Quote Originally Posted by RetiredJedi View Post
Well, I didn't say "so why bother", I just meant that the technology needs to be continuosly studied and not pushed on us. Also, we have started and are continuing to work on it.
That's kind of a tricky one in a capitalist society. Right now fossil fuel technologies are making some people a lot of money. It will take a lot of time, money and research before alternative energy technologies can compete with fossil fuels. We can either push it on the population and force development, or subsidize research/development with taxes. If we do neither, we will just have to wait until gas/oil is quite a bit more expensive than it is before the alternative energy technology becomes feasible for the private sector to develop and produce.