It doesn't matter who I am. And it's not a dumb theory. Just increase the Mpg by 7 and US's doesn't need middle east oil. Hybrids and EV cars would do that and more. There is precedent for buying off or pursuading companies and management not to limit the demand for oil in the US and world. Bechtel has more Iraq contracts than Haliburton does. From http://www.gsreport.com/articles/art000188.html “A line was drawn in the sand back in 1984 when Honda tried to introduce its 68 mpg 1.3 CRX. The Big Three (U.S. car makers) and the 7 Sisters (oil majors) sent Honda packing, and it was the beginning of a wonderful new friendship. The Japanese understood fuel efficiency could not take precedence over gasoline sales if they were going to conquer the U.S. car market. The new Prius barely gets more than the 1984 CRX did, a mere 70 mpg. Yet the media is quick to swallow "green-washing" to satisfy the public's growing concern with ecological decay. In 1999, pure electric vehicles were cast aside in favor of these hybrid vehicles that still need their fix of black gold.” and “Let's not forget that the U.S., through the Army's Marshall Plan, bought and paid for Japan's auto industry*. Japanese cars are Japanese in name only. The Japanese have no oil. They live on islands smaller than California with a population half the size of the United States. We went to war in the Gulf to protect their oil supply, not ours, since 90% of all oil shipped from Kuwait goes to Japan. So Japan is eager to find alternatives to the oil economy, but not so eager as to anger big oil interests, which are partly to blame for their current economic woes.” And “The problem is, only two companies control the bulk of battery technology in the world, Duracell and Eveready, the Coke & Pepsi of the throwaway battery society. The December 99 issue of Consumer Reports made that pretty evident. Any attempts on the part of smaller competitors, like Rayovac for example, to establish a genuine market for rechargeables has been thwarted by the two top dogs, Earth Day ethics or not. Just like GE's light bulb -- allegedly designed to blow out in time to buy another one -- battery companies are not eager to introduce technology that will allow longer lasting charges. So R&D is limited to special space and military applications that seldom see the light of day in the real world.”
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