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.