Only when human learns that something, or lack of something, is threatening his current live or his survival, he will take action. That’s explain the current lack of motivation of general public to switch to alternatives energy.

Well, I hope that human will be able to meet Bahar’s expectation on no.1 &2.. but let’s cross our hand is not option no.3.. war will consume resources even faster, and even more resources to rebuild everything back..

1. discover other sources of energy
2. change our lifestyles so as to consume less energy. have we ever tought how much more electricity we consume compared to our grandfather?
3. start wars with one another. at the end, the few who survive will have enough oil to live until they can reach 1,2, or start another round of 3.

The things that make us human great is our ability to adapt to and to change our environment.

Before we run out of oil, we human will either:

discover other sources of energy
change our lifestyles so as to consume less energy. have we ever tought how much more electricity we consume compared to our grandfather?
start wars with one another. at the end, the few who survive will have enough oil to live until they can reach 1,2, or start another round of 3.

By the way, a single volcanic erruption may release volcanic gasses with more influence on our climate.

If the electric car can really be commercially viable now, i dont see any reason why the auto industry is holding themselves back. The competition in this area is stiff, especially from Japanese, Korean, and now Chinese manufacturer. I pressume the Republican does not have much sway over what the Chinese manufacturers can or can not do.

If electric car is commercially viable, it is just be a matter of time. I suppose, with increasing energy costs, it will increasingly be more viable.

^_^v

Over time… it will change (once it economically makes sense to use the more environmentally friendly energies). Never underestimate the power of connected global citizens. No political, superpower propaganda can resist that. *_^

>> World Economy belongs to the rich and some lucky fellas..
Hahaha.. we have debated it before.

Much more enviromentally friendly energy sources have existed for awhile now.

Electric and Solar. The technologies have existed.
Why didn’t they go boom?

I think : “The Status Quo: Oil & Gas”
Electric cars (they are limited in production currently, you can guess why) would struck down all the Oil Companies and Countries. Do you realize how big they are?

Those economic powers are just too big, too fat, too bad, and too risky to be left out. How many people would get unemployed? How much $$ need to be reallocated?
What kind of political disorder this would cause?

World Economy belongs to the rich and some lucky fellas.. ^_^