[Nateman]

As oil and coal run out , the price is going to rise and other sources will become competitive. It is an issue that will take care of itself. Of course the goal of the left is always power first, people last , so letting it take care of itself is the last thing they want .

[a fool in paradise]

No solution with frozen windmills and solar panels. They aren’t producing, this is why we have a power shortage today.

Price competition is not the reason.

[noiseman]

As oil and coal run out...

Coal won’t run out for at least several centuries, and oil may not be a “fossil fuel” after all, but rather a renewable resource that replenishes itself.

[Little Pig]

Coal’s not going to “run out” anytime soon. We have enough coal here in the US alone to run *everything* for a couple hundred years i.e. burning it and gasifying it to produce fuels for vehicles and so on. The only bottleneck for coal is political.