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The Peak Oil Crisis: Revisiting the Electric Car | Falls Church News-Press Online

the whole idea of continuing with personal vehicles in an age of declining resources – oil, coal, minerals, and personal wealth – is simply nuts. It will never happen. We are better off concentrating on public transport. Given that the world is currently running on the order of 1 billion cars and light trucks, the chances of scraping up the resources (such as lithium and car loans) to replace even a tiny fraction of such a growing fleet is unlikely.

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