While Batshit J. Fucking Moron©Tillerson keeps filling the coffers of the fossil fuel companies (Shell, and one suspects the rest, reported huge windfall profits), most every other country is developing electrified transport systems. How much of petro in the USofA is devoted to transport, you might ask? Well, it's 70% and a good part of that is tied up in the Persian Gulf, thanks to Batshit J. Fucking Moron©Tillerson.
At a time when oil and gas supply is faltering, the cost of wind and solar energy keeps declining. And, when paired with battery systems for storage, renewables can often provide steady electricity more cheaply than fossil fuels, even when the sun doesn't shine or the wind doesn't blow.Of course, it's not all bunnies and roses. To signficantly transition to wee little electrons moving stuff, there needs to be infrastructure that can run on wee little electrons. Most of the rest of the world kept, and expanded, their rail systems post-WWII, while the USofA went all in on cars and trucks. It may be that battery powered cars and trucks can exploit those wee little electrons rather than directly with trams and trains. We'll see. One hopes.
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