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This is the beauty of a capitolistic society. When oil becomes too expensive, other technologies will be more affordable in comparison. Until then we keep using oil. With so much money potential, you can be sure that are and will be more people who are willing to invest the time and money to be the ones that come up with the solution. I'm not too worried about it.
Though there will have to be lots of fenagling to build more powerplants if its an electric based solution. Can't build damns because fish cant find there way home, cant' build wind mills off the coast because it blocks the view of the people who bought summer homes, cant go nuclear because its scary, and so on.
I propose lots of people (say everyone on welfare, in prison, etc) on stationary bikes, pedaling and powering electric generators. Of course you get paid based on killowatts generated and not simply hours worked. Not only does it provide clean electricity, it solves welfare, gives people in prison something to do, and if you make it mandatory for young adults (say high school kids) it gives everyone a healthier start towards adulthood. And if you're willing to put illegal aliens into immigration camps, they can pedal away and learn english and earn their citizenship. So it solves all sorts of social problems and with out giving a hand out to anyone.
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