Energy Initiatives: 'Taxing SUVs Into Oblivion'; The Air Car; Wind Power

I feel very comfortable saying the automobile was one of the worst things ever invented.
Millions have died as a result of accidents, faulty equipment and system failure, they have caused our society to be built around solitary travel as opposed to mass transit systems (for instance, the purchasing and shutdown of all cable car companies by the auto industry circa 1900) and now they have impacted global politics by forcing our nation's reliance on a fuel source located in places we would normally not have relations with, i.e, totalitarian dictatorships.

I feel better just having said it. try it, you'll feel better too.
What's really sad is the amount of money wasted each year on re-designing a failed concept. Do we want to remain fossil fuel society forever? That's impossible.
We must support alternative forms of energy and we must do it now. No more advancing the infrastructure to support oil and natural gas. Let's instead follow the lead on most industrialized nations in the world and support solar and wind.
It's simple really: Countries that address this problem now will be better able to handle what's going to come down the pipe later.
Being depended on fossil fuel also makes us reliant on technology that is almost two centuries old! That's crazy! Most of us don't keep our computers longer than a few years, to say nothing of all the other things we replace with new designs, like 8-tracks to CD players to MP3; Beta Max to VHS to DVD to whatever they finally release next year.
Why do we have such a problem getting away from automobiles? I have no idea...Of all the ideas for a replacement I've seen I like the air-pressure version. Like the air car, by Moteur Developpment International or maybe the Korean version by Energine Corporation will be better, hard to tell without driving one. (Learn more about air-cars here.)
California and a few other states are trying to make something happen, but it's gonna take all of us pushing for a change to finally make it happen.
But check out this essay by Arnaud De Borchgrave of UPI. He makes some very valid points we should all consider, regardless of where we live.

Who knows, maybe ten years from now companies like Southwest Windpower (who in 2006 plans to release new products for home electric production) will be what BP and Shell are today, only without all the drilling and tanker spills.