The latest new technologies advancing to help us curb our addiction to foreign Middle Eastern Oil is the wind-powered car. A car, which runs on the wind; running like the wind, now that sure has a nice ring to it, doesnt it? Is a wind-powered car or a wind-powered assisted hybrid even possible? Well at least one online think tank thinks it is and recently a technology writer journalist on the environment asks;

Are there any drawbacks to a wind-powered car?

Well certain designs which are Pure wind-powered would not be able to back up using the wind-power, so that is an issue and it takes a lot to get them going so stop-and-go traffic is problematic also. Then there are the obvious problems with politics and wind-powered cars. Yes indeed there are. Political stifling of competitive and alternative wind cars from the established business manufacturing models, their unions, lobbyists and political friends in power. Another issue is they wind flows may also create tiny dust storms behind them, which works for me since I have previously been quite active in the car wash industry. I suppose someone who just washed their car might be just a little upset if they had dust blown all over it, but perhaps we might consider all this in 2006.