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Antimatter, matter’s long mysterious counterpart, turns out to be exactly the power source that can solve the current oil crisis. Oil tycoons are outraged.

The fuel source was previously useless for everyday transportation needs due to its scarceness. Antimatter was previously only suitable for interstellar and interplanetary travel. New scientific advances over the past seventeen years have made it possible to convert everyday matter into the antimatter needed to bring this technology to the public. It is expected to be widely available by the end of 3032.

Everyday items that have previously just ended up in landfills can now become kinetic energy. Travelers to the nearest corner shop could reduce travel time to just a few nanoseconds. A trip around the world will take only minutes.

The Department of Disposable Waste reports that landfills could be completely eliminated within the next twenty years. It expects landfills to be a thing of the past by 2052.

A group of concerned citizens formed the Alliance Against Antimatter Travel earlier this year in an effort to build support against using antimatter as a common fuel source. Its founder, Kale Higgins, asks citizens to help in the fight against this potentially disastrous fuel.

AAAT member Ezra Anthony asks, “What’s to stop people from just turning anything they choose into antimatter? People with bad intentions could use this technology to just blink other citizens right out of existence.” Some scientists agree.

Members of the nearly defunct Coalition for Ongoing Oil have pointed to other alternatives as better solutions to the oil crisis. One proposal is to wait several million years so that more oil can be created naturally. Founder Nigel Marcom, who proposes a different solution, asks, “Why not use wind power for transportation needs? People have been using hot air balloons since last millennium. Those of us who have relied on selling oil can provide the public with affordable balloons and fuel stations could be modified to provide the helium.”

Critics point out that propane, not helium, fuels hot air balloons.

Antimatter converters, also known as harvesters, could be available to the public as early as next month. Each converter is expected to cost less than a previous gasoline user’s lifetime fuel expenses. Pricing, however, will be left up to retailers.

Sources:

http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/ariel-schwartz/sustainability/t-boone-pickens-officially-gives-texas-wind-power

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter#Fuel

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7538-antimatter-harvester-may-fuel-future-spacecraft.html