Originally Posted by Kestrel
I think you're the one who needs to read up on his thermo. Gasoline has always beens the primary fuel for mobile vehicles. Electric had a short run in the early 1900's but was quickly overtaken. Steam cars use *drumroll* oil to produce the steam...steam is just the working fluid, not the fuel. Fuel for vehicles has never been diverse, it has always been primarily oil driven. So your argument that fuel diversity in the early 1900's led to low cost is bunk.
I never said that the diversity led to low cost, reading > you. I said that fuel prices will be at similar low levels. As in they'll all be at low levels. Similar. Hard word.
FYI, Steam is generated directly by heat, not oil. Any combustible fuel or heat source can be used. Even, gasp, electricity. Kerosene, soybean oil, diesel, gasoline, etc.
No one is going to build a national infrastructure around a fuel unless every company is willing to standardize to it. There's too much money and risk involved. Unless every car manufacturer (or at least all the major ones) are on board, it's not going to happen. And then, you run into the problems of low volume production that I mentioned in the last post.
That's why they call them "venture capitalists". There are some very rich businessmen and companies looking to get even richer.
Yes it does. You advocate diversifying fuels for vehicles. I say that will increase prices and complicate matters. I say eliminate the fuel entirely by using direct electrical charging. That's my point.
I don't advocate anything, it was my opinion of what will happen within 50 years. I see you have an opinion too, excellent. I don't understand why you're telling me that mine is wrong.