I just read something from 1969 which casually mentioned something about Nixon having told the automotive industry to find an alternative to the internal combustion engine.
Is that true? If so, why do we still have them and nothing else?
2006-09-25 14:03:17 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Apparently it is true. But Amaco, BP, Mobile had nothing to gain and everything to lose. So they helped fund people that didn't push for alternative fuels.
"The Nixon administration responded with Project Independence, a seven-point plan to make the country energy self-sufficient. America would produce and conserve more energy. We would get serious about developing alternative-energy vehicles to make us less dependent on oil. But a quarter-century later, despite the introduction of two hybrid electric-gas cars, we still don’t have all those advanced-technology vehicles we were supposed to be driving by now. And more important, there are still obstacles to manufacturing them, bringing them to market and getting people to buy them."
2006-09-25 14:19:22 · answer #1 · answered by redunicorn 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because there is no need to find an alternative to the internal combustion engine. It works just fine.
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2006-09-25 17:42:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Momentum. It's cheaper to keep doing things the same way & more upsetting to established structure to take such a radical departure from what vested interests prefer. In short, the motivation was that there was still money to be made.
;-)
2006-09-25 14:08:23 · answer #3 · answered by WikiJo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He could have, the gov have known for a long time that the middle east is unstable. alot of early cars ran on fuels other than gasoline. the early Fords ran on alcohol
2006-09-25 14:07:46 · answer #4 · answered by DaFinger 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He could have. I heard some one come up with an auto tire that would last a lot longer and the tire indusyry bought them off so they could sell more tires,. this probably happens more than we know about.
2006-09-25 14:13:30 · answer #5 · answered by Tired Old Man 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
contributed to the tip of the chilly war by ability of beginning diplomatic family members with china (brought about a wedge between communist china and the soviet union over who might lead worldwide communism) ended the vietnam war
2016-10-17 23:35:30 · answer #6 · answered by cardish 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is entirely possible.
2006-09-25 16:05:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋