Oil is still the cheapest fuel source, and will be for the next 30-40 years. Hysterical "greens" have stopped the building of any more American nuclear reactors, so more coal will have to be burned if everyone is "pluggin in."

Depends how you define cheap, is there a value placed on the cost of our atmosphere? What about when everyone in China wants a H2 Hummer?
The problem isn't the amount of oil left, its the rate it can be extracted and refined. Demand has overtaken supply and this reflects in your day to day petrol price at the pump. Even if the most ambitious plans to get more oil like shale oil and magical crystalline oil deposits at the bottom of the ocean come online, they will never be able to catch up with demand.

Bottom line is we have to cut back on our consumption, while replacing our dirty tech with clean tech... and big business doesn't like the sound of that idea.

Nuclear reactors aren't the best solution, but will be the most likely to happen because humans are lazy and proper green technology is still in the too hard basket for half-wit politicians and greedy-ass corporate vampires.

Must burn you up inside to watch an evil electric car out-drag the fastest road cars.

30 - 40 years...and then what? We'll still be alive, so what will we do when the oil runs out? Why is it so terrible to start thinking of alternatives now?

And you must take refining into the equation, QM...if you are going to cite how electricity is made as part of the argument that gas is cheaper, you must use how gasoline is made (and transported) in the equation as well.

who cares about cheap you assholes, so youd rather drive to the pub than keep the earth alive? pathetic.

umm, that's electric? that looks like the Ariel Atom to me. ( http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=9990 )

i suppose they could have converted it, seeing as how the entire muffler system seems to be missing from the rear end, compared to the Atom2, but that still isn't fair if you consider that the Atom2 is a mere ~1000lbs. power to weight ratio.

as for the whole electric vs petrol arguement, it's easy. petrol is dirty. electric is clean, however the methods of producing electricity en masse are largely unclean. water engines have already been designed and implemented, but our oil-obsessed government wouldn't want to cut back on their cash cow. biodiesel engines are also designed and implemented, but you don't see many of those either, do you?
the use of fossil fuels and their associated emissions are really killing things, but the richies don't wanna give up their H3's and Escalades... not to mention that our war machines use an insane percentage of the oil and refined petrol brought into this country.

and until we get a better grasp on fusion/fission nuclear power is NOT the solution, but merely a transitional source. if three-mile or chernobyl taught anyone anything at all...

The Ariel Atom was also used by Wrightspeed to prototype the electric running gear for a entirely new production vehicle which Wrightspeed are raising funds to build. The Atom-based prototype, called the X1, also has incredible acceleration, reaching 60 mph in 3 seconds. Because the X1 is electric, it has the equivalent fuel consumption of 170 mpg.

I think quantumushroom should cut back on the shrooms

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