Then people will realize that they still release greenhouse gases (although the other pollutants are probably lower) and they will drive up the prices of food commodities.

Then we'll get serious about alternative energy and conservation.

Benny Big Eye

Let's hope plugin hybrids accelerate that realization Benny.  It looks like the plugin war is heating up.  Even GM and bonnie prince duuhbya are making noises about plugins.

Can Toyota and Honda be held back from mass production of plugins much longer?  I doubt it, because other smaller companies are threatening to produce them.

Plugins will drop oil prices precipitously, and with the main oPEC members caught in a new middle east regional conflict they will need to maximize production.  

If US forces are withdrawn from Iraq, the sunnis will commence wide scale war over the region with the shiia.  that means Saudis and Iran will be more desperate than ever for cash to fund their war efforts.

This drop in oil will surely kill fuel farming. But I doubt it would kill plugins.  

Why? Because consumers do not trust that low oil prices will continue and plugins will pay there own way in gas savings even at 2 bucks a gallon. Also it will be very patriotic to buy plugins in order to get the US off of it's oil and resulting oil war addiction.

Fuel farmed gas will be the same price as oil derived gas saving no money for consumers.

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