How can we avoid energy crisis?

Answer 1

We need to aggressively push research and development of all kinds of alternative energy. Cheaper solar panels. Easier to make bio fuels. Cleaner and safer nuclear. Nuclear fusion. Some day the world will run out of oil, and that day may well come in your lifetime if you are young today.

Answer 2

Ethanol has already started to drive up the cost of food. Cows eat corn, have you seen the price of milk and meat lately? The only way electric vehicles are feasible environmentally is if you use renewable resources to charge them. I saw a program last week where a city in India that is generating it's power with methane collected from cow waste. The waste is transported to the facility on small human powered carts. The same program reported that the cows in the U.S produce more greenhouse gasses than all of the cars. I believe that vehicles are only a small part of the petroleum/pollution problem. Most of the plastics we use today are petroleum based Think of all the soda/water bottles, CD cases, toys, etc. that we are filling our landfills with. I think the bottom line is that we need to be better custodians of our planet. Every little bit will help. Drive less, recycle what you can, save energy where you can. Be an example to your neighbor. Maybe it will catch on.

Answer 3

What Energy Crisis?
There will be one when, and if, we take Global Warming seriously but our President does not. He wants only voluntary goals. Is this a self-contradiction or a charade?
When we get serious about ending all Carbon Emissions, we will have an Energy Crisis, but not now. We need to think about it until February 5th, 2008, The Presidential Primaries in California. When anti-Gore people will be most noted by their absence.

Answer 4

Well, this is a toughie. Install energy saving bulbs, change your computer's settings so it will standby or shut off the monitor (I prefer shutting off the monitor myself) after 5 minutes, Turn off lights when you leave a room, and don't watch too much television.

Oh, and oil-wise. We have to switch over to alternative forms of energy, hybrid cars, solar cars, and the same collectively as a country and world.

Answer 5

Switch to nuclear power which will last us millions of years without destroying the environment (we might need breeders at some point but they're proven already anyway).

We'll also need to find a way to produce synthetic fuels at large scale (though we have some pretty good ideas on how to go about that) for things that can't carry a nuclear reactor around with them.

Answer 6

By producing more of our own oil. We need to get off of middle eastern oil.

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Answer 7

I agree that is exactly what we need to do our nations have the power and money to do it but everybody is to greedy they want that tax from the oil trade.

Answer 8

Breed pink bunnies.

Answer 9

not use energy

Answer 10

we could harness natural resources.wind wateretc.