[SierraWasp]

"Put a nuclear reactor on an offshore rig and pump the stuff out a massive rate by electrolyzing the seawater."

We CAN'T, NOW!!! We just maxed out the CA credit card and can't borrow the money to build the stupid nuke that the NIMBY's and EnvironMentalCases won't let us build anaways... Get it? WASS=We Are So Screwed!!!

[Voltage]

I would prefer to put the nuclear reactor in my Excersion, then I would have sufficient power to plow my driveway.

If I generate hydrogen in the process it would be a side benefit.

[B.O. Plenty]

WASS???....no we aren't....we are temporarily stymied that's all. Right now there is plenty of gas...and it is still relatively cheap. When we start running out of gas, we the people will suffer first. The corporate and government people will still have enough gas to do what they want to do. Bill Gates, other billionaires and government don't really give a rat's ass what gas costs...but when gas starts to run out and the muckety-mucks can't get gas for their G-5's is when things will change fast. Environmentalists will be swept aside like ants. ANWAR and Santa Barbra will have so many oil wells they will look like pin cushions......and hydrogen power will take off like a shot. Everyone will be amazed at how fast hydrogen becomes a viable source of power.

It is one thing for us varlets to suffer, muckety muck suffering is something else.

[BurbankKarl]

The state is MAXED OUT? $700 billion!