Gas prices - what can we do?

[Nathaniel Firethorn]

sell your SUV. drive less.
use less gas. that is all you can do

And live in a place where you can walk to meet your daily needs.

I really like traditional small towns. But they're being forced into extinction.

- NF

[Werewolf]

Our economy is energy dependent. Nothing will be done until the economy starts tanking as a result of energy costs.

^^Very, Very TRUE...

But of course - by then - it will already be too late...

[mfree]

I think the depolymerization plants hav ethe most promise, *and* get rid of biological wastes as well.

Mix that with a herd of small nuclear plants and some judicious hydro/wind/tidal power plants and we're all set. Later on we can manage with a heard of nuclear powered hydrogen generation plants, or maybe, just maybe, once there's a nuke site in every county across the US the people can stop being so exasperatingly paranoid about it and we can have electric cars with point-source recharging from small isotope generators onboard. Run the car out of juice? Just sit an hour or so and it's back on full charge ready to go. Heh, it'd bring back the advent of the sit-down restaurant too :-D

[SteveS]

I got this information from my mostly liberal father that had worked for some years for a mining company and had taught courses in mining engineering at MTU.

Does he still work up there?  That is where I am attending school.

Nope, he is retired.  I heard that Tech was scaling back their mining engineering program.