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While I won't touch on the credibility of such a graph on a blog at treehugger.com, I will add, simply, that any additional oil production benefits everyone wor

by jccovey 18y ago

While I won't touch on the credibility of such a graph on a blog at treehugger.com, I will add, simply, that any additional oil production benefits everyone worldwide. Renewable energy is critical going forward, but the technology isn't there yet to flip the switch and say good-bye to oil, and a few trillion dollars (more) in government grants and incentives won't get us there overnight.

run4yourlives 18y ago
Renewable energy is critical going forward, but the technology isn't there yet to flip the switch and say good-bye to oil Bullshit. The technology for electric cars is viable right now, certainly more so with the price of gas sky high. Now the will - with a multi-billion dollar industry dolling out kickbacks like they are going out of style and a public with an insatiable need to buy the biggest damn car on the road - that's another thing.
- nazgulnarsil 18y ago
  the incentive to buying an electric car is reaching a tipping point. once that tipping point is reached economies of scale will kick in and we'll have faster adoption than people expect. however, personal transportation isn't the big problem with oil consumption. personal transportation uses up less than 10% of global oil supply yearly. an aside: can we blacklist treehugger urls? their submissions are ALWAYS sensationalist.
- jccovey 18y ago
  My point was not that electric cars cannot be produced -- they can, and in large numbers for low prices -- but that the electric grid in the United States cannot yet support millions of cars charging every day, especially when you consider the multitude of other electric devices those same people have plugged in 24/7. Once we have nuclear power plants again and modern lines running to modern equipment in every American home, then we can talk about everyone switching to electric cars. Technology is not used in a vacuum: a lot of pieces have to fall into place first.
jcromartie 18y ago
Here you go. You can see the numbers, straight from the source, for yourself. http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo/otheranalysis/ongr.html http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo/otheranalysis/ongr.html
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by jccovey 18y ago

run4yourlives 18y ago

Renewable energy is critical going forward, but the technology isn't there yet to flip the switch and say good-bye to oil Bullshit. The technology for electric cars is viable right now, certainly more so with the price of gas sky high. Now the will - with a multi-billion dollar industry dolling out kickbacks like they are going out of style and a public with an insatiable need to buy the biggest damn car on the road - that's another thing.

nazgulnarsil 18y ago
the incentive to buying an electric car is reaching a tipping point. once that tipping point is reached economies of scale will kick in and we'll have faster adoption than people expect. however, personal transportation isn't the big problem with oil consumption. personal transportation uses up less than 10% of global oil supply yearly. an aside: can we blacklist treehugger urls? their submissions are ALWAYS sensationalist.
jccovey 18y ago
My point was not that electric cars cannot be produced -- they can, and in large numbers for low prices -- but that the electric grid in the United States cannot yet support millions of cars charging every day, especially when you consider the multitude of other electric devices those same people have plugged in 24/7. Once we have nuclear power plants again and modern lines running to modern equipment in every American home, then we can talk about everyone switching to electric cars. Technology is not used in a vacuum: a lot of pieces have to fall into place first.

jcromartie 18y ago

Here you go. You can see the numbers, straight from the source, for yourself. http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo/otheranalysis/ongr.html http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo/otheranalysis/ongr.html

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