Who Killed the Electric Car?
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Bottom line is, motion needs energy, and energy needs fuel, and we're still on chapter 1 "burning things for fuel". Whatever we do it will have a massive impact on the planet if we do it with the same intensity as we do oil burning. Vegetable fuels will be a massive soil and water table killer as well as needing more of the planet to grow the fuel than we can put aside. Same with all the other alternatives.
The only real answers are:
Embrace all fuel styles at once and diffuse the intensity of any one. Total source diversity. One household needs to be coal, one nuclear, one steam, one vegetable, one oil, one solar, one wind, one hydro etc etc... so that no one fuel style dominates. Localised fuel supply.
Live within the means of solar and wind power. Which would essentially be like going back to the dark ages but with weak electricity systems for communication and domestic use. Some industry could survive on the fossil fuels but largely we'd be a world of cottage industry, like Afghanistan. Like Larkrise to Candleford. YEAH!