In a country perennially short of Power, India is going all out to reduce fossil fuel reduction. Our Sheik(ers) and movers of the OPEC and being hand in glove with the renewable energy minister (mnre.gov.in) and is all for jacking up the prices of fuel. Diesel car owners are more affected than their petroleum counterparts blaming the entire world for purchase of the Diesel vehicle.
In this smoke and mirror games, India is aiming to achieve 40% renewable energy production by 2030. Mate! that is only a decade or less away. Ultimately the car companies of India will sell their old contraptions with new drive trains and say that we have achieved the net zero goal.
It is all to be taken with a pinch of salt mate. I guess we are already on that path towards the sustainable goal for reducing fossil fuel. These are considerations however:
* Cars with ethanol blend. If the ethanol is more - can the car be impounded for drunk driving?
* Cars with Battery, but where ESCOMS always resort to power cut, there will be no mobility on demand
* Forget fossil fuel vehicles, mnre.gov.in has plans to completely have a cottage industry to convert them on electricity
While I was thinking about all this, the nearby stray cow was happily enjoying the chewing of the cud (Plastic waste I would assume and hence more chewing needed). This gave me a good idea, but one I cannot pitch to anyone.
Suppose we have a partnership with the city cattle owners, who let loose their cattle on road? [By the way, they have been hired separately by traffic police to control the vehicle flow and act as natural traffic islands]
* We can build an app called "Find my moo"
* Say you have a partly charged vehicle running on battery and you can't make it to office/your destination. Its not a worry anymore. All you need is to log on to "Find my moo" and book a buffalo/stray cow or horse/pony on the place where you think the battery will go out of range
* Hitch the bovine, equine to the front of the car(t) and do a giddy up
* The speeds of the movement in this model will be comparable anyway due to city traffic restrictions. Petrol / electric or animal powered all move anyways at the same speed on Indian roads
* Reach the destination and hand over money for the Moo ver (Allied group of people who fetch the equine , bovine back to its shed at night)
* The money will be split between the owner of the cattle , allied group and they have a better life. Hopefully they will feed the cattle well because the business model is based on four legs pulling four / two / six wheels.
* The dung can be conserved to make bio gas
* There are no stray cattle on road and all of them are now well fed
* Yes, you need to make sounds like "Druah, Druah, boorr..hai hai" but hat is better than swear words you use for fellow road users. So civility increases in the population. What say eh?
* We can actually say to our onshore folks who still ask "Are there coos on the road in Indiyah"? and show the sustainable model proudly
* Go to office, charge up and come back home or you know what to do next if there is no power right. "Find your moo".
