Infinite for all practical purposes. More sunlight hits the earth in a single HOUR than mankind uses in energy in an entire year currently.

The car doesn't have to be electric to be 'charged' via solar. Both Honda and Toyota are introducing mass market Hydrogen Cars within a year or two.

I never said this was good for everybody. The link itself says the same thing. But deploying this on a larger basis starts to make it workable in areas where single installations might not be viable.

As far as being 'way off'. This was 8 years ago. How much do you spend on all your utilities (except water)? Most people that's a couple hundred bucks a month. That's a lot of borrowing power to install something that will pay you back faster as prices keep rising.

There are these people called 'descendents' who would still profit quite nicely, no?

Oil still runs the world. It simply doesn't move without it. Local transportation options are easily moved off of oil. Global shipping? not so much. Demand isn't going down significantly right now, but projected needs with China and India modernizing make the 'long' view not that long.

You do realize that charging a car overnight on solar power is entirely doable...today right? linky I think that setup cost about $500K. For a one-off installation. Do this over significant numbers and it gets affordable very very quickly. And this particular setup won't work for a decent percent of people...but it's entirely possible today.

Um, then why exactly did the fracking industry get immunity from disclosing the stuff they are putting in the ground? What are they hiding?

Fracking takes place below. Except that fracking BREAKS the rock. It's the entire purpose of it. So cracks form and allow escape routes.

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The glut is significantly due to US increase in production. We're number 2 right now and going to be rivaling Saudi soon. Of course we're pushing max capacity and Saudi can turn it up way over our heads, but the current glut is us.

Electable Republicans? for President? Hell ROMNEY is considering running again.

Shale is fracking. It's how they are extracting said oil, by breaking the shale with injection wells. It's used for both gas and oil.

$5-6 by summer? Doubtful. But within 5-10 years, almost certainly. What we're seeing is how much the commodity trading artificially inflated prices. And probably some of the various big hedge funds starting to divest themselves of oil stocks. But global demand from China and India are going to reassert themselves as you suggest.

Perhaps, but oil and gas in the long run are only going up in price as supplies dwindle. The current increase in production also has very very serious side effects that are likely going to severely curtail it within a decade. Increasing numbers of earthquakes of 5+ magnitude in Kansas? Oklahoma? Guess what's causing that?

5 isn't huge in California, but it's a much stronger effect in solid plate areas as opposed to the edges. And they are much shallower making the tremors yet stronger...right near the depth where the fluids are being injected...funny that.

Who has more money. Al Gore or the Koch Brothers? And yet the Koch Brothers can't seem to buy even 4% of scientists? If you're claiming scientists are 'bought', then why exactly aren't they singing the tune of the highest bidders?

Actually there won't BE any fuel taxes. As in no gasoline fuel used. The 'gas tax' is dying and needs too. Paying based on your annual mileage x vehicle type needs to be the new metric for funding roads. Even before we get off gas, cars are more and more efficient, reducing the amount of gas used per mile driven. The cost of maintaining the roads is FAR exceeded by the cost of not doing so. When the roads start breaking down, the delivery trucks need that much more maintenance and now everything costs more to deliver. Regular maintenance spending is always cheaper.

Here here. I've been saying it will basically be another 20-30 years before it really gets mainstream though. Not until todays 20 somethings are in management roles will it start coming to main street.

Though in bigger cities the simple cost of renting office space will hopefully start it a bit earlier.

And suggesting that we ALL abide by common sense rules isn't living life the way we preach? We're trying to make sure everybody plays by the same rules. That's usually the argument against doing anything about carbon...that China simply won't play along. Yet here you claim 'we', the greenies, should go first.

Well then, the US should 'go first' to show China the way, right?