You guys who were talking about using Hydrogen and Oxygen as a fuel are barking up a leafless tree. On the surface of it, an engine running on an H2 and O2 mix is a great idea, but like a lot of great ideas, it has a few slight bugs in it. Namely, when you burn H2 and O2,the only combustion byproduct is H2O, or water vapor, which is great for the environment, but what you DON'T get is very much heat energy. In plain english, it doesn't make much power. It also detonates easily. Plus you have to store both the H2 and O2 in gaseous form, and there are problems with doing that. H2 is the smallest molecule of all the elements, and it has a naughty habit of escaping from whatever container it is kept in. (Does the name Hindenberg ring any bells out there?)(Lakehurst, New Jersey, maybe?) And do any of you remember the old high school chemistry experiment where you heated steel wool and then stuck it into a vessel of pure Oxygen and watched it burst into flame? Now let's think about an automobile with tanks of compressed H2 and O2 on board and it gets into an accident and manages to rupture the O2 tank. Wow, what an amazing fireball that was........completely melted the entire car! No, oxygen doesn't burn, but it does accelarate combustion, and it does it in a grand manner. I wish it was practical to run a car on H2/O2, but unfortunately it isn't.
And you guys who are talking about the aims of various politicians are pretty much right on the money. They don't give a **** about much of anything except increasing the control the government has over you as a citizen. I've spent a number if years in the firearms business at the retail and wholesale level as well as being both a civilian and military firearms instructor for over 20 years, and if you think they're after your old cars, try being a GUN owner and see what happens! I'm beginning to think that all the car enthusiast groups in the country should think about doing a merger with the NRA, because them polecats in the government don't like either of us kind of folks. And the reason that they don't like us is that we don't, for the most part, go along with their b.s. and are fairly independent thinkers, and they just HATE that. They know we don't need them or have any respect for most of their opinions, and they just can't stand that!
