In article g7i2f.468745$xm3.183303@attbi_s21,
Jay Honeck wrote:

Unfortunately, Europe -- supposedly home to some of the best minds in the
world -- has been subjected to gas prices two and three times what we are
currently paying, thanks to a generation of outrageous taxation. If your
statement were true, by now Europe should have developed many alternate
energy sources, rather than suffer gasoline priced at over $6.00 per gallon.

Where are they? What are they?

its been 6 a gallon for too little. normal prices are around 4 a gallon.
for US$4 a gallon the best technology is Diesel. 60% of new cars are
Diesel powered. Diesel is clean and cheaper.

new engines are mostly highpressure Diesels of FSI engines (gas engines
but with gas inyected inside the combusion chamber in a way simmilar
to Diesel engines).

The new 1.4liter FSI TwinCharger VW Jetta makes the same power as a 1.8t
engine on the Turbo Jetta and gets much better mileage, meeting the most
stringent emission laws..

So yes. New tech is coming. 6 dollars a gallon will make it come faster.

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