Demand for oil for car fuel is not likely to diminish any time soon,
considering that China and India have millions and millions of people now
starting to make enough to own a car.
They want their turn at car ownership now. 
World car production I think is strongly on the increase, not any sort of
leveling off.
And I sure don't hear about China or India growing sugar cane to run their
cars on like Brazil does currently. 
I think there will be a lot of fossil fuel burning cars and vehicles for
quite a while yet.
Almost all transport globally ............ships, trucks, trains, and cars of
course..........and planes 
- all oil fueled right now, and increasing all the time actually, though
there are more efficient cars all the time, and smaller ones are always an
option.........but the amount of transport of people and goods and is only
going up, exponentially even right now.  
But unless there is some big breakthrough on batteries, the all electric age
won't be here overnight. 
Or imminent environmental catastrophe........that might make humans slow
down slightly on oil burning.
s. 

-----Original Message-----
From: BJ Feddish [mailto:bfeddish@netreach.net] 
Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2008 4:42 PM
To: 'Scott Daniel - Shazam'; vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: RE: Electric Vanagon?

>> It's the nature of electric motors to be very reliable anyway - the
extreme. <<

Absolutely.  When we go to electric motors all we'll ever replace is
bearings and brushes.  

>> The Age Of Oil.............
Let's just say the 'glory days' are probably going to be winding down in the
coming few decades. <<

Agreed. Once they perfect the battery for long trips and fast charge the gas
motor is dead. BUT, that means future cars will be electric and the
remaining dwindling oil will be used to power our older gasoline engines
until we replace them with electrics.  Supply and demand will keep gas
cheap. Sure, the supply will get lower but the demand is going to get lower
too.

>> And Toll Bridges and Roads.........just stopping for tolls alone wastes
billions of gallons of fuel.   <<

Geez, whole other topic altogether. Why doesn't everybody have EZPass?

Bryan