>>No overrunning required-- they're quite happy to get rich selling it to 
us.
>>Everybody wins... until the oil runs out. By then we'll have developed
>>workable electric cars, and will be in the position that the oil countries
>>are in now. Except that we'll have gotten there, by sweating our brains
>>out in and R&D effort, not by accidently finding ourselves over dead
>>dinosaurs' graves.
>
>And where will we get the electricity? Electricty is not a fuel, it is
>an energy transport media!

Hydroelectric, solar, nuclear (fission and fusion). The most plentiful,
cleanest, and safest "fuels" ever developed.

Also coal burners in isolated areas, with one large scrubber instead
of fifty million little catalytic converters.

VW Content: You can buy, today, an electric motor that plugs directly
into your Bug or Bus's transmission housing and shaft. Batteries are
still too heavy, tho.
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