[gspsonny03]

There is better solutions. It's all a matter of how much do you want to spend. As in all things in this life, if you have money to spend you can always buy the best. The power plants have been forced to put scrubbers in so that they cause less pollution. This has forced the smaller power plants out of business and has put a strain on the bigger ones to keep up with the demand. That's why California has such a problem with their energy situation. They don't want power plants in their state because of the pollution, so it all has to come in from out of state, so they pay higher prices. They refuse to let nuclear plants in for the same reason. Scrubbers cost a lot of money and as you know these places won't put them in without passing the cost on to the consumer. Your best alternative for power is most likely wind power or hydroelectric. I heard the other day some talk about huge wind stations scheduled to be built somewhere out toward the west coast. Not exactly sure now where they was talking. One thing that I've noticed in the last twenty years, you have people come up with better ideas and then you have enviromentalists come along and get the ideas shut down because we might endanger a minnow or an owl. Now I'm all for saving all the environment that we can, but what cost do you put on that? You talk about the oil and coal companies shutting down alternative fuels, I think you need to look more at the tree huggers and the bunny huggers, they have probably shut down more ideas than both companies combined. JMO