Teribus might be on to somthing...get poor people to push your car.
In a way gasoline is cheap slave labor. A gas tiller can do a garden as well as by hand but human labor is more expensive. This country was built by slave labor. But I for one can not accept the Teribus solution of slave labor.
The great pyramid temples in southern India were built by elephants. The fuel they consume is bio fule at its best and most direct use for projects that require great energy for hauling and lifting. They even help build the ramps they need for construction.
The coming food holocaust will kill more people than the Nazi Holocaust which leads me to wonder the culpability of the Bush administration to the coming famine. What if the 4 trillion dollars he borrowed and spent (including the interest) had been put to energy conversiona and fresh water and food production.
I am sure there would be a lot of para military private contractor billionaires with a lot less money today.