How much longer?

Dylan Smith wrote:
On 2008-04-08, Jay Maynard wrote:
Alternatives are impractical until there's a complete, comprehensive
distribution infrastructure in place. That'll take 20 years. There's also a
significant chicken-and-egg problem.

Diesel from algae has the potential for 10000 usg/acre used (and is more
of an industrial than agricultural process). So far it's not been
developed because oil has been so cheap.

Sure we can. The only problem is that if say Chevron said they were
going to build a plant to do just that there would be a "Save the Algae"
protest scheduled the the next day and the environmental impact study
would take 20 years.