Kitsat - That was an interesting article. There is no doubt that it has been worse in previous times and in other places. The problem with our system is that we don't have some of the ways to deal with it like we did before. There used to be Mom and Pop shops in small towns everywhere, and now we have the super centers some distance from where we live. We used to have citywide transportation, but many cities dismantled that. We don't have the trains like they do in Europe. Having traveled there, I've taken advantage of that and seen how wonderful it can be! It can certainly be worse here than it is and that's a scary thought to many people.
Oblio - True. There is the manufacturing and the battery pack, but that's really somewhat of a moot point. The whole dang car is manufactured and eventually disposed of. Why single out the battery pack?
Happyhen - Also true, but petroleum products will eventually be gone, then what? By most accounts, refining more and/or drilling in some of the places that have been discussed will only buy us time. At some point we'll have to make a change to something else, so we might as well start exploring that now.
All of these are valid points, but with each of them there are counterpoints, as there are to the points that I just made. What we need to do is make changes, eventually, so when?
