[dd74]

First of all, there is no Muslim oil. There's crude, baby crude, light sweet crude, or whatever, but no Muslim oil. I don't see my oil meter getting out of the dashboard and bowing east at 12-noon.

Second; all this "hype," because that's what it is, about alternative fuel sources is baloney. Know why? Humans, not just Americans, but humans are used to going to the gas station, filling up their tanks, paying and driving off. Anything else is beyond our comprehension and convenience, the ladder being much more important than the former.

That isn't to say we should not believe in alternative fuels. Still in all, they are a long way off. As for now, nothing matches the long term performance and cost of a conventional dino burner. It's been that way for close to 150 yrs., and at the slow-learning manner our species crawls along, it'll be that way for 150 more.

Not to say alt. fuels aren't important.

Just like J.R. Ewing once said: "Bobby, the world's been runnin' out of oil since oil was discovered..."