Space and beyond

I was thinking, rather uncharacteristically I should add, about worldly problems this morning, while going about my morning routine. I found myself thinking about oil and gasoline and how it's a non-renewable fuel source. I had a sudden realization about it, that I also realize few people seem to think or worry about.

Most people, when they think about gas being non-renewable, think about how it means we one day cannot rely on gas to fuel our cars. But the problem is a bit larger than that. One day, we cannot rely on gas to fuel our airplanes or space shuttles. It's obvious nobody is working on that problem, because nobody has been spouting news stories about research airplane fuel technologies. Well, maybe one or two involving algae, but nothing that anybody really paid attention to.

Not only will we not be able to drive to work tomorrow, or deliver grocery stock to stores via 18-wheelers, but we won't be able to fly from Chicago to Japan, or even to California or anywhere. You people who have used gas-powered generators before, for those major power outages? Those will be gone, because there won't be any gas.

And then think about the space shuttle. I haven't done my research on this, but I'm pretty sure they measure their fuel by weight, or possibly mass, rather than in gallons. Because they need a lot of gas just to get into orbit. And let the thinking continue, off to Mars. Not only would it take a lot of gas to get humans there, but it would take a lot to get back as well. Think about it: what if we try to colonize other worlds and discover there's no oil? No way to make gas at all? Wouldn't we end up being stranded? It's probably why nobody has bothered to try a moon base, or to send a human expedition to Mars: fuel.

It's certainly a big problem that I think we need to pay more attention to. People are worried about saving endangered wildlife and deforesting and stuff. But the bigger problem is gasoline. It would also probably prove beneficial to those problems as well, if we could replace gasoline, since we would no longer need to drill for oil, (that's the idea at least).
Forget all this talk of hybrids. Coming up with hybrids only prolongs the problem. People need to do some real work on coming up with cars that need no gas whatsoever, and the sooner the better.

The sooner we do that, the sooner we can stop funding terrorists by buying their oil.

Anyways, time for me to go to work, so maybe I'll talk about more personal stuff later. Peace.