Bingowings said:

At the moment petrol cars are only needed for rural communities cut off from public transport. If you gave back the amount of money people spend on their cars and oil based power generation there wouldn't be a financial crisis.

Obviously you have never been to my country. Here, public transport is a rare luxury reserved for large over packed cities, or something that provides smelly poor people a very limited means of getting from their ghettos to only the more popular parts of their smaller towns/cities and back again.

The majority of the U.S. is cut off from public transportation. There is no option for public transport from where I live to where I work, and if I were to bike it, it would take me several hours to get to work everyday.

If I had it my way, I'd live in a place where I could get everywhere I need to go via public transport and bicycle. As it is, I'd probably rather die than lose my car. It is almost literally my livelihood and my sanity. Without it I couldn't earn money to live, and I'd feel crippled, boxed in and trapped to the point I'd lose my mind and/or become suicidal.

I agree that fossil fuels need to go. Better option are being developed, and eventually will be affordable and viable enough for us to chuck their usage. I am all about seeing their usage become a thing of the past. However, the current world financial crises is much more complex, our dependency on fossil fuels only account for a very small portion of that issue. You seem to act as if it is the crux of the problem.