Why? What's wrong with oil? It's one of God's many gifts like rain, sunshine and forests.
It would devastate some of our biggest foreign rivals like Iran and Russia and we wouldn't have to be so involved in the Middle East in the future.
With our new-found resources, all that's going to happen anyway, and the goat-rapers can starve for all I care.
Up to this point, battery powered cars are junk.
How so? The Chevy Volt has gotten the highest customer satisfaction rating of any car that GM has ever made and the Tesla Model S has gotten similarly high marks on customer surveys. The Nissan Leaf had some problems in Arizona until Nissan modified the battery to better handle high temperatures. Other than that, they have performed well.
There have been zero fires caused by Volts in the real world. There have been a few Model S fires but at a five times lower rate than the average gasoline car.