Oil, again

[Cyrus]

Interesting articles; I will print and read them.

Some quick remarks: Oil shale has been kicking around for years, especially every time "the price goes up". The now-oblivious Sheikh Yamani used to advocate high production, in general, which meant low prices, in order to discourage any serious search for alternative fuels.

In any case, all these things are no more than auxiliary features, of secondary importance. We should have been moving towards alternative sources of energy a long time ago, before the Asian economies picked up.

The free market is no help in such an endeavor. (One of the many factors why the price "ain't right" is the market's total discounting of future damages.) The western nations have to pull together and prepare the proper scientific framework which will allow us to move on - because, so far, no alternative source of energy is economically viable. Such an effort should be led by the United States, provided its leadership is able to look beyond small, petty objectives (eg "American Century", etc).

Answer in white : <font color="white"> Nuclear energy. </font>