A new alternative energy age dawns

LIKE any addict admitting they have a problem, America will hope to start afresh now that George W Bush has confessed to the country’s unhealthy dependency on oil.
The US, he said in his State of the Union address, has become too reliant on oil, often from unstable countries, and has to find alternatives.
“The best way to break this addiction is through technology,” he said. He has set a six-year target to make bioethanol, a plant-derived fuel, as available and competitively-priced as petrol

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