Phil’s Dad wrote:
1) Plastics.
2) Still need a portable fuel for long range light vehicles if EEStor don’t work.
3) # million cars to refit or replace.
I buy 3 in the short term but there are a lot of alternatives to ultra-capacitors so not 2.
Your best argument is 1. I have long held the belief that plastics are more valuable than gold. We will look back on depletion of oil reserves with horror. We did WHAT with it?
I am with Breakable on this one. Cost savings aside we are surely looking to substitute hydrocarbon burning, not augment it.
Yes, we will probably have to resort to using coal to make petrochemicals.
