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OK - just when is the Automotive Industry going to say enough is enough and re-tool? What price per gallon will the American Public be willing to pay before the automotive industry re-designs the way our vehicles are powered? I imagine it would take a major investment - in retooling factories -  but the “lack-of-buyer” blues - must be pushing us closer.  The use of Ethanol fuel - the bio-fuel alternative to gasoline,  is being blended in and has helped keep prices lower. Imagine if we didn’t have it? New studies have claimed that federal ethanol mandates have caused food prices to increase … check out this report on the CattleNetwork.com:   
http://cattlenetwork.com/Energy_Content.asp?ContentID=231643

Electric cars? I wouldn’t mind plugging my car into the electric outlet every night for a recharge! 

Then there was talk - a few years back –  of Hydrogen fueled cars - Hydrogen can be (they say) produced from water through electrolysis.  The neat thing is that the production of hydrogen would have no carbon dioxide emissions. 

Cost drives everything - so the real question is - what will the cost of gasoline have to rise to before the auto industry -scraps fossil fuels and becomes independent?