The Beginning of the End of OPEC?

[sammyg2]

Some folks have yet to face one unpleasant fact:
we don't have a reasonable, efficient, or economic alternative to oil. We don't have one now and we won't for a very, very long time.

Sure there are other forms of energy, but each and every one has downsides that make them much less attractive than oil.
Either they cost waaaaay too much (like solar and wind) or it costs a huge fortune to build the plants (like nukes), or they are expensive, inneficient, and short-lived like batteries, or the process costs 5 times as much as conventional propulsion (like hydrogen cells).
There are no free lunches people, no matter what the voices tell you. I like nukes but the cost of a new plant can approach $15 billion or more, that's alot of scratch.

Some day we may be able to refine one or more of the alternatives to the point where they start making sense but today, right now, they don't make sense in the big picture.
They won't tomorrow either, or the next day, or next year.
If there was a reasonable simple answer we would have already found it. There is no miracle cure and there never will be, not in our lifetime. There will only be refinements of existing technologies and that isn't going to get us where you want us to be.
Face it, admit it, and we'll move on.

[Jim727]

Guess we should have given up before starting on the Apollo program, too.

[rammstein]

Nuclear Power. Yes. (Note that I did NOT write in green)