High Gas Prices, Time for an alternative Energy Source

Ethanol, nuclear, electric, coal, hydrogen, solar, wind, and fossil fuels are just a few of the many different sources of energy we use. Gas prices are soring, and climate change (global warming) is quickly becoming one of the world's biggest issues. In our quest for alternative fuels we have fueled a world hunger plague. Prices for everyday food items have skyrocketed, and many places in the world are simply not getting enough supply to meet the demand. Think about this concept for a minute, we are paying more for food items to save a $.75 a gallon. I bet the food cost outweighs the saving on fuel! We are not fixing anything, except political opinion! Is the feeling of saving money by using ethanol worth the peoples lives who will starve because the lack of crops coming from America? Not to me.

What are our other options and which ones might actually work? Electric power can be used for automobiles, but currently they have to be charged often or be combined with a combustion engine, which runs on fossil fuels. Furthermore, the power you use to charge your batteries is being produced by coal, hydro-power, nuclear, and a maybe a small amount of wind power or solar power. So electric is an option, but until the electricity being delivered to your home is totally renewable and clean we are just prolonging the inevitable. Solar has been tested in cars, but that little problem of night and clouds, kinda puts a damper on this source. Solar currently is very expensive too, but maybe in the current future this source could help power our homes,thus charging our electric cars. Wind power will help to produce the clean energy of the future for your home too. I have long wondered if you could put a "windmill" on your car that would charge your batteries as you drive. Maybe this idea has been tried, but if not you heard it here. Hydrogen fuel cells are the best option at this time for automobiles in my opinion. There are hydrogen cars on the road now! It does take some electricity or fossil fuel use to make it currently, but I think future technology will make the use of other fuels to make hydrogen obsolete. There are many options, but I think that is contributing to the problem because farmers push ethanol, activists just want to complain, not contribute towards making anything actually happen, and OPEC buys anyone who wants to try something new. People go with what benefits them the most now, giving little thought to the future.

After watching Glen Beck show tonight, Monday, April 28th, 2008. My opinion on coal and its possibilities have changed from a few days ago when I wrote this post. Click on the link in this paragraph and see why, and I will try and write another post on this soon.

What is your opinion on future energy sources, which one do you think we should be pursuing now?