I agree Bucky. We only use 10 % of our oil for transportation and domestically produce 40% of our total oil consumption. They say that at the rate we consume oil now we have 400 years of oil in our reserves here on our own soil.
Then if we could get our electricity from something other than oil. Including getting most of our homes and small buisness including the malls and other shop on to solar with back up from the main grid. The only thing you would have solely depending on the main grid would be infrastructure and large manufacturing. Then if we converted the main grid to nuclear, Hydro, wind, and large solar plants. We could drive our cars and ride our motorcycles for ......well nearly forever. Plus reduce emissions to close to 90%. Without creating a huge battery disposal problem.
Just try not to build the nuclear plants on fault lines or under a volcano we should be able to do it realitively safe. Even oil fire power plants are quite dangerous.
