[wireplay]

The beauty of oil price increases is that there is now a massive pressure to find alternatives. Go alternative energy, go!

[roamer_1]

Go alternative energy, go!

A waste of time and money. There is no alternative for the foreseeable future.

[nina0113]

The beauty of oil price increases is that there is now a massive pressure to find alternatives. Go alternative energy, go!

Another up-side is that companies (mine included) who have been resisting telecommuting and non-standard schedules are coming around at last. We might finally get to go to that four-day work week.

[PzLdr]

Since most of our technical, industrial and societal infrastructure is based on fossil fuels, particularly petroleum; and since no large scale [except nuclear] FEASABLE alternative exists to fill any of those functions, that’s an interesting opinion.

[Chaguito]

Unfortunately, your opinion on alternative energy is not based on present reality. Nor the reality of the next 50 years. The only current alternative is nuclear.

If McCain wants a conservative turnout, he had better offer something more realistic than "green" answers. Like this:

Short term (10 years) DRILL;

Medium term (20 years) nuclear, along with development of electric cars that actually perform (a bone to the greens);

Long term (30-50 years) Manhattan project to develop a method of making and using hydrogen that does not involve petroleum.

Any current "green" solution is bunk, and being uphill energetically, will bankrupt the country. Somebody has to pay for the government incentives to do the impossible.

[gogogodzilla]

Yes! I’ll go fill up my gas tank with sunshine!