Originally Posted by ianbrettcooper

But where is the money going to come from to fund electric cars in an economy that is no longer supported by cheap oil? In 30 years, the world will barely have enough food to feed everyone even if oil can still be used for fertilizer, pesticides etc (which it won't be able to). Most people don't realize that oil-based fertilizers and pesticides are what gives us the high crop yields we currently get. A world without oil cannot possibly sustain the 9 billion people it will contain in 30 years. There will be famines even if we find some way to have what they call an economic 'soft landing'. And with the oil shocks will come massive economic depression, so a soft landing is not on the cards. We're way beyond the point at which government can help - the alternative fuel infrastructure is simply not there, and cannot be there in time. Nuclear power plants take decades and huge amounts of money to install. Only a select few are going to have money to spend buying electric cars, because most people will be finding it hard just to put food on the table, what with higher food prices caused by massive transport and production costs. The rest of us will be trying to find alternatives, and if electric mass transport isn't available (currently it's mostly diesel), there are going to be masses of people on bicycles because bikes will be the only affordable form of transport left, other than hitching our cars to horses.

There is an upside. Bicycle repair shops are going to be in great demand and We're all going to be going into backyard organic farming in a big way. That is, as long as we can find seeds that don't have Monsanto or ADM kill switches in them, LOL. If we can't, we're REALLY screwed - but at least obesity won't be a problem anymore.