Is 100 MPG Ambitious Enough? - Saul Griffith

[captinseperoth]

I would love a normal diesel engine that can run on natural gas....which gets 100mpg...and non of this hybrid..laboratory bullshit we get shoved down our throats.

Green bio fuels is at least a half century before it's even remotely main stream...and everyone is using it...including the military.

in the mean time we have thousands of years worth of natural gas,in our back yards...this natural gas is much cleaner than oil...but then again natural gas comes from oil...

[luedriver]

everyone know 80 km/hr in top gear is economical...

hybrid cars run on electricity below that so of course it would be more economical, UNTIL the battery runs out and then the engine not only will have to move the car but power up the battery as well...

also braking does power the battery only not nearly fast enough...

just saying, not trolling...

[LudicrousTachyon]

Yeah! Buy less! Hear that honey? Just kidding don't mean to be sexist. I personally don't buy much other than food. There is really no need, but we are driven by society to compete with our neighbors. Keep your stuff in good condition and you don't need to buy another. I've had my laptop for four years, and I'll have it until it dies.

[afthefragile]

He looks like Adam Savage from Mythbusters!!

[lostinmaya]

Right On! Buy less of better stuff! Never heard it stated but have tried to practice it my whole life.

[beseriousplease]

Wow. Just Wow. Those blasted academics!! What do you call the community you are in?

[PseudoVoodoo]

Carbon consumption? Sure, whatever.

Let's not talk about the uncountable amount of thermonuclear explosion tests made during the cold war from many countries involved in it that could've been the main reason why the planet is suffering the problems it is now.

No, the global warming crisis is caused by me and others keeping our TVs in standby mode or the rather comparable small distances we travel in a car!

Piss off! Go dupe and brainwash someone else.

[LeGioNoFZioN]

couldn't agree with you more.

[m0nkeybl1tz]

Global warming is a natural event. Nobody disagrees with that. It also has a relation to carbon. Nobody disagrees with that either. Whether our cars, tv's, etc. are affecting that, that part's up for grabs. But do you really mind making a minor change to your life to potentially reduce a global disaster?

[PseudoVoodoo]

m0nkeybl1tz,

No one asked - beyond the nature of propaganda and terrorising fear games - for thermonuclear weapons in order to obliterate masses of people. They have almost certainly played a massive part in this problem with our global atmosphere today almost more than anything else.

Society has been engineered for the purpose of us being the consumers of large corporate output. If what I consume is part of the problem, and this problem can be resolved, then the burden is NOT on my shoulders.

[m0nkeybl1tz]

Yeah, I'll say I have no idea about the nuclear stuff, though it certainly can't be good for us. But as for the consumer whatnot, it is exactly because we have a consumer/capitalist society that we need to change our habits.  The corporations will always look for the cheapest solution to meet consumer demands, and it's up to us to set our demands higher.

[PseudoVoodoo]

You got it the wrong way around. Corporations have tailor-made our needs so that we become reliant on them.

We're not living in the type of democracy you assume we are. We're in a spectatorship, not a participatory democracy. All consent is manufactured to meet the needs of the corporations and government who are made up of a social elite...the type we can't touch because we have no real power other than a vote. And even then you're voting for the same elite no matter what brand name they have.

[L8nitedave]

Necessity is the mother of invention. It is simply a matter of understanding what is necessary.