bloodnock wrote:
It's not an Oil crash that'll be the problem it'll be a lack of cleanly generated electricity that'll thwart the Electric cars progress...they can have every car on the planet replaced with a leccy car, they can lay on a Millions of electric charging points all over the shop, but it'll count for nowt unless leccy supply keeps up with demand and I can't see how you can achieve that In Britain with it's unpredictable weather.
Not enough sun for Solar, a matter made worse by the Short Winter days when the extra demand made on a leccy cars electrics is higher than in summer.
Not enough Wind generated Leccy without covering Britain from top to toe in Wind Turbines that only work if it's windy but not too windy or not at all if its not windy.
The greens don't want leccy from fossil fuel based generation and they don't want it from Nuclear either.
Which kind of Brings us back to where we are now...Oil Burners.
You can't have it all ways or you'll end up with no way.
I have Solar panels on the roof of my house, They pay for all my lecky and gas bills for the year and a bit over.