Enough with the Flex-Fuel. Get to 50mpg and *then* I'm excited

As usual, they make a big flap about ancillary ‘solutions’ that don’t address the underlying problem, merely the symptoms. As the article points out, the push needs to be for more fuel efficiency instead of just for changing around what kind of fuel we use. I mean, oil and biodiesel and ethanol are basically identical chemical makeups. The only real difference is the impact from producing it and the political/military implications of where we obtain it from. So I wish we could somehow just create a powerful enough market force to yield a real alternative in the form of an electric car, or a more significant hybrid (although the prius and its off-shoots are doing alright…)