RE: fuel
The answer to high fuel prices is new technology and it's here! It's called hydrogen fuel cells. Go to YouTube and type in "Honda FCX Clarity" to see this four door sedan in action. The driving range is 270 miles between refueling the four gallon water fuel cell tank. It takes five minutes to recharge a car run on electricity. It costs 60¢ a gallon to drive. It will go from 0-60 mph in about 9 seconds. It gets 68 mpg. Best of all, zero C02 emissions. Imagine a world with clean air.
Honda has a manufacturing plant in California and they're leasing these models in 3 counties only, due to building a refueling infrastructure first, before they can mass produce these cars at an affordable price and mass market the technology nationally.
We've had this technology for many years, but the automotive industry that makes most of their money on "maintenance items and servicing gas and diesel powered vehicles" didn't want to lose that income. Nor does the Oil industry want to lose their obscene profit so they have quietly lobbied Congress, bullied inventors to accept a buy out, or they suddenly died prematurely or disappeared.
There is a reason there are four lobbyists per member in congress, who have basically bought all controlling interest of our mainstream media and our elections, so we hear only what they want us to hear. They don't want us to know our planet is in trouble, so they convince us environmentalists are enemies or they're ill-informed alarmists. They hire Public Relation firms to twist or manufacture the news and keep the general public in the dark.
In the meantime, we the people are paying through the nose to subsidize big business's special interests and obscene profit margins. A new forum called "ChangeCongress.org" is a reliable source of information and education. It is within our power to see that this new fuel technology arrives sooner, rather than 100 years from now by contacting our government officials and asking them to sign the pledge. The pledge is that we the people will support a publicly funded election, instead of lobbyists buying special favors to reelect their preferred candidate.
It seems counterproductive to me to convert current gas stations into hydrogen fuel celled stations, since there's a built-in conflict of interest between water and big oil. It makes more sense to build these refueling stations in rest areas, maybe where water and electricity is already plumbed in. Eventually, all of these hydrogen fueling stations will be in our garages, and can power and heat our homes too.
So there is no need for us burn food crops for biofuel, or to build more radioactive nuclear power plants, that are extremely hazardous to human welfare. They have already added hydrogen fuel cell technology to the Canadian power grid. They're also using it to power welding tanks in industrial appliances. If we don't get on this new fuel bandwagon PDQ, we could find ourselves stuck with NO FUEL, if we rely on our addiction to oil and old technology.
This is not a contest between environmentalists caring more about insects and birds--than us--since our food supply depends on both to pollinate our crops and enrich the soil nutrients.
If it wasn't for all this suppressed good news rising up on YouTube, I was going to pass on buying a diesel pusher Class A motorhome altogether. Men who love to tinker in the garage, across the planet, are already converting lawn mowers, boat engines, cars and pickup trucks to run on water fueled technology.
This is the kind of technology that we should subsidize with our tax contributions, instead of spending it all on turning foreign neighbors into terrorists, war profiteering, cluster bombs and "corruption as usual" politics.