I like the idea of globally phasing out fossil fuels for synthetic fuels made from carbon capture (possibly with biomass components if required). Gas cars migh

I like the idea of globally phasing out fossil fuels for synthetic fuels made from carbon capture (possibly with biomass components if required). Gas cars might be less efficient than electric, as expected of any kind of shim or polyfill, but they would be good enough that we wouldn't need to incentivize people to ditch their current vehicles. Perhaps more importantly, it would fill a big gap in our planning for the future. Rather than banking on the ability to massively scale up lithium mining, we build renewable power plants in proximity to natural gas plants and hook up carbon capture systems to those plants. Boom, now they're just overly complicated batteries, and therefore part of the solution rather than part of the problem. Consider them technical debt; at least people get to keep their jobs for a while longer and modernizing of the grid progresses more quickly.