Three types of mines to harvest energy from

Which mine is the most benevolent form of energy harvesting and which would improve the water quality of surrounding oceans, lakes and streams?

A. Oil field (Produces material for all petroleum based products)
B. Lithium mine (Produces material for both laptops and hybrid car batteries)
C. Hydrogen mine (20 times more explosive than gas, H2,once extracted from H2O is an under-utilized energy source due to the electricity demands needed to separate the hydrogen from the oxygen.)

If our cars used hydrogen or H2 instead of gasoline, the byproduct from our exhaust would be water vapor. Popular Mechanics magazine said that an 850-billion-dollar investment into our electrical grid via pebble reactors, (A nuclear reactor that isn't capable of melting down), could convert our oil based economy into a hydrogen economy thus eliminating geopolitical tensions over energy, less CO2 emission into the atmosphere and subsequently make our air safer to breathe and our beaches safer to swim in.

We have spent $520 billion in Iraq!

French presidential candidate, Francois Bayrou, calls for Beijing boycott

That would so suck for Laure Manaudou and the whole French team. You would think that the world would have learned from former President, Jimmy Carter's, blunder when he had the U.S. boycott the 1980 Moscow Olympics due to the Soviet Union's involvement in Afghanistan. Consequently athletes from all over the United States were summarily denied a legacy and/or an accomplishment due to that foreign policy fiasco.

Enter French politician, Francois Bayrou, who feels France should boycott the 2008 Beijing Olympics, "if China does not alter its stance on the Darfur crisis in Sudan. ..." Here is a link to the story over at WCSN: [link]

I did a little research and found out that China has $10 billion reasons to look the other way in the Sudan and those reasons are all invested inside of Sudan's oil fields. [Link]

Yet another reason to get the hell out of an oil based economy. I don't care if hydrogen costs more to produce and is inefficient to move around. This bloody stuff called oil pollutes the ocean, the air, our lungs and our politics. Per Popular Mechanics it would take 800 million dollars to go to a hydrogen method of energy production yet we have spent $400 billion in Iraq.

Wiki link regarding Popular Mechanics figures: [Link]

So, if you are French, don't vote for this guy.