[DB]

A number of alternatives become more economically viable as the price of oil goes up. It will be interesting to see what happens.

Of course if we really made any actual headway towards alternative energy sources, the cost of oil would plunge for lack of demand. Then the cycle would repeat...

[backhoe]

A number of alternatives become more economically viable as the price of oil goes up. It will be interesting to see what happens.

I've toyed- not seriously, just as an exercise in practical engineering- with the idea of converting an old clunker auto to producer gas-- the stuff you cook off wood, coke, or other materials that give off flammable gas when heated. It worked for Great Britain in WWII.