Deep cycle lead acid powered vehicles have some significant costs in usability and maintenance, and in a world where the oil price can just jump by a factor of

Deep cycle lead acid powered vehicles have some significant costs in usability and maintenance, and in a world where the oil price can just jump by a factor of ten as it did in the OPEC crisis, we might have paid them if we weren't insulated by the world's largest domestic oil industry and military hyperpower, and also if we weren't increasingly owned by the auto & energy industries. More relevant would be everything that isn't a car. Most of the world wasn't built with huge-tract low-density single-use zoning. They walk or take the tram to get most places. We were busy literally paving over our tracks and sidewalks.