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KB2VXA > FUEL 03.02.11 15:26l 47 Lines 2214 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Hi Pete and all,
The way things are going "Weird" Al Yankovic had the right idea...
Another One Rides The Bus. Coming from an urban area I can say that buses
in and around US cities are pretty much like Sao Paulo except they run
every 30 minutes at most during the morning and evening rush, far less
frequently during day and evening hours and not at all early mornings.
Trams and trains the same, they run as needed except here where they're
needed and run maybe twice a day. We at the shore are the forgotten
people unless one wants to go to Philadelphia or New York but locally...
foegidabaodidt.
I rather figured the buses ran on hydrogen but forgot about the sub, now
I'm wondering about the source of it and how long it lasts. I was going
to research it yesterday but got sidetracked and forgot, oh well.
Thinking about ethanol fuel, aside from a bit showing up in gasoline I
wonder where all those trains hauling hundreds of tanks are going. I
wonder if the greenies realize how much corn is grown for alcohol already
when they squawk about using food for fuel. I wonder if they have any
idea what's in all those tanks, over a hundred on each train and there
are lots of trains.
Oh I'm sure Bob and others remember the gas bags of the war years, those
in the UK remember them vividly. Lucky North America, we supplied almost
all of the fuel so we didn't have to resort to wood and coal gas produced
on the fly but gasoline and Diesel were rationed so there was little
private transportation and not many trucks running either. COAL was king
and it kept the railroads running, they werte at the heart of the
transportation infrastructure and thankfully well out of bombing range.
H. G. Welles wrote about the strategic importance of the British Isles
but overlooked the fact that at the time the US was strategically
isolated so thankfully we still speak English.
So what will be the fuel of the future? Hard to say if Man will be around
long enough to find out or what will replace him.
73 de Warren
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Message timed by NIST: 07:55 on 2011-Feb-03 GMT
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