imperialscum said:

Bingowings said:

Everyone should give up their petrol cars eventually because it's a polluting finite resource.

Electric vehicles are getting better but they aren't currently viable as agricultural vehicles or for traveling long distances that why investing in public transport and better electric motors is paramount.

If the electric energy that powers your car is produced by coal then it is better to dive a petrol one.

But whenever you want to build a nuclear plant (currently the only viable alternative to coal plant) you get those environmentalist idiots obstructing the process.

There is no need to use fossil fuel or nuclear fission (you call them environmentalist idiots but the waste is a pollutant for thousands of years and a security risk).

Tidal energy and solar thermal energy are perpetual and technologically light.

America has such variety of landscape the opportunities for using renewables for power generation are great.

Conventional solar cells are technologically heavy (though they do pay for themselves) but land based wind farms are a waste of time.

Storage can be a problem.

If we could crack fusion energy would cease to be an issue if we were permitted to know it existed of course.