I like being able to put gas in my car and heat my home with natural gas. The engineers and scientists for oil companies and contractors are some of the brightest in the world and I work for an oil company contractor as an engineer doing work on very sensitive issues. Oil industry has corruption just as much as the next corporation. Even if global warming is our fault, you have to ask yourself, are you willing to chop wood with an ax to heat your home and ride a horse to work? Alternative energys do not even come close to providing the needed Kw or BTU energy to supply power grid.
Yes, they do. The kind of energy generation just varies from place to place. Solar, wind, tidal power... all supply clean, plentiful power. But of course, you can't use tidal power in the Nevada desert... you have to solar power and wind power. You can only use limited solar power in, say, Prince Rupert, British Columbia, one of the most cloudy places on Earth, but you can use tidal power, waterwheels, and of course, wind power to augment the solar power.
It's silly, in fact, it is pretty much a lie, now, to call solar, wind, and tidal powers 'alternative energies'. They are cleaner, plentiful, and less deadly energies, and they are very viable.
And there is also little need to totally switch to clean energies. Hybrid cars, cities that operate grids that use both, say, nuclear power and wind power already exist, and do not have problems with power shortages.
For the foreseeable future, yes, we will still need some things to be run off of natural gas and even fuel. But we can switch to bio-diesel, we can build homes that are more energy efficient, and many power grids could easily build clean energy generating plants rather than ones that destroy respitory systems, that create unhealthful smog, and that are just, well, dirty.
