My 12 year old grandson today said that oil was really for old people

[Rosa Luxemburg]

he said oil was like old TVs and gas guzzlers. He liked the idea of hover cars that worked on air.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

1. Let's hope by the time he's driving,

he won't have to fill up a tank with gasoline.

[Teaser]

3. 12 years old? He'll be driving in 4-6 years.

.

[asphalt.jungle]

4. and that's when he'll forget that he ever said that

when he needs to gas up the car to pick up his girl. too bad we can't all revert to being 12 again. :(

hovercrafts would be cool though.

[patrice]

19. bingo, I'm sad to say, "Nothing gold can stay."

[GoddessOfGuinness]

5. And we've got the technology for electric cars now.

[Teaser]

15. not the infrastructure and subsidization

necessary to make them truly widespread, sadly. And I don't see that happening in 4 years.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

21. Most things born of necessity are things that weren't envisioned

a short time before.

But we'll have to kick ass to make it happen.

[NYC_SKP]

2. That is beautiful.

Recommended.

:thumbsup:

[Cha]

6. Maybe he'll be driving something like this.. FCX Clarity Honda

So far they're only leasing them in California..

"About 200 vehicles will be leased over the next three years, primarily in Southern California."

The Zero-Emissions Electric Vehicle of the Future. A Reality Today.
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Performance
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http://automobiles.honda.com/fcx-clarity/

[TheWraith]

11. Snort.

200 vehicles? Tesla's going to produce and ship more than that just this year.

[Cha]

26. Good!

[Hydra]

7. Kids are funny- they sometimes see right through the BS

Oil, coal and nuclear really do belong to another Era, an Era of people like Cheney.

[sakabatou]

8. Petroleum Green is made of PEOPLE!!

[boppers]

9. Sad, but true....

Check this out: http://www.teslamotors.com/

My grandfather (97 now) is still confused by telephones, let alone email, sms, videochat, etc.

Their "refrigerators" were a chunk of ice sitting on a wooden box. They're now living in a world where a refrigerator can automatically re-order groceries, and the kids have devices that replace phones, maps, board games, mail, phone calls, etc. in a palm size device.

Kind of makes me wonder what life will be like in my 90's. Maybe we'll have air-hover-cars that run off of windmills, tidal waves, and solar, and we'll be looking back at "the old days" when people used cars that ran on oil, and computers that cost hundreds(!) of dollars.

[tridim]

10. Like writing checks in the express lane.

Sorry seniors.

[Donnachaidh]

12. then tell your grandson to give up his cd's and pretty much all his plastic toys

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic

:eyes:

[rucky]

14. CD's?

get with it, geezer! Downloads are it, now.

[rucky]

13. There's always hope for us in the next generation.

I was also promised flying cars as a kid. Somebody needs to get on this ASAP.

[Vinca]

16. You're grandson is on to something. Congress is the entity

that can change our energy future and I'd bet the average age is about 70 . . . maybe higher.

[RichGirl]

17. I'd like to add to that....

STUPID OLD PEOPLE!!

[Jennicut]

18. At least kids have imagination and determination. Adults could use some of that.

My 4 and 5 year old inspire me everyday.

[WI_DEM]

20. Well lets hope his generation does something about it instead of making it worse

as has been the case. We are importing more oil today than we were 30-years ago.

[proteus_lives]

22. Tell him to get cracking on that.

[BeFree]

23. That's right, kid

Oil is for old people. Ride your bike, and stay off my damn lawn!!

We will use up all the oil and leave you kids a few drops, and you'll love us forever!!

[TheKentuckian]

24. He's almost right. Oil is actually a scam from another age. The intent wasn't to

run the inventions off oil but biofuels before there was such a term.

[DavidDvorkin]

25. Hover cars burn air for power?

I didn't know that!