Enjoyable Mark Fiore cartoon -- Is it silly to use oil to fuel vehicles?

[WhipperSnapper]

I enjoyed this recent Mark Fiore political cartoon and thought you guys might enjoy it too. When you step back and think about it, it really does seem a little absurd that we are still using fossil fuels to power our vehicles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DZfdX42CZo

(I would have liked to have embedded this here, but I can't figure out how to do it.)

 

[bobsmith1492]

Sure does seem silly to use oil... we should all have Mr. Fusions. It's out there y'know, but Big Oil just keeps it under wraps.

 

[WhipperSnapper]

Heh heh. Yeah, I know. Gasoline still gives us the best short-term Energy-Return-on-Investment (ignoring any future costs of having to deal with pollution and global warming). However, I do think it's time for our society to seriously and heavily research alternative methods of propulsion. Of course, that would also require developing nuclear power to provide the electricity for it.

 

[bobsmith1492]

We're getting there though! Cars like the Volt will be a good stepping-stone to reduced oil consumption, with the flexibility to use other power sources easily (drop in a fuel cell in lieu of the gas engine? Drop in a diesel and give it bio-diesel?)