This is why the better solution is safer forms of nuclear power like the molten-salt reactor fueled by thorium-232 (which is as common as lead in the soil!) dissolved in molten fluoride salts. Once that technology becomes viable, we will have enough electricity generated to effectively make the use of petroleum as a motor fuel obsolete and end the use of burning coal to generate electricity—meaning vastly cleaner air in our cities.
Once that technology becomes viable...
Key words. Why it MIGHT be a better solution, someday.