I'm not gonna favor one party or the other on the board here, but politics has held back alternative energy long before Bush came along.

If anyone had paid any attention to George Washington Carver and Henry Ford (G.B. probably wasn't born then) we would be filling up with some sort of soybean fuel, but by now it would be $3 per gallon and we'd all be b..chin about that.

The guy says his patent is for sale, well that's the last we'll ever hear of that. "Big oil" will buy the patent, the inventor will become a millionaire overnight and the idea will be locked away never to be developed or heard of again. That's been happening ever since oil became a commodity.
Now if we switch to salt water; who owns it, when will it run out, what effect will it have on polar ice caps, dolphins, sea turtles etc........

In a perfect world we would all have Doc. Browns flux capacitor.

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