I was reading about the Chevy Volt, it's supposed to come out in 2010. Runs 40 miles without gasoline, which is supposed to handle 75% of peoples driving. The other major auto manufactures are supposed to be working on their own versions. If these cars perform and sell, could we be looking at the phaseout of gasoline over the next 10 to 20 years?
I can see it happening like this. The Volt is introduced and people like it. So Chevy and other manufactures come out with more models like the Volt. The years following the introduction of the Volt, the electric only mileage keeps going up. By say 2015 they have all electric cars coming off the showroom floors, Chevy has teamed up with Tesla and is selling a Corvette version. Pretty soon, say by 2020, half the cars sold are all electric.
So when 2020 rolls around, most gas stations are either closing down or being converted to quick charge stations. No one is building any more gasoline stations, no one knows what to do with all the oil anymore, big oil keeps trying to come up with ways to use or sell it. Environmentalist tell us the oil that is left in the ground is ruining the planet, and we need to pump it out, convert it into something benign and put it back in the Earth.
What are we going to do with all the oil that is poisoning the inside of the planet?
Deron.
Elec...electric...Corvette...?
*head explodes from the awesome; 'Vettes being Link's favorite*
(PLEASE let it be styled like a normal Corvette...)
So...what was it doing in the eons BEFORE we started using it...?
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Yeah, Chevy would be taking a huge chance messing with the Corvette. But if some small startup company has a electric car that is leaving the Corvette in it's dust...
The funny thing about environmentalist is, if the planet does it to itself, it's cool, let man do it and it's a disaster.
Take all the oil that is in the ground naturally, that's OK, if we were to put it there, it would be a ecological disaster and would have to be cleaned up. Take the La Brea Tar Pits, if that was spilled there by some accident by man we would be destroying the planet, there would be lawsuits and the disaster would be all over the news and we would have to spend millions cleaning it up. At Santa Barbara, California There are millions of gallons a year that naturally seep into the ocean, a lot of it ends up on the beach and the intertidal zones. Done by man it would be the end of the world as we know it, you would not be able to use the beaches do to the pollution we caused, mother nature does it, never mind. World wide there are billions of gallons of oil that naturally end up in the ocean every year. One tanker spill and it's news all over the world, were all going to die!
Deron.
You can't lump all environmentalists in once category any better then you can lump all news agencies.
Everyone wants to see bio-diversity sustained, we know that beyond the practical (less infectious diseases, pollution, invasive species) there is also those who just love the world as it is now and wish to preserve it at all cost.
Does anyone remember that plan NASA came up with to move earth into a farther orbit? Yeah NASA!
XM-3000...
-DC-DC converter replaced with a Dell D220P-01 power supply.
-72V mod
-Expensive bank charger until I come up with something better... Still trying.
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Yeah, I should be saying, "more radical environmentalist".
I just wish news, or really people did not feed on, disaster type news. It's almost always the guy walking around with the sign "The End Is Near". Peak Oil is one example. The news portrays, "We are in a death spiral, now that we have reached peak oil". The reality is, as oil gets more expensive, things will get more efficient at using oil, alternatives will used and new technologies will replace the need for oil.
At certain price points, using oil makes no sense, that is why I can see the demise of oil companies in the near future. Look at Boon Pickens, big time oil man going with wind mills? What does that tell you.
Deron.