Comment: solutions *NOT* allowed:

alternative energys re-invented many times over, inventors bought off,
scared off or knocked off each and every time...

Dimitri Petronov
Another Plasma Battery Technology Inventor Found Dead In River..
is/was a Russian inventor of a plasma battery that powered his entire two bedroom house in Moscow for almost 14 months before the Russian government seized his device after Dimitri disappeared on February 10th 2010

Aries DeGeus
Who patented his plasma battery .. found dead in his car in an airport parking lot...
On Nov. 11, 2007 inventor of a revolutionary, affordable, clean energy technology, found slumped in his car, in the long-term parking lot of the Charlotte Douglass International Airport in North Carolina. … He was apparently on his way to Europe where he was to secure major funding for the development and commercialization of his technology, which could make oil obsolete. …"

Eugene Mallove
MIT professor was found beaten to death...on May 14, 2004 in Norwich, Connecticut, while cleaning a recently vacated rental property owned by his parents...within 3 months of giving this coast to coast broadcast interview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oTAlEo84Sc

and that 100 mile per gallon of gas? meet (one of many) Tom Ogle:
http://www.editinternational.com/read.php?id=482881ba117d7

if you haven't already seen (circa 1970's) the documentary "who killed the electric car?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IENnSK8Q6nE
narrated by martin sheen with some original footage & some interesting participants
in the re-enactment scenes.

lotta good bones in that oil slick graveyard.