Ethanol is more expensive then gas. Why would I want to go to something else that is more expensive and has been proved NOT to increase your gas mileage? Plus, 96% of the US has to be covered in corn fields to produce enough ethanol to power all the cars in the US.

http://science.jrank.org/pages/2576/Ethanol-Disadvantages-ethanol-an-alternative-fuel.html

Solar is too expensive, there's no place to refuel hydrogen cars.

Do any of you guys watch the history channel? There was a special on about a week ago and it stated if we stopped using oil to fuel our cars tomorrow, we still need 5M barrels a day for manufacturing and other needs. What do we replace that with?

How is everything going to be paid for? Taxes!!! Taxes!!! Taxes!!! Gotta love 'em. So obviously we'd tax the oil industry to pay for all this...so what happens when the oil industry's stop making profit and can no longer pay the taxes? No more money for alternative energy and then the taxes get passed on to Americans. It's makes as much sense as taxing cigarettes to pay for healthcare. Everyone quits smoking, then no money for healthcare. It's got to be made up somehow.

Don't get me wrong. I love alternative energy. I do think it's the way to go buuuuttt I don't believe in can be done in a matter of 10 years. We need to drill in the US and work our way to becoming energy independent.

Kind of off topic but why does everyone lay blame to the big bad oil companies? That's what they do is mine oil. Car manufactures make the hybrid cars not Exxon or Shell. Why don't we go after them instead of the oil companies. Car manufactures should be made to pay for this not oil companies. I mean, they have had the technology for hydrogen cars since the '60's.

Has anyone ever heard of the EV1?

http://www.whokilledtheelectriccar.com/

Now tell me who's the villain.

And VC, don't talk about discrimination. You must be sexist for not voting for Hilary. Discrimination is not a factor in this election as you democrats want it to be.

The age argument is a mute "argument." You could say people who are young or old who are voting for Obama don't know any better either. I mean come on, there's been 2 7 year olds telling Obama and his wife they're wrong about the war in Iraq.

My biggest problem with Obama is his lack of experience. The thing I'm worried about most is gas prices and I don't think he could handle a foreign incident such as the Russia/Georgia conflict or this thing going on with Iran. I think he's going to sit around and want to talk it over while we're, or our allies, are getting bombed. Other things that bother me are his past and present associations with people like Reverend Wright and Bill Ayers.

And this whole double standard thing with the democrats and republicans. You have John Edward cheating on his dieing wife and no one makes a fuss about it. But uh oh, now everyone thinks Trig is Bristol Palin's son. The boy is 4 months old...and she's 5 month's pregnant.....oooops.

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/09/01/palins-17-year-old-daughter-is-pregnant/

And last but not least, if everyone wanted change the democrats would be winning by a landslide but, they're not. Why is that you may ask? Nobody wants a president with no experience.

I think Biden said it best:

"I think he can be ready, but right now I don't believe he is. The presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training."

I'm hoping and praying, finally in my lifetime, we'll have a president n Obama that can represent our country in a way we can be proud of. He is already showing that he has the wisdom, intelligence, judgment and temperament of a true leader (who, by the way for you ultra-religious-conservatives, would like to reduce unwanted pregnancy, increase "faith-based" organizations and *gets* the fact that these are meaningful issues to many...).

Obama/Biden will show, again, that we not a nation only of simple-minded people. They'll represent our understanding that the world is getting smaller every day with all countries becoming more intertwined on all fronts: security, environment and very definitely, –> the economy<–. Can't wait to see what they can do when we give them a chance.

Bill Clinton hit bulls-eye about the feeling of all 4 billion people living outside US: we are "far more impressed by the power of our example than the example of our power".

Bush administration was capable to turn all the admiration for US determination when pursuing an objective, the role model we always look to run our business and all compassion we felt on Sep 11 into smallness, oil-driven occupation, unilateralism typical from dictators.

Fight terrorism is something the world shall engage but use power to subjugate and threat sovereign countries is the first step to fall.

The world need a stronger and better US.

Go Barack Obama.

Oh here we have someone who surely understands that it is past 12 o'clock., NOT. Your car should not run on petrol (Oil) in 10 years from now, it should run on gas, solar power or any other energy source. Of course it could be that you are one of the 20% of Americans who can afford to pay USD 8 for a gallon of petrol.

I am not sure Jeremy, are you living on the same planet like the other 300+ million Americans???