Five Dollar Gas

No one can say for sure which technologies will solve the energy
problem. We can all make the list of candidates topped, ultimately,
by SSP.
I think it is safe to say that the free markets and enterprise will
get us there -- not government or bureaucracies or lots of
regulation.
Think of NASA, our main impediment (with congress) to development of
commercial space. Most space launches are now made with Russian
engines. Our space shuttle is as close to a joke as it can get. It
is like you only had an eighteen wheeler for all your transportation
needs -- and left the trailer at your destination each trip. The
Russians have become more free and enterprising -- we have become
more socialistic. The NASA bureaucracy is alive and well -- our
space program misdirected and without goals.
For every problem government seems to solve -- they create three
more of equal or greater magnitude and spend 1.5 times what taxes
they receive. Govt. is our nemesis not our friend.
However enticing it is to regulate and interfere with the "evil"
auto and energy companies -- remember the computer revolution, early
1980's.
Left unencumbered the enterprise system will evolve a better
solution than govt. can possibly imagine.