Effect of the oil crisis on gaming, console sales?

[bigjon]

HappySqurriel said:

bigjon said:
You are all morons. (I mean that in a nice way)

Yes oil prices are bad, but I have a strong feeling that oil prices will collapse. Also alterative fuels are RIGHT around the corner... if the oil prices do continue to rise than it will help usher in a new era of energy... Hydrogen... The tech is there, it is just being perfected. Within 10 years over 50% of all cars will be running off of water and air... greatly releaving the oil demand.

Sorry to reign on many of you end-of-world predictions...

How do you plan on generating this hydrogen? You need an energy source to convert it from water and (currently) Solar and Wind power is way too expensive and inefficient, it is difficult to produce Nuclear powerplants because of the environmental lobby, it is difficult to produce Hydro-electric powerplants because of the environmental lobby, it is difficult to produce Fossil Fuel powerplants because of the environmental lobby and your energy would still be attached to fossil Fuels.

How are you going to get the infastructure for these Hydrogen powered cars, and who is going to buy a hydrogen powered car without having a place to fill it? We're in a 'chicken and the egg' situation which has prevented the switch over to every other alternative energy resource.

 

Realistically, the next step in transportation is going to be people switching to hybrid-electric cars and eventually switching to plug-in hybrid-electric cars; the electric infastructure will remain (mainly) as a fossil fuels, and we will (hopefully) see an increase in Nuclear and alternative energies. The home heating infastructure will remain (mainly) as fossil fuels, and we will (hopefully) se a move towards electric.

At the same time you're going to see China and India's ecconomies eat up 5% to 10% more energy every year, and most western countries will (moronically) introduce taxes on energies while limiting production, which will cause energy inflation over the next several years.

 

 California already has a plan in place to create a network of Hydrogen pumping stations. I do agree with about Hybrids being the first step.