What Solutions Are Proposed for the Fuel Crisis?
There are a host of solutions proposed for the fuel crisis depending upon who you are. If you are congress, drilling is an issue on the table. In fact, there is a lot of talk about Congress and offshore drilling, as well as the idea to drill in the Alaskan and Arctic wilderness. There is a lot of reaction to that one, much of it quite negative.
Another solution that has been proposed is that of converting individual’ cars into hydrogen based and hydrogen run vehicles, thus eliminating the need for and dependence upon fossil fuels, and eliminating pollution, helping the environment and helping the ecosystems. The barrier at this point is that the conversion of cars can be costly, and may not save as much money in gas – at least for the first few years – as the conversion costs.
This is much the same as electric or solar powered cars. People talk about this regularly and would be willing to five it a try if there was not an extremely high initial cost. There are various estimates as to what the actual cost would be to do the conversions, however, most of them differ. Many of them run in the thousands of dollars, averaging at around $3,000.
These are all good ideas and can be workable over time, however, in an economy that is already strained, it would be hard for most people to make the changes to their vehicles (or buy vehicles) that would eliminate the need for fossil fuels. There have been ideas promoted that involve incentives for consumers that would make that step and create the conversion in their cars.
Whatever lawmakers and citizens decide upon, it is evident that fuel is in short supply, it is expensive and changes will need to be made. Hopefully there will be some reasonable ways to enlist the solutions to this problem soon.