With the price of crude over $140 per barrel and increasing rapidly, people throughout the globe are going through tough times. As expected, the rising costs of petroleum has trickled down to other goods and has made life a bit more challenging for us. People, especially in the more fuel-hungry industrialized nations are being forced to make lifestyle changes. A lot of families are foregoing travel and vacation plans- opting to stay home and save money instead. Some are even giving-up their plush homes in the suburbs and are moving closer to work in the cities to cut back on commuting-costs- worsening the sub-prime mortgage crisis. Airlines are either closing-up shop or cutting-back on costs by charging for meals and snacks.

In big-car-loving America, sales for trucks and SUVs have gone down so drastically that Detroit's Big Three had to shut down plants for those vehicles- laying-off thousands of workers in the process. GM execs are even contemplating scrapping the iconic but petrol-thirsty Hummer. The fuel crisis rocked the automobile world and consumer demand did a complete 180, shifting from luxury cars and four-wheel drives to fuel-sipping econo-cars and auto companies were caught unprepared and scrambling to cope with the drastic changes in production.

Sad but true- the days of carefree motoring on Route 66 may soon be over and If you're one of the countless people whose livelihood are directly affected by the fuel crisis, one thing may be on your mind: If only you knew how to make your car run on water. Yeah, sounds like the stuff of fantasies and there have been many a "run your car on water" scam, but it's not at all impossible- there is a way to convert your car to run on water. Well, not water per se, since using a water as an energy source for engines would be against the first and second laws of thermodynamics and therefore, impossible. Water however can play a big part by being a source of hydrogen, which we all know is an ideal energy source (hydrogen bomb anyone?). What you're actually doing then is running your car on hydrogen from water made possible through electrolysis: a method of separating ionically-bonded elements by passing an electric current through them. In water, hydrogen molecules are separated from oxygen with the use of positive and negative electrodes immersed in it. So back to the question, can you run your car on water? In a way, yes.