Solar, wind, and nuclear power seem like the only viable options to reduce our oil consumption. I guess coal is another one, if someone could find a way to burn coal cleanly; of course, we’d eventually run into something like “Peak Coal”. There have GOT to be some smart people with $ who are investing in these areas already.

It seems to me that reconstructing the energy and transportation infrastruture of the United States may be the only possible underpinning for the next “boom” in the economy. I’m not quite sure how it would work economically or technologically but I’m going to be thinking about it.