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Originally Posted by Slite
The sad part is that until we all get together and say "THIS is the alternative we alla will use", it won't happen anyway. We need a standard, otherwise no-one is willing too invest in the infrastructure needed. The gas station owners don't want to sink money into it if there are no potential customers and the endusers won't buy a car using that alternate fuel unless they can get that fuel wherever they go. So, it's kind of a catch-22 thing really.
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I hear what you are saying, and I agree with you. However, think back 100 or so years ago (maybe a little longer). The horse and buggy was still popular, and there wasn't a gas station on every corner. Bit by bit, someone took a chance on something, and there were pioneers who purchased the new fangled technology, and made due with the fact that getting fuel to run the damn thing wasn't easy, and if you got stuck in the mud you would have a hell of a time getting out .... and bit by bit the new technology took over and now, not so many horse and buggy teams out there and lots of cars.
I do think that an efficient alternative fuel mode of transportation will be invented, and will eventually take over our current system. I do not think it will happen instantly ... but from the invention of the automobile (which was originally more of a plaything for the rich), through mass production of same (thank you Henry Ford) resulting in a price most people could afford, to the building of a highway system that could support the automobile ... that happened over a period of what .... about thirty years (?) maybe more (?).
It's going to take a breakthrough in technology, but I do believe it is going to happen. The question is only how long it will take ... I don't happen to have the answer to that one, but I can pretty much assure you all that it won't be overnight.