[MurryMom]

We mocked Gore not for saying the IC engine should be replaced, but for saying it should be OUTLAWED in 2005 whether OR NOT there was a viable alternative.

If you mocked Gore for the reason stated in our post, you were misinformed. In Gore's 1994 book, Earth in the Balance, he predicted that fuel cell technology would be commercial for autos in 25 years, which was within a year of the prediction that Bush made in his 2003 State of the Union address.

[discostu]

Well any of those kind of predictions do need to be mocked because they've all been false. Solar power has been "5 to 10 years" from being a viable alternative since Nixon. Hollow promises. We still should be working on alternative fuel sources (for reasons that have zero to do with polution), and someday they will be useful. But projecting when is a fool's errand and nobody should do it.