Reply #34: Yes, it's all big oil's fault.

[Dissenting_Prole]

> Of course none of this will ever happen since Big Oil is the owner and operator of the US government.

Yes, it's all big oil's fault.

Vote with your wallets, people. No one puts a gun to your head and says you have to buy a vehicle that gets 20 mpg. No one forces you to live 40 miles from where you work. No one says you can't bike to work a couple days a week if you find gas too expensive. We and our attitudes are our own worst enemies.

> Hydrogen buses are already running in Vancouver.

By the way, I'm not sure what your point is about hydrogen buses. Hydrogen is not an energy source, it's more like a battery. As far as Energy Return On Energy Invested, you're better off to burn natural gas in the bus than converting it to hydrogen.

> Brazil is 50/50 gas/ethanol.

Yeah, but they don't have 200 million vehicles there. Also, much of their sugar cane is harvested manually, not by machines that use expensive fossil fuels.

> And most importantly of all - conservation.

By far our best option for the shor term. If everyone drove a Prius we could buy ourselves some time, but sooner or later we are going to have to deal with the idea that it's no longer business as usual.