Originally Posted by
Cosmoline
You can't get something from nothing. Oil was the planet's battery, formed over billions of years. Our demands on the battery are fast outstripping supply. Alternative energy sources require a great deal more effort and energy to obtain, and come at a trickle compared with gasoline. Folks (like GW) who imagine some magic new juice replacing cheap oil and gas are going to be sorely disappointed. There will of course be alternatives, but they will be expensive and hard to get.
oil hasn't been the earth's battery, it's been mankind's for the past 100 years. the earth's battery is the core magma & the sun. we'll have to max out both if we hope to survive in any recognizable way in the coming century.