Not to be pie-in-the-sky about this, but imagine having a plugin hybrid flex-fuel 4x4 in your garage, a solar panel below a small wind turbine on your barn roof.
A couple hundred gallons of bio-ethanol out back.
And being completely, utterly shielded from any gas or transportation cutoffs. In nice weather, your 4x4 could charge and run directly off solar - for free. In the winter - wind (and solar). If there’s a really cold stretch with no wind, run directly off gasoline for the cold-weather oomph.
If Iran and Israel drive the price of gas to $10, run ethanol.
None of that tech is more than 2 years from market.
There’s nothing liberal, about being self-sufficient or technically proficient.
what’s stopping the government from attaching some sort of measurement gizmo on that hybrid that reports units of energy you are producing and taxing you on it?
We’ll call it a “road usage tax” or something like that.