But for a few twists of fate, the gasoline engine we know today might have just been a small footnote in history.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I believe fuel cells could end the 100-year reign of the internal combustion engine.
Nikola Tesla, one of Colorado's famous residents, always believed that the gasoline engine made no sense.
What is needed is an all-out science project to get vehicles off of gasoline, rather than off of the earth.
Companies, cities, and potentially even individuals could have a small refinery to make their own fuel.
We need to drastically reduce the importance of the petroleum game itself by enacting flex-fuel-vehicle legislation that will open the transportation market to fuels derived from non-petroleum sources.
I can say that I don't see myself with the foot on the gas pedal as hard as it's been down for 16 years.
There's a foot race between gas bills and paychecks.
We are at a punctuation point in human history where the Industrial Age and institutions have finally come to their logical conclusion. They have essentially run out of gas.
Most people are really stunned to find out that the technology has been around for more than 100 years, and that the diesel engine was in fact invented to run on vegetable oil.
The Federal Reserve - all of them - could be sitting on a barrel of dynamite, and then pouring gasoline on top of it, and then light a cigar with matches, throw the match into the gasoline, and then not notice that there is any danger.