Why cheap, renewable fuel sources aren't forthcoming

I don't know how much of the theory behind the science is actually real and how much is just myth, but even though the movie was average at best, the idea that the government is trying to control and contain the discovery of alternative energy sources is a very pertinent topic in todays economic climate.

Think about what would happen if somebody suddenly went "Hey guys, guess what? We can power our cars and our houses and everything else in our lives using nothing but ordinary, common water, there's no need to give those awful oil companies our hard earned cash anymore"!

Now, first of all, this would cause global financial meltdown because an awful lot of the worlds economy relies on the money generated from the oil industry. Plus, a lot of that Oil money finds it way into America. So, oil shares would become worthless, stock markets the world over would crash and we'd have HyperDepression, similar to what happened in Germany in the 1930's when a loaf of bread cost something like a million deutschmarks. The weak and the poor(that's a lot of the world population) would die of starvation, there would be widespread panic, confusion and rioting and the government would lose control of its citizens the world over. The army would be brought in to try to restore order, but that would just lead to police states. Put simply, the world would never recover from the fallout.

Now, I'm of the belief that the US government already has a cheap, renewable energy source and that for the reasons above they are choosing to withhold it from the world. We can moan about the price of gas all we like, but until they have sucked every last drop of the black stuff from the grounds of the earth they will not switch to this. They are getting to the point where they are trying to monopolise the oil industry, thereby they control ALL of the oil. Hence, once it is all gone THEN they will be able to reveal the alternative power source to the world, but not before.

Whatever you think of the movie, the underlying message certainly provides food for thought.