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Oshkosh's Diesel Electric Hybrid Monster Truck

John
Could you predict time range for "plug in" cars yo go commercial?
Who will be the big players?
The future is electric plug in cars where your plug in station is your home. Everything else is just buffers until the efficiency of nickel batteries are high enough.

Peak Oil and Climate Change: Re-Tooling Transportation

Bill
What about third world countries who have oil galore and gasoline prices sudsidised? Do your points stated, affect their future? I believe at current soaring oil prices unconventional reserves will spark new interest especially in the bitumen/tar/heavy oil resoucres and upgrade refineries. Venezuela and Canada may be well poised to impact many countries that have dwindling oil reserves and are far behind on renewable energy policy implementation. Countries use resources that are available to them and the US must understand that fossil fuels and renewables must live in harmony in order to preserve social, labor, corporate and financial structures and slowly transition to "green" future.