Add to that the European Ford gets 60+ mpg on diesel but won't be available in the US! The reason hybrids are supported by environmentalists is because getting higher mpg from burning fuel generates CO2 which is a "poison gas" (plants love it!). Scientifically I think there IS slight global warming going on but this suppression of fossil fuels will harm the US economy greatly while large populations in China and India continue to generate a LOT of CO2. I am for solar panels when the day is bright but in winter in most of the northern parts of the US it is folly to suppress coal as a fuel and natural gas which can be used for trucks at least, but of course burning anything generates CO2. We bought a load of rocks on a pallet for my wife's garden today and they loaded the pallet onto our little Ranger pickup with a pallet truck fueled by natural gas! The Ranger burns gasoline, of course!

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder