The Perfect Alternative to Gasoline

There seems to be a lot of talk about alternative fuels lately. I think it would be a great idea to find alternative fuels all cars can run on, especially since the U.S. is consuming a lot of gas. According to the Energy Information Administration, we consumed over 130,000 million gallons of gasoline and diesel in 1992. And in 1994, only 547,904 alternative fuel vehicles were in use in the U.S.

I know this info is dated, but with a government associated agency providing the data, what do you expect? Even if the number of alternative fuel cars in use had doubled since 1994, I bet it would not come close to matching the number of cars that run on regular ol' gas. So I have come up with what I think is an ideal solution. I want a Mr. Fusion installed in my car.

Fans of the Back to the Future trilogy will recall that Doc had a Mr. Fusion installed on the DeLorean, which ran the time circuits. The DeLorean's engine still ran on gasoline, a fact that caused problems when Marty ripped the fuel line in 1885. What I'm proposing is that a Mr. Fusion that powers a car's engine be designed.

A Mr. Fusion of this nature would pretty much eliminate fuel cost. If your car runs on trash, you never have to buy gas, do you? And if your car isn't running on gas, it won't be emitting certain pollutants. Best yet - trash is free!

The slightly redesigned Mr. Fusion would also help solve another problem - our landfills and city dumps, which are filling up exponentially. If we put our trash in the Mr. Fusion, and the car burns it off, there's no more trash to deal with. With this innovation we'll kill two birds with one stone! Your car would never be messy inside, either. Rather than discarding things in the back seat, just toss it in the Mr. Fusion and it's gone.

Lastly, you would not have to worry about running out of fuel with this Mr. Fusion. As long as you're within walking distance of a dumpster you're fine. If you're on a highway, there's probably some litter near you that you can toss into the Mr. Fusion. As a whole, we're so sloppy there probably won't be a shortage of litter on our nation's highways anytime soon.

Now I just need to figure out exactly how that flux capacitor works...