Quote Originally Posted by bae View Post
Doesn't seem to be working :-(

Yeah you're right! They vilified Jimmy and he was right all along! Put on the sweater and turn down the thermostat! And he was laughed out of office!

I think if we seriously explore alternatives, and not just for the rich who can afford it, but for everyone, then all energy sources could be used as they are useful. Solar where it is best used, and oil or natural gas where it is best used. Petroleum is very useful in it's best applications, but burning it up in our cars and for heating our homes is wasteful. The days of one source for everything is over. Conservation is fine, but it can only take us so far. We need to move beyond that. There will always be certain applications where oil is the best source of energy, and wasting it on secondary uses just because we are lazy is pointless, and destructive in the long run.

Natural gas may be plentiful, but that's just not the direction auto makers are going. They are going in the direction of electric cars. OK, fine, we can work with that. We can produce out own electricity, and more importantly, I can produce my own electricity. I can't produce my own natural gas, so I'm actually excited in the direction of autos. (this is kind of what I'm talking about with the big energy. I can't produce my own natural gas, so I'm not actually getting excited about natural gas cars, but I can produce my own electricity. Which makes me kind of suspicious of anyone who champions natural gas run cars)