If we did move our automobile fleet to electric power, changing this would help.
Right now, through a subsidiary company, Chevron is sitting on a patent for NiMH battery technology that could give us a completely electric car practically overnight, improving on GM's EV-1 technology with a large format NiMH battery that would give it well over 100 miles on a charge, some estimates showing 8 hours worth. Chevron will only allow the large format NiMH technology to be used on gas / electric hybrids and refuses to sell to anyone building a completely electric car.
This strikes me as a violation of the spirit of the US Patent Office, and should be addressed concurrent with these changes we're discussing. Chevron is legally sitting on this technology but in this instance their suppression of one market to preserve their current market is helping to feed terrorism and give economic stimulus to questionable governments.
Note: I've learned of the above from a friend elsewhere and borrowed from him heavily in my presentation here.
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Originally Posted by C1ay
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