Apptech wrote:
> New infrastructure will come if the solution is good enough
> or we are desparate enough.

Would you like to venture a guess regarding the cost of the current US oil 
infrastructure? US$10e9? 10e12? ...?

Alternative solutions must use currently available infrastructure to be 
economically feasible. There are two options: electric grid or gas stations.

To me, the most sensible economically feasible solution involves:

1. Substituting other energy sources for oil to generate electricity.
2. Developing lighter cars with more efficient IC engines.

Coal is too dirty, natural gas is too expensive, leaving nuclear as the only 
option for electricity.

Lighter cars powered by efficient diesel engines require no changes to 
existing infrastructure, nor significant technological breakthroughs. As 
batteries become cheaper and better at storing energy, there will be more 
hybrid and pure-electric cars.

Note that this plan requires no government spending or any action by the 
government, with the exception of removing the obstacles in the form of 
harmful regulations it itself has created.

Hydrogen has too many flaws to be practical.

Vitaliy 

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