But the USA must become energy independent through the use of our own proven resources, not through expensive, unreliable, and unproven “alternatives”.
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That’s all about electricity. That’s not oil.
Clarify?
Natural gas and coal produce electricity.
And there are expensive “alternatives” being explored to replace diesel,
so it’s more of a general approach to ENERGY, not particularly motor vehicle propulsion or electricity production,
that must be first established through the use of proven and affordable resources,
then we can dabble on the edges with the cute little “alternatives”.
there may be improvements to the tiny electric vehicles, maybe even by 2020. but their inefficiency and limited range will prevent their widespread public use, and so far has limited industrial use to only those who get government subsidy. I will believe it when I see it.
The simple fact of the matter is, coal-generated electricity used to charge inefficient batteries in order to run vehicles is not even a more environmentally sound approach to transportation — it’s a “feel-good” lib pipe-dream.
On the other hand, we could see large trucks switch to natural gas. if some company started producing nat-gas cars, they could become popular quickly, given the downward pressure on prices lately.