One of the amazing inventions of the past (1816) is the Stirling engine. This might be the engine which can replace the internal combustion engine for the commutor. Very small demonstration engines can run from the heat of the palm of a person's hand. And the very same engine can run from the cold of an ice cube. If scientists and engineers could throw a few billion dollars into its development and research it would be a very green engine using atmospheric elements (sunshine, cold fronts, etc.)
For those who think that the Stirling engine is impracticable:
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Soulshiner wrote: Did you ever think that maybe the strategy is to use up all of the rest of the world's supply so that the US will have the only oil in the end? I have.
Yes, but my tin foil hat is already too thick. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks this way.
Who's strategy is this? Since there is enough oil besides in the USA, to last a few lifetimes, maybe they have also discovered the Fountain of Youth and are holding back that from us as well. Meanwhile we will be bankrupt and dead before we us up the oil that we have. Great plan, my genius friend.
A pipeline will not interrupt the migratory path of the spotted fieldmouse. Pipelines only take up a few feet this way and a few feet that way on their path 74 miles long. No big deal. Just make sure that it is not leaky, is engineered correctly, has necessary maintanence, and is hauled out whenever we a through with it.
