Wouldn’t it just be so much easier to get away from internal combustion engines…

Mass. company making diesel with sun, water, CO2

Yet another possible good idea that has the potential to go horribly wrong.  This could be even worse than genetically manipulated foods.  Genetically manipulated primative organisms have a greater possiblility of contaminating the environment than Monsanto’s killer seeds.  Think of a possible inadvertant release into a lake.  Instead of having a body of water with a living working ecosystem, you could end up with a dead, alcohol or biodiesel covered pond, ready to become a pool of fire.  Not to mention that everything in the lake would be killed because of this. 

We need fuel.  True…

We need to get off the crude oil pipeline.  Absolutely…

Should we manipulate and create life forms to do it?  NO…

We should be putting more effort into fuel cells, wind, solar, storage batteries.