..that it can happen organically. Big Business didn't like Jimmy Carter's approach, which your idea is in line with, and we haven't, - as Americans - believed that we can do that.

I don't believe it will happen organically because, well, we now have fracking and other means to get it out (never leace it in!), and so we can do what we are doing today without apparent penalty. The is the Freedom that the GOP speaks of, you know. This exact program.

Good idea, want it to get popular, definitely.

Still, "road transportation" accounts for only 10.5% of CO2 emissions. 14% for transportation if you include sea and air according to the EPA. Clearly, electricity generation from renewables is the key since it can be used for industry and building warming and cooling but that is still nowhere near the total CO2 production.

We need to focus on this issue now perhaps with a Green New Deal as Jill Stein proposes.

And I look forward to all electric cars and trucks everywhere in the world.

I used to believe it too, could imagine it. Not now because the lithium for storage batteries is yet another excuse for never ending occupation wars. The future of Silicon Valley may lie in the mountains of Afghanistan

United States Geological Survey teams discovered one of the world’s largest untapped reserves of lithium there six years ago. The USGS was scouting the volatile country at the behest of the U.S. Department of Defense’s Task Force for Business and Stability Operations. Lithium is a soft metal used to make the lithium-ion and lithium-polymer batteries essential for powering desktop computers, laptops, smartphones, and tablets. And increasingly, electric cars like Tesla’s.

Searching and reading about the DoDs "Task Force for Business and Stability Operations" kind of sickened me, like exploitation does. White man's burden much? f*ck!

https://afghanistan.cr.usgs.gov/minerals

Following the assessment, two dozen mineralized Areas of Interest (AOIs) were selected for further study. From 2009 through early 2011, geologists with USGS and the Department of Defense Task Force for Stability Operations (TFBSO) worked with AGS to compile detailed digital data about AOI mineral deposits. Field-checked data were then combined with additional information to create mineral resource Information Packages to aid in the development of Afghanistan’s mineral resources. This work culminated in the 2011 report, Summaries of Important Areas for Mineral Investment and Production Opportunities of Nonfuel Minerals in Afghanistan, and a summarizing fact sheet. The report consists of an overview of each AOI and its associated hyperspectral mapping analysis and geohydrologic summary. High-resolution versions of the figures for the hyperspectral mapping analysis can be downloaded here.

Park it, sell it, junk it, don't drive it.
Boiling Frogs News: Comprehensive Study finds Widespread Mercury Contamination Across Western North America

“Mercury is widespread in the environment, and under certain conditions poses a substantial threat to environmental health and natural resource conservation,” said Collin Eagles-Smith, USGS ecologist and team lead. “We gathered decades of mercury data and research from across the West to examine patterns of mercury and methylmercury in numerous components of the western landscape. This effort takes an integrated look at where mercury occurs in western North America, how it moves through the environment, and the processes that influence its movement and transfer to aquatic food chains.”

More than 80 percent of fish consumption advisories posted in the United States and Canada are wholly or partially because of mercury. Fish consumption provides many health benefits to people, but the presence of mercury at high concentrations in fish can reduce some of those benefits. Balancing the protection of human health from mercury while also communicating health benefits associated with fish consumption requires detailed information about the distribution of mercury among fish species and across various aquatic systems.

“The movement of mercury through the western landscape - traveling between the air, ground, and water to plants, animals, and ultimately humans, is extremely complex,” said Eagles-Smith. “This series of articles helps further our understanding of the processes associated with that complexity in western North America, highlights where knowledge gaps still exist, and provides information to resource managers that will help with making informed, science-based management and regulatory decisions.”

LOL wtf does the decision-making part matter, except as cover for more industry pollution? Because words! Is what I feel reduced to after 57 years in declining Northern California, the poisoning continues. Please, no more. Don't say drought when some ass in Hollywood wastes everything I save to keep some grass green. It is inhumane how California's wealthy leaders and representatives ignore reality. How did this happen? I kept voting for the lesser evil, I guess that's how. Please, no more.

Thanks

I think EV's are a good stepping stone to a carbon neutral environment.

I sell solar for a living and the holy grail for the industry is power storage (batteries). We have developed inexpensive and robust solar modules and highly efficient inversion. But if you don't use it, you lose it.

We need to focus our resources on a cheap battery. We are still using lead acid batteries for off grid applications today...in 2016 ! Lithium Ion is light weight but unstable. If your EV catches fire and the firetruck only has water, they watch it burn. Lithium and water = not good.

If we can store our solar and wind generation, it should be game over for global warming. We'll see. There are lots of capitalist enemies to this development so it's gonna take government intervention to solve the issue. How much you wanna bet it's NOT the US government that intervenes ?

While they poison the world with greenhouse gases, the fossil fuel industry is at work casting fear, uncertainty, and doubt on the obvious solution of driving electric. There is so much money at stake for those greedy 1%ers, an estimated $13 trillion in fossil fuel if they could suck it out of the earth and burn it. In the case of lithium, the vast majority of proven, known reserves are in Chile, Argentina, Australia, and China. Don't believe the bullshit fear mongering about Afghanistan.

Donald Trump himself inadvertently admitted ("We should have taken their oil!") that the ME war is all about the oil, 'bout the oil, 'bout the oil...

more than our transportation industry, Factory farms are also destroying the atmosphere at a rapid pace. So our eating habits will have to change as well. 1.About 10 billion land animals in the United States are raised for dairy, meat, and eggs each year.
2.Factory farming accounts for 37% of methane (CH4) emissions, which has more than 20 times the global warming potential of CO2.
3.Manure can also contain traces of salt and heavy metals, which can end up in bodies of water and accumulate in the sediment, concentrating as they move up the food chain.
4.When manure is repeatedly overapplied to farm land it causes dangerous levels of phosphorus and nitrogen in the water supply. In such excessive amounts, nitrogen robs water of oxygen and destroys aquatic life.
5.Burning fossil fuels to produce fertilizers for animal feed crops may emit 41 million metric tons of CO2 per year.
6.Globally, deforestation for animal grazing and feed crops is estimated to emit 2.4 billion tons of CO2 every year.
7.Corn, wheat, and rice, the fast-growing crops on which humanity depends for survival, are among the most nitrogen hungry of all plants.
8.Large-scale animal factories often give animals antibiotics to promote growth, or to compensate for illness resulting from crowded conditions. These antibiotics enter the environment and the food chain.
9.Factory farms contribute to air pollution by releasing compounds such as hydrogen sulfide, ammonia, and methane.
10.The US Department of Agriculture estimates that confined farm animals generate more than 450 million tonnes of manure annually, 3 times more raw waste than generated by Americans.
11.The waste lagoons on Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) not only pollute our groundwater, but deplete it as well. Many of the farms use the groundwater for cleaning, cooling, and drinking.
The source of these numbers is Organic Consumer Assoc. and The Humane Society of the United States.

          Far too many people I encounter actually think my new Prius is somehow more than just an efficient fossil fueled vehicle. During the passed three months I have used these encounters to educate a cross section of the population between here and the west coast.

Blue Sky Option

          As I get my Oregon home prepped for occupation I have it designated as a solar/wind energy only domicile. As such Pacific Power Warranties all my energy use to be sourced from the wind farms of Eastern Oregon. True South Solar will install an innovative solar panel system in cooperation with Pacific Power. This installation will be sized at 100% with a "payback" period on the order of a decade and a performance expectation of the order of three and a half decades. I will present details (far more than you probably want to see) as I develop my OLLI presentation packages.

          As /user/Cassiodorus points out we need to do something yesterday. The first step should have been to shut down the extraction of fossil fuels long ago. But that is a lecture I presented long ago . . .

Of course, the end talks about how hard it will be to actually implement, etc.

I highly recommend subscribing to that channel, BTW.

of a car company—GM, and we could have done exactly as you say.

Instead all the taxpayers' shares were sold over time—at a loss of about $10 billion.