IDEALLY, replacement fuel sources for vehicles will be a variety of options, electric, bio fuel from vegetable waste NOT FOOD, CNG, algea grown in coal plants exhaust,, perhaps methyl alcohol directly from coal.
Having a variety of power sources would create competition.
all the oil the world will ever has is already here. But given the acceleration in crude oil use we cant drill baby drill, we will just run out... someday there may be a more important use for crude oil more important than gasoline.....
and the USA iimports a billion dollars a day in crude, thats all money taken out of our economy to enrich others who hate us...
Chine will likely export brand new cheap battery vehicles to the US, quality will be marginal but the low price will create a line at the dealership door....
Right now a terrorist attack on the global oil infrastructure could cripple our economy. that should of been fixed in 1972.....
Battery vehicles arent all the same, the leaf has no gasoline backup
The volt can run either.
A small micro sized trailer with built in wiring when the vehicle is new is good for leaf type vehicles, and unneeded for volt type