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Big Oil- can’t live with them, can’t live without them (at least, for now)

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You might think that when we (start to, continue to ) invest in new energy-producing alternatives, we will solve our “big oil” problem. NOT!  We need gasoline and/or diesel fuels for the foreseeable future. Our transportation system relies on liquid-based fuels.  Yes, we can convert these vehicles to electricity (with major improvements to the existing technologies), but the transition will be much slower than you would think.  If we had sufficient supplies of electric vehicles (and they were reliable) and outlawed (not likely at all) the sale of all gasoline powered vehicles tomorrow , it would be at least 10 years before there would be a noticeable drop in gasoline consumption.  (Consumers don’t trade in all their cars every year, consumers buy used cars, etc.)

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