Wow, I guess here in the backwoods we're doing it all wrong again...this time with windmills. They seem to work, here...and there's not even a pile of dead birds below them everyday!!!! There's getting to be more and more of them around, one plant makes the blades for them, and powers their plant with two windmills. There's a bunch of them over in Minnesota along state hwy 23, they only run half of them at a time cuz there isn't a big enough power grid to handle the distribution yet. One dairy farmer put up two of them to run his dairy barn, milks about 600 cows and sells the extra electricity back to the power company....

We have E-85 pumps along with propane and natural gas refill stations scattered around the area, some farmers are running a bit of biodiesel, too.

I know, none of these things work and are not cost efficient.... But from what I hear, if they start drilling a new oil well today, it will be 5 to 7 years before it comes out the hose and into your car....

Coal plants are dirty, nuclear plants will kill us all, windmills kill migratory birds, ethanol depletes the worlds food supply.....and on an on.

Nothing will work, let's just keep bad mouthing everything somebody proposes until gas is $10.00 a gallon and it cost $8,000.00 to heat your home for the winter.... We're dead, why try anything new????

As the old saying goes, if you're not part of the solution then you must be part of the problem.....

Drill them wells, build them refineries, oil will last forever. I can wait 5 to 7 years before I need to buy gas anyway......