[dd74]

While in LV last week, I met a guy who seemed to be in close contact with the petroleum industry. He told me that oil execs are scrambling right now to dig wells in the Stockton area of NorCal, hoping to get every last drop available. Well, I thought, that's nothing newsworthy... But this guy goes onto say the "digging" is being pursued with vigor because, as he puts it, the combustible engine as we know it, has approximately ten years to live. Hydrogen is fast on the horizon, and hybrids will take a much larger role in today's automobilia. I don't know about all that. I mean ten years?

I do hear, however, that there is a two-year waiting period for the Ford Escape hybrid.

Hmmm...could this be the future ten years early? You guys tell me...