The Glade 4.0

ElBaradei brushed aside the concerns of the administration and many on Capitol Hill that an opening for the banned Muslim Brotherhood to take greater power in the country could result in an Islamist state. One of the Brotherhood's former members, Ayman al-Zawahri, is al-Qaeda's No. 2.

"This is total bogus that the Muslim Brotherhood are religiously conservative," he said. "They are no way extremists. They are no way using violence. They are not a majority of the Egyptian people. They will not be more than maybe 20 percent of the Egyptian people.

"You have to include them like, you know, new evangelical, you know, groups in the U.S., like the orthodox Jews in Jerusalem," ElBaradei said.

Well, that's a bit premature at the moment. Mubarak has been one of Israel's biggest supporters in the region, consistantly blaming Hezbollah/Hamas for the flareups of violence.

This is what really sucks about this whole situation -- from a foreign policy standpoint, Mubarak has been ideal in almost every way. It's his domestic policies that are causing him trouble. If he gets ousted, I guarantee that what takes his place will not be nearly as friendly to the "West."

The US depends far too much on Middle Eastern oil in order to be able to risk all the infrastructure being destroyed by a major war, especially a potential nuclear war. This isn't a problem you can just make disappear, the first world depends on oil and even a 10% drop in supply would destroy every economy.

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

The US depends far too much on Middle Eastern oil in order to be able to risk all the infrastructure being destroyed by a major war, especially a potential nuclear war. This isn't a problem you can just make disappear, the first world depends on oil and even a 10% drop in supply would destroy every economy.

The western economy depends on oil because our governments are being paid to depend on oil. The United States could shift completely away from oil within a few years if properly motivated.

There is no technology even remotely close to viability that has the energy density needed to replace fossil fuels for transportation, even if we could somehow completely eliminate it for power generation.

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

Yes, but we didn't have to have consumers replace anything to take advantage of that. If we had the "miracle fuel" tomorrow, we'd still have to replace every single car on the road, unless its somehow backward compatible. Thus none of the emerging technologies qualify. I can't afford to run out and buy a new car, and i'm sure i'm not alone in that.

Sure we could do a conversion but that's gonna cost money too. So Miracle fuel would have to be a lot cheaper than Gasoline to make the conversion a sound investment. Again, we aren't there with any of the emerging fuels.

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

Will it? Mines 8 and still ticking. As a hospital Valet I saw a lot of cars from the 80s

In 2007 the overall median age for automobiles was 9.2 years

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

In 1942, there was no technology remotely close to viability that had the destructive capability of a fission bomb.

Actually, plenty of emerging technologies qualify as viable replacements for hydrocarbon based energy. Indeed, at least one segment of hydrocarbon based energy production could be replaced in its entirety by an alternative fuel within 5 years.

The Tesla roadster can travel 245 miles before recharging. Also has 288 hp.

http://www.teslamotors.com/roadster/specs