Viable Alternatives for oil and the infrastructure to support it,what and where is it?

Oil shale! Lots of it! Enough for a couple hundred years or MORE in the Western USA!

http://www.dailyreckoning.com/rpt/OilShale.html

http://www.aspencore.org/images/pdf/OilShale.pdf

Proud Vet

No we do not need to drill-safe nuke plants and plug in cars,period,there is no other way at this point.France does it.Also dams-more of them,everywhere (the land can always be reclaimed if ,years down the road we get some more viable form of energy.Dams last nearly for ever (pretty green too) and supply huge amounts of cheap energy,i.e. Hoover Dam takes care of Los Angeles and then some.More wind farms but that's kind of like fuel from corn,expensive and high maintenance or conversion expenses.Also,we need to give some kind of a tax break to people who have fewer kids instead of the other way around which merely creates more need.I haven't yet been able to find a party to support all of these options,they make the most sense to me.The problem is that we need and will continue to need such vast amounts of energy that many of the current alternatives cannot hope to fulfill in the short run.

The best alternative to bring the oil prices down is to open up more oil lines from Alaska and other producing states. Open up more refineries. Then we don't need those OPEC oil any more, that way the OPEC will start dropping their prices. Close the trade with China, then China will have no more business and therefore their demand for oil will be less.

If our lawmakers truly wanted to end our dependence on oil, it could happen in less than a decade.

My son is an engineer for GM and his team is developing the hydrogen fuel cell. Vehicles equipped with fuel cells are in use right now at several municipalities. The initial feedback is very positive.

Unfortunately, even though GM and other auto manufacturers have invested several billion dollars in the R & D of fuel cells, it's merely a drop in the bucket. If our government partnered with the major auto manufacturers and invested 100 billion dollars in R & D, we could build the infrastructure necessary to support these fuel-cell-powered vehicles and mass produce them at an affordable price in less than 10 years. Then we could tell the Saudis and other countries raping the US with their outrageous oil prices to stick it.

They have worked long and hard to keep things the same. With a simple Google search you can come across dozens of alternatives-

Electric - (powered by alternative energy)

Biodiesel

Natural Gas

Compressed-Air

Hydrogen

Fuel Cell

Many others..... In all likelyhood the future will consist of a mix of all of these, not relying on a single source for all of our country's needs.

If you keep the oil lobbyist money out of Congress's pocket then you will start to see a change. The change is there but no motive for the ones who control with the power at their hands. Get Congress off of lobbyist budget, increase initiative for alternate energy, decrease mid east oil dependency.

There are plenty of alternatives as you have seen from some of the ans. you got , but the real Q is why isn't the government doing more to research them & get us off Forigen oil, why, back room deals & plenty of greased hands in the halls of power in Washington.

The lobbiest own washington.

Check out Germany during WNW2 also Brazil

Gasifying coal

Solar

Hydrogen

Electric

Vote American Nationalist party and kick all the stupid immigrants and multiethnics out of our country before they cause us more harm.