But how many grams of fossil fuel does it take to create one gram of used cooking oil.  Things like that just seem pointless to me.

You are taking what leftover oil and putting it to good use instead of disposing of it and letting nature take over or what ever they do with that cooking oil and ****.

I think it is better than taking a fossil fuel out of the ground and having only one use.

mmmm, 10W-30 and Freedom Fries, mmmm

it\'s the right direction I suppose. One of the Mr Fusion fusion reactors from back to the future II would be better tho.

soon enough.

most of todays technology is because some "nerd" was watching Star Trek or some other movie/tv show and tried to replicate the technology into reality. I was at awe when I saw this seemingly meaningless show on the History Channel months ago titled "How William Shatner Changed the World" and was shown the meaning behind this mad technology and science. Just goes to show you that the world needs nerds, too.

This 2-hour special takes a look at the influence of the original Star Trek television series on the worlds of medicine, science and technology. William Shatner hosts this program and shows the effect that Star Trek had on many fans who went on to create groundbreaking products in the fields of telecommunications, medicine and computer science.

TV.COM LINK

Any diesel engine can burn bio-diesel. It can run on old cooking oil or bio-diesel. It takes very little prep work to make it happen.

The problem with left over cooking oil is that as soon as people think they can make money on it it will no longer be free. So the whole idea of free fuel is gone.

Ethenol is a huge scam and is basically a way that the current administration has been able to send huge sums of money to their friends in the argo business. It takes way more energy to make it then you get out of it and the residual effects are higher costs for corn based products.

The biggest changes will come in the form of high mileage automobiles but where they ave been available in Eurpoe for a long time they are just starting to get here. The smart cars and others like them that get really good gas mileage.

Conservation and mileage mandates would go a really long way to making the oil we do have last longer. The problem is that the US is hooked on big cars with low gas mileage. Some of that is changing but the high gas mileage cars tend to be very compact and getting hit by a HUGE SUV in 1 of those would be an issue

We\'re fine.  All the alternative energy solutions we need are already good to go, its just a matter of getting oil and oil companies out of the way.  Like Klout said, it\'s the lobbying/dividing/misinforming by the oil giants that keep these energy sources from being prevalently used.  But if/when oil does go dry, it\'s not like everything is going to just grind to a halt.  There are too many other powerful people who would be f&^ed for that to ever happen.  When we truly need alternative energy, we\'ll get it.

I would make the assumption that oil companies are the ones who have these technologies and have used their money to investigate and study other forms of energy.  They are the ones who have the money to do the research etc... I think they will just **** us until the day the come out with "THE ANSWER TO OIL" then sell that to us. But they will take advantage of oil and its uses until then.

Nuclear Energy, Hydrogen fuel cells w/ home regeneration, Gas stations will become hydrogen fuel cell refills, Gas powered vehicals will become a thing of the past, the oil that is remaining  post Peak oil will still be needed for everyday **** like TV, glasses, infrastructure, guitars, paint, cooking oil, you name it... plastic ****


pretty much DONT BUY A CAR in the next 5 years because it will be come obselete

http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com

I had to listen to some jack ass buying coffee talk about how our emergency oil reserve, once needed, will provide this country with another 300 years worth of crude oil. Lucky for him and the agreeing cashier I was there to remove their petroleum veils. "Actually we have 727 million barrels of emergency oil and right now we use about 20 million barrels a day, chief." He started using his fingers to count.... "That\'s about 36 days, brah." He left scratching his scalp.

was this in starbucks?

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I had to listen to some jack ass buying coffee talk about how our emergency oil reserve, once needed, will provide this country with another 300 years worth of crude oil. Lucky for him and the agreeing cashier I was there to remove their petroleum veils. "Actually we have 727 million barrels of emergency oil and right now we use about 20 million barrels a day, chief." He started using his fingers to count.... "That\'s about 36 days, brah." He left scratching his scalp.

was this in starbucks?

no.

jesus. someone\'s on a good will kick lately..