These days, fossil fuels are used for next to everything to make our life easier from cars to planes to electricity and we all take it for granted. From recent statistics, I would guess that there is 200-300 years of oil left. To think that we have only been using it for 100-150 years, how much more pollution can this planet take. We need to stop using oil now before global warming among other things destroys our planet and maybe even us. Many companies are trying to produce electric vehicles for the masses and these cars existed before gasoline cars. The only reason they barely exist now is because of convenience. Because we wanted more range, more speed and faster refueling, gasoline and diesel vehicles took over. Now look at us. The pollution is so bad and oil prices are so high, we want electric cars to come back, But then no one will buy them because the range is too small, recharge times are too long and prices are too high. Through this we make ourselves hypocrites. If we never would have waved off electric cars in the early 1900’s and in the 1990’s with the EV1 maybe electric propulsion technology would be a hundred times more advanced then it is now. Maybe we would be getting better range and even better recharge times then gasoline cars. Maybe even planes and trains would be all electric. Our want for convenience will always destroy the better technologies when it comes to the environment. In the 90’s. the EV1 came out and the technology at the time was great, But because everyone said the range sucked, they canceled the program and crushed all but a few for museums and such and even those were deactivated, removing the technology in them. A lot of the owners of those EV1’s trying to bribe GM with money to stop them from destroying the cars but it never happened. Think of were we would be now if the EV1 survived and continued to evolve. I say shame on mankind.
Another area is fusion technology. Sure millions of dollars are being dumped into it but it still needs more. If those greedy oil corporations donated some of their pocket change into these programs, maybe we would have more cleaner energy and provide a better platform for electric vehicles to bloom in. I wish oil would run out right now just for the sake of seeing all the greedy corporations suffer. Because they never supported renewable technologies as much has they should be, no one will feel sorry for them.
For the few that stand out in building all electric vehicles like Tesla Motors, I salute you for forcing the changes in the big auto companies. What the big auto companies are doing though will not change anything. As long as there are combustion engines or anything that uses fossil fuels, we will never truly clean up. Look at all the EV’s turning into hybrids like the Chevy Volt. I bet even the Nissan Leaf will turn into a hybrid once people start complaining about the range and recharge time. We need change and we need it now. All-Electric EVs need to survive now if we want to have gasoline replaceable EV cars in the near future. Thats all for today. Talk to you all later. 2012 post coming up Friday, be the first the read it.