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Meh. Mention electric cars these days and a huge global warming, energy source debate ensues.

Electric powered cars will take off because of the technology's ever increasing performance. As the decades tick by batteries and motors will double, and double, and double again. In 40 years the idea of human caused global warming will probably be forgotten, and people will run out to buy electric cars not because some eco freak told them to ... but because the average EV sports saloon will get a 2000 mile range, 3 second 0-60 times, be lightweight, handle like a 2040 Lotus, and have all the comforts. Plus you'd power it from the solar power producing paint on your roof. (or a Mr Fusion or something like that). The gas powered car will be barred from the streets not because it can hurt owls or the air ... but because it's just too dangerously slow compared to the rest of traffic. Technology marches onward.

As for the use of foriegn oil and sending money overseas ... not a big deal in the big picture of things. Let's just continue to use up their oil first. We'll buy it all. And burn it all. And eventually (in 50 years say) it will be gone. Then the dessert will move back in and reclaim that area and they'll go back to wandering tribes and cutting eachother's heads off.