[Codester66]

(c&d quote)"Virtually all the hydrogen produced today, about 50 million tons worldwide, comes from natural gas. The process, called "steam reforming," is only about 30 percent efficient, much less, he says, "than if the natural gas were simply burned" in the generating plant."

thats interesting, especially since natural gas will peak shortly after oil peaks. theres just no positive alternatives filtering out into the public domain, and lets get real here, coal is energy intensive, it would scar the land for the thousands of miles of energy we'd need, and the climate and atmosphere are all out of whack as it is, without the increased greenhouses and particulates. neither can we afford another 10,000 nuclear power plants, besides that were looking at uranium shortages by 2020. and if we could pull together the recources to build this "hydrogen economy", we cant afford to convert our infrastructure to hydrogen because of the price, storage, and the recources involved aswell are becoming scarce.

and were talking about '07-'08 by the best of my research(and intuitions), at wich point the picture will become pretty clear. Iraq really is about oil, thats why we have the military bases there, and thats why we have this war on "Terror" in that region. they arent going to tell us whats about to happen to america, but the signs are all their:the weak dollar, the deficit, oil prices, the war on "terror", loss of rights, public systems out of control. the ones in the know, who are really behind the economy, who control government and corporate sectors...they arent going to warn us of this until its too late; for one they want to make as much money as possible, and two the economy wont stop growing, or see the signs of crisis until we are incapable of reacting.

if you believe in carma, as i do, then the fact that we are the wealthiest nation on the planet, and yet one of the most greedy, afluent, materialistic, and in some way morally perverse, with almost no accountability( like a teenager with unlimited access to her daddys credit card), and now soon we coudl be finding ourselves killing people, and fighting wars to sustain our way of life-as a matter of life and death-is incredibly prophetic. i dont know how we can justify that kind of selfishness without getting our come-up-ins. its the whole yin/yeng, balanced energies idea...but its talked about in almost all major religions and spiritual prophecies, so i dunno