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Why not go all the way to the root of the problem. People spending more than they can possibly afford, (due to idiots at loan institutions who are to greedy to see beyond the interest dollars, and credit cards), and who are too "me first, and the rest of you can go to hell" to suck it up and find a way to pay their debts, so they steal from us by defaulting on their loans.

There is plenty of blame to go around. Oil companies who are so greedy they make obscene profits, then tell us they need the money for exploration, while collecting millions of our tax money as grants from the government. People who drive ridiculously huge gas hogs when a smaller vehicle would be much more convenient, they just like the power feeling that big truck gives them. (The farthest off road most 4X4 trucks and SUV's get is their driveway.)

I could go on with this for a long time, but it gets my blood pressure up.

High gas prices are being felt around here, too. Lately (like in the last two years or so) there's been this boom of kei-cars (very small cars, engines with a litter or less of displacement). And most of the bigger cars are beign converted to work with natural gas, at least int he north coast where the terrain it's relatively flat and the power loss from the conversion is not a big deal.

There's also been a lot of investment on alternate fuels here. There are already two plants of biodiesel, and four or more of combustible alcohol for vehicles (dunno what they call it in the USA). We still need to work more on those, since those factories can't hope to handle the demand if everyone suddenly switched to, say, biodiesel.

Another research I'm following closely (even though it's not here), it's the one on hydrogen powered vehicles. Looks really, really cool, IMO.

i agree! just don't let it explode on you! you'll level a whole block! lol

The technology that I am most excited about is cellous based ethnol. Perticularly this type using Reed grass. It and produce 12 times the amount of ethenol per acher as corn. It is easy to grow, no fertilizers or pesticides, and it take very little water.