Oil heading $150 a barrel...Are we ready??Any alternatives??

With oil price skyrocketing and yet no signs of decreasing are we all ready....what alternatives can work....

 

there are plenty of other alternatives. The government just hasn't found a way to rip us off with anything else. Think about it, how could they charge us for a solar powered car? The sun is FREE.

 

Might be $175 at end of year ...

Btw it is ~US$130, don't scary this way

 

Electric vehicles, solar power, hydrogen, energy cells, there are plenty of alternatives.

 

yeah but they want to make the most off of gasoline while they can. They would have to make new stations and everything for an alternative.

 

Get some hybrids

 

We already have hydrogen cars. We just need to make more places to sell hydrogen. From what I heard hydrogen can get you 100s of miles

 

The best alternatives to using oil is walking, biking or taking the city bus in my opinion. The public trans uses oil but they will use it whether or not you take it so...

 

Get a Motor Scooter, best gas milage of any kind of gas powered vehicle.

 

Bikes....

 

Using bicycles instead of bikes for commuting short distances, and using public transport as suggested by wisdomtool will reduce our over dependence on oil. Cost effective technology should be developed to harness the power behind electric driven vehicles is the need of the hour...

 

where I live regualr unleaded is over $4.00 per gallon as it is. I recommend investing in solar for your home and a hybrid vehicle.

 

The way it's going I'm wondering if it's economical to bring back horses and donkeys for some tasks. Especially on small farms and towns were there is heavy use of pickup trucks over unimproved roads. In larger cities horse patrols by the police could help save gas.

 

wisdomtool's right. This will give way for more competition.

 

I went totally off the grid. Here in canada the government pays out huge rebates to those going green. I spent about 9k setting it all up and got back 7.3k No more paying for hydo here. Wish I could do the same to the car =( but then the government would make $$$ of gas taxes

 

There have been research on many plants by which fuel can be made.... but government is sleeping I think on this project... Diesel's alternative is fuel produced by Jatropha plant....

 

Unless humans become conservative in using energy resources, there will be no permanent solution to the energy crisis.

Even if some day we will find a cheaper alternative, people will increase their consumption to an extent where the alternative also becomes expensive.

There is much more that the common man can do to reduce consumption of oil (and energy in general), but it is much easier to blame the government for it.

Many years back when incomes were low in India, hardly anyone had a car.

When incomes started to rise,
those who had bicycles bought two-wheelers.
those who had two-wheelers, bought small cars.
those who had small cars, bought bigger cars.

When petrol prices go up, people complain about it - forgetting that if they been using the same means of transport as they had been doing earlier, the problem would have hardly affected them.

(Their rise in incomes would have more than compensated for the rise in petrol prices).

Today, petrol price hurt because when prices were low, people never thought of conservation.

US with around 5% of world population consumes 25% of world oil and still so many Americans complain that gasoline prices have touched $4 per gallon.

Why can't they just use smaller and less powerful cars to cut down their consumption?

or just drive two-wheelers or use public transport?

It is not just about US. Its the same problem everywhere.

If energy is cheap, people waste it. Thus, it is better that prices reflect true worth of energy.