[Hazwaste]

Arranging...chairs...Titanic.

I know we need to stretch the fossil fuel thing out, but I’m getting a little nervous that we’re clinging to a dying technology with no single energy source being promising enough to take over when the price of fossil fuel exceeds most people’s ability to pay.

There’s the promise of nuclear power plants and electric cars using some future battery technology, but it takes 10 years to build a nuke due to regulations and protests.

We’re going to regulate and protest ourselves into the stone age.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Liquid fuels are the easiest to deliver, cheapest to run and most abundant resource for transportation available today and will stay that way for many decades. The source of the liquids may gradually change. Some countries will take another direction entirely based on their location or other competitive advantage. Some portion of our commuter activity may switch to battery power if enough nuclear power units come up.

[decimon]

I wouldn’t argue with what you’re saying but coercion (regulation) is not the germ or gist of the article.

I’d love a part-electric auto engine and mostly if I could use a ‘proximity charger’ rather than a plug-in.