Finally, remember the power shortages a few years ago in California? With no new power plants in this state in several decades, what do you think is going to happen if a few million people start plugging their cars into the power grid?

Good point, they’d have no choice but to raise electricity prices and suddenly those old gasoline cars might start looking attractive again. And of course all of that electricity comes from burning oil and coal anyway. It’s good that people are thinking about the problems, but it doesn’t look like there are any easy answers. Most people are eventually going to have to drive less, fly less, consume less, and live in smaller places. Not necessarily bad things.

BTW, the power shortages in California had nothing to do with actual plant capacity and everything to do with criminal market manipulation by The Smartest Guys In The Room. Notice how the outages disappeared as suddenly as they appeared after Enron went belly-up — no new generating plants required.