There is hope. My brother is a manager at a major wholesale food distributer in Southern Ontario. They are converting a dozen of their long haul trucks to a new technology.
http://www.wired.com/cars/energy/news/2005/11/69529
IMHO This is where we are headed, a technical solution. Again no oil company executive or any country, province or state legislature is going to take us there if it means less profits, taxes or election contributions. The oil pirates own the distribution system so don't expect them to start making anything but their overpriced products available unless we elect people who have the "b??ls" to take them on. In the meantime we will vote, as consumers, with our dollars. The technologies are out there and being further developed and refined. Mass production will bring down costs and improve availability. Competition will spur innovation as long as it is protected from those big oil dollars squishing it before it gets started. The enemies are not Asian countries trying to improve their economies or even OPEC as most of the oil imports are now from other sources. It isn't people who are concerned about the damage that the petroleum industry and fossil fuel consumption has on our planet. It isn't us as we would all like to see cheaper, less polluting fuels. The biggest enemies by name are Exxon Mobile, Shell, British Petroleum, Total and Chevron. Like big tobacco they put profit ahead of any other concern, moral or otherwise. Can anyone say anti-trust?