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It is time to move away from oil based energy. How about 1000 brand new nuclear plants, home solar plants on every rooftop, and a new hydrogen based combustion engine. Oh, and lets drill Anwar so we can continue to produce our own petro-chemical by-products without going broke.

I agree with most of what you say although I disagree on hydrogen, I would rather see engines run on alcohol (methanol preferably, ethanol takes away from food crops) and/or bio-diesel. At least with alcohol, it is more or less simple to convert diesel/gasoline engines to run on it. We need atomic energy badly although with the home solar plants, it will take a lot of money to do that, the government will go broke, plus here in Pittsburgh, the sun doesn't come out a lot. I really don't believe the peak oil people and if I did, we still have plenty of coal to use as a substitute, but I think we need to really get back on track with atomic power.

would rather see engines run on alcohol (methanol preferably, ethanol takes away from food crops) and/or bio-diesel.

Those still require a distribution system (hence a long deployment windows), whereas hydrogen may require nothing more then a long extension cord and a few gallons of water.

The primary source of methanol is natural gas. The primary source of fertilizer to grow crops to produce ethanol is natural gas. There is no free lunch when it comes to energy sources.