If we don't use the oil someone else will(china). We want to keep them down as much as possible. Who cares about the environment when there is China to worry about right?
(These arn't really my thoughts)
Electric cars are kinda counter-intuitive(environmentally) when we get much of our electricity from coal dontchathink? I don't care what that movie said but an electric car is really just a coal/natural gas/oil car until we get more alternate energy online.