>>OK, why did then Ford develop a whole line of electric cars, leased them, and recently revoked them all when the lease expired? Why did they insist on making civilian armored vehicles instead? Why didn't they proceed with what they were already doing?
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>If so, I don't know. Perhaps in their estimation, there's not enough profit in it for them.

If it's their estimate, it was shortsighted, which is understandable. Who could have known ten or six years ago that the oil reserves aren't infinite?

>I guess you're again blaming Bush and Chaney for this? If so, why are they allowing Toyota and Honda to sell their hydrids here?

Dunno. Free market?

>>OK, so someone else will develop it and then USA will have to pay. The latest technology doesn't necessarily have to be in a superpower's cradle.
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>I didn't mean that US should give up and stop all the research that's going on. I merely meant that there are obsticles to get over for alternative energy to be mainstream.

It's just my personal belief that corporate interests are high on this list of obstacles.

> I mean if other countries have the know how to make it efficient and take it to mass production, do it, there's no need for them to wait on the US to take the lead. I'm waiting for it like everyone else. I don't care who develops it first.

Neither do I. May the best take over. Not the most powerful, the best.