And the new fuel of the future is................................................................

DIESEL !!!

With all the hype and hoopla that corn based ethanol is getting, I'm surprised that no one is taking a serious look at diesel powered vehicles as a way to reduce our energy usage. If American's want better milage they have to take a serious look at diesel. Another advantage is that the technology is already there for diesel and high milage, high performance diesels are already highly used in Europe. Another advantage is that diesel emits 20% less carbon dioxide than gasoline powered engines.

Does this mean that I don't like hybrids? Not at all. I can see no reason that the current hybrid technology could not be used with high milage diesels. Could you imagine the milage that this car could get with hybrid technology also. Another advantage is that if you can't find any petroleum based diesel at the pump, you can always use vegetable oil.a> A larger scale solution would be to build algae ponds locally and wean ourselves off of petroleum for transportation fuel.