy needed to provide electric cars with their needed charge for their batteries, let me say this, all electric power plants are designed to get the most energy (electricity) from the sources that they use i.e. natural gas, coal, hydro, wind, nuclear, based upon the rules delineated by the rulers. This is Capitalism to its finest and the economic engine for the American economy. This is not political. Our sources of electric power, have to meet known limitations of their process and meet increasingly demanding regulation involving environmental protection (pollution including green house gases) and worker safety (OSHA). While we would all like to receive free energy, nothing is free. The internal combustion engine by contrast are a compromise of power, environment, and efficiency. From my education as a mechanical engineer (with an electrical engineer minor) I understand that the conversion from stored electrical power (batteries) to actual work is usually more efficient than most combustion engines. What we as a society need to decide is whether the state of engineering, capitalism, and politics, is a compromise. In general, if the state of the art (engineering) is viable to motivate the acceptance of the technology, then it will succeed. For most consumers, this means, will it save me money. As of yet, I haven't decided. This is where we need our political leaders to LEAD. They have the resources to decide what is best for our Country and the world to provide the appropriate incentives to the industrial industries to move us in the right direction if they choose to lead. While we should all be concerned that the energy needed to provide electric cars with their needed charge for their batteries, let me say this, all electric power plants are designed to get the most energy (electricity) from the sources that they use i.e. natural gas, coal, hydro, wind, nuclear, based upon the rules delineated by the rulers. This is Capitalism to its finest and the economic engine for the American economy. This is not political. Our sources of electric power, have to meet known limitations of their process and meet increasingly demanding regulation involving environmental protection (pollution including green house gases) and worker safety (OSHA). While we would all like to receive free energy, nothing is free.

The internal combustion engine by contrast are a compromise of power, environment, and efficiency. From my education as a mechanical engineer (with an electrical engineer minor) I understand that the conversion from stored electrical power (batteries) to actual work is usually more efficient than most combustion engines. What we as a society need to decide is whether the state of engineering, capitalism, and politics, is a compromise. In general, if the state of the art (engineering) is viable to motivate the acceptance of the technology, then it will succeed. For most consumers, this means, will it save me money. As of yet, I haven’t decided. This is where we need our political leaders to LEAD. They have the resources to decide what is best for our Country and the world to provide the appropriate incentives to the industrial industries to move us in the right direction if they choose to lead.

]]> By: frank http://gas2.org/2008/03/11/get-120-mpg-out-of-your-prius-plug-it-in/#comment-692 frank Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:34:20 +0000 http://gas2.org/2008/03/11/get-120-mpg-out-of-your-prius-plug-it-in/#comment-692 how much will your light bill go up? how much will your light bill go up?

]]> By: frank http://gas2.org/2008/03/11/get-120-mpg-out-of-your-prius-plug-it-in/#comment-22162 frank Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:34:00 +0000 http://gas2.org/2008/03/11/get-120-mpg-out-of-your-prius-plug-it-in/#comment-22162 how much will your light bill go up? how much will your light bill go up?

]]> By: frank http://gas2.org/2008/03/11/get-120-mpg-out-of-your-prius-plug-it-in/#comment-22163 frank Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:34:00 +0000 http://gas2.org/2008/03/11/get-120-mpg-out-of-your-prius-plug-it-in/#comment-22163 how much will your light bill go up? how much will your light bill go up?

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