The solution as I see it : railroads everywhere with electric trains, nuclear power plants, solar power, wind power, keep the oil for important stuff like : insecticides, fertilisers, medicine, plastic, and use bicycles whenever possible - short trips. But I doubt any of these will be implemented until it's too late.
Why hydrogen is not a solution :
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/fre...n_answers.html
Why ethanol is not a solution :
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchin...ent_912170.htm
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It should be noted that if the entire US corn crop were converted into ethanol, it would satisfy only 16 percent of US transport needs. The amount of corn that goes into the gas tank of a large automobile could feed one person for a year.
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When the market sees that it is more profitable to produce ethanol than sell the grain for food, the food industry will be in trouble. Since ethanol is used as a fuel, its price will be tied to the price of oil. As oil prices climb because of the impending world shortage of oil, ethanol prices will rise. As a consequence food prices will rise as well.
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Ethanol is not oil, the plants used do not grow in one day, also they require energy , fertilisers and other stuff to grow and process. From corn you get less energy than you put in. From hemp or sugar cane you get 2 times the energy. People make ethanol from corn because it is subsidized, but it's not a smart thing to do
This shows why wasting corn helps nobody, only some farmers :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6283992.stm
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In its report, the IEA argued that biofuel production would hit 1.8 million barrels by 2012, more than double 2006 levels.
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Today we used 80 million barrels of oil. 1.8 million barrels by 2012 is nothing. Ethanol can be a good thing if it's made from hemp or sugar cane or something else but not grains. Look what problems this ethanol hoax is creating :
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/...cle2697788.ece
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Mexico was ablaze in late January. Just two months after the election of Felipe Calderon as Mexico's President, protests had broken out across the country.
Thousands of people were marching on the main cities calling on their pro-free trade businessman President to halt a phenomenon threatening the lives of millions of Mexicans.
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The reason for such a substantial increase in the price lay north of the border. In order to wean itself off its addiction to oil, the US was turning to biofuels made from industrial corn like never before. Farmers in Mexico and America had been replacing edible corn crops with industrial corn that could then be processed into biofuels, leading to a decrease in the amount corn available on the open market.
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