Motor Trend has a LONG interview with Mike Love regarding the many cars he has loved (the number is quite possibly higher than the number of wives he has loved). The quote below is about higher gas mileage and alternatives to gasoline.

"A lot of us really appreciate and love the high-performance cars -- the big engines and great horsepower and fantastic handling. We don't want to sacrifice any of that, but we also don't want to be completely dependent on one or two places in the world for sources of oil to fuel our cars," Love adds. "I think we have enough land in America that we could create independence if our government and the automobile companies put their minds to it. I'm sure they'd have the support of the entire population the way the gas prices are going these days."

We chime in about predictions that there might be an end to the musclecar, with the 35-mpg CAFE standards by 2020 and 32 mpg as early as 2015.

"That's what they say, but I don't think it has to be the end of anything. It just has to be a different fuel source and that could be the biofuels. I'm sure they can figure it out -- how to make my Bentley run on sugar beets," Love laughs.

Love says focusing on Greener technology is doable. "They have cellulose biofuel technology, which is there. It just has to be the economics and the will of the people to have to move it along so we don't have to sacrifice performance just because our oil companies have got us slavishly dependent on their product."

My answer: build nuclear power plants and sell inexpensive electric cars powered by the electricity produced by the nuclear power plants. At the same time, drill for more oil here in the U.S., and build refineries in the U.S. Short term and long term solutions that are far more feasible than biofuels, which require a lot of energy to produce, make food prices high, and create their own special brand of pollution.