You sound like your slightly behind/backwards in your thinking, regarding energy platforms. Stick with oil, see where you land! :>) Solar, fuel cells and battery storage are the future! Coal and Oil exit stage left as primary sources of energy!/quote] I don't think I'll be around 300 years from now to worry about solar, fuel cells, and battery storage. Jimmy Carter put solar panels on the White House in 1980. Made the same argument then. So here we are 35 years later.