MySpace.com, one of the most popular web destinations, which boasts over 74,000,000 users worldwide, is also home to the great MySpace.com Gasoline Boycott May 15, 2006. Other gas boycotts on MySpace have been called for in the past, but this one seems to be picking up some steam. The 13 to 28-year-old crowd that frequents MySpace.com seems to think that a boycott will teach the big oil companies, making record profits, a lesson.

Now, you would think that with all this public outrage about high gasoline prices, especially from this young progressive age group, there would be a few out of the 74,000,000 users who would be at least mention hydrogen cars in their MySpace accounts. At least, this is what I assumed. But, you know what they say about assuming things. It makes as ass of you and ming (or something like this). Anyway, on MySpace.com I performed a search for “hydrogen cars” and came up empty. Zilch, zero, nada, not a thing.

Not to be discouraged, however, I performed a few more searches and plain old “hydrogen” gave up a few hits. One person, Matt, hosts a Saturday night techno music radio show he calls Hydrogen Economy. Another fellow says he’s starting a Hydrogen Racing Association and into promoting sustainable energy technology, which chances are, is just a little youthful bravado to excite this crowd.

It is good to see that at least hydrogen is starting to creep into the consciousness of this sub-culture. This is the generation that will be growing up with and fully embracing hydrogen cars and the hydrogen economy in a few years. While the MySpace crowd is calling for gasoline boycotts now, the YourSpace crowd a few years from now will be calling for all to buy hydrogen cars and abandoning the fossil-fuel burning fossils they have been driving in favor of greener pastures.

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