Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Oil and the Transport Sector: Reconfirming the End of Cheap Oil. The largest increase in oil production comes from Iraq, followed by Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Kazakhstan and Canada. World transportation oil demand by mode in the New Policies Scenario. Click to enlarge. trillion in subsidies over the projection period.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Millions will plug-in their electric vehicles (EV), plug-in hybrids (PHEV) and fuel cell vehicles (FCV) at night when electricity is cheap, then plug-in during the day when energy is expensive and sell those extra electrons at a profit. Why not ake it all the way and spend 1 year of Iraq on retrofitting every home in America with nano solar.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

I liken electric grid and renewable to the economic and political and military fiasco of the Iraq war. So, the used batteries are almost arbitrarily cheap since an arbitrarily large fraction of their cost of production can be loaded on their use in transportation. Alternative is no longer an alternative. Oil is the alternative.

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