"Scary chain reactions occuring on Too much dependence from Crude Oil"  

If the guys in the government would only be supportive of this, we could be one of the richest countries in the world. We have deuterium. It's the heavy H20 that can be used as fuel. The Philippine trenches have lots of it. Enough to supply internationally. But if you go up and ask for support to industrialize it,the first thing they ask you is "How much is my percentage from it?" Not only that. Our fellow Filipino invented a way to make a fuel out of water but he ended up selling the patent due to indifference. He never got the government support he needed for that invention.

I know what you mean it has become more and more expensive. We do have to find a way to stop letting it dominate us and we need to convert to something else.

But it's really more complex than that. The world uses crude oil for a hell of a lot more than just powering cars and trucks. Starting at the lowest level of the distillation process we get and use Asphalt for roads and tar for other things. As we go up we get greases and lubricating oils for motors and engines. Then heating oil (fuel oil) for the home as well as diesel fuel. Still higher we get kerosene (used to be for lamps, also storing pure Sodium safely) and diesel fuel. Above that, straight-run gasoline which we know we use for automobiles, but also for emergency generators and lawn mowers. At the very top, methane, ethane and propane we use some for cooking, hot water heaters and home heating. I know I missed a lot of other things we use oil for.

My point is, we're going to have to redesign way too many things for the world to let go of oil completely. There is way too much coal and shale that can be used or converted to oil, after oil runs out for that to happen in our lifetimes. Also, even if the United States and Russia give up the oil, there will still be 3 billion or more poor people in China and India that will take much longer to stop using it.

NASA has been researching the use of Helium 3 as a powerful source of energy. Most people don't know that the soil on the moon is saturated with that stuff, given off by the sun when it fuses hydrogen into helium. They've just about perfected the conversion process, but they have to figure out how to get it back to earth cheaply.