Consider me intrigued, Mr. Musk
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I can't set up a refinery in my back yard, nor can I set up a solar cell factory (complete with poisonous chemicals). I can have a producing wellhead in my back yard (I've seen them in California), and it works at night and during cloudy weather. Your rooftop solar array will produce pipsqueak power. My children in Zambia need to rely on solar power to get them through the "load shedding," but they are finding their system needs to be replaced or augmented, and this is after several years of use. Africa, by the way, has plenty of sunlight, but they are still very limited in what they can do with what they can get.
We didn't need to buy foreign oil at the outset, and it is possible (proof by having done it) that we can be better than self-sufficient.
Kick away. And while you are at it, let's get rid of the subsidies.
We have 50 years of oil left.... In the world.
I'm sure the price will stay reasonable up until the end too. Eye roll.emoji
We can make gasoline from coal, or from natural gas, or from water and any carbonaceous material. The estimated reserves depend on exploration and the improvement of methods of extraction (e.g., fracking). The end point is far out, and some claim that it is a naturally replenishing substance, not "fossil" at all. It may "run out" but not soon, and not without alternatives.
Batteries will never improve but we can just make gas out of water.
Seems like a solid plan ya got. Hope it works out for ya.
It worked for the Germans in World Wars I and II. It worked for the South Africans in the midst of sanctions (Sasol). You know, when you decide to use Snide for an argument, it would help if you knew what you were talking about.