If we break down water into the hydrogen and oxygen that should be the answer.?

Question

I think an alternet fuel should be invented. gasahol sounds like it might work but will it help global warming? Why is gas prices increasing so much when the oil companys are making so much profit?

Answer 1

To answer the last part of your question, it's because they've got us all by the short hairs. To answer the first part, yes, hydrogen is our best hope and recent work shows hydrogen can be produced from water using a combination of aluminum and gallium. To answer the second part, burning any carbon-based fuel produces warming gases, but the oil companies are all set up for producing, transporting and selling these kind of fuels. They sure don't want to scrap all that and start over.

Answer 2

Breaking water into hydrogen and oxygen takes lots of power. More power than you get by burning the hydrogen for fuel. So it is no solution to the energy problem.

Gas prices are increasing because world demand for gas is increasing, especially in China. Remember 10 or 20 years ago how the streets of Chinese cities were full of bicycles, with hardly a car in sight? Well, now that the Chinese economy is growing at something like 16% a year, there are millions and millions of people who can afford a car that never could have before. Now those Chinese city streets are clogged with cars, just like Los Angeles or Paris or Tokyo. And all those cars take gas. And the world production has not gone up enough, so there are world wide shortages looming. For now, all that is happening is price increases, which is to be expected when demand goes way up.

Answer 3

Before this administration, gas companies worked at a 1-2% profit margin, now it is at 7-9%. Bush and his Saudi buddies who bailed out Arbusto are purposely not opening up the spigots. That's why we took out Saddam. Not because he was a "bad man" but he never followed his OPEC quotas: he would turn on the spigots unpredictably and flood the market. The current Iraq quagmire is borne out of a struggle between the Neo Cons who want to turn on the Iraqi spigots and crush OPEC and the Saudis but Bush and Cheney have sided with Big Oil and the Saudis and keep Iraq production lower than Saddam era to decrease supply. Which gives US almost a monopoly on refining the crude to gas. They get to charge whatever they want. Gasohol is a good idea as long as you are not using food crops like corn to produce it. Switchgrass is a drought tolerant crop that converts to fuel much better than corn.

Answer 4

Gasoline prices are increasing because of market factors. The demand exceeds the available supply. Think of it this way. You have 10 gallons of gasoline in your garage. Someone offers you $10 for it, a second party offers you $20. Who are you going to sell it to.

This is exactly how gasoline is sold on the world market, only the quantities are much higher. You can look in the Wall Street Journal every day and see the NYMEX or other market prices for gasoline. These are auction markets, that is, buyers bid on the commodity and the highest bid sets the price. If demand falls, or supply increases then the price will go down.

Answer 5

You're actually not far off I suggest you find some information on Hydrogen fuel cell cars. It is just starting to surfface in Japan and I personally think is the best route to go. Also there is legislation in California to start implimenting hydrogen fuel cells into some of the gas stations.

Answer 6

Gas is so much because people still pay for it. Think about it would you rather get paid $3 or $1 for something when people would pay either? People do complain, but the oil companies don't really care what people say.

Answer 7

Would be great but it takes energy to break down water. Gasahol sounds good though I`ll have a large one with orange juice.

Answer 8

Gas companies make $0.095 cents per gallon. If you want gas prices lower you need to build new refineries and drill for more supply. Don't be a dumbass its supply and demand.

Answer 9

The solution is and has always been cold fusion. Ask your senator to fund research.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion

Answer 10

no idea