If I remember it correctly, sustainable fuel was a big thing a few decades before these oil businesses started springing up, I believe it was Toyota and BMW who

If I remember it correctly, sustainable fuel was a big thing a few decades before these oil businesses started springing up, I believe it was Toyota and BMW who had an electric version back then. But later, these oil mafias systematically destroyed that to the extent that many people in US believe that climate change is fiction. My point being, sustainable sources of fuel are being either systematically undermined or for the lack of interest. if we did not have $$$ from the oil interests against these alternate fuel then just imagine how much R &D would have happened till now!! Even Nicholas Tesla had an electric car's design back in the 1800s, if that tech had been evolved to say Hydrogen fuel or ethanol or anything that doesn't shoot down our atmosphere then things would have been remarkably different now. So, yes, there is a path dependent approach to science and technology, but for alternate fuel, the path was made ugly by $$$ from the oil interests