

Cities would get up to 250,000 charging stations each








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By AntiM on 10/24/2008 12:17:10 PM , Rating: 3
Americans have $1.50 gas to look forward to for a couple years now by the way the market is looking. Who needs a battery when a you got a V8?

I wouldn't bet on that. OPEC is already cutting production. Once the US economy picks back up, gas will be back to $4.00 or more. Plus, the Middle East is so volatile, there's no telling what might happen from one day to the next.
As for electric cars, I think investing in a hydrogen infrastructure would be a much better idea.

By tjr508 on 10/24/2008 12:31:43 PM , Rating: 1
If you would have bet on that on Oct 3rd with $1000, your bet would now be worth $150,000 on the options market. Just saying...

By themengsk176 on 10/24/2008 12:50:40 PM , Rating: 2
The Middle East wouldn't be so volatile if we (the US) didn't keep stirring crap up over there.

Our aggravating Iran alone plays a role in keeping the price of oil up.

We all grew up in the 90's, we all knew the era of cheap gas was going to end, and all those idiots with huge SUV's would have egg on their faces. Maybe we needed this to happen so we would take alternative energies seriously.

By Spuke on 10/24/2008 1:32:52 PM , Rating: 2
Yes, because not having a job or having your retirement dry up right before retirement is SOOOOO much less important.

By themengsk176 on 10/24/2008 1:39:03 PM , Rating: 2
At least the baby boomer (and older) generation might get to retire.

I'll have to work till I'm 75

By Ringold on 10/24/2008 9:17:33 PM , Rating: 2
We all grew up in the 90's,

There's why your first statement about the Middle East is wrong. If the US left, there'd still be Israel. If they eradicated Israel, history going back to the very start of our species suggests they'd then turn on each other using whatever pretense is most convenient for them. The area is volatile now with our influence in the region, it was volatile when the European powers the major influence, it was volatile before that, and it'll be volatile now.

I heard someone say the Middle East is where Europe was roughly before Martin Luther tacked his 95 theses on the door of a church. That has not yet happened in Islam. Even after it does, they may have decades of violent internal strife. European tranquility, you'll note, is extremely recent in terms of history.

Seriously, there is history before 1990. I know it's trendy to think everything is our fault and it'd all be better if we shrank in to our shell like a cowardly turtle, but it just aint so.

By barclay on 10/26/2008 1:37:31 PM , Rating: 2
> "Seriously, there is history before 1990. I know it's trendy to think everything is our fault"

In the immortal words of Billy Joel, "we didn't start the fire."


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