Cheap oil and the yearning for happier days. Folks, it's over!

Just ask somebody, not nobody.

I agree with UnReil: It's the heat-water vapor cycle (read that as: sunshine-cloud) that regulates our planet's temperature, not CO2. It's pathetic how the world's IQ supports the Global Warming Lies. The earth if full and there's plenty to spare. Old oil wells are being tapped again! There's still oil in them! What happened? The earth replenishes itself. God knew what He was doing when he made it. Forcing just makes things worse as it always has done. Who wants to be forced? Nobody. Just ask them.

What an elitist, fascist declaration. The science supporting CO2 causing warming has been thoroughly debunked. The choice of vehicle anyone and everyone prefers is none of anyone else's business. Forcing a Hydrogen economy now based upon faulty science and fascist efforts to conform to a Utopian vision you clearly share has a good chance of aborting a truly revolutionary energy discovery. If Hydrogen is to succeed, it should only do so in an environment of Free Market innovation. I stand with freedom of choice and from the oppression you represent.

Stan asks of Dan - "Where does the energy come from that you will store in your synthetic, chemical fuel?" Answer: The SUN or a Nuclear power station. We have the technology, what we do not have is the money flowing in the right places to build the needed infrastructure for such a large scale venture - home brews would not be a large enough scale. However, the home does have a power source capable to generate a source of energy for the vehicle. It is a three pronged electrical outlet. Plug in hybrid vehicles is the short and long term answer. Driving around town to work and shopping on stored electrical power would save vast amounts of gasoline allowing the refineries to cutback that production to produce more jet fuel resulting in lower air fares.

The problem, Dan, is that in order to shove all those Carbons together and attach all those little Hydrogens onto the chain, you have to invest energy. You are proposing "storing" potential energy in a carrier (fuel), but that doesn''t solve where the energy comes from to do that process in the first place. Plants can''t do it without sunlight. You can''t do it "with chemistry" without investing (at least) a little more energy into the process than you will get out the other end. The problem is still with us: where does the energy come from that you will store in your synthetic, chemical fuel?

Hydrocarbons can be synthetically made, plants do it so can chemistry. The universe is full of carbon and carbon based molecules. carbon is going to be around for a long time. Make your own

I agree. Where is the discussion on alternative energy technologies and funding? We should take this "spike/peak" as a wakeup call to find a solution. I am sure the last drop of oil to be consumed will be in a US military vehicle. So before it comes to that. We must find an alternative to diminish our dependence on oil for our industries, transportion, and security.