CAN WE AS INDIVIDUALS HELP
STOP HIGH GAS PRICES???


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Yahoo News Web Page - 19 July 2006 - article by Zachary Slobig

Toyota Prius Hybrid car owners hope to plug in to even better mileage soon
starting in Soughern Calif. Cost will be about $12,000 for the battery modification.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/usautohybrid

Others have already added extra batteries to increase the milage:

The Promise of Plug-in Hybrids

Also read the comments of a very satisfied Prius owner even before the modification:

http://john1701a.com

Up to $2,500 tax credit when you buy a hybrid:

www.fueleconomy.gov



Click on this link to read an article in the New york times about a new electic car being introduced for sale 20 July 2006
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BUSINESS | July 19, 2006
Zero to 60 in 4 Seconds, Totally From Revving Batteries
By MATTHEW L. WALD
A California company will unveil an electric car model that
is very specialized, very expensive and very, very fast.

Read The Whole Article

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Here is another article on it. Says it costs about 1 cent a mile to drive
it (that would be about 135 mpg using gas). It has about a 250 mile range.

New Tesla Motors Roadster



FIND OUT WHERE THE CHEAPEST GAS PRICES
ARE NEAR YOUR HOME (updated daily)
www.gasbuddy.com

HYDROGEN ENGINE
CONTINUES TO BE IMPROVED


HERE ANOTHER MAN WHO HAS INVENTED THE HYDROGEN ENGINE.
HE CAN DRIVE HIS CAR 100 MILES ON 4 OZ OF WATER. HARD TO BELIEVE?
CLICK ON THIS LINK BELOW TO WATCH THE VIDEO:
Hydrogen Engine



WEB PAGES I AM FINDING OF
INTEREST ON ALTERNATIVE FUELS


If you click on any of these links you will have to use the BACK button to get back
to this page or retype www.goldenmailbox.com/gas into your browser address line!

Hydrogen FAQ's
www.phoenixproject.net/faqs.htm

Roger Billings Hydrogen Project
www.roger.billings.name
www.greaterthings.com/News/FreeEnergy/Directory/Hydrogen/RogerBillings.htm

What the state of California is trying to do about it with hydrogen engine research
www.hydrogenhighway.ca.gov

Dr. Dan making BIO-DIESEL fuel out of garbage in Seattle
www.fuelwerks.com/
www.naturalchoice.net/articles/biodiesel.htm
www.discover.com/issues/may-03/features/featoil/

The Alternative-fuel Vehicle Directory
http://facultystaff.vwc.edu/~gnoe/avd.htm

Electric Cars
www.electriccars.com/tour/showroom.cfm
www.eaaev.org/

MSN AUTO compares all the small gas efficient autos for you (up to 60 mpg)
http://autos.msn.com/advice/article.aspx?contentid=2894&src=msn>1=3292">http://autos.msn.com/advice/article.aspx?contentid=2894&src=msn>1=3292

READER FEEDBACK

Here is some feed back from a reader. Michael Lansberry of Everett WA sent me a link to an interesting article on the subject of why gas prices are so high now from the Seattle Times. (they are saying we are to blame and it is our own fault... I will let you see if you believe what is in this article!!!!!!!!!!!)

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2001918066_gascomment30.html

FROM

Cordell,
Did ya see where China is making Hydrogen cars? I heard Paul Harvey taking about how the US, used it on a space mission in the 60 now China is ahead of us in adapting this technology to the automobile. Maybe this will start the ball rolling!

jerry

Cordell
Would you like to mutually link to CashMaxMall's "Hydro Power Cars in The News"?
www.cashmaxmall.com/hydropower_cars_in_the_news.htm
It tells how you can run your car on water with Hydrogen powered engine. It has a vehicle conversion plan for sale to convert your car to Hydrogen Powered fuel.
Thank you very much,
Successful Regards,
Marla LaRue

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MY OPINION - BY CORDELL VAIL

This is my attempt to see if there is anything I can do as a consumer or as a member of a consumer group to stop these high gas prices? Will you join me? The only alternative I can see is to encourage alternative fuel engines. Hydrogen seems to be the most promising in that field.

This may seem like an over simplification of the state of our economy. But it seems to me from my observations, that when the price of gas goes up, the truckers have to pay higher fuel prices. When the truckers have to pay higher fuel prices they charge more to haul the food. So the stores raise the food prices. When food prices go up then people have to pay more for food so they raise the price of other consumer goods they are selling to get enough money to buy the same amount of food. And the spiral of inflation goes on and on. It seems to me that we are caught in a vicious circle controlled by oil companies. There has to be something we can do as consumers to stop this. Gas is not the only thing made with Crude Oil. Lots of things are and the price of all of them are then of course going up too. I don't know what we can do about it, but it seems that alternative fuel is the only possible answer or at least a starting place. Surely there is some scientist now who can invent an engine that will run on something other than gas ??????

For many years, I have wondered what happened to Roger Billings' hydrogen cars. Have any of you ever heard what happened to the hydrogen engine that the BYU scantiest Roger Billings created in the 70's in Utah. His parents lived in our neighborhood in Provo when I was as student at BYU. That how we knew so much about what he was doing.

He bought the old steel mill in Springville, Utah and converted it into his lab. We heard that Winnebago gave him over a million dollars for the rights to put the engine in their motor homes once it was completed. We saw 2 cars and a UTA bus driving around Salt Lake all the time. They were all three running on his hydrogen engines. That was while we lived in Salt Lake in the late 70's.

The UTA bus was the one that went from Salt Lake to Provo. I saw it every day as I went to grad school classes at the University of Utah. It was easy to spot the cars driving around because of the 2 hoses that came out of the trunk and went up over the top down into the engine. The bus had a sign on it about the engine it was using. It was our understanding that he converted water into hydrogen and oxygen and then burned the hydrogen in the engine.

Anyone know what ever happened to those engines? THEY WORKED!

Surely if the engine was invented clear back in the late 1970's, it could be brought forward now. Does any one know anything about Roger Billings or what happened to that UTA Bus and those two cars that were driving around Salt Lake on hydrogen? If you do I would very much like to know.

Cordell Vail

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