[quote=Dervish]
Sadly, it isn't practical everywhere to discard oil. In heavily rural areas like most of Alberta, you need personal transportation to get anywhere, especially across the vast distances between towns. Public transit really isn't a huge thing out here. That's not even going into what I need for work.Like Goldy said, if it's practical where you are, it's definitely worth looking into.
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Aye, electric cars really....just aren't ready for mass transportation. The battery technology is lagging way behind where it needs to be for it, [i]and[/i] there is utterly no infrastructure in place for electric cars as a reliable form of everyday transportation, except in extremely small locations.

Then there's the whole fact that...electric cars have a significant heavy metal, toxic material, and carbon footprint to just build the damn things in the first place, the issues of dead batteries every decade or so, etc. I am hopeful that Graphene based super capacitors [i]might[/i] replace the traditional battery in pretty much all formats, but again, that's a hope, but unknown, and still years out from right now. 

Even if we get a battery/supercapacitor that is power-dense enough, and can be recharged quickly, we still lack the infrastructure for electric cars. Until we do something drastic, like ripping up all of the roadways in North America and paving with solar panels, we will not have an infrastructure for electric vehicles outside of cities.

Course, even if we do, I will keep my gas powered vehicle until I die. And if by some miracle we convert away from gasoline? Fuck it, I'll convert the bitch to run on LPG, Hydrogen, Propane, or something else. Cause I like my engine sound, and I love my torque curve.