So it just cost me $86 to fill my gas tank. It used to cost me $13 when I first started college almost eight years ago.

I understand that I will never have the answer to the world's energy crisis, and will have to wait for one or more people to come up with a breakthough.

As we strain to keep pace with energy demands, it is expected to increase eightfold by 2050. The population will swell toward 12 billion by this time. It's sometimes scary to think about what my life will be like when I am 68 at this time.

Some see helium-3 as the perfect fuel source. It is extremely potent, nonpolluting with virtually no radioactive by-product.

The only problem is, this two proton, one neutron isotope of helium is extremely rare on Earth.

Some see the Moon as the next Persian Gulf. This is because scientists estimate that there are about 1 million tons of helium-3 on the moon, enough to power the world for thousands of years!

One single space shuttle load, or roughly 25 tons, could supply the entire country's energy needs for a year.

Your're probably asking where does all this energy come from, and why is it on the moon. Well it is released from the sun in the form of solar wind over billions of years, but our atmosphere deflects it. Since the moon has no atmosphere, it collects in the moon soil.

Both NASA and the Russian Space Program have their eyes on the moon for this very purpose, and the next phase of lunar missions will be to raise a flag up there and control world energy.

The problem is that it is too expensive to mine it and transport it back to earth at this time.

I guarantee this will be the #1 topic for the 2016 or 2020 presidential elections.