I posted an article in a thread about a month ago regarding a society called the Bilderburgs. The gist of it is that this society is really a secret group that are in cahoots to drive the world to a single socialist government using the UN and global economic bodies (WTO, IMF, World Bank) as it's main tools. In the article, there was discussion (keep in mind that the article was written about 6 months ago) that the world goes through 1 billion barrels of oil every 11 days. They then state that there hasn't been a find of an oil field greater than 500 million barrels in over 25 years. They say that taking into account the growth in China and India, that there is only enough oil for the next 20 years. The article also says that the concensus at this meeting was that hydrogen replacements for hydro-carbon fossil fuels is a fantasy. Further along they go into detail about how there would need to be an economic crisis of some sort, a recession or outright depression, to take money out of people's hands in order to find out what to do, and that $125 a barrel oil would not be out of the question, which could lead to $6-$10 a gallon gasoline.

Environmentalists who refuse to allow more refineries (there were 4 taken out from the storm) or drilling, and God forbid: more nuclear power need to take a back seat. Letting our dwindling supply of oil go down the drain while wistfully dreaming about wind power isn't going to cut it anymore. We need to get real about this in the short term and get the oil while the getting's good, while alternative research goes into high gear.