It will never happen until the price of petroleum fuels outweighs the cost and aggravation of alternative sources. Believe me, there is a LOT of aggravation in alternative fuels in daily operation compared to petroleum products.
Bring on the $8.00/gal gasoline and diesel! Until then, stop whining.
Just a moment ago in a separate post, I postulated that this could be the one area of commonality we might share with the greenies; the desire to reduce our dependence on oil. The more I think about it though, the more I see those greenies running to the courthouse to file injunction this and injunction that to stop folks from doing any real work on alternative fuels.
"Oh, you're not Jane Fonda. If you burn used french fry grease in your big redneck diesel truck, you'll be releasing deadly toxins into the environment. Only us anointed Protectors of Mother Earth are permitted to use the land and her materials for our purposes. Only our people are permitted to ride our preppie BMW touring motorcycles, not those filthy Harley Davidsons you slobs use. Only our people are permitted to use fossil fuels for making our Birkenstocks. You are not permitted to burn wood, that's wasting our forests. You are not permitted to turn corn into ethanol, that corn is genetically modified. You are not permitted to even fantasize about using coal for any purpose at all, you can't even put it in a Christmas stocking because we hate Christmas since it's a religious holiday and we hate all religions except the Religion of Peace. You may not use hydrogen since it uses nasty toxic chemicals to produce it. You may not use natural gas since you'll have to drill to get it and you'll damage the precious environment. You may not use electricity since you'll have to store it in batteries, and of course those are deadly. Mind you, our people are free to use batteries all we like, since we'll be using iPods to listen to trendy music and we'll be using our cell phones to arrange our next Sierra Club outing. You may not use nuclear energy, you many not even discuss it. Anything with "nuclear" or "atomic" in it is bad bad bad. Did we get eveything? Well, we'll let you talk quietly about wind energy, and solar energy, but we'll need you to pay our biologists huge sums to conduct enironmental impact studies first. Of course, if we don't like you, we'll say the wind turbines hurt the birds and the solar panels block the sunlight from hitting the dirt underneath. Basically, we envronmentalists are the natural overlords and protectors of Mother Earth's bounty, and you primates are simply here to abuse her."
308MBR: Bring on the $8.00/gal gasoline and diesel! Until then, stop whining.
Look past the pump for a sec. When you fill up, who gets your treasure? What do you suppose they do with it? Gas will never make it to $8.00/gal because the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp will have enough resources to aggravate you to death.
Obedience to Khamenei is obedience to Imam Khomeini
"Bring on the $8.00/gal gasoline and diesel! Until then, stop whining."
Here in the UK the price is £5 or near to it - about $9.50 at today's rates. Its headline news from time to time but there's no crisis or anything yet.