Hate to break it to you, but if you fly an RJ like you're profile says you'd better be super-gung-ho about digging up Canada and Alaska to get at that oil...the airline business cannot survive a signifanct shortfall in oil production in the near future. I'm not one of those folks who think that we will be out of oil in 18 months, but I know for a fact that we will need to aggressively exploit previously untouched reserves...fortunately, technology is making it practical to get at oil that was too hard to reach in the past.

Alternatives fuels can work great in the vast majority of applications, but turbine aircraft is not one of them...we need time to develop technologies that will allow airliners to use non-petroleum, and even more time to implement them. The capital costs of airliners are so high that companies need 15-20+ years to pay for them...we can't afford to just scrap all the planes we have in service and buy new ones.

Before anyone starts spouting off about hydrogen or solar ( ) powered airliners, do a serach for one of my previous threads on the technical problems associated with alternative fuels in aviation.