Future Fuel

[Anonymous]

It wont happen. Trust me.

All these stories about oil n gas running out in the next 30 years etc. its all nonsense. There is plenty of oil, and I mean PLENTY. Why do you think maggie got so het up about the falklands??? And that is just ONE huge reserve out of dozens identified in the last 20-30 years. Problem with the Flaklands fields is that when it was discovered, the tecnology to drill into a surface 3000 feet below the water surface wasnt there. It will be soon.

And as for banning it, there is too much reliance on it, too much revenue in it, and too many high power people being kept in the lap of luxury because of it.

Oil men and Petrochem companies can make or break continents now, they aint gonna release that grip without a fight.

Calm down man.

that is pretty much what i was going to say [but with a bit less punctuation] untill i saw you put it

lets put it this way im not going to see any other types of fuel replacing what we have in my lifetime with the stuff i learned from working for esso i can just laugh when people say that

[MrNorm]

Yes there are plenty of alternatives, just a lot of them aren't commerically viable yet. We have done a fair bit of alternative fuel business, including the controllers for the Ford & Volvo E85 on sale in Europe and South America etc etc, and a lot of stuff in Brazil which is the worlds leader in using ethanol, due to their sugar crop. However there is a lot of pressure currently on the use of foodstuffs to produce ethanol, it is not seen as quite as environmentally friendly as it ideally could be. So although it is entirely possible to use waste wood or other biomaterial, cellulose etc to produce the stuff, until you can find a way to do that viably it won't take off. Just as there are waste wood ethanol derived powered vehicles on the roads, there are hydrogen ICE bus fleets and even fuel cell powered vehicles, and they don't currently make large scale commercial sense.
However the whole industry is working towards it and we'll get there, but it requires an integrated effort including refuelling infrastructure etc.
I think there could be exciting times ahead, as long as I can still run my Challenger with an ICE!