Pick a Channel and Stick With It!
The only way things are going haywire now is the battle for which alternate fuel source will come out on top. Right now, everything is pretty much GASOLINE, along with Diesel, and how many have made the mistake of putting the wrong one in their car at some point? At least it's the same delivery method and infrastructure. So now you have Hydrogen, Natural Gas and Electricity to add, which all use different delivery methods and infrastructure. Everyone's environmental, but how many companies are going to dip into their BILLIONS in profits in order to build it? America can't even decide to build new railways because they're 'too expensive', and 'the old ones work well enough'. There's lots of people like 'Open_Source_User' out there, enough to keep the World running on it's petroleum resources until they ARE gone. It may still take decades, but it eventually WILL happen at some point.
I know it's open market, but waiting for the companies to battle over which alternative fuel will come out on top is self-defeating. They should pick the best one and throw all of their efforts into that...