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What! We are still using Int/comb engines? To be honest, I'm not surprised. It is politics and economics that keep our Smokey friends pulsing like an animal under our collective bonnets. I think if you try and make predictions to it's demise, odds are you'll be dead wrong, or just dead. I'm sure all my colleagues in the motor trade have heard of the conspiracy theory of the guy who discovered an engine that runs on water, only to have woken the next morning with slugs of lead in his body and head.The oil business is all powerful! A behemoth of gargantuan, megalithic proportions.(I do enjoy those words). Imagine all the worlds motorists with hoses, filling tanks.
"Hi, would you like me to fuel your car up while my hose is dangling?"
The idea of using oil seed rape to produce fuel is a bit of a joke. All of north America and Europe, people thin and wizened, doing without bread, so they can go to work in their hybrid Toyota's.And still the CO2 rises.This year, we plateaued on oil. This is the first year when we do not expect next years oil recovery from all sources, to be more than this years. From now on, the earths yield of oil go's down down Derry Derry down. Previous non-economic oil fields will become viable. The price will rocket!(rockets use a lot of hydrocarbon fuel too!) As this process continues, drivers will slowly be priced out of their cars. Public transport will have to make a stand. Motor manufactures, rather than wilt, will find alternative energy for our vehicles. Already, with lithium polymer batteries, reasonable sized cells are being used in cars. The new Lexus Hybrid is fast, big and economical.
Us general public however, rather than save fuel, we are swallowing price hikes and keeping the pedal down. A few, me included, make extra time for our journeys, and drive 'easy'. I accelerate very mildly. I don't let my engine over rev, or labor. I roll down hill. You cannot be an easy driver if you are aggressive.My advice is get a job near to where you live. Cycle, or if you do need a vehicle, get a small motorcycle or moped. It will not only save fuel, the planet and the roads, congestion will get better. Go one, get legs. They are on special this week, buy one, get one free.

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