Spinning in Circles with Big Oil

Chevrol CEO David O’Reilly appeared on “The Situation Room” with Wolf Blitzer yesterday to answer the question every American wants an answer to: Why are you getting richer instead of poorer like us?

Unfortunately, O’Reilly decided it best to feed us the same baloney he and his money-hungry cronies have been giving us for years.  “We’re investing those record profits,” he said when questioned about his companies $18.7 billion 2007 profit.  For those interested, $18.7 billion is more than enough to provide wind energy to completely fuel 1,308,051 American homes using current technology.

Check out the CNN article HERE.

 

So Dude, the Government Has This Car that Runs On Water…

While surfing around WordPress I came across THIS BLOG POST on Messages From Hell, another unusually named blog around here. I’m ecstatic about the idea that a water fueled vehicle may be within our grasp!

Below is a report by Gizmodo.com on the fascinating new car. The original web posting by them can be found HERE. Both Gizmodo and Messages From Hell have a really cool YouTube movie of the car in action, but I’m going to make you visit their sites to see it. Read it and weep (for joy)!

“Genepax Unveils a Car That Runs on Water and Air

Running a car on water has been the holy grail for car manufacturers for some time now, but it appears that a Japanese company named Genepax may have pulled ahead of the competition with a prototype vehicle that runs entirely on water and air. Their new “Water Energy System (WES),” generates power by supplying water and air to the fuel and air electrodes using a proprietary technology called the Membrane Electrode Assembly (MEA). The secret behind MEA is a special material that is capable of breaking down water into hydrogen and oxygen through a chemical reaction.

Not surprisingly, Genenpax has kept the exact details of their technology under wraps, but they did say that their new process, while based on existing technology, is expected to produce hydrogen from water for longer time than any method currently available. Furthermore, WES does not require a hydrogen reformer, a high-pressure hydrogen tank, or any special catalysts to get the job done.

During a recent conference, Genepax unveiled a fuel cell stack with a rated output of 120W and a fuel cell system with a rated output of 300W—and there are plans for a 1kw-class generation system for use in both electric vehicles and houses sometime in the future. At this point, the cost of production on the water-powered vehicle engine itself is around about ¥2,000,000 (US$18,522), but they hope to drop the price to ¥500,000 (US$4600) or less if they succeed in bringing it into mass production.”

 

Another Success In Freeing America From Foreign Countries

Environmentalists are making headway in preventing America from becoming even more dependant on foreign energy.

The Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council, two groups fighting to prevent the expansion of oil drilling and coal burning, succeeded in blocking ConocoPhillips from expanding a oil processing plant.  The plant, located in Roxana, IL, has been used by the oil conglomerate to process Canadian oil for use by Americans.  By stopping the deal, greenies have avoided ConocoPhilllips from sending even more of the money we pay for our energy to the Canadian government.

If you are interested, you can check out the opinions of pro-oil extremists on the issue at FoxNews HERE.