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Charlie D. wrote:
How are you going to charge the Volt? ...
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As others said. Drill and drill now.
Electricity isn't that difficult to produce. It's tricky to do it for free. I've looked into it, and am pretty sure we could go off-grid if we had to. It might mean conservation (gasp).
As to the last... why?
Even if that lowers the price of gas to 2004 levels, we may see Ford, Chevy, and/or Chrysler go under. They won't be able to retool plants to shift from cars back to trucks before their cash runs out, and with cheap gas, nobody here wants a good small car (seen any VW Lupos here? no? "A" class Mercedes? Why not?).
Beyond that, with cheap enough oil, there is no impetus for private industry to develop other sources of power. It's going to run out at some point, and it makes a lot more sense to me to figure out a transition while there's time rather than gotterdammerung.
And even beyond that, every time we buy a gallon of gas, we are indirectly supporting people who very much don't like us. Yes, that's probably kind of us, but it's also kind of stupid of us. Drilling more won't solve that, not as long as it's easier to ship crude from Alaska to Japan than from Alaska to the Bronx.
